Board Thread:Eureka Moments/@comment-30628941-20170223201238/@comment-32738051-20170227113936

This is primarily for the techies and Virtual. I haven't yet had the chance to do any testing with the tapping pattern Virtual described above but I have done some more research into the animations and script files. First, as I mentioned before, the white and gold sparkle animation files aren't normal animations - a particle editor was used to create them. I have since learned they can't be viewed frame-by-frame (stills) and their pattern is randomized. I did record 1.5 minutes of screen capture video in the game and checked that frame-by-frame...there was no repeat in the sparkle pattern. It could be the cycle is much longer than that but I think it more likely that since the sparkle is a particle and is randomized, there isn't a repeating pattern, though one's eyes may trick one into believing that. Also, the awards script file indicates that for the sphere, the pyramid and the tooling around awards, which are probably the ones everyone is interested in the most, the associated reward is always a random one. When the charged award is tapped, it is this random reward item that is generated but it is then automatically converted into the specific reward that is received into inventory. All you see onscreen is the specific reward, not the random one. The script doesn't seem to indicate how that conversion occurs. It might be in a separate script that I haven't found yet, in which case it is most likely the conversion is randomized, like with the rewards for successfully playing pictures.

For everyone else, what this all means is it is unlikely there is any definitive trick I can share with you so you can get the same results as Virtual. So sorry. But it may be worth waiting to hear back further from him, just in case he and his friend are able to determine something further. In the meantime, for those of you who time travel (TT), you can check out the avatar challenge tips section of my blog where I have included, in the sphere and pyramid bullet and in the dynamite and explorer's eyes bullet, some TT testing results on receiving the event special items and various tools, respectively. My results may be lower than Virtual's but no trick, other than TTing, was used.

Hope this helps.