Advice from veteran players required

I’m about the same. Started playing june 2021, flock power mid 600. Never spent a dime.

it’s a very big step to get a hat set of 10k per hat. I have completed Magical, but not a single exotic set. Will take months. I counted 37 exotic hat sets, which will be 37*7*10,000 =2.59 million blask pearls to complete all the exotic sets.

My strategy is to work on the hat sets, where I got at least 1 hat from a hat event TOF. In my case 14 out of the 37. The Daily offers frequently gives an exotic hat for 5K. When I have 5K black pearls, I take the offer when it’s in a set I already have at least 1 hat in – but I let it go if it’s a completely blank hat set.

Slowly the 14 sets gets more and more complete. Eventually the 14 sets will complete (I hope so), then I will work on maybe 10 new sets.

I notice that the offers never offer hats I already possess.

Hi ZeZe,

It seems as though you’re on the right path, tactic-wise, but I wouldn’t complete the Calavera set first, even if you have 4 hats.  My reasoning for this is that you would end up spending 5,000 x 3 = 15,000 pearls at a minimum, whereas you could wait until the Calavera hats are back as a Hat Event; you could end up winning some more hats in the Tower and that would save your pearls.  And I would do this with other hats from events, such as the Parade, SnowPig and Midsummer to name a few.

I wouldn’t spend the gems on apples. Even at FP 1150 my hatchling is level 2, as that’s a realistic amount of apples per day. At 25 apples per day I was only feeding every 2 days (before the timer ran out), but you actually receive more rainbow feathers at level 2 and feeding every day. (1,000/day vs 1,500/2 days).  (so in response to your second message, a lower hatchling fed more often would get your birds leveled up slightly quicker).  Instead, bank your gems to use in the Tower when there are Hat Events. It really is great to complete a hat set and not spend any pearls!

The other way to level up your birds the quickest is to complete hat sets, and it helps to be on a winning clan to claim pearls.  I understand your loyalty, as I have been there too, but you have to do what’s best for you. I feel you should be part of a successful clan if you want to progress quicker, whether it’s the Champs or any other clan you choose.  You get the pearls depending on your position in the battle, and then you may get some in the chest. If you were to join us we would be winning Legendary Chests, and you could get 1,500 pearls + the position pearls! Not bad…

And for the cards, I try to level all my cards at the same rate, with the exception of Bubbles, who is now slightly higher than the rest, as the damage caused seems to be greater, so I might as well get more points for more damage.

Bubbles is the brownish-orange bird that inflates, and is my first-choice extra bird. After that it is Stella, the pink bird.

Unfortunately the only way to level down the hatchling is to stop feeding it, let it leave and then hatch a new one. This will day a few days, but in my opinion, worth it.

I don’t understand why players join and then never play either, but this is common with a lot of clans.  I have been playing around 2 and a half years, and started the Champs 1 and a half years ago.  I thought I’d have a Diamond ranked clan fairly soon, but it’s hard to get new players to see your clan.  I really think you’d benefit from joining us, and we’d love to have a dedicated player like yourself.  I bet as soon as you click to leave your clan you won’t even think about them again :-)

I have some other tips on leveling up your birds but don’t want to give our opponents too much info over this forum…

I fully understand. We’re mid battle,too. 7 players in the top 10 and winning by 150 million.

We’re a smaller clan than yours but we have great, solid players.

We have anywhere between 85 – 100%. Right now we have a co-leader taking a short break, and 1 player that doesn’t always play on weekends, so we may not see him during this battle.  That being said, we’re still winning by a good margin, and this could be win 16 in a row.

Try not to let it get you down and have fun playing the game.

As a somewhat geeky leader I keep stats on our players, the teams we play and how much we win/lose by.

Hi ZeZe,

I use Pistol Pete on the web, but Champ in AB2. Either works for me.

I tried to create a third account on my laptop, but you play against different players, as though iOS and Windows is separate. Not sure about Android, though.

If you do want to join us then try, and if it doesn’t work then I hope you find a better clan than your current one.

Hey ZeZe,

If you do try to join us I think you need to put the ‘#’ then type ‘408496’ – we had a member try to rejoin and they didn’t find us by typing in ‘The Champs’

How did your clan fair in this battle, ZeZe?  We won our 17th, but only just; it was a slog to the end, but we came out victorious.

Sorry to hear, ZeZe.

We have another Battle starting tonight if you’re interested. You’d be a great fit for our clan. (sounding really desperate with every post…)

@pistolpete, I am sure it is only the windows players that are segregated. I had the same question as @zeze, about android because I’d like to bring over all 8 regular players if they want to come but one for sure is android and likely others.

@zeze, in the old days using the @ sign with the name in blue (e.g. Champ) did nothing so I use the @handle to be sure they get notifications. Complex, I remember so much confusion when people put spaces in their @names and nothing worked lol.