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@Bitstream, now we know where the crystals are going.
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@Namoh I used most the time for souping and upgrading-untill my batteries ran low each day atleast. I had everything on full bonus except for the bearowls and the molarbears, and very little room to move=I had to delete some decorations before I could even move anything around.
Jeremy is my son but was only on level 13 the last time I checked. He had his leg amputated at the hip due to a tumour and is learning how to walk in a "bucket" prosthesis. We are back home now but still have a few days a week to travel before I settle down to semi normalcy. -
@lucylastic, he got a leg amputation.............wow that's heavy!
I hope he's recovering well and can quickly walk with a prosthesis.
Jeremy shows up as level 21 completely setup as oskray's world when I visit him, so I guess he made some progress.
@Rovio, where's the update!!
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@jetlabels, do you mean the most amount of coins instead of rocks?
I got a few thousand (between 11.000 and 12.000 I guess) when trading a few sticks and muds in one go.
I'm not really hunting for crystals anymore............it takes too much time (especially scrolling through the list of friends..........try it on an iPhone) and it's about the only thing I can do until the update arrives. It's really getting boring. Although I'm not hunting crystals anymore...........I'm curious about the amount of crystals MisterGiF has received so far? Did you make it to 1500 already? Anyone else made it too 1000 like MisterGiF?
My guess about the update is that the BearOwl and the LandWhale will get another purpose instead of or next to creating coins. Reason why I think this: otherwise you've got 2 types of animals (9 allowed in total) which are completely useless. No one uses them because soup creates more then enough money for everything. My guess will be that they'll produce crystals on a low speed or some kind of different food for new animals. Maybe when I've got enough crystals I'll get myself another BearOwl which I can boost to the max production, just so I have something to do.
Anyone else has some thoughts about what they think or hope the next update will bring?
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@jetlabels, my current record is 5 sticks and 9 muds (9024 coins), I even kept a picture of the recipe.
@Namoh, not at 1500 crystals yet, "only" at 1258, would be at 1333 if I did not get a bear owl, my crystal rate is about once every 10 visits, so it has gone down in the last few days, before I could get crystals once every 5 visits.
I'm still not done boosting everybody. I still have
1 land whale at level 1,
1 bear owl at level 1,
1 albatroceros at level 1,
3 albatroceros at level 3,
2 bunny beast at level 1,
1 molar bear at level 1.
so until the boosting is not completed (945 soups to go) , I'll continue visits and ensuring the production queue is replenished up to sticks. Currently over 950 sticks, I'll only use them if a get a better recipe than the one above. I recycle a lot of recipes with fish, bones and leaves. Looking at my leaves overstock, I guess I start using them in soups.
I agree that scrolling the friend list is crazy even on an iPad, so I do not want to imagine on an iPhone. -
Damn, 1258 crystals............I think that's the highest anyone has had without paying for them. If I had more then 1000 crystals I would definitely get all the BearOwls and LandWhales, I somehow have the feeling they'll be used after the upgrade for another important feature.................and they'll cost more then they do now......
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@Namoh, maybe...
I still need to rearrange my setup to allow for all homes if I want to do this, after all getting all missing animals will bring me down 825 crystals and I will still have enough to fully evolve a new berry bush (350 crystals)
I'll decide once everybody I fully boosted, if I get other land whales and finally bear owls, just to complete my setup. -
I've been off line for a number of days to finish crash studies for Cisco cert exam. I was due to expire the 21st. Yesterday I passed the next test. Now to relax again.
Not so sure I want to do much with the Croods just yet.
It seems that I have 'lost' a number of FB friends. i.e. shrinkage has anyone else noticed this. I added like 8 or 9 with first names begining with "A" and now only see two new ones left to visit. It appears that "UN"friending is picking up in popularity (bored with game play).
PS I'm at 563 crystals with Chard and 658 with Rich. I just harvest 100 berries and convert 324 carrots to 108 leaves. A couple three times a day.
We have icebreaker and now tiny theif but STILL no update to Croods. -
@MisterGiF, everybody plays as he wants.
I'm only sharing my thoughts/ideas, which can be completely wrong!
I'm not hunting actively for crystals anymore, but when I get enough for a BearOwl/LandWhale I think I'll get it.
I've got nothing else to do. *Rovio where's the update!*
You at least can boost some animals with soup (which you'll be ready with in about 5 days I guess). -
@InHisName, I also saw a few people disappear from my friends list. 1 who was "double" in the list (once via GC, once via FB) and only the GC account is still showing, but others are just gone completely. No clue why.
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@Namoh & @InHisName, I've been actively keeping track of friends in Croods, I felt I had to when I opened a ticket with Rovio about friends not showing up and friends seing each other at the wrong level, the list include name, level I visit, real level if I saw a higher level at one point in time, say Chards going from 21 to 7 for example or friends showing at level 1 since the beginning, but I have screen shots of them at level 21.
I have not seen a decrease in friends, the ones that showed up in Croods are all still there.
I still yet have to reconcile friends on FB/GC to see who is really playing and not showing up.
@Namoh, thanks for letting me play as I want :-)
@Namoh, if you rearranged all your world on an iPhone, RESPECT!, I find it not funny on the iPad, I can only imagine the suffering you went thru on the iPhone!
@Namoh, as for booting what is left of animals, it is still over 2800 recipes to go, so depending of what i'm proposed I recycle about half of the recipes proposed, that brings it up to 5000+ proposed recipes, we will see, if 5 days will be enough. -
@InHisName, Cisco certification of Croods, you made the right choice ;-)
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Just to add my thoughts. I've unfriend a few people with 0 or 1 home only on what i guess was their guest account. Having to visit 5 times to get 5 gifts is really annoying... I dont play much anymore, slowly adding to my sticks reserves. I dont know how u guys know how much u have in the 99+ pile, i cant get bothered to keep track...
I really hope update wont rely on bearowl or whales getting useful, for me it should b a new zone, a new kind of berry, lots of new animals and a different cave. Im thinking a secondary character's home. It would "feel" like a new beginning, and hopefully bring new gameplay and interest... Its getting really boring - and yet i still feed my production line almost every day... So weak...
Also, if rovio is listening, an alphabetised menu for FB friends would help. Scrolling down 50+ names is just annoying. -
@MisterGiF, the strange thing is that the one who's not in my friends list anymore in The Croods is still friends on FB? No clue why he suddenly doesn't show up anymore in the game. I thought it was because he was in my list twice, once via GC, once via FB, but another friend who's showing up twice is still twice in my list?
If you play constantly you can boost your remaining animals in 7 days, but you'll need some sleep ;) so probably 9 or 10 days. How many BearOwls and LandWhales do you have currently? 2 of both right?
@boiss007, I don't have a clue either how they keep track of their stuff beyond 99+.
I'll see how much I have after the update, when I've not enough I can finally do something again!
To be honest I'm visiting this forum more often then that I play The Croods currently. To be honest I do hope that the BearOwl and LandWhale will be useful after the upgrade but I also hope that a new zone (or zones!) will be available, together with new animals, a new kind of Berry Bush, a bigger or new different cave, new features like feeding multiple food to 1 animal to produce a rare item or another speed bump for the higher animals (wouldn't it be nice if a Zeaver would produce more then 11 sticks/day?), more use of decorations, an overall speed bump for all animals of 1 type if you've got them all and fully boosted, an animal that would produce crystals, that each animal has a different name (completely useless but I don't like having 3 Crocopups with the same name.........when I call 1 all 3 are coming ;) ), etc, etc.
And I totally agree with you, an alphabetized menu for visiting friends would be much helpful!
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I've got the following:
- 4 MolarBear called Remus;
- 2 MolarBear called Molsku;
- 3 Crocopups called Shady;
- 2 Crocopups called Slugo;
- 3 Giralephant called Daru;
- 3 BunnyBeasts called Stinkers;
- 2 Albatroceros called Quad;
- 2 Sharkodile called Dixie;
- 2 FishCat called Smitten;
- 2 LandWhales called Fishy.
But the thing I like the most are 2 of my Zeavers!!
1 is called Chuck and another is called Norris, together they're Chuck Norris!!
@boiss007, yes I agree! -
@MisterGiF I agree. It should be pretty easy to do. If you pull up your friend list, but don't actually visit a friend the next time you pull up the list it takes you right back to where you were. But if you visit, then you start back at the beginning. That gets old when you have 75-100 friends. Or they could switch to a grid view. Or make is to you could reverse the alphabetical order. Almost anything would be better.
I probably would have gotten bored placing the Croods a month ago (and quit), except for this message board. I sure hope the update rolls out before the end of the month. I'm am curious about the fact that with the update will we access to all of the family or just Thunk. -
@jetlabels i hope we'll get to play a new member of the family, like the kids with their kid's cave on a different zone altogether
actually as a programmer, i think the friend bug should have been fixed in a minor update long ago... But hey, they provide the game free of charge and have a few other that are more popular, i guess they prioritize... -
@boiss007 I think we'll have to 'unlock' each family member (obviously Thunk will be the first) and they'll have their own area and probably their own (new?) creatures. Which would be cool.
I'm sure Rovio will address the friends issue and make it easier to visit neighbors.
The best trade for soup I've made so far is 8 sticks & 6 mud pies (what are those things?) for 7296 coins. I was stoked.
Has anybody gotten the 1000000 coins achievement yet? I'm working on it, but I'm not sure how many coins I had before the last update. -
@jetlabels,i got all my achievements done (19 of 19)
On another note what is your longest streak of visits without crystals? I'm up to 50 visits this morning and still have seen a crystal, i'm startint to feel like @Namoh :-( -
OK, verdict is in, on my 60th visit of the day, I got my first crystals, that was by far my longest streak without crystals.
Perseverance or relentlessness or a bit of both and a lot of faith!.
Finally finished, my round of visits, 11 neighbors gave me crystals, and 1 of those was a double crystals, so 60 crystals for 150 visits, which bumped me over 1500 crystals :-)
I'm still 630 soups away for boosting all my animals, this is down from 945 3 days ago, at this pace another 6 days and I should have all my animals fully boosted. -
@MisterGiF, very strange. Does it have 1 CatFish home?
That's the setup of my gf.
She hardly plays.
So you've got 1500 crystals and still hunting crystals.........respect!
How much do you think you need with the next update?
I just got enough crystals so I trapped another BearOwl. :)
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@Namoh, let me scroll down to your name ...
scroll...
scroll...
Now at level 19, 1 bear owl and 1 cat fish, she keeps things tidy and clean on her land :-)
Thing is that I visit while keeping the food chain feed and while doing soup to complete the boosting of my animals.
Do while not bored
Loop
Get berries
Feed Molar Bears, Collect Carrots
Feed Giraelephants, Collect Leaves
Feed Crocropups, Collect Bones
Feed Sharkodiles, Collect Fish
Feed Zeavers, accumulate Sticks
Check what Ugga is asking for her soup, give all that I can except Sticks, Fish, Bones
Recycle recipes that I cannot do
If enough soup to boost the next animal in list, then do so.
Visit a few friends
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@MisterGiF am just curious about why you don't trade sticks?
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I wasn't trading sticks to save them up for massive needs with level 21+.
Now I am souping with sticks, and mud only (oh also paired with eggs) Nothing else, not even unpaired eggs. My soup production is way down but coins shot way up. Rich S just hit 987,710 when he got the million coin award ! Apparently it is not net coins accumulated but total income since a selected point in game play. Chard is still chugging along at 1.1+ mil and no award in sight.
Chard bought all his cats and zeavers probably earlier than the start point. And Rich's expenses all came after the starting point.
Today, I spent 4+ hours harvesting all the berries, souping, and visting to use time while waiting for more berries to fill bush. My floating leaf inventory went from 50-80 each to 220+ each. Yes I probably used up more carrots than I created in that 4 hours. At least the leaves are built up a bit more now.
Rich 1.02 Mil, 703 crystals, million award
Chard 1.1 mil, 649 crystals
Neither has a whale, might bother only if I run out of animals to soup up. -
@Namoh. Did his level change to level 14 yet?
I found he had signed me out on my rovio account but left me signed in on facebook, I am guessing that caused a him to be seen as level 21?
Since then I have signed myself out on that ipad and have left it for kids use only ( luckily I had 2 to share between the 8 of us)
I am currently just logging in 2-3 times per day to build up sticks in case they are the next "food" as the rock mural near the cave suggests. I have all allowed animals and all souped up and levelled up -including 5 bear owls and 4 land whales -that spend most of their time starving lol
For everyone wishing for a way to make the visits go faster... I would like the "pop up" that allows you to go back home to have 2 choices ...
1 to go back to my world
2 to go to next friend on the list
even this one small change would halve the time it takes to visit all the friends in our lists, as it cuts out a home visit each time.
As for speculation, the food chain seems to continue after the zeaver - but the new animal is still invisible at this point. If it was a whole new area (with a whole new berry) then the line from the zeaver would not be there? That line from zeaver leaves me speculating that there will be more animals to follow the chain, and the first of us to get there may pay a whole lot more than those who will follow later ( and wait twice as long too ) -- look at the zeaver house that DID take 240 hours and now doesnt and is almost half the price now as it was when some of us first got them. -
@Kelski, see @lucylastic post above for my reason for not souping with sticks.
Now that I passed 1,000 sticks in floaters, I will soup them, just to get my coins higher, current coins at 1.4 mil, but I'll try to keep at least 1,000 sticks in floaters, just as it seems to be the food input of next level as leaves current are. -
If the food chain continues AFTER the Zeaver the animal probably will be slower then a Zeaver, so there's no reason for having hundreds of sticks because the new animal won't be able to proces them that quickly.
I'm guessing that there will be a complete new chain OR that it will continue from the Ramus!! You only need to feed them 1 bone, and the current chain also starts with feeding the MolarBears 1 Berry. From the MolarBears on the amount of food you need to give the animals goes up, 2 for the BunnyBeats, 3 for he Giralephants, 2 for the Albatroceros, 3 for the Crocopups, etc. My guess is that there will a parallel chain starting from the Ramus.
I would love to have the option "Go to next friend" when visiting friends! That would speed up things.
Btw, I also received suddenly the 1.000.000 award. No clue what they use for counting but I sure haven't received 1.000.000 coins after the update!! -
@Namoh It seems likely that the new area that we'll have access to after the update would use 'product' from our original land. The Ramus makes sense as a jump off point, except it doesn't produce food fast enough. I think it will stay as a trade item maker like the Bunnybeasts and the Albatroceros.
Right now, I'd be happy for ANY update. I just want to get poor Thunk out from under his rock. -
@jetlabels, I agree on the point that currently the Ramu don't produce food fast enough, but they can change the speed during/after the update, just like they did with the Ramu update. The building speed for the Zeavers went down drastically. Maybe they'll do the same with the Ramus?
Can someone help me!!!!
My gf was playing on an iPhone. She now got a Samsung. After installing The Croods and logging in with her account she needs to start all over again!?!!!
Which steps do we need to take so she can continue playing where she stoppped?
When we log on via the iPad her world is still there. -
The game progress can not be synced from android to iOS or iOS to android.
She then has one save on iOS and one save on android on her account. -
But rovio account on AB works on different platforms.
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@lucylastic, yep he's back on 14!
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With some of you counting up the rest of soups to go....
I thought I would do that too.
Chard Syes = 219
Rich Sias = 793
I thought I was closer to done than that.
I was just doing only mud and sticks but Rich is about out of both.
I guestimate that he'll need tens of thousands of berries to make enough sticks and mud to do those last 800 soups. At 25 sticks per day for the combined Zeavers, that's a very long time to collect and make sticks. I might need 800-1500 sticks and at least 2000 muds to finish those soups. Maybe I should relent and do some stones and feathers. I can get a few free from visiting more often than I ever get mud&sticks from visiting. Yes, I remember at least 2 muds and once a stick on visiting.
Chard might finish in Aug, but Rich will linger at least until Sept. UNLESS Rovio actually finishes their upgrade before then. -
@nHisName, if doing soup with sticks and mud only, I can only imagine the coin count :-)
At this point I have only 1 bear owl (90 soups) and 1 land whale (240 soups), both are at level 1, 330 soups to go, then I need to get more bear owls or land whales.
My coin count is *only at 1.56 mil
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