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  • @sal9 Ok. I´ll tell you when they are uploaded :)
  • Have caught a ramu, and started three homes, it doesn't cost much so why not.
  • I agree with @Namoh this is not quite the update we were all hoping for.

    I was able to take advantage of the smaller foot-print each of the totems have to make room for one Ramu home, but I have no room to put a second or third.

    I'm kinda upset that I need more soup to level up my final Sharkodile now, but it is what it is.

    Since I no room to move, my only choices are to remove all my decorations and then rebuild them if we're given more room at some point, or just be satisfied with the standard level 5 speeds.

    Otherwise, I'll have to settle for having a single Ramu.

  • Will the first to use facebook to explore their friends, post here if any crystals can be got from there ? If not, what gains then ?
  • One big advantage of the new update: no more advertisments anymore when you start the game!!
  • @InHisName, I only got coins and xp's if I'm correct.
  • @InHisName You get coins, xp and sometimes berries or stones.
  • While we're doing all this work, the XP status still says "coming soon". Will we lose our XP points since they don't seem to be accruing? That's the only reason I'm not playing much :(
  • I'm having a problem getting the update on my Kindle Fire HD. The game will not let me play until I am able to download it. Does anyone else have the same issue?

    I think I fixed it. I just uninstalled the app from the cloud and redownloaded it.
  • I've managed to arrange maximum homes allowed for all the animals except for zero LandWhales and only 1 BearOwl, no need for them, the soup makes enough coins..
    All these animals have all three decorations in vicinity for maximum output!
    ...And I've just managed to find the space to start building ALL THREE allowed Ramu homes!! :) - Although I do not know If I will have enough space to place the needed decorations for these Ramu homes :(
  • @welshwitch55 The xp you earn now on level 21 will not be added when level 21 comes :( But you can complete the missions without taking your reward and then save your reward for level 21!

    @TearlessCar433 I agree that it´s hard finding space for the homes. I don´t like that Rovio does all these small updates, I think they should make a big update with a new area.
  • I'm about to delete this game. I need more space for this game to be somewhat enjoyable. These games are all about customization and feeling like the land and animals is your own to get creative with. I look at what I have now it looks like a cluttered mess creatures and homes. Rovio needs to give you the option of expanding your land before they add new creatures. What are you thinking Rovio?
  • I have enought room to add 3 Ramu but not togther or with the added decorations.
  • I now fixed up an old facebook I setup for gaming. Only one friend from long ago. I'd like to accumulate a large collection of "The Croods" friends in that FB account for purposes of visiting and earning whatever I can find. Ditto for you folks too.
    My security is open for friends viewing to make finding each other easier.

    I don't want to put the name to search here, so ... Click on my name/ Icon and far to right of the search bar is: "Send InHisName a message" click that and ask to join the visiting group.
    You can optionally send your FB name and simple description of icon, so I pick the right one and send you a friend request.
    Otherwise if not, I'll do the above in reply to you. Search for me in FB and friend request with at least one word in message "Croods", and I'll approve.

    I'll try to check the inbox 2-3 x a day for the next week.
  • Spent some more time moving things around, got rid of my Bear Owl decorations and that gave me enough room to build 3 Ramu homes, but now my Croods farm looks like a cluttered mess (same as what @LostGreyBird said)

    Now I just gotta have my homes finish and I'll start to evolve them.
  • I did some condensing and I believe I will be able to get the 3 Ramu homes with the max 15% boost. This with all other homes still with the 15% deco boost and 1 each of the bear and whale(both with 15% boost).
  • I only have room for 1 Ramu.
    Really Rovio, more animals but no more land??

    And why does it still take 2 hours 40 minutes formulier Zeaver to create a stick while the speed went up...???
  • I guess this is just the first of a series of updates.
    We still miss a lot of characters, the game is going to last long.

    They still need to dramatically decrease time production for all the animals,
    and give everyone fully evolved berry trees.

    On the other hand, I'm very annoyed by this Facebook stuff.
    What if someone (like me) is not on Facebook?
    They could use Rovio accounts instead.

    EDIT: 38 soups to evolve my sharkodiles?!? Seriously?
  • Looks like the Ramu is just the animal to produce "money" items. Meaning being used for game advancements, building and coin trading - but not for passing the food onwards. Which is the main aspect of this well-thought and very exciting "game". Sarcasm intended.

    The daily rewards are too small to be bothered with, time vs. gain is perhaps effective in lower levels, but not if you're pretty much fully evolved.

    Rovio must be very tied up with Dreamworks in order to delay the big post-forklift update - or just plain amateur and slowly responsive. Or both. :->
  • My zeaver evolve is completed. It had 47 hrs but with the upgrade it is done . Iwouldlike to be freinds with some of the people on this site. I don't know many of db playing this game
  • Things like this on Facebook really annoy me. Now if they made it so you could connect within the Rovio server I would take advantage of it.
  • FYI, Ramu 1st evolution takes 24 hours.
    Soup upgrade levels are 7-14-21 and I'm assuming 28.
    The lack of land and increased soup requirements is ridiculous.
    And I'm still seeing ads at startup. I'm surprised Rovio doesn't offer a no-ad version for a buck like they do with angry birds. Seems like an easy revenue opportunity.
  • My big issue is the space. I really don´t have any space left. My Ramu´s are no far away from each ether. I had very much space before the decoration update came, then I put out all he boost decorations...
  • @TearlessCar433 and @hunterman, I'm curious about your setups with the Ramu homes and decorations.
    Can you post some pics of your setup?

    I just managed to squeesh 1 Ramu home between the rest of the homes and I could fit 1 decoration, but it's now really completely full!!
    I need more land, LOL.
  • yes @hunterman, I would also like to see your new adjusted layout to include all the decorations for the Ramu's.. I've added the Ramu's but only managed to give one of them all three deco's, another has only 2 and another only 1 :( - please share your screenshots...

    -Also, after the update I've noticed that some of the pre-update placed decorations' positions were not close enough anymore to some of my Giralephants for maximum 15% throughput.. I had to move them one 'grid-unit' closer and slightly re-arrange for maximum effect.
    Just check all your decoration's 'circle's of influence' again after the update :)

    oh and, WE NEED MORE REAL ESTATE!! - lol
  • Does anybody know if there's a new redeem code released with the new update?

    @TearlessCar433, would you post your setup also?
  • @mihaitza, do you have inside info?

    I just checked your post of April 15th!

    You're close but not completely correct.

    The Ramu doesn't eat sticks but bones, but it indeed gives eggs!!

    Do you have anymore inside information?

    Please share! ;)

    [quote]
    I heard that will appear new animals in may.... i can tell you some of them
    1.ramu it eats zeaver's sticks and it gives eggs
    2.macawnivore it eats ramu's eggs and it gives money $
    3. Liyote it eats ramu's eggs and it gives meat
    4.pirahnakeets it eats meat and it gives corpses
    5.turkeyfish it eats meat and gives flies(insects)
    [unquote]
  • @TearlessCar433, i also saw my boost go down for my giraelephants.

    With the reduction in size of the totems and possibly other decos, i was able to squeeze stuff closer together and get rid of some decorations that were not needed anymore.

    I do not have all the homes for all the creatures so it was easier for me to move things around.
  • WOW! I got crystals on my daily reward!!!
  • What's a daily reward ? I really need to do that, where to go ?
  • You can find the daily rewards when visiting friends.
  • @Bad piggies, WOW!!
    Really? When you went to FB friends or to the Friendly Neighbor?
    How many did you get?
    I lost last week 52 crystals and need now 92 more to be able to evolve 1 of my Berry Bushes to the max 50.
  • Oh ! Pfooo. Bad Piggies probably got ONE crystal.
    I've gained 3 Croods playing friends so far and from those visits, I've gained Xp's 15x and 3 Berries. The Berry showed up at the fifth prize on each visit.

    Has anyone gotten anything besides XP's in the first four prizes ? If so, what ?
  • You get 5 rewards from each friend. A reward is 1 xp and 15 coins. But sometimes you also get 5 crystals, 5 berries or 5 stones.
  • @InHisName, you've got a message!
  • I will post a screen shot once the other two Ramu homes are built and I can move them to there final locations. All three Ramus will be togther and fully boosted and I have enough space to use as an empty when rearranging (the most fun part of the game - albeit it does look cluttered now:)
  • Well, it appears that the game is generating a need for strategy through the management of land and creatures. It's either figure out how to squeeze everything into the existing space and live with the clutter, or a matter of what do I delete and what do I keep. I had no room for the Ramu. I'm not a fan of min/max templates and clutter makes my eyes bleed, so I went with deleting some creatures. I chose a Molarbear and a Bunny Beast. Those were unnecessary anyway, sitting idle most of the time. I also deleted the Land Whale home that I had built before I realized it would take 200 crystals to trap one. :p

    Was kinda bummed to see that the Ramu eats bones, bones were already my bottleneck. ::sigh::

    It's nice to pick up a tiny bit more real estate with the change to the grid for creature totems, but they're less decorative at the new size.

    I would find the game much more fun if there was enough real estate that you could play with layout for aesthetics. But that's just not possible if you want to have decent production. The decorations could be fun to play with, and make me want to visit my space because I enjoy looking at it, but instead it's all about production. And there's a lot of wasted space, like near the fences and borders, where you can't get homes or decorations as close as you should be able to.

    I'm as annoyed as others of you that FB is being pushed on us. Had they determined to use Rovio accounts for visiting I'd love the idea (this IS a Rovio game we're playing isn't it?? ::facepalm::), but I won't be pushed, shoved, coerced or enticed into using FB. This isn't the only gaming company attempting to do that, but that doesn't make it acceptable.

    I do wish there was an option to remove or hide that new community button. It takes up a lot of precious screen space on my phone.

    I still play once in awhile, mostly awaiting the expansion. With the addition of the new creature fitting the same mold as the others, and also being more costly in soup and with less capacity overall (3,5 ... 7?), I'm not getting good feelings about it. Overall the game is feeling more like work than fun.

    Edit to add: Almost forgot to add - I was thrilled to find my Zeaver homes had completed their evolution due to the reduction in evolution times! Probably the nicest part of this update!
  • Cost for evolving the Zeaver home to max has also been reduced to 38,000 and change.
  • @InHisName I sent you a message with my FB information.
  • @Jet

    I am in complete agreement with you - playing this game is more work than play. Also, most of my decorations are stored in a lump in the second area because I couldn't fit them all in. I just move them around when production is a little slow in an area but I've given up doing that since I am really sick of this game. I just keep checking back here looking for and hoping for a miracle in these game "updates" that never really do much. And The Facebook connection is fine for people who have it, but I don't, and am not planning to get it just for this game.
  • The bug of traps stopping lure animals makes me crazy.

    Picture of the bug:
    http://i1275.photobucket.com/albums/y454/OneDontCare/picture_zps37859024.jpg

    The trap just stays there and nothing happens, animals ignore it completely.

    It happened two times before and I restarted a game, but now, no way.
    One of my friends also encountered the bug but he just deleted the game.

    I would like a possibility to reset traps already placed (for free or not) to get rid off this bug easily.
  • I was able to rearrange all my animals so that I have max homes available (other than only 3 land whales, and 1 Bear Owl), and all but a few animals exposed to 3 decorations (the other ones see two), and I still have enough room to play around in. I can post screenshots if anyone wants
  • Several of us have banded together in FB to score what ever is offered. More could be enjoyable. See my earlier plea for us to get together in FB.

    If you want your friend 'hidden', just go to your big list of friends. Find the Edit sprocket, click and choose privacy. Select 'only me' to see all friends. Now anyone going to your timeline to see your friends, they see X mutual friends. The total does NOT show, neither can they find out the friends that aren't mutual.

    When each of us stop playing, we can just 'unfriend' the Croods players to clean things up.

    My FB account is wide open, and only one friend from 3 years ago is not playing The Croods. Everyone else is playing. We can friend request each other.

    Besides the views online are MUCH sharper than the post a picture that I get to view.

    Once you are friended, then you may need to shut down FB & the game to reset things so the newest friends can be located that are playing The Croods.
  • FYI, Ramu 2nd evolution takes 10 mud, 4860 coins and 36 hours to complete.
  • I got 10 crystals in 2 days from friendly neighbour

    I have now done what InHisName has done. fixed up an old fb account for crooding! We got nothing to lose, and a lot to gain. so I'd like to join any groups, or message me to add you
  • Wowzer, I was avoiding friendly neighbor to save time, remembering that never got anything before. Now I can visit him too. Bleah! no bonus that time.

    On one FB friend visit, I got berries AND Crystals, Whoo Hoo !

    I wonder with 10 FB friends to visit, could we average 5 crystals per day ? Or maybe even more ?
  • @angryzeaver, yes please post some pics of your setup.

    Can someone help me? I have a New fb account. On my iPhone I logged out from my normal account. I opened the New account. In the croods I logged out from fb account. When I link again to fb and click on invite friends I get the list of my earlier account??
    I want to connect to the New fb account and connect with you guys/girls to visit each other.

    How??
  • I can't believe that playing this game on a phone could be fun and I feel bad for those that do! Talk about die-hard fans! It painful enough playing on an ipad! While waiting for Croods to update ( a ridiculously LONG time) I discovered Hay Day - a tip I got from this site....and it is a MUCH better game! Lots of stuff to do and no long wait times. I am advising you all to try it. It's changed my gaming life dramatically! Rovio - take notes!
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