Talk:Collections/@comment-24.156.93.77-20140824020530/@comment-24668482-20140825083136

If you have less than 5000 collections, you can see your progress in the awards section of the game and then press the first award (the collectors award, the name you will see above it will depend on what level you are currently for it, e.g. combiner is name of level 6, rich collecter is name of level 8) and that will tell you how many collections you currently have along with the goal you need to reach to get the next level.

That is probably the quickest way to check, but the counter stops ince you reach 5000 collections as that is the maximum award level's goal. After that, the best way to check how many collections you have is in the top1000 list. You can press your own avatar and bring up your own version of that info box you've seen for your friends anywhere in the top1000 list that you appear. The quickest way to do this would be to open the top1000 list (last tab in friends section of the game). It default opens on top1000 for experience points, but that doesn't matter, just press the little check box in the bottom left hand corner that says "friends only". You will always appear on your friends only list, even if you are not in the top1000 for any category. Press your own avatar to bring up your own stats as others see them. Alternative, check out the top1000 for collections (second option after experience points) and press "find me" if you are on the top1000 it will bring up where you are in the list and how many collections you have, if not just press friends only, and you can see the number there.

If you can see your number of collections in the awards section and in the top1000 and notice a slight descrepency between the two, don't worry about it, the number to concentrate on for the getting to the next award level is the number you see in the awards section. If this number is higher than in the top1000 then chances are you combined some collections some time when playing offline (no net connection for some reason) so they didn't count towards the top1000 list.