Sazae Event Rankings

I was consistently in top 300-600 probably throughout all 10 days until the last 2 days where I actually played less than more, ha. Hope my final ranking is high 800-low 900, not a surprise change to over 1,000.

At the beginning, I didn’t understand how top 200 leaderboard was quite ahead of me but realized that many must have used a good number of gems. I didn’t even know you could use 1 gem to get instant 3 ship energy until in the middle of that event!

Wonder if that is a big factor? The sales during the event is pretty good… did I see something like 14 gems & 5 ship energy & 5000 coins for only $7.99? I’m sure some have no problems charging that to their credit cards, lol?

* CalvinTy

I ended with rank 259 on Sazae Family event and got the ship, is awesome (well except the mast)! Sheep Hull and Bow does the work then my 2xBird masts do their job :)

@gemmoon4 Hmm… I am as frustrated as you, but I don’t think there is much Rovio can do, UNLESS they change the whole coding of the game, which is a lot of work,
it’s not impossible, but a lot of work.

The best they can do right now is to catch as many cheaters as they can, but you can’t catch every fish in the sea, and new fish is born everyday.

What pisses me off the most is the slot. Rovio keeps adding junk items, what the hell is that about?

@partshade I have realized that, and prizes from monster events are getting worse and worse, it’s not even worth my while to play in the events now.

But hey, it gives me a reason to explore other games.

@kogurazul @tomt Well said. They are running out of ideas, and the prizes are getting worse and worse….. now, the Big Apple Ship is worthless for me, as long as I have Sheep Bow, Bomb Special Mast and Sheep Hull. There’s no reason why we need to collect these worthless items anymore……. Maybe if we send them ideas, this will might help them put better prizes on monster events.

Hey guys, we are continuously working hard to ensure the playing field is fair. Event prizes are only given out once the scores have been verified and any cheaters have been removed.

@roviokien

@napmaster

As I mentioned it before, a fisherman cannot catch all the fish in the sea, just as Rovio can’t catch all the cheaters in the game. There is no way to absolutely deter cheaters UNLESS Rovio completely redesign the game’s structure.

The cheaters that are caught are just low-level cheaters. They simply download widely available hacks on the internet.

High-level cheaters will never share their hacks, and when you catch them, they just start over again and quickly rise to the top.

Every company is profit driven, so I don’t blame Rovio for making it more difficult to get good items in the slot. It’s extremely annoying with all the extra crap items in the slot, which makes it harder for NEW players to obtain good items.

I feel sorry for these new players. I was lucky to obtain the full set of SS items. When I fight people without panel-appearance items, they get ravaged. Sorry to say this, but I completely destroy them with my panel-appearance item.

So…… to sum up.

#1. forget about the cheaters, there is no way to get rid of them
#2. Rovio should do something to help people without panel-appearance items, because these items are way way too powerful.

Toodle-loo

@tomt I completely agree with you about the Panel Increase items being OP beyond the stars and that something needs done.

Back in the Red Master Cup AND the latest Matilda Master Cup, I got win streaks up to 13 (And I’m awful at match-3 games) because of my gold level panel increasers. Every opponent just got absolutely wasted because of the fact that they couldn’t make many moves due to the constant Sabotage’s.

The only time I actually lost a fight was when I… You guessed it… Met an opponent with a panel increaser. It’s the only time I actually might be out-matched. Those offhands are just too powerful.

@tomt Surprising that you said that because I have the exact problems with those items.

What surprises me even more is that every game I play with Red compared to Matilda, I get many more sabotages with Red even though he has the Golden Hourglass while Matilda has the Christmas Glasses.

Strange that the silver effect is better than the gold. O.o

@netto-jm Again, I hate poker cards and curry pot, they are crazy. Rock Star Glasses is kind of crazy too, but you can’t do two sabotages consecutively, meaning, when the first sabotage erases all Red panels, and you trigger another right away, you get other birds sabotage because there is no Red panel on the screen.

Again, I hate poker cards and curry pot.

But you know, Rovio can’t just tune down these items. These items are what attract people to play the slot.

@partshade Ya I guess you are right. Some people like “cute” items, but for me, I don’t care how it looks. I’m more into practicality. Like the rock star glasses, they are uber oooogly, but I still use them because they got really good skill boost.

There is no turning back now. Can you imagine if Rovio took out the panel increasing items? That would totally piss off a whole lot of people.