WendyDarling wrote:

Tirama, did you name this thread Free to Pay on purpose?  So what is that shovel in ART?  I tried to search Kingdoms auction for a cockatrice figurine but as soon as I typed cock it turned into ?!@?#, lol
The reason someone might have rejected you could be because I think it says somewhere that you can only add 5 friends a day.  The first couple days I only accepted a few, although I never rejected anyone.  Then I decided to hit accept on them all and there doesn't seem to be a daily limit as far as I can tell. 
I'm to level 16 in AK.  I've been lurking around the auction a lot.  I buy a lot of cheap things.  They don't really make any collections for me yet, but I'm banking on the future.

No, that was a Freudian typo. LOL  I've corrected it.

You can add more than 5 friends.  You can send out as many friend requests as you like using the social codes.  The limit of 5 refers to that list of random names that drops down.  And you can accept as many requests as you receive.
 

Lily, it takes a lot to get Aprius Plaza unlocked.  There's several different things you have to do for it.  Blueprints seem very hard to come by for me.  And then I have to give them to people, I don't even get to use them for mini-games.
I'm not liking ART so much, all the quests I have now want tons of money, pave the streets, do the fountain, donate to the orphanage, on and on.  And i can't seem to make collections in that one, either, and I'm too new to be able to do the Christmas ones that pay off in gold bars.

sunshinej wrote:

I am up to level 6 so far.  I haven't made a friend so far, but I have had 2 requests for friendship.  I have not accepted them or declined them yet.  I don't recoginize their names.  Is it better to have lots of friends? 

Also, How does one get more crystals besides going up 1 level and even then you only receive 1 crystal.   I had a quest to upgrade the pond and need to find certain things in 3 different HO areas.  Two of the areas said I had to spend crystals to open them up.  I spent 15 crystals to open up one area and the other area you need 18 crystals to open up which I don't have.

I am slowly starting to get the hang of some things here.  Thanks for any help. 

My user name is sunshinej on this game.  I forget where do i find my code and what do I use this code for.

Here's what I posted in the finish your games thread when barre asked about friends:

With the auctions, if there's an item you really want, you can put it on your watch list.  You will receive a message if one of your friends puts that item up for sale.  At some point in the game, the gifts button will work.  If it's like other games, you will be given a certain number of items you can give to your friends and vice versa.  You can't keep these items for yourself, you have to gift them.  Each friend will have a wish list so you can see who wants what.  It's another way to complete collections.  And completed collections give you rewards.

If you click on your avatar, you'll find your social code.  If you tell us your code, we can send you a friendship request.  Or you can send us one,  my code is 23 4781.    You click on the friendship button and choose add friend by code.  Enter the code with no spaces between the numbers.

You don't have to use crystals to open up things.  Using crystals is the short cut method (They had you use one early in the game as part of the tutorial.)  Areas will open up for free as you complete quests and level up.

Crystals are awarded when you level up and when you complete certain achievements.  You can gain additional coins and other resources by completing collections.  Click on the collection button and then click on each collection to see what you will get if you click the exchange button. 


Remember, this is a Free to Play game.  You can't expect to play it in long sessions for free.  Don't use your crystals unless there's absolutely, positively nothng else you can so.   
 

WendyDarling wrote:

Lily, it takes a lot to get Aprius Plaza unlocked.  There's several different things you have to do for it.  Blueprints seem very hard to come by for me.  And then I have to give them to people, I don't even get to use them for mini-games.
I'm not liking ART so much, all the quests I have now want tons of money, pave the streets, do the fountain, donate to the orphanage, on and on.  And i can't seem to make collections in that one, either, and I'm too new to be able to do the Christmas ones that pay off in gold bars.

I'm starting ART over once the Christmas items are removed from play.  Like you, I'm too new to do the Christmas quests.  Items for collections are more difficult to come by in ART because they are used only in the collections (so far).  But there are achievements for doing the auctions, both for buying and selling, and those achievements hand out goodies like gold bars.  Once the Christmas items are removed from play, it should be easier to get the things you need (like glue, envelopes, hammers, etc) to give to people and to open up mini games.  Right now, I'm just treating my playing time in ART as a very long tutorial.  And when you start over, you don't lose your friends.  You won't be able to see them, but they'll all be there once you've open the add a friend quest.
 

sunshinej - you can always start over.  The only time I've used a crystal was to build the town hall.  And you don't have to use one then if you're willing to wait 24 hours.

When areas open up and when quests come in depends on what level you're on and/or which quests you've completed.  and it's not uncommon to have more than one character asking you do to something that requires the same resouces.  So we're all not going to receive quests in the same order.