Lily, I would consider maybe starting over. Sounds like there is a glitch somewhere. If you are seeing items in yellow that means they are in a differentpart of that scene . The game for some reason thinks you have opened wherever you need to go to get what is in yellow. 

A little tip to everyone. Make sure you go through your list of quests often. It doesn't register that you have done them right away if it is one of those where you collect several things. You actually have to go to the quest and click on give for each item that that person wanted. Then you will get the reward

Everybody want me to spend money now.  12,000 for portraits that  don't need, and I need to upgrade the orchard, the store, the pet place, and the blueprint place.  The store and the orchard bug me, almost every thing in there is diamonds, and I'm no spending diamonds and they both have the same things so I don't see the point of upgrading one of them, much less both of them.  Why are there two?  I like the game, but like all the FTPs I've played, there doesn't seem to be any point to it after awhile.

barregar wrote:

There is one thing that bugs me about doing the HOS....if we are not fast enough, we don't get special bonus items and sometimes only get coins...bummer.   I made the mistake of upgrading the orchard, only to find that it has the same items as the Store...what's the point then? ggrrrr, I could have saved my money but it was a Quest.  

I do like doing the tangram puzzles and the stained glass puzzles.  That is the good thing about this game, doing the puzzles gives us experience points.  Midnight Castle has no puzzles but I still like it because it's something different from Awakening Kingdoms.   I think these 2 FTP games is enough for me....I don't think I have the time to devote to more FTP games.  

Completing quests, mini games, and leveling up is what triggers more quests and opens up other areas.  If you don't do something becuae you think it's redunant, the game will eventually come to a halt.

It's a game.  Opening 2 stores selling the same things, albeit in different neighborhoods, is not really different from finding having to find a candle because you "threw away" your flashlight after one use in a HOPA.
 

I'm about fed up, I might put this one aside for awhile.  I just got more blueprint quests.  I need to do games 8, 9, and 10 so I need 9 bp to do game 8, 10 bp for game 9, and oh, to do game 10 you have to get 2 trophies in game 9.  To get a trophy you have to play the game 5 times, right?  So you need to play game 9 10 times, thats 100 blueprints plus the other 18.  118 blueprints?  The elusive Sylvia whatever has gone up for auction, so someone has advanced that far, but how far is that?  And I would need 8 of them.  I'm thinking it's probably better to come into these games later rather than earlier if there's an auction involved.  Then you can get stuff cheap cause others are advanced enough that they don't need it.  Guess I can just keep working on leveling up and I'll eventually get there, but I don't have hardly any quests I can do, they all need ten thousand dollars.

That's basically the premise behind most of these types of games (incl FB).  They start out fairly easy and fun and then the quests start coming and get to the point where you can't keep up.  They're betting that lots will spend "real" coins to continue playing or get caught up.  As long as you're content to plod along, that's ok but then I think about the games I have spent my money on and realize they are going unplayed so basically, I'm wasting my time playing these.  My free time is at a premium right now so will have to decide if I want to continue also.