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  • @InHisName, got a ticket with Rovio, i'll share results
  • Ok, I give up. :(

    I can place ALL allowed animals and ALL will get the 15% boost, except 1 BearOwl which can get 10%.
    If anyone can tell me how to get the last BearOwl on 15%.........please do!!!

    1 comment: the basis of my setup comes from Luisete, all credits go to him! :)
  • @MisterGiF, what where the results? Is there a solution?
  • @Namoh,
    on June 17th the ticket was opened

    on June 26th the ticket was picked up:
    We are currently investigating these issues related connecting your Facebook account the The Croods!
    Hopefully we can get them sorted out soon.

    Since the I can now see your world but others have gone from level 21 to level 1.
    Do not worry, as soon as I get something...
  • ok, i'm curious to see if they can find the problem and are willing to make a solution.
    if you can see my world.........maybe you can figure out, how to give the last BearOwl it's 15% boost!
  • Hey all i changed my facebook account, come and visit my croods farm @ po boiss on FB
  • @bois007, For me this change is not good. First I saw your complete setup, now I see no homes at all and can't get any goodies.
  • Hi everyone :) I am also changing my fb account due to only one house being seen ( ie guest acc) it's now kelski crood hromek ( was sian hromek)
    Let me know if you can't see anything... Cheers
  • @Kelski, I see your world at level 4 with 6 homes :-)
    @boiss007, I see your world at level 1 no homes :-(
  • @Kelski, I see also your world but with 7 homes, 5 complete, 2 in progress.
    I also now see 3 homes on your Sian Hromek account?
  • @namoh
    @MisterGif
    how come you guys dont see my world? i started a new game (soooooooo bored) and i have visited your worlds no problem. im currently lvl11. Is there a fix to let you visit?
  • @boiss007 I checked what I could see from Chard Syes. I saw level 1, NO animals or homes at all. Certainly not lvl11. We've been exploring ideas on our setups to try to fix this and many other problems with visiting. None have discovered a fix yet. Boo Hisss, but we're stuck with it until they are able to fix on their end and issue an upgrade.

    It seems that sometimes some people can see the decent level of some of us. Keep adding friends and use the ones that work for you.

    The only workaround for us seeing lvl1, is to go to guest account and boost that to 5 animals and stop there. We still can't view your grand layout, but at least on visiting can get all 5 gifts in one visit.
  • Welll i can get 5 houses going. Check tomorrow and confirm if u see em.
  • @boiss007, merci pour les maisons de ton 'guest'
  • @Namoh I saw your world, and I may have a solution for you. if you swap your four albatroceroses with your five bear owls, you should be able to fit them, and get full boost for all. to make room for the five bear owls, you can shift the zeavers towards the bunnies. there is some space there. if it gets tight, you can fit one of the zeavers in between two bunnies!
  • @namoh yeah, I tried to fix the sian Hromek account by deleting it... it appears to be deleted as it does not let me access it any more to add more houses ( thats why there is only 3) but it has not removed it from the fb list.. So I set up the other fb so I can add houses to that one.

    Was thinking maybe it takes 24 hrs for a deleted account to disappear off the list, if it is still exists in a few days I can de friend from that acc which will remove me from the list.

    By the way, I have noticed that you can have two fb accounts with the same people on each list and use each fb contact twice within 12 hrs by logging out of one and into the other account... I can do that for both games, my level 21 and the guest game!
  • @MrGif
    Mais de rien. Wish u saw my main farm its much better:)
  • @kelski I see you as level 7, a "circle around campfire" Kute Is this your main account or guest ?
    With your Sian account, I see 3 homes and 2nd MolarBear in tng pit, hungry. Got 3 gifts. By now I was expecting an error of some kind. Nope, didn't get it.

    @boiss007 I see 6 homes with one being upgraded, Level 4. Is this the guest or main account ? Level 4 seems too low so must be guest. at least I can get 5 gifts in one visit.

    Maybe there will be an upgrade real soon that will include all these fixes we couldn't do.
  • Its the guest farm. Main is lvl 21
  • @mohsie, thanks for the input. The BearOwls (including their decorations) couldn't fit where the Albatroceros are placed. BUT you gave me an idea........and I've done it!


    All allowed animals completely with the 15% extra boost!!!!!
    It's possible and if I didn't mis anything you can see it at my world.

    Only 1 problem now........what to do until the update arrives?
  • @InHisName, the level 7 campfire one is my guest, it connected with the kelski fb account. The sian one was my first guest that I tried to delete by registering and deleting it on the 'verify' page, but its still there. My game is level 21 but don't think it's visible, think they may fix that with the next update whenever that comes...
  • More and more of my friends are now showing the guest game, 7 of my 21 first friends are now showing the guest game, over time, I'm guessing that the ones that are the most active are the ones most at risk of falling to the guest game.

    If you do not launch the game there is less risk that you get disconnected and revert to the gust game.
  • @Kelski, I have fallen into guest about 10 days ago. Tried many ideas, invented new ideas after those didn't work. Only discovered the workaround (guest acct set to 5+ animals) after much experimentation.

    So neither of us can see the others level 21, snif. Maybe on next update we'll be able to check each other out then.

    @MisterGiF, you summarized it well. I lost the login by 'accident', I expect others thru no effort on their part to fall into that mode too. So some of the MOST careful will find them offering guest to their neighbors as well.

    @Namoh, What to do with level 21 ? Make lots of sticks & mud, then soup them for lots of coins. Level up to use up the soups. When all are leveled max, no more souping. Then can still visit neighbors, 75+coin per visit Plus random bonuses. Then you will max out stones & feathers cause you can't soup anymore.

    After visiting gets too tiresome, then only havesting berries and building up 'floating' inventory in leaves, bones, fish, and sticks (especially sticks) I expect sticks to be the NEW bottleneck like leaves are now. So having a 'floating' inventory of 4-500 sticks can get me to a roaring start in level 22+

    After all that I must be really bored out of my gourd.
  • @namoh, I can get all my 45 creatures together with the allowed 7 more (4 bear owls & 3 Land Whales) to get the 15% boost in my set-up. There’s even space for one more bear owl if the 6th one is allowed to get a 10% boost!

    This means it is possible to fit in all 52 allowed creatures at 15% boost and 1 extra.

    I have already built 4 additional Bear Owl houses to fit in with the existing one & the decorations to confirm that it could be done. Only 240 coins and 5 stones for one Bear Owl house.

    The remaining empty space is enough to fit in the remaining 3 allowed Land Whales and the required decorations to get max boost. You can figure it out if you have a look. In case you can’t find one of the Fish Cats’ decoration, zoom-in to the Sharkodiles’ decorations. It’s partly hidden there.

    I am still very far behind in my crystals gathering effort. Averagely, I am getting only 5 crystals per day. Most of the time, I am getting coins, more coins and even more coins! I don’t need them because until today I have already exceeded 3 million.

    I have 12 friends in the Game Center, 2 do not show up in the list and another 2 with no homes.

    If there is anybody who is curious about my set-up, here’s my Game Center ID: Oskray
  • Good Grief, @oskray 3 million? wow ! Do you still have animals that can be leveled higher with more soup ? or is everything maxed up now ?

    Chard is only 40K short of one million, I expect to pass it before fully souping out. But, then I don't really have many soups to do left either. Now souping only stones or muds only. Stones cause the cave fills up from visiting a lot. Muds cause I still have 300+ floating.
  • @InHisName, I have my 1st million about 2 months ago. The head start is because I focused on bring up all the creatures to Level 5 before evolving the houses. At that time, I did it only when it was necessary.

    All 45 creatures, Level 5 and fully evolved. I even accidentally removed one of the Crocopup's house 2 days ago. The Crocopup ran away into the wild. There’s no cancel button! I have to let go the spare Zeaver in the taming pen and trap a new Crocopup. Took me 52 hours to built, fully evolved and fully soup.
  • @oskray, just checked your world.
    Looks very nice.
    I thought it wasn't possible to fit the BearOwls like that.
    Does the one in the top also has the 15% boost, I thought the decoration wouldn't reach that far, but I never tried it.
  • @namoh, At first, I was doubtful too. But it can be done.

    Here’s a screenshot.

    http://imageshack.us/scaled/medium/842/ops7.png
  • @oskray, accidentally removed a crocopup home.......I accidentally placed a 2nd dreamcatcher.......easiest way to get rid of 30 sticks!!!!!!


  • Look on the bright side, @oskray, you now have something to soup up, now. Sorry about the 30 stick 'loss'.
  • All homes placed with 15% boost, all animals which I got fully boosted and evolved.....what to do? I gave in and trapped another BearOwl and LandWhale......which I now can soup up again.
  • @Namoh, you got the homes, might as well populate them :-)

    I'm really not there yet, still have
    1 fish cat at level 3 2/3 (150 soups to go)
    2 ramu at level 3, 1 ramu at level 4 (378 soups to go)
    1 land whale at level 1, but home is evolving to maximum production (82h to go), then i'll see how much soup I need for that one
    3 albatroceros at level 3 (315 soups to go)
    2 bunny beast at level 1 (192 soups to go)
    1 molar bear at level 1 (a few more soups)

    So over 1000 soups to go, that is 3000 of Ugga recepies, if I start doing double ingredients recepies that have stickes in them, I should have enough money to clear the next land once the upgrade comes :-)
  • @InHisName, do you have so many crystals that you could trap 4 BearOwls and all LandWhales?
    I just spend my last crystals on a BearOwl and a LandWhale..........my guess is that one of the two or maybe even both will be used for something else then generating coins after the next update. I mean who needs animals which produce coins if you've got soups for that?
  • @InHisName, I know I'm far behind in the game :-)
    Lost my initial game on Apr 29th, was at level 21 with my 1st Zeaver coming, could not logon to that game for more that 2 weeks, the time Rovio fixed the account.
    I got impatient and started a new game before mid-may, so its really been less than 7 weeks since I started this one.

    My Zeavers, Cat Fish and Sharkodiles sour requirements went up with the Ramu upgrade :-(

    I found this site a bit after I started my second account, so I've been trying to do single ingredient soup as much as possible, not souping leaves, bones, fish and sticks so I recycle a lot.

    I'm starting to accumulate what I can now at
    18000+ carrots
    3300+ rocks
    4600+ leaves
    460+ fishs
    500+ sticks

    So now I'm souping single ingredient recipes and those that have carrots, but not bones, fish or sticks, even at this pace, it is not going fast, still a lot of recycling of recipes to do, Ugga loves bones and fish :-(

    I'm confident I'll get everything in my current setup souped, by then I should have enough crystals for 3 more land whales and a few bear owls, currently at 703 crystals and averaging about 35.
  • @InHisName, BTW thanks for the crystals this morning :-)
  • 700 crystals??!! Why not get a few LandWhales and BearOwls? Do you think we'll need that many crystals after the next update? I think we need max 200 again for a new animal, but what would it produce to justify getting one? Coins?


  • @Namoh, next upgrade: 300 crystals only for Berry Bush upgrade.

    I know this still leaves over 400 crystals for other things, but until I complete souping my animals, I won't spend crystals on animals I won't feed unless the upgrade does not come fast enough...
  • Im guessing we'll get a new kind of berry or a new berry bush with the new update so well need crystal to get it going and it may not just cost 350 crystal.
    As for me i dont see the point for whales or bearowls. Just a way to get us to spend crystal so we need to buy a pack (thats how rovio makes a living). Ive throw away my bearowl and keep my malnurish whale as long as i dont need the space.
  • @boiss007, @Namoh has shown that we can have all homes allowed in the game and that every animal would bet 15% boost from decorations, not a small task.

    We all understand the business model around the crystals, everybody has a different strategy, some buy, some don't, some use for everything, some don't, this makes us all unique.

    I'm keeping my crystals and visiting a lot not to have to buy some, I know this is time consuming, but it is by choice as I have done the math and even at minimum wage it would be better to buy crystals than to get them by visiting.

    Other things that do not make sense is to fully upgrade animals that will not get feed (thinking of Bunny Beast, I feed only 1 out of the 5 I have, same for Albatroceros, got only 3 and not leveled yet...

    The only reason to level up animals that are not already leveled up is to get coins to achieve the 1,000,000 reasons achievement in Game Center.

    I know I could get land whales and bear owls instead of leveling up my animals, but again this is my choice :-)
  • @MisterGiF, 300 crystals for Berry Bush upgrade? You mean 200 right?
  • @MisterGiF Wow ! thats a LOT of produce. BTW how do you estimate the totals of the floating inventory ?
    The only way is if I monitor closely how many caves full are extracted from one floater and the remainder. Say 2 caves of carrots + 63 = 363 carrots 9 floaters ramping down like a triangle, so 363 x 9/2 => 1633.5. Do you have a more accurate way than this one? I keep forgetting to count how many caves full I pull out. So my reliability of estimating is weak.
    BTW you're welcome. Maybe I can surprise you with a double (10+) crystal. I got one once.

    My crystal counts is 550+ each in both games. That's 350 for 3rd berry bush. And 200 spare for anything really neat to do. Any coin producers are not it. Maybe there'll be a 4 evolve level for the berry bushes. Think they might demand 500 crystals each anyone ?

    Added 9:31am:
    I stupidly bought into one Bear Owl in my 1st game. I still have it but not fed in over 2 or 3 weeks. Skipped the land whale. I might get one of those if I near 1,000 crystals and nothing to soup up. But that is a while yet.
  • As stated before, everybody makes his own choices.
    I don't see the fun in pilling up massive amounts of food and crystals.
    When the new update comes you'll be done with the new tasks within a few days and you can wait another few months for the next update. What's the fun in that?
    But again, it's everybody's choice.
  • @Namoh, I guess that @boiss007 and @InHisName are right, it is 350 crystals to currently evolve 1 berry bush
    50 from 12 to 24
    100 from 24 to 38
    200 from 38 to 50

    @InHisName, I keep track with a spreadsheet and pieces of paper.
    My spreadsheet is only for what is floating over the homes, not for the cave total that fluctuates just too much.

    I got
    4 molarbears that I keep count of what is floating over them, I completely fill when they are starving, so every time o feed I add 24 to my spreadsheet, I never had to substract to fill in the case, I actually avec a 5th one with 99+ that I have no clue where it is at :-)
    I have 1bunny beast that I keep track of the floater and use it to refill my cave when needed for soup.
    I have 2 giraelephants that I keep track, I both feed them when they are starving, and use 1 of the 2 to refill my cave when needed.
    I have 3 zeavers that I keep track, I do not wait for them to starve, I feed them about twice a day, since they all produce at the same rate, I only waited once for them to starve, then if I feed one I feed all of then and keep track.

    I use a paper notepad to keep track, to make I easier,
    I wait to have 96 berries and feed all 4 molarbears
    I wait for the 2 giraelephants to be starving and I feed them and the bunny beast
    I wait feed the sharkodile only 1 or twice a day, I usually feed the zeavers at the same time.
  • Ok guys i didnt meant to offense anyone, i just thougt id present my perspective. No point to try and rank strategy but comparing each other's build is what this thread is about (i thought). I dont use MrGif method, i feed all my bunnies and albatros once a day just to make soup easily. I didnt bother with the 9th molarbear, my production line is nicely balanced with 8 bear, 6 elephant, 5 croco and 5 Shark all lvled up. And i only keep feeding if i dont have anything to do -like now :).

    I try to keep up with the visit, i had 18 crystal left when i got to lvl 21 and i like to upgrade berry bush asap. Now ive got 78 crystal - at least enough for first upgrade.
    Btw im really thinking they wil introduce a new kind of berry in the new zone. A brand new economy, with old stuff like stick used for upgrade. It wouldnt make any sense otherwise, not with pple stuck on lvl 21 for 2 month now, stocking and feeding.
  • @boiss007, no one is offended :-) I understand that English is neither our main language.

    We simply have different ways of playing the game, and this is good, we benefit from the experience of others and hope that some can benefit from ours.

    Since we do not all play the same way with the same personal objectives, is also a good thing, we are not all at the same level 21 (lol) with the same setup (they are similar, but adjusted to our objectives.
  • How do u add friends? Also anyone know if level 21 will ever come I'm getting tired of wasting all of the experience points. I have 11 of Gran's chores that I have complete I'm just waiting to collect rewards I don't want to wast the experience points. I have all the max on all the animals but the bear owl I only have 1 of them and no whales. With every home having the 15%. I have $118669
  • @Mine, friends can be added thru Game Center for iOS devices, I am MisterGiF, and I have oskray, FleXnation and katnip236 as friends there, send an invite and we will gladly accept.

    If not on iOS (iPad, iPhone, iPod, ...) you can use a Facebook account, can be a dedicated FB account (probably better), I use mine only for gaming and I do not care mixing up games, connect to Namoh S (land whale) and Chard S (Guy) and from there you should get many invites after that, of check their friends they have almost only Croods players in their list.

    Enjoy the crystals!
  • im hoping quest xp dont get lost, i claimed the reward of gran's chores, i'll b pissed if i dont get those xp at the update...
  • @MisterGIF I have a Landwhale and a BearOwl that I never really use. They don't produce anything but coins - which I have plenty of for right now. If Rovio made it so either animal gave you crystals once it a while (like visiting neighbors), I might feed them more often.
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