WendyDarling wrote:

I made it to level 6 in Awakenings before I ran out of energy.  Of course the early levels you don't need to do much to level up and refill your energy bar.  Right now it takes 20-25 energy to do a HO.  You do the same ones over and over and look for the same things over and over.  As you progress they add some more objects into the scene and more areas into the scene, like inside the tree.  Each HO has rewards that you need for building and accomplishing the various quests.  At level 6 I have 100 energy points and it takes 5 minutes to get one back so what is that, 12 points regained per hour, so I can do 4 scenes in the morning, then one every couple hrs or else 4 more in the evening.  Of course when you level up you're refilled and you can buy energy drinks, but it looks like it might turn into pretty slow going for awhile now.  You don't seem to need energy for the minigames, you need resources, but I'm low on everything by now so I will check back into it this evening.  There's an email system to other players but it costs 42 gold to use it and I'm low on gold as it is.  I made my one friend that it quested me to, and someone else asked to be my friend, but I don't know how that all ties in further down the line, I haven't really played this type before.
If you go on BFG's FB it's full of complaints about the casino, it truly seems like they are ripping people off.  I tried it for a few minutes one day, you get free chips to start with, but I'm not into casinos much anyway, and a pretend one seems really silly.  Hard Rock Casino is about 5 miles away from me and I've never even gone once.  I worked some gambling games in the carnival and got paid a percentage.  Believe me, the house always wins.  I think some people like the BFG Casino because it has the chat feature, kinda takes the place of the forums.  But looking at the complaints on their FB page, I think that's why our Customer Service is so slow nowadays.  Anyway, back to a real game, Curse of the BlackWater.

I didn't get nearly as far in Awakening.  I'm still waiting for the first building to be completed (24 hours???) and it appears that all that's available to do is 2 HO scenes.  The American Dreamin' game seems to move along at a faster pace in the beginning.  I'm really sorry I didn't start it sooner.  I have a feeling I won't get very far in getting all the special Christmas goodies because I've only just started and haven't had the chance to stockpile gold bars.  I had to use some to make the library repair instantly so that I would have enough time to complete a quest.

As for people complaining about being ripped off by F2P, I tend to take it with a huge grain of salt.  They are probaby the same people who complained about being "ripped off" because BF was charging their CC every month for a game club the never signed up for.  Some people just don't read before they click and of course it's never their fault.
 

Tirama -- The Christmas quests in AMERICAN DREAMIN' only really started yesterday.  They had put them out earlier but then pulled them.  I think I was able to do 2 days worth of quests yesterday.  RL snow should be this easy to shovel!  Yeah.  The buildings take a lot longer to build/upgrade in AWAKENING but the energy recharges MUCH faster.  I'm still trying to decide how much longer I want to play these 2 games.  As stusue said many unplayed games that I have paid real money for.

I started LEGACY: WITCH ISLAND and am having trouble with it.  I seem to be wandering around with no clue (pretty much my baseline) and the hint doesn't seem to help that much.  I've only done a couple of scenes so I'll see what happens.

lilyr wrote:

I started LEGACY: WITCH ISLAND and am having trouble with it.  I seem to be wandering around with no clue (pretty much my baseline) and the hint doesn't seem to help that much.  I've only done a couple of scenes so I'll see what happens.

lilyr, I'm not sure how much I'll remember but you can always ask and see if I can help.  I remember I got stuck with something right at the beginning on the beach and then when I found out what I'd missed (I'd totally overlooked something) I felt really stupid.    I think the first couple of scenes are the hardest, while you get used to the game, then it gets easier once you're off on the path through the forest/jungle.

lilyr wrote:

Tirama -- The Christmas quests in AMERICAN DREAMIN' only really started yesterday.  They had put them out earlier but then pulled them.  I think I was able to do 2 days worth of quests yesterday.  RL snow should be this easy to shovel!  Yeah.  The buildings take a lot longer to build/upgrade in AWAKENING but the energy recharges MUCH faster.  I'm still trying to decide how much longer I want to play these 2 games.  As stusue said many unplayed games that I have paid real money for.

I started LEGACY: WITCH ISLAND and am having trouble with it.  I seem to be wandering around with no clue (pretty much my baseline) and the hint doesn't seem to help that much.  I've only done a couple of scenes so I'll see what happens.

I've done the 4 Christmas quests quests, but had to spend gold to get the library instantly upgraded in time to play the minigame..  I'm talking about not having enough coins to get the holiday decorations.  Yeah, I can earn coins by playing the few mini games I've unlocked, but those cost glue or magnifying glasses or whatever and to earn the resources you need energy.  And what about the special holiday collectibles?  The one Christmas minigame I've unlocked so far needs 16 whatevers to play.

I'm kinda stuck right now.  2 of my quests are upgrading buildings, so I'm waiting for them to be done.  Another is the add a friend.  The 4th is to buy a pet, that costs 20 gold (or 50 if I want the penguin) and the 5th is to upgrade the fountain, which cost mucho coins.

I shoveled the snow like mad yesterday, thinking it might be one of those achievements with several levels.  No such luck.

I understand (I think) about the timed Christmas quests, but what's the deal regarding the other timed requests?  Is the time counting down on them even if I don't open it up to see what it is?

I tried Farm Up, but since I don't normally play that sort of game, I'm lost and the tutorial wasn't that helpful.  Maybe I'll give it a try again later on.
 

Thanks stusue.  I went back and I made a lot more progress in just a few minutes this time with LEGACY.  Some of the puzzles are fun, some get challenging (and I'm only doing the ones at the beginning of the game).  The puzzle like pick-up sticks was fun until I got to the feathers.  It was hard to tell one feather from the next due to the colors but I got them.

I'm really on the fence with the F2P games too.  I'm enjoying the 2 from Boomzap but they do take a good amount of my recreational time.  Even though FAIRWAY TEE TO PLAY takes a long time (to play absolutely free) I'll finish that one because I enjoy the card game and it does have a definite ending.

If the ALEX HUNTER game has a SG sign me up!  Actually I have to start making a list of what I'd like to buy (CEs ad SEs).  Right now things are scattered on all different bits of paper.

I finished HE: DEVIL'S TRIANGLE.  I wasn't all that pleased.  AND I went back to ther WT to see if I had finished.  While I was there the credits and perhaps some closing scenes were running and you couldn't get back to them.Boo Hiss.

Tirama -- Gee.  I found a lot of stuff to do early on in AWAKENING.  I can't find that dratted scroll in the castle though. Yet.