Last week my friend must have heard the buzz about Friend Quest because he did a few lessons. We reached our goal easily. The reward was as someone else stated, double XP for half an hour & a hundred gems, which is chump change.
I mostly switched to some web work to do checkpoint practices and conversation mode stories, but it's nice to meet the daily goal on the web. The prizes are exorbitant. Two lingots are like a couple thousand gems. Every ten days I get ten percent of my steak. That's an enormous reward. You can't buy anything with lingots but they're shiny and hoard-able.
This week they picked a new friend. They made our goal 1400 XP.
The rub is they're cutting XP on lessons. Since the stated XP seems to match the XP awarded on Duo for schools & duome, I didn't file a bug report. Something has to be done about people getting a thousand XP for 15 minutes of completing set one lessons, so I don't mind them cutting XP. Stories should be chopped too, but it's still twenty-eight XP or more for answering a handful of multiple choice questions. Also, web work is excluded from the competition.
They picked an active friend for me this week so we should meet our goal. Elle s'appelle Hélène ... Comme la chanson a dit, elle était une fille comme les autres.