ok - i know that the game is about to end... and many folks were quite pissed about the way that they did the shutoff/twilight... be that as it may, the devs (i am guessing) are actually trying to be nice to us (the fans who enjoyed the game) during these last couple of months...
one way that i THINK they are being nice (besides not just shutting-everything-down without any notice) is... i believe that they went thru their server-database and updated a field (or more?)... specifically, a couple of weeks ago - i had a daily-prize-count of 750+ days...
now, i have no special knowledge of anything, but iirc that number (750+) was based upon how many days that i had ACTIVELY won any of the mini-games... also, iirc, that number would only increase by my winning ACTIVELY another mini-game... also, iirc, if any player had less-than some number (i will take a wild-ass-guess and say 90-ish) of days playing - they could tell each day what their NEXT prize would be...
ok - so back in 2006 when i started playing, i would play a mini-game (lets say i advanced in the storyline, or i won one level of an event, or i beat one person in an arena challenge) and - if it had been over a day since i had last won a mini-game - i would see a screen pop up declaring my daily prize for the day... these daily prizes were semi-random (like some health-points or some wrench-fixings or even some dilithium or gold currency), but back-then when that screen popped up - it would show me what the prize was going to be for the NEXT day... and that was a small motivator to get me to come-back because i oftentimes NEEDED that next-prize... and, even if i didnt need that-particular next-prize, knowing that the next-days prize might soon be important-to-me - was fun...
anyways - sometime later (i am assuming it was after 90+ days, but it might have been for some other reason) the knowledge of WHAT the next-days prize might be, changed... specifically, it turned into a blank-box with a question-mark on it... and that was fine too - i would have to come back the next day to find-out what i had won... fun...
again - i have become sidetracked... that number (how many days i had ACTIVELY won any mini-game) would only increase one-by-one based upon actual days i played... if i missed a day, then that number was the same - and other than my own personal goal of playing every day to win a prize, that was fine too...
however - TODAY (during this twilight time for the game), i realized that i had not been playing any of the mini-games to win daily-prizes... and i still wanted/needed some of those daily-prizes... so i finally (lets say it has been a week or two since the last event finished off) went back to the storyline and played one mini-game (and won) to get my latest unknown prize-box... and it said that my daily-count was 790+ days !!!
ok - that seemed weird... had my number jumped up by 40 days when i wasnt paying attention ? or had it always been around that amount ? so i typed that number into a date-calculator and it game me some date in late-july-2016... if i had to guess, that was probably the first-day that i DID play this game... and i started this fan-site in august... neato !!!
i am about 50-50 sure that a dev on the game went into the server-database and updated that field for us... so, now if you want to compare with your friend - how long you were playing (rather than just how many consecutive days you won a mini-game) - you could DO so !!! that is quite cool - and thanx (to whoever did that)... so, i didnt grab a screenshot (i probably should) but now i can ask anyone else (i think) - and they might have an answer that makes sense...
what does YOUR daily prize number say ? it should (now) list when the main-server thinks you actually started playing (i hope)... or, if you rarely played the game at all - but still have it available on your phone (or whereever) - is that number now some ridiculously high value ?
curious readers (or at least this single admin here) want to know...
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