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Moving on with the current of the years.
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It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
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Found out you must get Ariel to lvl. 2 to get costume, it appears. Am hoping I get a start on that and can then keep going if need be at event’s end.
I like my game to look like a real theme park so have things arranged park-like with lots of decorations sitting here and there. For instance, attractions for a certain character group are located together as much as space permits with any that don’t fit in that area close by.
Yes, I don’t advance as fast as if I did like DH who only keeps out concessions and attractions that give stuff to level characters or give lots of blue potions. I don’t care. I enjoy my game more with it looking like a park.
Note to Luvsun: Click on each smiley face to “collect” that kid’s happiness.
It’s important to keep your happiness percentage up if you want to run a parade (which gets you lots of stuff like the blue potions). You can’t start the parade without a high enough happiness percentage. You can click on the happy face at the top of your screen to find out where you are on getting to a higher level.
Also the white bubbly balloons with a character’s face show you which character a kid wants to meet. The character can’t be doing a task for the kid to meet them, though. You just click on that character balloon to send the kid to find the character and start getting happy.
I look around Main Street and the Hub to see what characters kids want to meet as soon as I sign into the game. Also, I look for the fun wish ones (the one with kids in a ride seat) to be sure I’ve clicked on those, sending the kids to have fun. Those will move the game where the kid is going if you don’t click on anything else once the kid starts running. You can just sit and watch for the fun balloon to turn into a happy face, click and collect.
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Last edited by Her Dotness; 09-26-2018 at 10:03 AM..
It was fairly easy to get Ariel to lvl. 2, just 2 of her tote and 2 earhats.
Right after leveling her, you get the mermaid costume go-ahead. That needs 7 totes, 7 earhats and 5 fabrics. The catch will likely be that Triton is one of the three characters who work on totes but Ariel and Triton together do the single 2-hr. task for the fabric. Doesn’t show another source for the fabric.
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Well, based on the fact that I have only 4 flowers of the needed 10, I figure to welcome Ariel in the next 5 days, but will probably have to purchase the mermaid costume bundle. There is one, right?
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I ended up having to buy the Ariel bundle since I couldn't get the flowers to drop for me. Now I'm having trouble getting the items to drop for her costume. I may break down and buy the costume bundle.
I’ve sent Triton and Ariel on over a half dozen fabric tries today. Result? Zip, zero, zilch.
The bags and earhats are dropping more slowly, but I’m at least getting those.
Oh, well. That’s the way this silly game goes.
I went a day and half without getting one darn fabric with Triton and Ariel. This morning, I've had two drop. I only have one to go and I can get her Mermaid form.!!!
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Well, my luck finally changed with the flowers, and I welcomed Ariel this evening. Now I need to get her to level 2, right? Then the bundle for the mermaid costume will be available, right? I don’t think I’ll have time to complete whatever collection is necessary, so I’ll just have to buy that one.
I can’t get any fabrics to drop. It’s been two days. Quite frustrating!
Me too. I just bought the mermaid costume this morning. I’d been trying to collect those fabric swatches since Saturday evening. I think I ran that one activity about 8 times and didn’t get one single fabric piece.
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I ended up breaking down and buying the costume bundle. I couldn't get anything to drop for me and time was running out.
I hope we have a little break before the next event (you know one is coming) because I have a ton of characters that need to be leveled up. I hope the next event is Wreck-it-Ralph to coincide with the new movie coming out!
I ended up breaking down and buying the costume bundle. I couldn't get anything to drop for me and time was running out.
I hope we have a little break before the next event (you know one is coming) because I have a ton of characters that need to be leveled up. I hope the next event is Wreck-it-Ralph to coincide with the new movie coming out!
If we’re voting, I vote we wait about 3 weeks until something else is added. I need to get all those Big Hero 6 guys leveled up. Plus, there’s Christopher Robin and all the new POTC characters, too, not to mention the LM characters to continue. Oh, did I mention John and Michael from Peter Pan? It’s a lot right now.
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