Thread:Merrimack/@comment-30093489-20160530012625/@comment-32738051-20160530181653

I do have some friends with special abilities. 😉 Teub (in his second game) and Neo both have found ways to gift non-giftable items and I've been the recipient of quite a few so far (mainly chests). 😊😊😊 And I already know one of them can send origami and I'm sure they can send Santa's Amulets. But I'm trying to hold off asking them just yet. I've tried for challenge avatars 2 or 3 times in the past and failed all times. But I'm better stocked this time and want to see if it is even possible to complete 2 of the 3 challenges without someone sending me the special items required. Personally, I think they make the avatar challenges too difficult, though I'm sure the reason is that MyTona and G5 really want people to spend a lot of money on the game. After all, it's a free game so how else are they going to pay their programmers?

But if I get close to the deadline and need a little push, I will ask Neo and Teub for help. 😉

When I TT, I go backwards in time, never forward until I'm ready to return to the present. Going backwards in time means the only resets are gifting, which I do, and hiring, which I never have time to do during TTing. It takes forever to gift CEs to all 40+ of my active friends and gift the max CIs when I'm TTing 5 days worth in a row as I do 2 times fully each weekend. And I'm just not willing to sacrifice that just so I can complete a challenge. But when I return to the present after each TTing session, I do farm my desktop awards, which are always (or almost always) fully charged, but at best that allows me to dispense them an extra 2 times each weekend. I also get to do my visiting an extra time after each TTing session but I can't remember if I have received any origami from that. I do occasionally get origami from my sphere and pyramid but origami doesn't come up in the rotation all that often. You know how the current challenge's special items convert evenly to other special items at the end of the challenge? Wouldn't it be nice if we had the option, even if it cost extra special items, coins or energy to do so, to convert other special items into the challenge special item during challenges? That and/or have the avatar challenge only go to high seeker instead of academician. 😊😊😊 Wishful thinking, I know.

But really what I find helps the most is when the anomalies pop up because that is a really quick way to get extra origami. After my message earlier, I started seeing more anomalies show up. Still not as many as in the past but way more than the last several days so maybe it was a glitch or something. At one point, I thought I had found a way to trigger them but I think that may have been a fluke. But I do agree that playing more pictures in rotation seems to work best for getting more origami, if not also getting more anomalies. Hopefully, it will be enough. If not, there's always my good friends Neo and Teub. 😍😍😍