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  • Nice with a little new to the game, but are eggs not more delicious then sticks? That should be in the primary food chain instead.
    Hay Day? Isn't that a farmville wannabe? It's not available on android anyway, so I play Turf, that's not available on IPhone and you have to actually leave the house. Healthy and fun ;-)
  • Got 5 crystals, 5 eggs and 5 berrys plus pocket change from my daily visit of friends.
  • I'm rearranging homes, and I found out that I can remove some decorations and still get 15% boost for all animals.
    I think I can manage to fit 3 Ramu homes but I can't get them all on 15% boost.
    I don't want to build the last 2 Ramu homes yet, because then it will be very difficult to rearrange stuff.

    @angryzeaver, I'm really curious about your setup!!
  • I'm not building all three ramu homes now just in case one of gran's chores in level 21 or later is to build a ramu home
  • Spent a good amount of time maneuvering stuff, was able to get space made for three Ramu homes AND have decorations around them so that all three of my Ramus get the 15% boost.

    Don't really like how my farm looks any more, but it is what it is. Hopefully the next update will include more land and I'll be able to adjust then.

    Of my nine Molarbears, six of them have 15% boost, the other three do not. It's not that big of a deal since those three never get fed anyway.

    I am round-robin-style evolving my Ramu homes. One is at the second level with a level 2 Ramu and that's my sole egg producer at the moment. Another home is in the process of evolving to the second level and the third is evolving to the final level. I should have all three evolved to the third/final level by Tuesday.

    Staying the course with finishing the leveling-up of my Sharkodiles, just got one left to go, one third of the way towards going from level 4 to level 5.

    After they're done, I'll level up all my Ramus and then go back to the Fishcats and Zeavers.

    My guess is that whatever animals are introduced in the next update will consume eggs so I would like to build up a nice inventory of those.

    Noticed that there is a new achievement of acquiring one million coins. If I keep working towards leveling up all my animals that shouldn't be a problem. I'm almost at 700k now as it is.

    So even though I was less than thrilled with the update, it's given enough more to do to keep my interest up. I think if I had finished evolving all of my Sharkodiles, Zeavers and Fishcats and they still hadn't released an update at that point, I probably would have quit.
  • Hey Namoh,
    To really force change of FB, i would power down after closing the old one. Then after powering up, start FB and since you logged out, it will need to be logged in again. Do it with the new account. If it asks to sync with your contacts, Say NO! Do not contanimate the new one with your current contacts. Now you should have no friends in the new account. Maybe a friend request or two, accept those. Good. Now log into The Croods. Play. Visit neighbors. Should work.

    After success, go back to FB, browse your friends. One ? click on the birds nest eggs icon. Click on MY friends image and view my friends. Skip Harmath, he's not playing. The rest are. Friend request those.

    PS to the rest of you, contact me at my inbox for details to connect. We have a tiny 'neighborhood' here in the forum, help us grow a bit.

    PPS: for those who want to block viewing of their current friends and STILL use the same FB account "safely", continue reading. Open up page with all your friends showing. Find the little "gear". Click it, choose privacy. From that choose "only me". Now all your friends will see a count of 'mutual friends' and their icons. They will NOT see any friends not mutual. This keeps your massive friend list private from all your friends (and anyone else too). All any see is friends that you have in common and no one else.
  • Has anyone discovered if there is a limit to how many neighbors one can have in a game ? (at least 6 + friendly neighbor works)
  • With some work I think I managed to keep all my animals full boosted including 3 Ramu's, but will know for sure when the last Ramu is tamed and in his house, can't see now if all decorations are close enough.
    I even have plave for 2 extra LandWhales which would be fully boosted also, only I've no crystals for them.
  • I give up!!

    I logged out from FB on The Croods.
    I logged out from the Rovio account on The Croods.
    I deleted my FB app.
    I shutdown my iphone.
    I started my iphone.
    I downloaded the FB app again.
    I logged in with my new account.
    I logged into The Croods with my Rovio account.
    I clicked on link FB.
    And I still got the friends from my old FB account??!!?!!!!!
  • @Namoh, from my iOS devices, i did not install the FB app, and i can still connect games to my FB account, not sure this will help you, but might be worth a try.

    You might also want to engage with Rovio support.

    Getting free crystals makes us do extraordinary stuff
  • How do you connect games to your FB account?
    (probably a stupid question)
  • In a game, it asks for permission to open FB for contacts etc. I click yes and it does it.

    It uses settings to log in for an app for apple products. For browsers, it uses cookies to find login info to open the website. First log OUT of old account. Or change settings and then get the new account to open either in browser or the app for which ever case that is. Arrange at least one of us to be friends then, Leave it open and switch over to the game and start that up. Try the neighbors visit and see.

    For Iphone, be sure login info is changed for the app if you have it installed for FB.
  • i use both my iPhone and iPad neither have the FB app installed.

    On the iPad, under Settings, Facebook, i'm connected with my FB credentials (and i can switch on/off which apps can use my FB account)
    On the iPhone, under Settings, Facebook, i'm not even connected.

    I logoff from FB,
    I logoff from Rovio,
    I clear Cookies under Settings, Safari, Remove Cookies and Data
    Restart the Croods app,
    Login my Rovio account,
    Goto community button,
    Hit connect to FB icon
    It will open Safari and ask for your FB credentials
  • Nomah accepted your invitation but you don't show up on the croods
  • Do I show up in your croods?
  • @catie, I think you're, is your last name 5 letters?
    You've got 1 Zeaver and 1 Ramu right?

    I finally figured out what went wrong.
    On your iphone in settings, you can add your fb account, that's what you need to change!! Not the login of the fb app!!

    Btw, I got my first crystals!!

    It would be nice if hunterman, PeterJohn0, angryzeaver, etc could also join!

    Btw, InHisName I think we're connected but I'm not sure because your fb account has a different name then here....?
  • I'd like to see the worlds of all the people who have run out of space. I still have plenty of space.

    to see my world, add me on fb. my email is my username with "@ovi.com" at the end.
  • @mohsie, you've got plenty of room, because you don't have all animals yet (missing 1 Sharkodile, 1 Albatroceros, 1 Ramu, 1 Zeaver, 1 Crocopup and I don't think all your MolarBears have the 15% boost).
    I've got all allowed animals except for the BearOwl and the LandWhale of which I got 1 of each. All my animals are maximum boosted and I have a little space to move around.
  • There isn't much point of having to many animals which are part of the main food chain. 99% of the time my bunnies and albatroceroses are not producing because the obvious bottle-neck of the berries.
  • @angryzeaver, would you like to post the setup of your animals?
  • @namoh I accepted you on my phone and you are in my list of freinds. I play on my kindle fire. Yes my last name has 5 letters and I have 1zeaver and 1 ramu. Maybe we can only have so many freinds to pull from.
  • Are you guys limited at 6 FB friends in your visit list?

    Would be nice to see more, even if gifts were limited to the fisrt 6 you visit in a day
  • I believe the limit is: five gifts, per friend (GC or FB), per day
  • I think there is a limit of six fb friends plus friendly neighbour
  • I see my first 6 FB friends + my friendly neighbour, that is 7 worlds from which i can get daily gifts
  • I have 8 neighbors that I can visit so far. There are 3 friends not showing up in the visit list. We haven't been able to figure out why, yet.

    Out of 8+1 visits, I got in one days visits: 675 coins +10 coins +15 berries + 10 carrots + 5 stones + 0 leaves + 0 crystals and that account needs more crystals

    I am running a guest rivio game on phone and it has maxed the berry bushes so not desperate to get more and I got 10 crystals yesterday and 5 more today.

    Go figure, huh ?

    It seems to be real tricky to get a friend that is playing The Croods to show up in the visit list. If someone discovers the real steps to activate the friend into visitable status, post here.
  • I have a feeling you can visit more than once a day. yesterday I visited everyone twice and I got rewards both times. I think there was a12 hour gap. can someone who had more time try this out please?
  • @mohsie, i also experience double visits per day (both with gifts)

    I just went to visit my 8+1 (friendly neighbough) and got
    15!!! Crystals
    5 bones
    5 feathers
    10 leaves
    10 rocks
    55 berries
    45 XP
    675 coins

    I'll check this evening and report my results
  • how do you get 8+1 friends on your list? I only get 6+1. I have more than 8 friends from this forum on my fb
  • I have 8+1 to visit BUT there are 11 playing friends !
    We are still struggling to define just what is necessary in steps to activate a neighbor to visit. I might get a new friend and they waltz right thru, while others continue to struggle for success.

    Maybe the strugglers haven't 'invited' us to play ? Many of the waltzers did click the invite button, that is the only trick that hasn't been thourly tested yet.

    MisterGIF, that is the most fantastic prizes ever. Of my 9, 5 provide no fruits/crystals. Just the 15 coins and 5 XPs. The other 4 are usually only one fruit or crystal. ONCE I got berrys, carrots, AND crystals on single visit! Maybe 3x in 3 days of visits I've gotten two bonus things.
  • I checked my friend list (had 6+1), logged off my FB account (in the settings tab of Crrods), then connected back to FB in my Neigbourgs tab and had more friends.

    I also have more friends playing Croods than i see in my list, might be that they did not connect FB in Crrods yet?, really not clear how this works.
  • Anyone volunteering to send a support e-mail to Rovio? :)
  • MisterGIF: "I checked my friend list (had 6+1), logged off my FB account (in the settings tab of Crrods), then connected back to FB in my Neigbourgs tab and had more friends."

    I tried that before 8+1 11 friends. clicked log out of FB. Exited(sleep). 10 min later, started Croods, started FB from neighbor page. I got the SAME 8+1 neighbors. No improvement. 3 friends still elude me. Funny thing is, I think some are connected to some other folks and doing visits.
  • I now have 8+1 too. however, I don't think the relationship is mutual. for example, @Namoh can see my world, but I can't see theirs.
  • I'm thrilled for all of y'all who are getting crystals and other stuffs from using Facebook to visit friends' setups.

    That said, if in ADDITION to making that feature available through Rovio accounts you could *also* do that in Facebook I wouldn't have a problem. The trouble is, Rovio made those "gifts" exclusive to using third party app that has - or should have - nothing to do with playing a Rovio game on devices not using that app.

    It makes me crazy when companies do that, and doesn't add one whit to my playing enjoyment. In fact, it rather makes me feel duped for having paid for crystals and now, because I refuse to use said third party app, I have no opportunity to participate in any freebies. I think I'll be bowing out of this game until they provide a way for *all* their customers to participate in "friendly neighbor" activities without forcing us into Facebook (or any other so-called social media application).

  • @Jet I also will be waiting until they add connectivity through Rovio accounts. It is a pet peeve of mine when "Game stuff pops up on Facebook." I cannot make myself do it even though I am not that active on Facebook now.

    It seems that there are plenty of issues anyways that are out of Rovios control, concerning facebook.

    Rovio - please take note!
  • I agree with @Jet and @hunterman on some of the points brought up. I wouldn’t have started this game if it requires facebook to have an advantage from the very beginning. There must be a way Rovio can reward even those not on facebook. At least give everybody equal opportunity to gain especially crystals which is so difficult to come by and so easily lost through constant tapping.

    What annoys me most is that you can now purchase more coins by trading your crystals!
    That doesn’t make any sense. It should be the other way round.
  • Hi Guys, can someone add me as a fb friend. I have only one connecting to the croods. Thanks for your help or any suggestions in advance.
  • I have 8+friendly neighbor on my list. I have 10 listed in FB playing the game.
  • @oskray said '
    What annoys me most is that you can now purchase more coins by trading your crystals!
    That doesn’t make any sense. It should be the other way round.'

    Ditto my thoughts also. I'd trade 50,000 coins for 2,000 crystals in a heartbeat if offered.
  • Progress update - All of my homes are now at the Max Production Level or are currently evolving. Since coins are no longer of concern I am switching over to maximum soup production - trading every single item soup recipe, no doubles, while trying to maintain a well balanced cave inventory.
  • @hunterman,
    I soup slowly. Any recipe with leaves, bones, fish, or sticks. RECYCLE
    I pump up rocks and feathers. I keep clicking until all three are on a 4+ minute wait. I go do a honey-do and come back later. Harvest berries, build up leaves etc. then harvest soup. wash and repeat untl I run out of levels to move up. I'm about out now on my phone game. My IPAD game ran out last week.

    The slow souping keeps me from exhausting my leaves so quickly. So I don't have long delays to build up a min amount again.

    Now just building as big an inventory in floating tags in leaves, bones, fish, and sticks. I suspect level 21 is gonna need LOTS of sticks. If I have hundreds then I can speed start lots of stuff.
  • I'm in :) thanks
  • I'm curious about how many animals everybody has which are fully boosted (having the extra 15% boost) and how many is possible with the "perfect" setup?
  • @Namoh
    9 Molar bears
    5 Bunny Beast
    6 Girelaphants
    5 Crocopups
    5 Sharkodiles
    4 Alberteroces
    3 Fish Cats
    3 Zeavers
    3 Ramus
    1 Bear Owl
    1 Land Whale

    All have the 15% Boost and there is space for 3 more houses or extra space while rearranging. I have not had the chance to redo the screenshots and post them here, yet.
  • Can you get two berry trees?
  • I have exactly the same number of creatures as hunterman. 45 creatures all 15% boosted with space for another 5 homes.

    This is possible only because of the reduction in size of the totems. The homes and decorations can now be put closer together. Some of the decorations which were required earlier are not needed anymore.

    I use 3 decorations for every group of creature except 4 for Giralephants & 6 for Molarbears.
  • My zeavers are fully evolved, maxed production and fully boosted. I noticed something interesting: one of them takes the usual long 4+ hours to produce a stick and the other 2 just over 2 hours. Do people recognize this? And how come?
    Also I noticed that I received crystals by visiting the friendly neighbor (don't want to connect to fb..)! This happened once, and it seems I can collect twice a day at friendly neighbor?
  • Actually, I just checked - received crystals twice! (5 each time), still long way to go to evolve my 2nd berry bush, but at least it's a start
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