Talk:Travel Time Update/@comment-26224165-20150910051415/@comment-24668482-20150910060215

Hi Donald, this is discussed in the "Collection Items Available to Win in Winter Street Reset" section above. It isn't a problem but a purposeful mechanism introduced with the Travel Time timed challenges that has removed the last of my respect/sympathy for the developers (I won't be giving them the benefit of the doubt any more after this one, it is a step too far into asshattery).

Once you have completed the Travel Time timed challenges or the timer expires for the Windowd challenges, the correct collection items for your current picture level will miraculously re-appear in the Winter Street 'Can be Found' list and you will be able to win them again. They have been removed for the duration of the update (without warning, explanation or justification) because house items are used to create the Amulet of Santa artefact, which would reduce the amount of Tokens to get Obsercation Deck to Academcian and receive their rubbish new avatar (a weak and useless reward as always for the work that goes into the challenge) by 20%.

This is essentially a 'F-you' to newer players, as those of us who have been playing longer and already have the supplies/strategies to more easily win the challenge will already have Amulets of Santas in our inventories and they still work on Tokens if activated. But those who don't already have them will not be able to create any during the challenge. And chances are players who don't already have them also don't have the same stocks of energy items, tools and other talismans that players that do have so are already playing a harder challenge. The idea, obviously, is to encourage people to spend real money to buy tokens (people playing longer with larger inventories are never going to spend money on Tokens, but people for whom travel time is the first timed challenge they have plated are more likely to buy (thinking they have to) so by screwing those players over they will make the idea of spending money even more tempting.

If I was less jaded and cynical about the game at this point (and was still giving them the benefit of the doubt), I would argue that the change was a badly thought out attempt at helping such lower level players since the collection items needed to combine the Artefact cannot all be won in winter street until you raise it's picture level to professor. So they are trying to even the playing field between players who have been playing longer and have enter street upgraded and those who don't. But that is a weak excuse some the artefacts still work so those who already have them can still use them, effectively the only people suffering are those they were trying to even the playing field for.

It is BS, basically.