As soon as the Faire started, I found the two banner-bearing wizards & received tickets & the banner on the visitor icon disappeared. There are still 10 1/2 hrs to go before the reset, but the visitor icon has the banner across it again; sure enough I found another banner-bearing wizard, but received no tickets for clicking on that one. This is going to be confusing (for me, at least) if things reset at different times. Didn't the special visitors reset at the same time as the events did, previously?
Flag bearers pop up twice a day. I think they will reappear 12 hours after you found them the first time, and then hopefully when the tickets reset at 11am BFS time. You get 25 tickets each time, so 100 tickets just for clicking on them, assuming you haven't maxed out for the day.
I looked at my main playground and caught a sigt of a little man with a red flag. Couldn't help tapping on it. It said 500 ... But of course stupid. I already have my 650. Now I know they excist .... ☺️
How to Maximize Ticket collecting for the Summer Faire Event!
Dragonvalers,
I have put here a little guide for people struggling to max out those tickets. Even for those who are finding it easy, this is the BEST way to maximise your daily ticket collection.
First, I attach two pictures of all the ways to earn tickets:
As you can see, there are lots. Now, there are some we need to prioritise: Party hatting, Dragon snap growing, Plant dragon incubating, Visitor hunting (if you can be bothered) Colosseum, Kairos' quests
Make sure you get 500 tickets from the above methods. Then, and only then collect tickets from the following methods: Friends' gifts, Tent Challenges, Name that dragon (NTD) or the wheel of chance (WOC (not to be confused with world of colour, disney's pyro musical)),
The above methods take time. So enter the dragon challenges etc. before you max out tickets. Whilst they take a certain time to finish, and your reward tickets are ready, max out to 500 tickets. Then, once the above methods (gifts-wishing well) finish and the reward is ready, collect the tickets from them, and from your friends gifts. These will ALL be stored as extra tickets for the next day. 3000 extra tickets will be collectible in the last 6 extra days when you can cash in for prizes, but cannot earn form the event, as the event will have ended, or so I assume.
DO NOT CLEAR ISLANDS! There are other ways to earn the max 500 tickets and there is no need to waste clearables during this event. If all the other events take a form similar to this, then at least clear the objects on double days, when they are worth double and that way it will help make sure you max out on double days!
SIMILARLY, DO NOT SPEND GEMS FOR THE SAKE OF GETTING TICKETS! There is no reason to, and is just a waste of your gems! Remember, you cannot start quests once you have maxed out, so start the quests and games BEFORE maxing out.
Now, according to my calculations this means you can get:
500 per day at MAX plus: Dragon Challenges - 1, 50 tickets Fiend Gifts - Seems to be infinite tickets? (However i suggest to not hoard these as it could crash your social menu. Perhaps keep some on the last week, if you haven't already got 3000 tickets, but that does seem achievable.,p Name that dragon or spin the wheel - Up to 200 tickets.
With there being over 50 days until September the 22nd, when the event finishes, getting to the 3000 ticket mark should be easy. Assuming you miss the extra days over 50, as a safety net, that's 3000/50 = 60 tickets should be earned extra per day. This is easily achievable by doing one name that dragon and a challenge tent event, or dong all 5 name that dragon games and getting at least 4 right. Be careful not to collect the gift from BFS before the event has ended! Because 3000 tickets should be easy to collect, i suggest not hoarding gems as this could cause your social menu to crash.
Which means that at ABSOLUTE MAX (including getting 40 tickets one every WOC.) you can get 750 tickets, excluding friends and buying tickets!
More information - AFTER EACH STAGE, THE PREVIOUS PRIZES WILL STILL BE AVAILABLE TO BE BOUGHT WITH TICKETS. These are what the flag bearers look like:
There are two flag bearers worth 25 tickets each, both which come twice a day (every 12 hours), so there is a max of 100 tickets from collecting them. A great tip for finding them is to click on edit path, and look for them through all your habitats, dragons and decorations, which become transparent. Also you can full up all your empty areas of islands with bushes, so the guests (and therefore flag bearers) can ONLY be on the island portals, making it easier to find them.
Kairos quests and the colosseum do not get gifts of extra tickets once past the max!
Here is a link to Fletch's tracker for Phase 1 of the event. Mine isn't ready yet, but will be for phase 2 (Fletch's is probably better anyway!).
Same here. Anyway, at the end of the day -- and after being bludgeoned into getting the extra Fire theme -- I had 650. That was after my dragon came out of the Colosseum and I finished visiting my 80-odd Friends (I just had to find out what the ceiling was on that activity). Turns out the "ceilings per activity" concept has gone out the window and it's now a ceiling per day. I'm not even farming treats, because by the time I found the first flag-bearer I had maxed out.
Relax, folks! We've only begun to explore the circus.
Reminds me of the magic novel "Night Circus" -- only this time in dragon mode. And instead of disappearing overnight to another venue, I suppose some prizes will disappear.
150 tickets were part of the one time bonus for the tutorial. Koala
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jamesvaler, what last 6 extra days? There's a timer saying "11:xx:xx:xx" on the next phase of the event (cold/water), so shouldn't we presume the one called "Fireflight" will end in 11+ days? Or last 6 days before September 21?
jamesvaler, what last 6 extra days? There's a timer saying "11:xx:xx:xx" on the next phase of the event (cold/water), so shouldn't we presume the one called "Fireflight" will end in 11+ days? Or last 6 days before September 21?
You can earn tickets through the 21st of Sep. but you have till the 28th to redeem them.
It would be great if the daily limit were a little higher. 500 is too low, too easy to reach. I would like to be able to accumulate tickets faster. At this rate I'm not sure if I will be able to get all the prizes I want. Luckily I already have the prizes that were offered in previous events. But anyway the event is really great. Loving it.
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jamesvaler, what last 6 extra days? There's a timer saying "11:xx:xx:xx" on the next phase of the event (cold/water), so shouldn't we presume the one called "Fireflight" will end in 11+ days? Or last 6 days before September 21?
You can earn tickets through the 21st of Sep. but you have till the 28th to redeem them.
But do you think we'll be able to redeem extra tickets sitting in the gifts list during this interval?
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Hey jamesvaler, I'm wondering about the possible 795 maximum that you've surmised, but I'm not too sure that'll be how it works. I didn't get any tickets from the colosseum after I'd hit my 500 max for the day, not even in my Social menu. It looks like all those tasks (including friend gifts) you mention are also limited to the 500 maximum, with only the special event games that can yield extra tickets which will be stashed in the Social menu.
Perhaps in order to surpass the 500-ticket daily limit, we'll need to not collect any tickets from our Social menus, by collecting our gems and treats only after we've reached the daily limit. We should also only do the event games after we hit the limit, so that the extra tickets will go to the Social menu. This would get the game to accumulate these extra tickets and carry them forward until the end of the event. But then again, we've seen how some players' devices act when there're too many gifts in the Social menu, so that's a little risky.
One possibility I foresee is that the game might collect whatever tickets we've got in the Social menu at each reset, but we'll have to wait and see about this.
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Post by Susie Spieler on Jul 17, 2015 5:10:23 GMT -6
Loving this event so far! My faith in BFS is being restored as it appears they have listened to fans and made a saner, player-friendly game. I will be far more likely to send a few dollars their way. I do wish they hadn't "fixed" the tutorial by eliminating the fire theme. My granddaughter was really excited about getting her first island theme. How do you explain to a 5 year old why big sister got one earlier in the afternoon, but she didn't? (We had trouble getting the update on her Kindle so it was early evening before we got into her park.)
I was wondering - does anyone remember if event tickets/fireflies/iceberries that are stored in your gifts are counted at the end, when the extra stuff is converted to treats?
I might just try to stuff my social menu with as many tickets as I can, if that's the case.
Any chance of a doubles weekend? Should we hold off going in early...?
The in-game help system talks about "random double days" Not weekends. Not saying they won't be weekends but they are leaving their options open.
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Hey jamesvaler, I'm wondering about the possible 795 maximum that you've surmised, but I'm not too sure that'll be how it works. I didn't get any tickets from the colosseum after I'd hit my 500 max for the day, not even in my Social menu. It looks like all those tasks (including friend gifts) you mention are also limited to the 500 maximum, with only the special event games that can yield extra tickets which will be stashed in the Social menu.
Perhaps in order to surpass the 500-ticket daily limit, we'll need to not collect any tickets from our Social menus, by collecting our gems and treats only after we've reached the daily limit. We should also only do the event games after we hit the limit, so that the extra tickets will go to the Social menu. This would get the game to accumulate these extra tickets and carry them forward until the end of the event. But then again, we've seen how some players' devices act when there're too many gifts in the Social menu, so that's a little risky.
One possibility I foresee is that the game might collect whatever tickets we've got in the Social menu at each reset, but we'll have to wait and see about this.
Also, the extra tickets are no good to you unless we can redeem them during that last week when we can't earn any more. And with only 7 days max, there is no point in banking more than 3500 extras. About 50 tickets extra per day should see you covered.
The other advantage is to help on those slow days when you can't access the game as often as you need to,
Any chance of a doubles weekend? Should we hold off going in early...?
I think if we have a double weekend it will the start at the time of reset, so it would make no difference to wait or not. In fact I cannot collect anything else right now. When I'm able to collect again, if we have doubles, I would be collecting doubles. At least I think it will work like that.
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Hey jamesvaler, I'm wondering about the possible 795 maximum that you've surmised, but I'm not too sure that'll be how it works. I didn't get any tickets from the colosseum after I'd hit my 500 max for the day, not even in my Social menu. It looks like all those tasks (including friend gifts) you mention are also limited to the 500 maximum, with only the special event games that can yield extra tickets which will be stashed in the Social menu.
Perhaps in order to surpass the 500-ticket daily limit, we'll need to not collect any tickets from our Social menus, by collecting our gems and treats only after we've reached the daily limit. We should also only do the event games after we hit the limit, so that the extra tickets will go to the Social menu. This would get the game to accumulate these extra tickets and carry them forward until the end of the event. But then again, we've seen how some players' devices act when there're too many gifts in the Social menu, so that's a little risky.
One possibility I foresee is that the game might collect whatever tickets we've got in the Social menu at each reset, but we'll have to wait and see about this.
I tried doing one of the event games after I hit the limit. I hadn't hit my quota of games played yet. It wouldn't let me saying I had already reached my daily cap and come back in xx hours. I think you will only be allowed one shot at an overlimit game each day by starting it before reaching the cap.
I too doubt jamesvaler's 795 daily max. But I can't put my finger on what the problem is. I hope he's right though.
Incidentally I reached 660 before I hit the cap in one park. Not sure how. the one time tutorial reward explains 150, but there are another 10 I can't explain.
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Any chance of a doubles weekend? Should we hold off going in early...?
I think if we have a double weekend it will the start at the time of reset, so it would make no difference to wait or not. In fact I cannot collect anything else right now. When I'm able to collect again, if we have doubles, I would be collecting doubles. At least I think it will work like that.
We should still hold off on sending gifts though. That's the one thing that doesn't reset with the event.
Quick note that my dragon quest got me no tickets as I'd already maxed out. I don't think the colosseum or quest tickets are saveable
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