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New update with the re-arrangements (anyone who can see my setup, have a look).
I have:
9 MolarBears
5 BunnyBeast
6 Girelaphants
5 Crocopups
5 Sharkodiles
4 Alberteroces
3 FishCats
3 Zeavers
3 Ramus
1 BearOwl
1 LandWhale
all with the 15% extra boost, I had already space for 2 other LandWhales which also would get the 15% bonus, and room for another BearOwl (why you would want it I don't know, but it's possible) which would get 10% extra boost.
Now I've got room for 1 extra LandWhales (4 in total possible) which all 4 can get the 15% boost (if I'm correct)
Which means I would be able to fit 49 animals currently (of which 48 with 15% boost, 1 with 10% boost).
9 MolarBears
5 BunnyBeast
6 Girelaphants
5 Crocopups
5 Sharkodiles
4 Alberteroces
3 FishCats
3 Zeavers
3 Ramus
2 BearOwl
4 LandWhale
Let see if I can improve even more (will be difficult).
How is the rest doing? How many animals can you place and how many will have the 15% extra boost?
I would like to see if we can find a setup where we could place all allowed animals (9 Molar bears, 5 Bunny Beast, 6 Girelaphants, 5 Crocopups, 5 Sharkodiles, 4 Alberteroces, 3 FishCats, 3 Zeavers, 3 Ramus, 5 BearOwl, 4 LandWhale) including the 15% boost!
With my current (theoretical) setup I'm only missing 3 BearOwls!
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Only with friendly neighbor have I now seen Grug missing BUT there are gifts to get ! All other neighbors, Grug seems to go missing 10-15 minutes after finishing up. He doesn't return until the gifts are ready to award again in that neighbor.
I have one member with Russian text in his/her name. On IPAD his/her name field is blank. Still get gifts, though.
I just finished another visit flush with 2 games. On adroid phone, 2h 7m for 43 neighbors. 2 only have one animal 5x visits to get all gifts. So that was 51 visits in 2:07:00 Ugghhh! I need to quit soon or work level 21-3x.
My IPAD only had 34 neighbors, again with 2 w/ single animal homes. That 42 visits would have taken about an hour except for the shower, breakfast, and preparing son for school bus. All that included it was 1:51:00.
So out of 385 gifts from 2 games and one round of visits, I got 15 crystals on one game that doesn't need them badly and 10 crystals on the one desperatly needing to upgrade last bush.
So, I have 203 crystals now plus most trees and rocks. Should I bother with a land whale ? Or save them up for levels 21+ (maybe a 3rd berry bush ?) Should I spend NOW or save for later ? -
@InHisName i also has the crystals for 1 land whale, but indeed wondering if i keep them for levels 21+.
Interesting that both games you run have dirrefent friends, same FB account?
Since the 11th, start of my visits compilation (i have only 1 game, but manages to visit twice on the 11th, 12th, 13th but not today, i received
70 crystals
no stick, no mud, a few fish, more eggs, more bones, more feathers, more leaves, a truck load of rock, even more carrots and doing an indigestion of berries :-)
Anybody know why some user show up at level 1, instead of their actual level? -
@InHisName, it's all up to you, but I know for sure that I'm spending all my crystals when possible! When I get 200 crystals I'll update one of my Berry Bushes to 50! The next 200 will be used for the other Berry Bush to upgrade to 50. Then I'll start getting 3 extra LandWhales (just because it's possible). If I've figured out how to place the last 4 BearOwls I'll use my crystals on them..............if the new release hasn't been released on that time.......but it will take me about 1 year to get that many crystals by visiting other people. :(
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@MisterGiF, 4 days and 70 crystals!!
WOW!
I'm really jealous. That means you'll have within 3 weeks enough crystals to upgrade 2 Berry Bushes!!
On my average it will take me about 1 or 2 months to get enough crystals to upgrade 1 Berry Bush........ :( -
Answers and NON-answers:
@MisterGIF I could not figure out how to use ONE FB with two games. Since I had two spare FB accounts with only one indonesian 'friend' in one, I just went the easy way and used one each.
As far as crystal scores go.... I think it's been 6 days since I got my first neighbor besides friendly, so my total is 1st:50 and 2nd:63 I should feel happy instead.
Same answer as why some FB friends don't appear in visit list at all: We have NO foolish idea.!
@namoh - I'm leaning towards waiting for big surprise and how many crystals it will cost. So, I think I may save until 21 or I give up which ever comes first. If its another berry bush, then I need 350 ready to spend. So.... I gots LOTS of visiting to do....
In meanwhile, I can harvest lots of berries and pump up leaves, fish, and sticks for the coming onslaught of expensive animals beyond the Zeaver.
Target: . . . . . Goal . . . . . . . . Present
Girelephant - 500+ each . . . . 250
Sharkadiles - 500+ each . . . . 24
Zeavers - 1000+ each . . . . . . 85 Cant track this as I am not using them much.
I do a round robin rotate filling up the cave. Need to use tally sheet to keep count of how many caves full I extract from each animal. Then I can know how much over 99+ it really WAS. The other animals should be close to the same.
Should probably make goal for bones too. -
@InHisName - 2+ hours to check neighbors! I put a few minutes in hear and there just to check and load up the creatures. I dont have near that time nor the desire for that. The friendly neighbor is plenty for me - no desire to have a huge list now.
Current strategy is each time I check now I place a trap in each spot and am working on the 200 traps placed acheivemnt. -
My guess is the more you have crystals, the better odds you'll get more crystals during your visits, i got 35 !!! crystals in 1 round of visits, jumping to 299 total, so my goal is to never let my crystals go lower than 250 or so. Since my Berry Bushes are fully evolved and i'm not even sure i'll got for bear owl and land whale except for finishing off some achievements.
43 visits in less than 40 minutes, with a few connection error, so i had to try up to 3 times to visit a few friends -
I changed the name on the FB account that I use for this game. My current friends will notice that the Jamie McChesney's name has switched to 'James Crood' with a different profile picture. Anybody that want to add me for this game, feel free. I don't know how important friends will be once the update comes out, but...
I wonder if you might be able to send the kids to visit neighbors?
I would imagine that 'Thunk' will be the first member of the family that we'll have access to, but knows. -
@hunterman, of course will drop some screenshots when it's in the correct status again. I'm now re-arranging again to see if I can fit more............not looking good at the moment. :(
I've got some ideas but that involves a lot of moving around and that's difficult with the available space. Maybe when a new area opens, it's easier to shuffle! -
I have amassed more than 2.1 million coins to date. It’s double the amount of what I have achieved more than a month ago. I have never got any crystals from the friendly neighbor except more coins and XP points. But to my surprised, I got 10 yesterday in one visit.
I have 9 Molarbears, 5 Bunny Beasts, 6 Giralephants, 4 Albatroceroses, 5 Crocopups, 5 Sharkodiles, 3 Fish Cats, 3 Zeavers, 3 Ramus, 1 Bear Owl and 1 Land Whale. All 45 creatures are at max level, max 15% boost and max evolved. Both Berry Bushes remains at 38 max.
Minimum of 3 decorations used for every group of creature except 4 for Giralephants & 6 for Molarbears. I still have space enough for another 6 homes.
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@oskray, I'm curious about your setup.
Can you post screenshots.
@hunterman, I'll try to post screenshots of my setup today. -
@hunterman and everybody else, as requested and promised hereby screenshots from my setup.
https://imageshack.com/scaled/modthumb/203/u85.png
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@namoh My setup has not changed much if you refer to the screenshots which I have posted on May 9.
Both the screenshots (from 2nd plot of land) posted earlier as follows:-
http://imageshack.us/a/img836/5392/croods01.png
http://imageshack.us/a/img69/3623/croods02.png
I have moved the Bear Owl to the 1st plot of land. In its place, I now have 3 Ramus homes with the 3 decorations and even space for another home.
I have relocated the Land Whale together with its 3 deco to a vacant space beside the forklift. In its place, there is enough room for 3 more homes plus space for more decorations. The area is around the 2nd Berry Bush. The 3 Zeavers’ homes are now “L” shaped instead of triangular as in the screenshots. A 4th zeaver (if another one is allowed next update) can be put next to them, 15% boost too with minor rearrangement.
Another 2 more homes can be squeezed behind the Fish Cat’s homes. I have also removed 2 decorations from the Bunny Beasts group. 5 deco as in the screenshots, now only 3.
The additional space for 6 homes in my setup is only possible with the reduction in size of the totems and the removal of excess decorations. Since then, I have moved everything closer together.
Hopefully, I can get you the screenshots by tomorrow.
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After chatting with a couple of other players on FB, I sent this to Rovio:
"I (and several other people) have 'friended' people on Facebook to be able to visit each other in the game, but for some reason we are unable to 'see' each other. This does not seem to platform specific. Many people that are using the same OS (we'll use an iPad for example) still are having issues. Is there a solution?"
They're very good to respond it inquiries, so we'll keep our fingers crossed. -
Sorry, first time using imageshack.
Let see if this is better!
I made a lot screenshots, so everything is shown.
https://imageshack.com/scaled/large/855/9yf.png
https://imageshack.com/scaled/large/59/x8s.png
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https://imageshack.com/scaled/large/834/yuyp.png
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Checked it myself, much better!! -
Damn, I lost again crystals yesterday by accidentally tapping, they haven't solved that completely.
But I also got 10 crystals by visiting friends.
Next time I get crystals I'll pass the 200.............what to do?
Directly evolve a Berry Bush to 50 or wait?
I'm thinking about evolving the BB. -
@Namoh, thanks for the larger images :-)
@Namoh, i still do no see you in my list of friends in Croods
@Namoh, regarding those new shinny crystals, i think the more you have the more you might receive from visits, the lowest i let them drop was around 200 and now back to 359 from visits, once i hit 400 i might get my first Land Whale just to complete an achievement in Game Center -
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@namoh, I am not on facebook. Game Center, yes.
Here’s the screenshots for my complete setup.
http://imageshack.us/scaled/medium/191/uku.png
http://imageshack.us/scaled/medium/15/g8g.png
http://imageshack.us/scaled/medium/580/1fwb.png
http://imageshack.us/scaled/medium/585/ohd.png
http://imageshack.us/scaled/medium/593/h2t.png
Please note the 4th screenshot. As I have mentioned earlier in one of my post, the broken egg beside the elevator cannot be removed permanently. So, be very careful when placing small decorative pieces at places where it is partly hidden. You may not be able to remove it!
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@Namoh, Game Center is available in iOS, missing
"Grumpy Collector", own at least one of each animal in Area 2
"Fully Stocked", Plant total of 200 decorations (the question is where?)
"Trapmaster" , Plant total of 200 traps
and "One million reasons", Collect total of 1000000 coins.
I'm currently going for Trapmaster and One million reasons.
Might go for Grumpy Collector
As for Fully Stocked, when the other are completed and i have nothing else to do before the next upgrade, i might just build a skull, delete it, restart untill i get 200 decorations.
@oskray, would be nice if we could rotate the view of the playing areas
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@oskray, I like your setup.
But where do you plan to add the other 6 homes?
You can add probably 2 next to the 2nd Berry Bush and 1 with the Ramus.
Maybe if you shift your crocopups a bit more to the CatFish (if possible) you could add 1 more, but that's it as far as I can see it.
I don't think you could put the required decoration next those homes for the full boost either but I'm not sure.
Are you also known as oskray in GameCenter?
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@MisterGiF, don't bother to go for the "One million reasons", I'm already over the 1.000.000 coins but achievement is not counted?
I'm not going to add decorations and remove them, because I think I'll reach those amounts when the new update has arrived!! -
@MisterGiF Yes, I have just visited you through Game Center and got 5 crystals. Thanks.
@namoh Yes, same name in Game Center.
If I move away the unwanted decorations, I can add 3 homes around the 2nd Berry Bush. You are right, limited decorations can be put around them.
One more home with the Ramus and two more homes just behind the Fish Cats.
But I am not going to rearrange anything until the next update. If a 4th Zeaver is allowed, it can also have 15% boost. -
@oskray, i still do not see you, so i did:
1) logoff from FB, you still do not show up
2) Logoff Rovio account, you show up in the unsigned game (default one)
3) Log back in to my Rovio account, i still do not see you
I see you in Game Center, i already tried to reload the application, next step is probably to reboot my iPad.
I was under the impression that the randomness was only with FB accounts :-( -
@oskray, this is exactly what i'm doing on my iPad.
I logged out of Croods
I rebooted the iPad
I went to the Game Center (i see you and your achievements.
I launched Croods
I logged in Croods
I went to Neighbor tab (i see only Friendly)
I hit connect to FB, i see some FB friends.
Frustrating... i only hope that checking if i could see you in the "default game" you will still see my "real game" -
@MisterGiF, I'm not talking to you anymore!! *me is jealous on your crystal rate ;)*
I can't do doubles everyday, and my crystal rate is not as high as I would like it to be..... -
Whales are indeed useless on level 21, because of all the coins you get from boosting all your animals to max. It's just for fun. I would like to get all animals allowed, useless or not................if possible.
What do you guys think/hope will be added with the new release?
Do you hope on animals which continue from the Zeaver, so they would need sticks, whatever they produce another animal needs..........or would you like to have a parallel path with new animals which would require f.e. Berries or Carrots or Stones or Feathers??
What would the income be from Eep, Sandy, Thunk and Guy?? -
@Namoh, sorry ;-)
@hunterman, congrats on the 200 Traps, working towards it, but no clue where i'm at. -
Rare creatures -either new ones or slight variations in the current ones that could be trapped - with different production speeds etc.
The ability to design your own traps that could catch without Grug dropping out of the sky - simialar to the building concept in Bad Piggies/Alex.
New areas to explore - mountain, caves, sea, jungle. -
@shadowcat, check your private messages
@InHisName, once @shadowcat i connected to me, (s)he can invite anyone that also has the pretty bird nest as a common friend with me, that should give plenty of friends. -
Ok, y'all talked me into it. I made a Facebook account just for gaming.
I've max'ed almost everything and use a layout similar to what @hunterman posted a few weeks ago. I didn't bother with LandWhales and I only have one BearOwl (but I never load him). I've got over 360,000 coins so for me, the 200 or 1000 they produce just aren't worth the berries they consume. I'm "Bill BirdNerd" if you want to connect on FB and do the friendly neighbor thing. Thanks! -
When the last update came out the home I was evolving was evolved once I installed the update. Might be with a try with level 21 coming out at some point. It was a zeaver home and we all know they take forever. May have been a coincidence but not sure. Just fyi
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