Help Rovio improving AB2

Just quit making the game heavily favor those who are willing to pay thousands of $$$ to always win, and quit nerfing the game to try to con people into paying $$$.

MEBC has become a joke. There is no “training.” It is just watching a lot of players hack the game to get the highest scores. It used to be that you could have a good run and get 100 points. That hasn’t happened for a long time now because of all those ultra-high scores at the top.

How boring it is for the same high-level players get all the top rewards, season after season.

And enough with the 10K “exotic” hat sets. They are not worth that price for a flock power increase of 6. There is nothing “legendary” about them. There is no way to get them except in TOF during the event or to pay for them later.

It seems like the TOF has even more pigs during a hat event. Usually, there is a pig at level 2 every day.

These exotic hats have just helped the higher-level players increase by even more since they seem to have unlimited pearls. For everyone else, it can take months to complete an exotic set, but by then, there is another set that has been added.

I have hit level 30 in TOF maybe 15 times in the last couple of months, and I have never received the legendary hat there. The law of averages seems to be off when it comes to the TOF.

There is actually a bill before the US Congress which will severely restrict if not outright ban most of what Rovio does with AB2 in order to make $$$.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/23/18636535/loot-boxes-josh-hawley-markey-blumenthal-privacy-video-games

Odds are it won’t go anywhere, like the vast majority of bills.

Some scaling would definitely be nice. For example, those chests that you get every 3-4 levels when doing the single player levels are worthless for “late game” players as they only give a few hundred feathers. If they scaled and gave more feathers depending on your rank (the star in the top left corner) that would be way better.

As some of you might have seen, I made a big post with lots of ideas earlier a few days ago. I edited it several times, just to refine the entire post, make the ideas and explanations clearer etc. Well when I went to save my changes after another quick edit, the entire post disappeared.

I managed to copy all the text from it so I didn’t lose anything, but I can’t seem to re-post it here as the page just refreshes when I hit the submit button. I will keep trying though, I’d like to share my ideas.

Edit after posting this: I guess my old post was too long or something and exceeded whatever the character limit there is for posts. Or it the forum editing page freaked out and just deleted my post. I don’t know. I kept trying to paste the text I had saved and post it again but it wasn’t working.

So what I’ve done is remove the explanations/details for all the ideas and just left the ideas themselves (my previous post had each idea followed by a short description underneath that explained what I was suggesting).

1. Add x3 Blizzard spell cards

2. ToF now has no pigs until after floor 5

3. ToF can now be played again for free after a certain time (say every 3-5 hrs)

4. Spells received during levels that aren’t used are kept are “banked” and added to our spell collection

5. Allow the option to purchase single birds to continue with (say for 20 gems)

6. Give all players the free bird videos in the DC and KPP

7. Reduce the difficulty of the DC/Make the DC more fair

8. Improve the DC and KPP rewards

9. Give the “featured pig” in every DC a small power boost (only say +5 or +10)

10. Remove the blocked exit boss rooms

11. Add rare gem and black pearl chests to normal levels, DCs and KPPs*

12. Hat set sales/discount

13. Reduce the chest prices + give them occasional discounts

* Just like the rare chests that show up from time to time, gem and black pearl chests would reward you with gems/black pearls (obviously). You’d get offered 5 cards, each one with a different amount of gems/black pearls. Fairly simple.

Some good ideas RizDub.

Exotic hats do need to have alternate ways to be collected. Now that you/Photokool mention it, they really can’t be obtained any other way other than spending a ridiculous amount of black pearls for just 1.

It would make sense to put them in rare chests (with a small chance) and legendary chests (slightly higher chance). Rare chests can be obtained fairly often every day and it would make them more interesting if their reward pool was expanded. Legendary chests are super rare to come by and they should give you great rewards. If we find and Exotic Hat that we already have then give us 1k black pearls instead.

The ToF idea is great, it would be way better if we were allowed to keep what we had instead of losing everything. It should be more rewarding and less punishing, that way it would deserve the name “Tower of fortune”.

No worries, and welcome back. Thanks for your comments, I’d like this thread to be active with people suggestion any ideas they may have.

The feather and black pearls thing is a pretty big issue. Take black pearls to start with: once you’re late game and you’ve completed all the early/cheaper hat sets (Common, Uncommon, Rare and Magical) it becomes a massive and slow grind to collect black pearls for the Exotic-tier hat sets, which cost 70k pearls to fully complete. That’s 10k per hat, which itself takes forever to save up for, then you have to do that 7 times. It takes forever, it’s tedious and not that enjoyable.

On top of that you have the Legendary-tier hats which are even worse as they cost 25k each…that’s a 150% price increase. Though there’s no point in working on these as:

1) It already takes an absurdly long amount of time to complete an entire Exotic hat set, let alone save up for just 1 Exotic hat. Take that time and double it, add a bit more and you have the time it takes to save for just 1 Legendary hat.

2) We keep getting new Exotic hat sets added in with virtually every subsequent Hat Adventure = more work added to the pile of grinding we already had to do before <new hat set> was added.

So ultimately the Legendary hat sets are not worth thinking about as we’ll never have any reason to start working on them when Exotic hats already take long enough to accumulate and there’s a lot of them to get done. Plus Exotic hat sets are cheaper to work on, as by getting enough black pearls for 1 Legendary hat you’d be able to buy 2 Exotic hats and be halfway done for a 3rd.

The grind is awful because we get so little black pearls from playing daily; despite there being many ways to get pearls, the amounts we get are minuscule:

1) If you can slog through the very hard DC, you get a measly 30 black pearls from it..

2) The KPP which is often easier but is only available after beating the DC gives just 100.

3) The Hat Store chest usually gives 20 black pearls as it’s the most common card. Sometimes you can get 50 and on rare occasions 100+. Since the chest can only be used once/day it’s not a reliable source for pearls which is why I never bother opening it.

If you could open it once an hour or once every 2-3 hrs it would way better. Even once every 4 hrs (6 uses/day) or once every 6 hrs (4 uses/day) would still be great. Hell, even once every 12 hrs would give you 2 uses per day which is double what we have now.

4. Rare chests give 75 black pearls occasionally. Sometimes you can get more if you’re lucky but it’s not something to rely on.

5. Placing top 3 in the Arena isn’t even worth mentioning since the payout is only once a week, it’s not that much given the effort needed, and it’s only the last 2 leagues that give black pearls with the Legendary league giving the best possible amounts of pearls. Again, not reliable enough and you need to constantly play, win, and keep doing that so that you climb to the top and stay there.