Thread:Deany10/@comment-33611550-20190124203125/@comment-33611550-20190125182722

That’s the way you are supposed to play the game, complete the tasks for each room and then move on to the next, but at the start I didn’t have much power, experience nor coins to be able to open the next picture so I played the pictures that gave me coins, power and experience.

When I then decided to complete the Tasks down the left-hand side, of which I had 34 and now have only 4, 1 having dropped out yesterday, some of the Tasks went way back to the old pictures because I started playing in July 2016 but didn’t join the Wiki until November 2017, and I didn’t really know how to play until then.

The biggest snag is that any CIs you already have in your Collections DO NOT count when completing a Task. Sometimes when you have just collected, say the 3rd out of the 5 CIs needed to complete a Collection of a Task, the game will say you can now gather the Collection (because of the CIs you already have in that particular Collection) which, if you did so, might depleat you of the only CI you had and wouldn’t count towards your Task. So you’ve always got to be on the ball and if you find that you have not just collected the 5th CI for that Collection, you mustn’t be tempted to do what the game tells you and only gather that Collection when you know for sure that you’ve collected the 5th CI.

I was a complete nincompoop at the start and didn’t even claim the rewards from the Desktop Icons because I didn’t know about them. I noticed straightaway that the picture frames changed colour but when I mentioned this to my sister who also played at that time, she hadn’t even noticed! She’s the person who told me about the Desktop Icons. So between us we muddled through together.

I never tried playing any of the new pictures and getting them to Academician Level until recently. I just used to play whatever Puzzle was needed to get all the Icons and/or upgrade them.

So I suppose it wasn’t until I decided I would support the friend who was going to try and sort the Diary out that I seriously started to complete my Tasks to be able to open more Diary Pages. The snag is that although the Diary Pages each give a synopsis of the story running through that particular series, you still need some of the blurb that is told to you when you move from one CI to the next in a Collection to make sense of it all.