[casey1197]

Originally Posted by minipups2

Simbacat,

You know what? I am exactly the same way. My preteen daughter has to remind me that "it's only a game, mom." I have been working very hard as well and see my sf's way ahead of me and pulling away. I can never seem to get accomplished what I want to, what I think I *should be* accomplishing. My husband told me recently if I didn't cool it he was going to make sure I had an enforced TT holiday.

What it comes down to, for me, is that I'm a "helper" toon. I have a bunch of much smaller laff toons as friends (not sf's) and I get as much satisfaction from helping them get suit parts, get better gags, get laff points, finish toon tasks, etc. as I do from accomplishing the same thing on my own toon. But in being a "helper" toon, I don't get nearly as much done on my own toon. Like the other day, I was helping two smaller toons run coin mints. One could only do the coin mint, so that's where we stayed. I needed tons of bucks, and got next to none from the coin mints, but my smaller friends had a blast and learned lots of tricks for getting through the mints. It's hard for me to see all my sf's doing so much more on their toons than I get accomplished on mine, but when I think back on what I *have* done-- helping out all the smaller laff friends I've got-- it doesn't seem as bad. And I do have to say, one of the smaller laff toons I befriended ended up being a sf-- the small laff toon is actually his 3rd toon, and not only is he an awesome player, but he has become one of my best friends. So I always remind my daughter to be nice to the smaller laffs, because you never know who you will meet....

I hope after you take a breather you will come back to TT again. I'm not sure which toon you have, but you can be sure if I see you I'll be glad to help out!

Lady Fluffy Googlemuffin (still) 110 organic throw!!

I have to agree with Lady Fluffy here. My toons have been very, very slow to get things accomplished because I get so much enjoyment out of helping my friends. So I guess for me it's about what I want out of the game, and if I decide I want maxxing more than helping friends, well, I think my friends will help me in turn. I couldn't have accomplished anything without my friends anyway, and I think that's my secret. We help each other get into River so we can get bux, merits, jns much more quickly, and its usually easy to round up somebody for mints, factories, and DAs. We would be glad to help you also--just PM me a code if you have room and we'll get you going! I'm sure others in the CCG will be glad to help also.