Thread:Merrimack/@comment-28373350-20160605002052/@comment-32738051-20160605031207

You're very welcome! Glad you liked it. I think this was only the second time I had that whole collection in inventory. If it were me, I'd complete it and enjoy the lunches. If receiving the items was going to trigger and complete the quests, it would have happened when you accepted the collection. And chances are when the quests for those CIs does come up, having the items already on your collection isn't likely to cause the quest to automatically complete. Besides, once the quests do come up, if you have trouble getting the items again, I'm sure one of your uber collector friends (like Shenda or Freckles or Neo or Teub) could help you. 😊

As for the rest, LOL. 😉 I know what you mean...my gameplay also gets in the way of RL. But, even though I would like to further reduce how much time I spend on the game, I'm getting better at narrowing my focus to what is most important and quickest. You'll have to figure out for yourself what to focus on - how much time you can routinely spend on the game without it interfering with RL, when are the best times each day and each week you can spend that time on your gameplay, and what you can routinely do in game during that timeframe. It won't be any easier than it has been for you up to now but I can make some suggestions based on my own observations, with the key being developing a routine.

I currently focus, in the following order, on gifting, followed by visiting (time permitting), followed by hiring (again time permitting). You may decide differently but I usually ignore quests. I complete enough of them for my satisfaction just through what I do focus on. And, as most would agree, quests are the most time consuming part of the game, partially because there are too many repeats and the game makes you play pics/puzzles too many times before you complete each quest. Visiting (and charging when you have enough power) probably helps you the most and you may want to make that your priority. When I visit, but don't have power, I just plough through without charging anything. When I have full power, I sort by friend activity and then charge as much as I can for as many friends as I can and then just visit the rest of my daily limit. And I usually stick mostly to just charging desktop awards, though normally I will charge some pics as well for those friends who don't have both the sphere and the pyramid. Of course you will also want to do gifting but you could limit that to less than the 50 max CEs and 10 max CIs daily and again you could sort by friend activity. I have a whole routine around gifting that makes it easier for me to quickly gift both CEs and CIs but hopefully do it in a way to keep my friends happy. Too much to go into here but suffice it to say you can develop your own patterns around gifting WL items and/or special items for paid rooms and other ways of gifting CEs and CIs that can turn into a routine for you too. Over time, your routine can get pretty complex but still be easy and quick to follow because you'll be doing it regularly and sticking to the pattern. Using mine while TTing helped me make mine routine. You'll also want to play pics and puzzles. With my current routine, I can hire 42 friends per day and I usually hire 3 at a time for a total of 14 gameplays. I don't always play that many - I don't even always get to playing pics/puzzles - but you can see how that can help you place a limit on your gameplay. Also, I'm currently trying to get all my pics/puzzles to at least purple frames so I tend to focus on just those pics for my gameplay and I try to play them all in rotation. You could focus on getting all yours to at least green frames and playing those in rotation may also help you.

Hope some of this helps you figure out your own focus. 😍