Thread:Nuicakes/@comment-27948648-20150918030028/@comment-173.60.70.136-20150920205824

Nuicakes wrote:

Not to confuse things, but I have noticed that sometimes I've combined a collection and immediately got 2 popups, one for the collection item and one for completing the quest. But I don't remember seeing that CI in my quest list.

Well, the CI had to be in the quest list. You just may not have noticed it. I didn't want to confuse you by throwing out too much info at once, but since you asked, I guess I have to address this.

As I said previously, most collections have 6 quests attached to it - one quest for each collection item and then the last (6th) quest is for combining the collection. However, when you get to quest/CI #5 of the collection, if you already have that item in your inventory, you can go ahead and combine the collection. This will result in the completion of both the 5th and 6th quests. BUT ONLY DO THIS FOR THE VERY LAST COLLECTION ITEM!!! If you complete the collection before you have completed the first 4 quests, then you will lose those items you have already collected, but will still have more quests to complete and then won't be able to do the final quest as you have already used up the first few items. (I hope this makes sense. It took me a while to understand this concept.)

Here's a "just curious" question. If a CI is listed as part of a quest ... once the quest is completed that CI becomes available in a regular room. But, do some quests repeat?

Ex. I've completed the ink blot collection/quest. It says that the collection has been completed once. I now have 4 CIs and the missing CI says that it is part of a quest.
 * Did I not complete this quest? (Although the right column says completed?)
 * Are some quests repeated?

When you tap on a collection item in the collections tab and it is listed as part of a quest, that just means that it is NOT available as a drop in any of the photos. The only way you can get it is from the quest (or as a random drop while visiting friends. Or, if it has a green plus sign in the upper right corner, you can put it on your Wish List and hope that a friend has an extra that they can gift to you.)

For your ink blot collection, the 4 collection items that you have now are ones that you obtained from a random drop. Since it shows that you completed it once, then you are done with that one. The only way you can possibly combine that collection again is if you obtain all 5 collection items from random drops as these items don't have a plus sign and are not giftable. However, if you are lucky enough to get that last inkblot as a random drop, feel free to combine the collection again as it has a great reward of 2 dinners.

If you look at a collection such as Gzhel Toys and tap on one of the items such as Gzhel Dwarf, the popup will show that the item is available as a drop in Bungalow and will be part of the Good Soldier quests. However, it will not become available in the Bungalow photo until you have reached Academician level. So more items become available in each picture as the level of the picture advances. It does not just become available if you have completed the quest. So keeping with the Gzhel Dwart, the quest for that particular item says to find it in Night Garden in Silhouette mode. If your Bungalow picture is already at Academician, then you could technically find the item in the Bungalow or Night Garden in Silhouette. However, if you have not yet reached Academician for Bungalow yet, then the only place you can find it is in Night Garden in Silhouette mode.

This page shows all the different items that are available in each picture and at what level they become available.

I hope this clears things up for you and I didn't just make things more confusing for you!