Talk:Helen & Leonid/@comment-4357436-20120203144548/@comment-4102115-20120203152049

Yep. He is in his shop for 1.5hrs. Then he is hunting for 1hr. Repeat. However: The "clock" before he leaves or comes back counts down to 0 whether the game is running or not. BUT: once it reaches 0, if the game is closed, the clock doesn't start again until you open the game again.

Explanation: Say you are playing, Leonid is in the shop. The clock says gone in 1hr. You close the game, figure he will go out in 1hr for an hr and come back. But no, once the clock counts down to 0, the time he goes out hunting will not start until you open the game. Whether you open the game 2, 3, 4, 10, 24 hours later, when you open the game, the clock will say - out hunting, back in 1hr.

Very annoying, trying to get Surfing blueprint to build water structures. So if I open the game and see no blueprint there and there's 1.5hrs before he goes out, I can't just close it and come back in 2.5 hrs. I have to open the game after at least 1.5hrs to let the "out" clock start, and then come back at least 1 hr after that to see it restocked.

Once I saw the SAME waterslide piece offered every visit of at least 6 "gone and returns" which was about 3 days of checking. I was buying other scrolls to see if that made in difference in cycling stock through, so spending my resources. Finally it seemed like it just would not change the piece offered, so I spent 5 Piastres and "restocked" his shop. Yey, a Surfing piece was offered!!! But I didn't have enough pearls and rings, and not enough for the idol, and I had phone calls and didn't get to the idol with cash within the 1.5hrs before he went to the lions. No problem I thought, the same piece should still be there for 3 days... I waited the hr for him to come back, and it was just 4 scrolls on offer! Grrr! That was 3 days ago, and I have played it a lot more the last 3 days, and 80% of the time there is no bluerpring at all on offer, and the other 20% it is only waterslides or ruins. I kept ignoring them, but no Surfing station plans ever came up again.

So, I thought, maybe I just have to buy them, figuring there must be a random factor as to whether a blueprint will be offered for sale or not, and if so, then it would pick one of the remaining blueprints at random, so if I bought the ruins and waterslides as they were offered, it would eventually give me all the blueprints including the surf station, even if I had to buy all 24 pieces instead of just 6 (I have no intention of building the ruins or waterslide). BUT!!! So far I now had bought 1 x Ruins and 2 x Waterslide pieces. I just had another Waterslide piece, went to the idol - donated $100,000 and $250,000, bought the blueprint. Check my resources. There is still just 2/9 pieces. I open the drawing and it says I have 1 x piece 2 and 2 x piece 3.

OMG - It seriously offered me the SAME blueprint piece I already have!!! How can someone possibly expect to get one of every piece - ever - if it is going to be offering the same pieces already sold, only offering any piece at best once every fourth refresh, and you could only get through four refreshes a day if checking the game constantly throughout the game... (without spending 5 Piastres just to "refresh"). It looks like it is probably going to take something like 400-600 "refreshes" to get all 24 individual pieces...