Thread:GoldenDoodle/@comment-32738051-20160418150031/@comment-32738051-20160419230204

Thanks for the kind words but I wouldn't say I have this down to a science exactly. SSHM is sufficiently complex and changes enough that I'm still learning stuff in it. And we might not live close by but hopefully, next time I'm in Boston for Christmas, we can meet.

About GM, I don't think you should curtail your playing it so much as you should try playing it without using talismans, time machines and seeker's eyes, even if you lose occasionally, until you need them for a challenge. That's what I do. I often find I get unlucky the first time I play a difficult level so I let myself lose so I can try it again. Generally, the 2nd or 3rd time I play goes better and I can win easily...without help or very little of it. I'm at 50% Professor level myself and I don't know if it's that I'm that good at GM now or if it really is that it doesn't get any harder at the higher levels but it sure seems that way and I know others have said so too. There are still some of the GM puzzles that are harder than others but even they don't seem to get harder the higher in level you get.

As for the TTing, I don't know if this is an option for you when using your talismans but, instead of TTing forward, I always TT backwards. I do my TTing primarily so I can gift more but I've also noticed that, when I move forward to the current date again, I get 500 more coins (because I TT back several days), have a lot more energy, have a little more power, all my desktop awards dispense again, and my visiting and hiring resets so I can do that again too. And best of all, progressing forward in dates naturally I don't have to wait for my daily resets to start up again because they never stopped. You might try TTing back sometime and see if it works for you any better than TTing forward.