Thread:SenorEsse/@comment-26120119-20160211192927/@comment-26112541-20160215232938

Sorry for my delay, Leigh.

The basic steps:

1) Close as many of the open apps running on your iPad as you can. Hard to know which ones might be sensitive to the date manipulation, so better to just be safe.

2) Cash in any desktop awards that are sparkling.

3) Click on the Sphere. This will open a dialog box telling you how long until the next time it can be cashed in.  Leave this dialog box open for the next step.

4) Hit the iPad home butoon. Open Settings.....General.....Date & Time as you figured out.

5) Change the day to one day prior. No need to close the Settings box. *

6) Double-press the iPad Home button and select the game. The dialog box from step 3 should still be open.

7) Open the Friends tab, and do the gifting for the first 50 friends.

8) Double-press the Home button and select Settings. Toggle back the Set Automatically button to On (green).

9) Double press the Home button and go back to the game. You should see that all of the desktop awards are sparking. Cash them in.

10) Resume gifting.  You can either finish the other 20 or so friends, and/or go back and send a second gift to some of those you got the first time around. Or some hybrid of the two.

That's really it.


 * As you get more comfortable, you can do multiple days. You do this by going back several days in step 5.  Then in step 8, step ahead one day instead of hitting the Set Automatically button.  Switch to the game and continue gifting. Once you've hit 50 again, advance the date one more day, and another set of desktop awards are sparkling, and you can gift 50 more.

- If any of the iPad manipulation steps are unfamiliar, just ask. I promise to be more responsive.

- Do not advance beyond the current, actual date.

- Best to do a small number of days as you're getting comfortable. It can be very time consuming doing a lot of days.

- You'll notice that the process of each day's time travel adds more energy. If during the gifting process, you Visit one friend, you will also gain power for more Visiting.

- Step 3, which is only done once (when you go backward in time), is what causes the desktop awards to mature each day that you move forward.

- Note that this can have the unintentional consequence of filling up your own gift gox rather quickly. If each of your 69 friends get 5 gifts and all send a Thank You gift, then you reach to 300 limit pretty quickly. Not a disaster, but it can stop the flow of the good gifts that you want to be sure to receive.

This may be good enough, but there is also a great video that covers to basic concepts very well. I don't think it cover the desktop award charging trick in step 3, though.

Any question, please feel free. Took awhile before I got comfortable, so I know this can take a few tries to get the hang of it.

Good luck!