Painfinity

Thanks! Truth is, I got bored halfway during the writing of this guide and procrastinated by looking into Lemmy's options and settings😂

Heyy, I'm glad you like it!! You can casually try 'em during your candle runs until they "click" :P

Omg, I'd just written a whole reply and hit cancel by mistake and it's gone 😭

Ouch....

I don't remember much of my early days in Sky, but I recall finishing the game the next day or so after taking the screenshot. But holy cow, the ending hit me hard, past me didn't know something like that was possible in a game!? From that day I kept on logging in regularly, although I feel you, I still avoided Wasteland and Eden like the plague for weeks after that. "I ain't dying a second time, nuh uh! I'll be over here playing with the fishies"😆

and it very quickly became my "special interest" (how NT's like to call things those of us who are autistic get really in to lol).

Ahahaha well here's to many more special interests and memories then!

TGC: *laughs and looks at upcoming Days of Mischief, Days of Style and probably expensive rare TS*

Jokes aside, 600 is a massive amount of candles, good on ya🤑

@[email protected] Of course a big thanks to you as well! I'd be royally screwed without your consistent Sky news posts as I don't have Reddit anymore :P

I don't know why but I'm laughing my ass off at your screenshot, it perfectly captured the spirit of a veteran adopting a moth 😂 I also loved the backstory, very wholesome...I want more! To ping back, here's the oldest screenshot of my Sky beginnings that I could find:

I only remember that I had picked up the game for the second time and had just reached Valley of Triumph. I couldn't convince my friends to join me for this second attempt, but I had decided that I was finally going to see the top of that mountain, dammit! Between us, I clearly had no clue what this game was all about, but I must have been so motivated that I took a screenshot to remind myself of what I wanted to accomplish 😆

Btw, thank you for posting in this community! Even though I love talking about stuff that interests me and I make a conscious effort to engage with stuff on Lemmy, I'm more of a lurker and I can't help it...so I'm really glad that you're sharing your thoughts and opinions. For what it's worth, I really enjoy reading them!

I also dropped the game pretty quickly the first time, why didn't that work for me as well?? (╯° □°） ╯︵ ┻━┻

Atleast all that overthinking has an upside! Although I now have a pretty good deterrent too for when the next IAP items drop, it being that while I love Sky, I dislike TGC's attitude even more and it'd be weird for me to fund that.

The items that I regret buying are:

• Starter Pack (the money is better spent on a season pass)
• TGC office cape (I don't need to explain why😅)
• Season of Aurora cape (the concerts are all just eerily empty)
• Season of the Nine-Colored Deer cape (seems to be a common regret judging by the YouTube comments)

It's of course all subjective, I've bought 10 IAP's in total (incl. season passes) if that means anything.

U guys also have some "crippling depression after an expensive item wasn't worth it" on your side?🥺👉👈

I like your conclusion!

I can't change the fact that I've given TGC money in the past, but I'll use this one "bug fix" (one of frankly many player-hostile decisions that came before it) now to never buy anything TGC related again, unless they change course.

I'm just tired of them nerfing or straight up eliminating ways to collect candles that are simply different, be that through glitching, solo-candlerunning, or sitting at a campfire, without even giving a hint of a reason or data as to why that truly protects the gaming experience.

I realize that there are good and bad exploits. However, I also realize that there are good reasons and just straight up greed. Until TGC picks a side I'll assume that it's the latter. I'm a free-to-play player from here on out and hell, my wallet will even thank me for it :P

It is a bit better than your average free-to-play, mobile, daily rewards kind of game, because there is a hard cap of in-game currency you can earn by playing, which can be earned in 1-2 hours. After that, there isn't any incentive to grind for in-game currency anymore.

Personally I think what really gets ya is the FOMO: Sure, you only need to play 1-2 hours day, but the problem is that soon you'll feel the urge to do that everyday, even if it's midnight, your legs hurt and deep down you just want to go to sleep. See, unless you've played for a few years, you'll never have enough time or candles to get all the cosmetics that are currently in rotation (unless you pay with real money). And who knows when they'll return, they're only ever available for a limited time. And you reeeeally want those cosmetics, your entire friend group is saving up for it and think of how cool you'll all look! So in essence: There's a daily limit, but there's a daily limit. Meaning that if you want something, you need to methodically start playing days before the drop to ensure you've saved up enough, you can't just start playing whenever you want. Thus, you can see how it can quickly become a routine and, ultimately, devolve into an addiction (and this is by design, TGC aren't saints, these tactics are widely used in the industry and their effects on the player are well known).

So while I love this game, I'd say treat it like any other game because in my personal experience it can get addicting in the wrong hands (e.g. mine😅). But this shouldn't hold you off from atleast playing through Sky's story once, the campaign is absolutely worth it and truly a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and I don't say that lightly.

HONK

That sounds very tedious, but in some way every failed solution narrows down the list of possibile causes :P

Do keep us updated, if you want. And you might help the peeps on GitHub by trying out different mobile devices or sync methods, if you really really really want to do something in the meantime. It does seem to be neither your Joplin version nor your encryption setup!