Carnival Dust Gathering Discussion

[Paperboy012305]

I got acceptance dust, but that was from Nightmare in Paradise, so maybe it only applies to THOSE types of events.

I got 4 more, but I can't be stuck in the 50's forever.

 

[Jacob]

I've never really understood how dusting works, but I'll just try to be as active as possible, lol!!! Posting for some dust action over here. Just got some acceptance dust from the Masquerade event

 

[Croconaw]

My cooldown is over, I think. I’m earning more dust.

 

[Yanrima~]

Hope we get the Moon Bunnies star fragment next once we accomplished the goal.
(Justice for moon bunnies! )

 

[BetsySundrop]

While on this dust gathering mission it just occurred to me... having the star fragments for each team - that's why our team colors couldn't be too similar!

I mean, how many shades of purple star fragments could there be (kidding)? Yes, it took this long for it to sink in, lol... I like the idea of the moon bunnies fragment possibility in a christmas event...

 

[OswinOswald]

I would like to "Confirm?" that there is a cooldown to the Haunt of Acceptance, as I got the 1st mirror correct, and didn't get any dust.

(Unless it's only when you get accepted where it shows on your posts with the green rectangle, I may have incorrect info on this)

I joined this tent too late for the mirror acceptance to be in this window, but I would also note that I didn't get any dust for CITB. (But Oblivia didn't green-accept my CITB guess either, I'm guessing because she has to manually distribute awards). I thought maybe it's because those are entered by a submission board? But I could have sworn that we've gotten dust in past events for private submissions. (Like Gaming/Spectating)
Unfortunately I doubt I will get any other Mirrors right, so hard to collect that data. But i do remembering last dusting that I submitted a lot of private entries late hoping they would help for dust and only got dust for 2 out of 3 within a short period of time. So... There might indeed be a cool down.

I did get a conversational haunting dust for just submitting an entry for one of the boards (an activity in the Monster tent) which I wasn't expecting, since I think of those boards as different from the rest of the message boards....
Don't go spamming the staff now though. I only got dust for 1 out of 4 posts I made recently there.

 

[Vsmith]

I donated more dust.️️️

 

[Mr.Fox]

All we are is dust in the wind...

 

[KittenNoir]

My cool-down is still happening nooooo I wanna earn dust I just checked before

 

[Rosch]

I'm too lazy to read the whole thread. lol. Is there a list of cooldowns?

 

[Aquilla]

I'm too lazy to read the whole thread. lol. Is there a list of cooldowns?

We haven’t really figured it out completely tbh. Stuff like poll voting, basement posts, profile posts have a quite long cooldown tho.

 

[OswinOswald]

I think part of the confusion for me so far is that some of the different triggers give the same sort of Haunting.
For example, Haunt of Conversation seems to apply to both profile posts and making posts within a thread. I haven't posted any new threads yet, but previous wishing well/dust transactions are still in my record, so I can see that those are also Haunts of Conversation.
I think it's easiest to figure out if you do all the actions fairly regularly, and then look back at your transaction record sorted by Event Trigger and calculate the shortest time windows

 

[Mars Adept]

I’m running out of ideas of where to post. I need a more eventful life.

 

[OswinOswald]

Well, I think part of the problem is not knowing the cooldowns yet. When you don't know the cooldowns, you have to randomly post and hope that you get dust. In order to get the most dust, you randomly post everywhere and anywhere/when. But once we can figure out the cooldowns more definitively, then we can be more strategic about it. For example, if I had known beforehand that the cooldown was >8hrs, then maybe I would have gotten some sleeeeeep

 

[Iris_T]

No idea how the gathering works yet so I just try to comment/interact more often and hope to keep getting dust..

 

[Snek]

I already reached 210 dust last time I was here so now I'm helping out with the 24000. From what I've gathered its better to pace out the forum interactions throughout the day. If you're on here all the time you'll end up getting less dust than periodically coming back. But...like kiwi said...they may change the rules for cooldowns without us knowing just by discussing it here.

 

[OswinOswald]

For those that have had their ticket expire and then have come back... did you come back still in the middle of a cooldown if you were in one? Or did the cooldown reset when you had a new pass?
(I'm going to guess the former. But of course when the time comes, I will test out the latter).

Somewhere the mods are having a grand time watching us

 

[Paperboy012305]

I reign supreme as my cooldown is finally over, I have took this opportunity to my advantage, now I think I’m on a cooldown again.

Fun.

 

[.: Meri :.]

I'm not sure if it's a cooldown, but there might be some sort of random or chance element to the Haunt of Acceptance. I didn't receive it for my first two accepted event submissions (Moonlight Masquerade and later Vandal Visions), but I did receive it for my Flickering Fiends entry. I'm pretty sure I was already in this tent when my masquerade entry was accepted, and definitely so for Vandal Visions/Flickering Fiends.

 

[Violet Witch]

My cool down is over although I must remember to purchase another ticket to re-enter this magical tent.