Yeah, it gets pretty boring, when your next Tech Level is 125,000, and you have to wait for them to get that. Even when you've got 30 adults (15 Masters, 10 Adepts, 3 Trainees, and a couple "Untrained"), working at the research table. The only thing to do is constantly scan. Mushrooms, I don't really need anymore. They've reached 20,449 in the food bin. I've been getting the same collectibles repeatedly for two days, now. Still need 1 rare shell, 1 rare coral, 1 rare feather, 3 rare tablet pieces, and 1 uncommon tablet piece. None of these have appeared, for two days now. Only repeats. It gets boring, constantly scanning, while waiting for them to hit that 125,000 mark--and constantly keeping them at the table. They like to run off to wash their face, look at the fishies, go swimming, enjoy the bath, look at the statue, and the ruins. Yet I'm afraid to NOT pause the game, when I leave it. For fear something will show up that I need.

VERY FRUSTRATING!!! Too bad we can't turn off collectibles, and leave the game running. So we don't have to oversee them go from 824 to 125,000!

And I, too, was oh so disappointed in the lift. When that first fruit fell and the second tree was planted, I thought it was so cool. The fact that the people kept calling it an orchard, I thought they'd be able to keep planting until they had a full orchard. NOT SO. After the third tree, all they do is deposit food. But you don't get any food points for it.

I do, however, love the fact that the Chief can produce 300 magic food, every day. That's what really saved my village. Between that, and constantly scanning for mushrooms. They hit 0 twice,and nearly died off. If it'd been VV1 or VV2, I'd have lost my villagers right there.