Thanks, I know how stupid some Americans can be, but I heard someone say it was an island. I got confused, but I thought it was there.

I did the same thing! I thought you had to put the kid on the little island on the right. No wonder I didn't see any difference when I tried it.

Do the kids stay there? I'll find out myself when I try it, but it seems to me that they'd just run off.

It's okay, Heidirea.

Yes they're always running away. : /

At least, placing them on each other ("Embracing") seem to block them for a while. ^^

I tried it again today, using the correct spot, but I'm still not seeing a difference.

I'm not sure that it really does. But I won't dispute it! I've tried it too and it doesn't seem to help. I've heard that putting a kid on the bare spot by the black plant does it, to drop kids on the pink insects in the graveyard. etc.

I've noticed on one tribe that the collectibles come very frequent on another they are few and far between.

It may work for some. For me, it does work.

I don't know, halldog. Wouldn't that mean that they coded the software to do it? I just don't see that they took the time to write the code so that if you put a child in that spot (who immediately runs away), that triggers the software to start pumping out more collectables.

It may be that the time chasing a kid and moving them to that spot takes up enough time for a new collectable to appear. If you were just sitting there waiting, it would seem to take forever. But since you were busy, that time slipped away very quickly so it just feels like moving the kid there makes them come faster.

I do know for a fact that actively getting the collectables does speed them up, but I think that may simply be because the 75 second waiting time is cut short by the kid getting the collectable. So with that time being cut short, it feels like the next collectable came faster.

Having said that, if it's working for you, then enjoy! I didn't write the code so who knows if it indeed written to do that. After all, they also added the easter egg for the menu screen with the dragonflies. So why not have a "faster collectables" trigger area?

I see what you're saying, and I've had the game on pause when a collectible came up (just to make sure it worked) and when I unpaused it, there was another collection item 25 to 30 seconds after.