I just got the island event where the pesky, annoying parrot knocks things over at the tech table .... what almost knocked ME right off my CHAIR, was how much tech points it took ....
********************* 4,769,865 ***********************
OW, OW, OW, ... WOW, WOW, WOW!!!!!!!
Thank goodness it doesn't affect how many CUMULATIVE tech points you have in the stats!!!
I agree...otherwise we both would have been in a lot of pain with this island event. Mine took about 800,000 or 8 million tech points.
(I forget how many numbers there were in the screenshot I have and not sure if I'm going to be able to recover the screenshot either. Home puter crashed.

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