Thread:Fossiliferous/@comment-26676640-20150909235603/@comment-24668482-20150910093806

HI Anne.

Nothing will change with respect to Tokens until a new update is released for the game. So for the time being they will just be rare.

When a new update is released, then one of 2 things will happen: I am leaning towards option 2 being more likely.
 * 1) Tokens will be removed from the game. Observation Deck will only require energy to play. Your left over tokens may or may not be converted to fireflies; ladybugs; carrots and cupid arrows. The collections that currently reward tokens will have their rewards changed to otehr items. Tokens will disappear from Mayan Temple and Crashed Plane. Tokens will disappear from the Sphere of Miracles and Pyramid of Wonders rewards. Tokens will cease to exist in the game and will not appear in any part of your inventory and won't be seen again in any part of the game unless another update needs them for a new timed challenge.
 * 2) Tokens will remain in the game. Observation Deck will officially become the 5th regular Special Item picture, joining Night Garden; Mill; Illusionist's Room and Tree of Dates as a permanent fixture on your board that needs special items to play. Tokens will remain in your inventory. Collections that reward tokens might still be changed, or could stay the same, and new collections may eventually appear that reward tokens. Tokens will remain in Mayan Temple and Crashed Plane, but their drop rate will be increased so that it is more akin to the drop rate of cupid arrows from Venice and Throne Room (not as good as carrots, but still much better than now). Tokens will remain as potential rewards for the Sphere of Miracles and Pyramid or Wonders, just like the other regular special items. Tokens may become giftable as free gifts, probably at a lower enough level to unlock (less than 60, maybe much less). Eventually they could be added to the visiting bonuses, it could even happen straight away, but that is one mechanism that is pretty slow to update (only getting carrots and cupid arrows very recently and over a year after they became free gifts).

The reason I say that is that it has been over a year since the last regular permanent special item picture was introduced to the game (Tree of Dates, the Valentines 2014 update challenge picture remained on as a regular speical item picture after the following update was released), adn the tokens are unique. They like to remove the pumpkin lanterns and chirstmas balls after the Halloween and Christmas updates have ended, so they can use them again the following the year. But if there is no need to use Tokens again, and they are unique looking, it will be easy enough to just keep them on permanently and not cause problems with later updates that have timed challenges.

If they stay on as items in the game, then you will see that they will be easier to win when playing Mayan Temple and Crashed Plane (restricting them now makes life easier should they be removed with the next update). I think they will most likely be most similar to Cupid Arrows, which are more dificult to get than some special items, but you do still earn a fair few from playing.

We only really have one example of items used for a Timed Challenge being kept on afterwards as a regular special item, and that is the cupid arrows. So that is all I can base guesses of what might happen off of. All the other speical item pictures were released in updates that did not have timed challenges, they started out pretty much the same way they are now (carrots are an exception, they used to be much rarer and people complained so they over compensated and now they are most common to win of all special items...).

When Tree of Dates was converted from a once-off timed challenge special item picture to a regular special item picture, cupid arrows were immediately made free gifts (after level 25). And they were immediately kept on as potential rewards for the Sphere and Pyramid. The only real change with them was that they were restricted to the two pictures, Venice and Throne Room (that update didn't have a mechanism to restrict them after timed challenges ended, so they were winnable in every picture right up until people updated their games months later).

But they were not added to the list of potential items you can win as bonuses for visiting friends straight away. At the time, all you could get were Fireflies and Ladybugs (even carrots, which had been in the game a long time before cupid arrows arrived, where not on that list yet). Cupid arrows and Carrots were only added to the daily bonuses very recently (with the Spring Update). You could say that this means that Tokens may not appear as a daily bonus gift straight away either. But since that change to add cupid arrows and carrots was so recent, you could also argue that the daily bonuses had been forgotten about for a long time, but have been recenly remembered so it is possible Tokens could be added to them as well. Thats a tough one to predict.

Of course all of that is just what might happen if it is option 2 that happens when the new update arrives. You cannot rule out option 1 entirely, it happens more often than option 2. I've been predicting option 2 since the update was released purely because they are long over due adding a new special item picture, but also because Tokens are unique so a good candidate, but the game developers do enjoy keeping players guessing and making things unpredictable so could easily still remove them with the next update.