Hey !
So it has been quite annoying I normally dont do these tales challenges but decided to get finally my first Mythic monster and so decided to play this game frequently for 3 days ! But I am vvery disappointed to know that how easily game makers fool players and waste their time. I have been consistently logging back in after 2 to 4 hours of gap but sometime I can collect 4 points of FOOD for food pool in tales challenge and sometimes not ?? same goes with gold collection .. which is obviously quite frustrating. Anyone knows whats going on here ? why pools are acting abnormally ? do they act like this usually or its just me or what ?

THANKS !

You need to do some research on Progressive islands and the pool times associated with them. This error is on you and not the game as progressive islands have not changed and there are wait times associated with all actions. In actuality the wait times are similar in Progressives and they are in ALL events. Nothing is instantaneous nor immediate in all events.

The problem is you're not collecting the pools at the right time.
Collecting in 2-4 hour gaps will never give you the maximum output from pools because the time for the pools to be maxed out is 8 hours