The more I think about the change to the DQ's, the angrier I get.

I have no way of knowing whether I should work a new version DQ because I don't know ahead of time whether it will mess up my blue key people. 

Yet another case of be careful what you ask for ("new" DQ's), because you may get it  (but not in the form which you want it.)




 

I don't believe it. 

Game #2 received Something New.

1:  Statue in the Thicket,    Dice 1,                       Mountain Heart
2   Reading Couch,                  Fortune wheel 1              Passenger Car
3  Reading Couch (again!),               Dice 1,                       Shallow Waters


This is so unfunny.

I guess upper level players can take Three Day, Lost Pages, Special Interest, Inspiration, Helping Hand, Another Potion, Rare Editions,  Soemthing New, and What's Going On and everywhere a specific hidden object scene is listed, replace it with "Random HOS" and replace every specific zoom zone with the words "Random Zoom Zone".

I thought the reason why the 3 newer DQ's had no repeating areas was so that people who didn't have entire days to devote to playing MC still had a shot at completing some 10-part DQ's in a reasobale amount of time.  Obviously I was wrong, because now it's possible for SOmething New to take up to 9 hours if you only want to use diamonds to call back the airships.

Of course, since I'm saddled with a game whose random whatever generator defies the realm of probability, I may be teh only person seeing the same HOS appear in back-to-back parts of the DQ's.

Last edited by TiramaSue (September 22, 2018 7:50 pm)

mdpetdoc wrote:

So there are at least 3 versions of Something New.

No, I think there are just two:  the old one, and the new one where the HOS are randomly selected.
 

I've stopped writing down where the new versions send me since the next time the DQ shows up all the locations will again be different, but so far, I'm being sent to pricier zoom zones with the random version of Helping Hand. 

 

Oh, I do not like this Sam I am . I've only received the old version of Ancient Picture (only completing part for the first day's CC) but reading over the posts it seems that the random HOSs and ZZs are truly that. And I am very, very unhappy about Rare Editions.

Even though I have the 3 and 5 part achievement, I don't usually pass on any DQ that I didn't pass on before. I like structure and goals; but now I don't know how to proceed. I'm going to have to start playing the puzzles more for diamonds, that's for sure.