Same problem here! After waiting weeks for ONE feather to show up, I deleted my games. When the mood strikes, I'll probably start a new game.
Hope you guys have better luck!

This works especially well for those collectibles that only appear in one place, like the turtle shell, coral, and tablet in VV3, or the bugs and rocks in VV2. I finished my tablet and turtle shell collections in two tribes using this method.

It's also a very good idea to get a mod that makes the collectibles stand out. Make them stand out like sore thumbs! The corals, especially, are very easy to miss.

One really tricky place is actually *under* the kids. I found a rare coral underneath a bunch of kids building sandcastles. That's something to watch out for if you have a lot of kids.

I didn't think we were allowed to post those blinking icons????
I'm sorry, Lurkily, in my opinion, they're a visual menace to look at!

I personally like those smilies a lot; they come out of a personal archive of smileys that I generally prefer over most forum smileys. I agree, though, that lining them up side-by-side would be a little hard for anybody to handle. My apologies. I removed all but the most appropriate.

i think that you posted that picture in the wrong thread

No, it was intended as a fun answer to Isla's chock over me deleting my games. I guess, I was the only one !

I understand; a single animation, well-coordinated, is one thing. Two or three (or four) all running at their own pace is eye-wrenching.

Another thing you can keep an eye out for are the "bubbles" that appear with the collectibles, I guess as a little "hey, here I am in case you missed me".

I would like it if some children were born with preferences for shells, coral, feathers &/or rocks/slate, and then those children would automatically pick up the collectibles that correspond to their likes.

Lurkily, it's too bad you don't enjoy FanFic; you write so well!

She? <Looks left, looks right>

Maybe Lurkily isn't big and manly, or have enough muscles to be masculine?
Well, if it helps, I used to go by Lurker, the name of a character I once played, back when I was roleplaying. Hey, it was a free-form role-playing channel, and it was my favorite character from pen-and-paper AD&D. Lurkily was an old in-joke from back then, and 'Lurker' is slang for non-participant, which I obviously do not intend to be.

Lady Ronin's the girl in this couple, (She goes by that alias wherever she goes,) and a sweet little woman she is. I got the blue, and she got the pink plushie. I'm quite proud of that sig image, (if that's the one you mean) though it's a cut-down version of a larger image; it's my own work, with source material used by permission from Lola at "Stuffies Will Kill", an online comic. Unfortunately, I can't post the link here, but it should be easy to find from a search engine.

Also, anybody wanting a link to the full-size images and animations with those characters can PM me. Yes, even knowing that my photoshop skills are only so-so, I'm quite ready to show off, I know. Blame it on the eternal war my bloated ego wages against my sense of humility.

Edit:Though not all of those images are E for everyone, I can at least post the higher-res source image for the one in my sig. I worked pretty long on trying to make blue look protective of pink.

More or less. Typing a lot was more socially acceptable than stabbing someone.