Talk:Tropical Island/@comment-70.187.185.12-20141230091021/@comment-25599560-20150104051142

Actually, the trick isn't visiting friends. For these events you can just as easily get the prizes WITHOUT visiting a single friend. Cause if you think about it... what you earn from friends isn't much of the overall total.

The real trick... is playing consistently often.

Aliens, elves, bunnies... those all take time to generate... but they also have limits. If you take to long to come back to the game, the game stops generating because it has hit that limit. And when it doesn't generate, you lose out.

Right now, I have a whooping 20 friends (21 if you add the "Other"). Yup, a LOT!!! I have 14k bells too and that's counting the two days I got hit with the flu and slept nearly nonstop. The few times I woke up, my town was repeatedly overrun with elves. I'm on track so far.

In comparison, during stage 1 of THOH XXV, I started it with ZERO friends (okay, 1... the default "Other")... and I had NO TROUBLE collecting all the prizes for that stage.