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If you’re looking for feedback, I have lots of it.  You want to know everything, so that's what I'll attempt to do.  I will cover as much as I can through the answers to you’re specific questions & then follow up with anything I have that doesn’t fit in.  This will be quite long & I imagine most of my answers will be quite different from everyone else's.  Since this is so long, I am breaking it into two messages.  This one will cover the specific answers to the questions asked.  The next post will follow up with other information & clarification.

 Do you play to complete Quests every day? If not, how often do you try to complete them?

               I am no longer currently actively playing this game for reasons that will come out later.  However, I started playing right around when the game first became available, I believe sometime in October (?) of last year.  I played every single day until I stopped playing about 1 ½ months ago.  When I played I completed all three quests offered every single day.  Except I think maybe 3 times when I only was able to complete two.  If I failed it was, I believe almost always the Blue box that I missed, usually by just a few candies, & because I was very activity busy for the day & not enough time to play.  When I say I completed all the quests, that includes any device I played on, which occasionally was more then one, & since they all had different quests, that would mean 6 quests or even 9 completed on a single day.  This happened most often in recent months, once it no longer was able to benefit me as much.  (my particular drive & enjoyment of the game)

What would encourage you to complete more Quests?

               My favorite aspect of the game is collecting the different characters & their costumes.  This game was awesome in the beginning when I had a lot of different things to collect & every time, I completed a quest or chapter on the map, or otherwise received some kind of reward, I would get excited about which characters would pop up.  There are currently no new character costumes for me to collect & I had reached the max number of levels available, so there was nothing else for me to play for.  I know there are more levels available now, but still no new costumes, so since I already stopped, I’d rather just wait until I have something else to play for again.  More on this later.

Do you sometimes pick a character that is not recommended because he or she would help you to complete a quest?

               I would do this all the time.  If I got a character specific quest, I would always use that character first until the quest was completed.  I would often get annoyed when a certain needed character wasn’t available on a level, even though the candy they use was.  Several times, I would play a level with a character to complete the quest, not complete the level, go back & try again, only to not have that character available again.  This was most annoying.  Further, some of the other quests I would use a certain character to help increase the production, such as using Yeti to collect Wrapped candies, or Tiffi for the fish.  This usually only happened or became necessary occasionally, for the Blue boxes, when it got later in the day & I hadn’t been playing enough earlier, or if I knew I would be busy & tried to get as much done early as I could to make it easier to finish later on.

What are your favorite quests?

                I don’t have a favorite.  Variety is good.  I can pretty much usually complete them all anyway, so it doesn’t make a huge difference either way.  As far as I am aware Dachs, Olivia, & Bubblegum Troll don’t have daily quests associated with them. 

What types of quests would you like to have in the game? (Go crazy with ideas!)

               Freeing Octopi & Dunking cookies could be a way to go.  However, Olivia & Dachs are also specific to those levels.  So should both be added, it would be very limiting in terms of getting them accomplished.  The numbers should not be particularly high.  Dunking cookies should probably follow similar to coloring bombs or candies in terms of numbers needed.

               Creating combos could also be an interesting one.  Either a specific combo like striped candy & wrapped candy, OR any combo of two candies.  If it’s specific the number needs to be reasonably low, if it’s any combo it can be a bit higher.

Is there anything else quest-related that you would like to suggest or share?

               Besides having more character costumes to collect, as mentioned above, I wish there were some other rewards that could be offered. 

The problem with the timed boosters has been stated numerous times before on various other posts.  This only gets even more exaggerated at my point in the game when it’s all I get.  Between the 3 lollipops & the 3 timed boosters, a Blue Box yields 6 different rewards, which means you get some of everything.  Additionally, the other boxes will yield the same rewards  as well, & usually what I don’t want.  Lately, (while I was still playing) I often found myself “stuck” because I would have to stop playing the game at certain times.  If I knew I was on my way to bed or about to go out, I couldn’t play “1 last game” because that would mean completing a quest, & getting a timed booster, which would get wasted.  That also meant, then, that I couldn’t always work on another quest that I wasn’t as close on.

I may be in the minority on this, but I actually don’t want any kind of “unlimited lives” reward.  That’s not a reward, that means I’m “locked in” for that length of time or it’s wasted.  I suppose “1 extra life” is ok on occasion, but that’s all I would want.  I like to play in between other things & keep it open in the background.  Running out of lives allows for a break & lets me do other things while they recharge.

What do you think of Odus Challenges?

                I can’t speak to this, as I have never had one & don’t really know what it is.  Looking into it, it seems as if this is something that has to do with earning additional rewards for completing the daily quests.  This sounds awesome, as, previously stated, I always do.  However, this actually sucks as it is something I have never been able to take advantage of.  Double whammy, finding out that earning the highest level of this latest one, yield a “special costume” for Odus.  Yet another costume I miss out on.  (Why am I bothering to play anymore?  See next post for more thoughts on this)

               I actually heard about this & it drove me back to the game.  I played a few days, completed all my quests advanced 10+ levels completed a Star Chaser etc.  No Odus Quest ever showed up, & realized it was ending & wouldn’t have enough time to complete enough Quests anyway, if it was device specific.  If not then I would have played more, but it never showed up for me anyway.

• Do you play to complete Quests every day? If not, how often do you try to complete them?                                                                    Yes, I play them every day and I try to complete them as much as I can.

• What would encourage you to complete more Quests?           The gifts so to get enough stickers and get a new character maybe or a new outfit.         

• Do you sometimes pick a character that is not recommended because he or she would help you to complete a quest?                                                                    Yes and I'm feeling proud of it and it depends the quest, of course!

• What are your favourite quests?                                              My favorite ones are matching blue candies with Nutcracker, matching red candies with Tiffi and matching a certain number of red, yellow or green candies.

• What types of quests would you like to have in the game? (Go crazy with ideas!)                                                                Well, nice question. Maybe using a certain booster in a certain level.

• Is there anything else quest-related that you would like to suggest or share?                                                                  Right now, nope, I don't have any in my mind.