Talk:Energy/@comment-99.40.196.219-20140930160152/@comment-24668482-20140930195906

Do you mean as a once off or your maximum energy increased to thousands? Every time you reach a new game level your energy is restored to its maximum, and 5 energy points are added to the maximum. So the more you play the game the more your maximum energy increases. But that is slow progress, and typically if you see people with a maximum in the thousands it is from boosting it using energy items, namely dinners and holiday event equivalents to dinners. The dinner, when used, restores your maximum energy and then increases the maximum by 10, and the holiday equivalents (such as a gingerbread house, introduced by the Christmas update) increase the maximum by 15 points. So using a lot of dinners etc as you play really increases your maximum energy limit.

You can get these items by combining a number of different collections in the game (by searching for the items in their locations or by asking your friends to send you those items). You can also buy dinners from the shop using crystals if you wanted to. Eventually, you can build up a big maximum energy (bigger than your levels normal limit at least), so that every time you get to a new game level you will be given thousands of energy points. Since the dinners restore your maximum energy, then every time you use them they will eventually give you thousands of energy points as well as increasing the maximum. The more you use them the better they become.

But if you mean keeping your maximum the same but having thousands of energy points, then that is done in a few ways. Once you reach your maximum energy, the counter will stop and no more energy will generate. However, new energy gained will still be added to the total. You can use a lot of energy items like dinners, cappuchinos, donuts etc., and they will all be added to your energy bringing your total energy well above your maximum. Certain desktop awards give out energy points as a reward when they are ready to discharge, and this energy will also be added to your total energy even if you are already at your maximum.

Some people trick the game into thinking the desktop awards are ready to discharge (collect the reward) over and over again and keep collecting the energy reward until they have a lot of energy. This is of course cheating, but I am sure if you google it you will get great instructions on how to do it. I have no interest in cheating myself so won't waste my time giving instructions. Once you have everything you need in the game without having to try or even play the game, then you ruin the game for yourself since there is no longer any challenge in it. I don't see the point in taking a fun thing and making it boring.