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Sutekh137
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So you admit luck comes into play (we can agree to disagree on the magnitude of that), yet tell the OP nope, “It is just you.” Like I said, why turn a teachable moment into a contentious one? You admit yourself it is not “just him” — luck comes into play more than any of the original AB games, and randomness adds to frustration.

You are mixing blackjack and roulette in with poker…hm. Poker definitely has more skill to it. Blackjack and roulette, though? Unless you are counting cards, blackjack isn’t a whole lot better than roulette (which has 50/50 odds of winning something). I see your point, but your examples are, I believe, a Freudian slip as to how much you realize AB2 is luck based, especially comparatively speaking. Going from no luck in ten tried to having 9 cards at the end is a variance far, far larger than 50/50. I will state directly and objectively that you probably have better odds on roulette than certain AB2 levels.

I don’t really need to try your challenge, because I’ve lived it. I am on level 334 right now and have played this game for countless hours. I assure you, the only “getting better” is finally having a lucky run (yes, luck — I am not going to take credit for randomness!). I am not getting better at anything. Yes, I know structure weaknesses (how is that not essentially the same as knowing what birds work best against a material?). Look at my scenario and tell me how you are going to knock down an all-stone structure with Blues?

Learning the ins and outs of the various pigs takes all of, what, 10 levels of facing them? That still doesn’t mean you aren’t going to run into a scenario where it is impossible to work around and birds are wasted. I realize that is the nature of multi-stage levels, but the randomness of the structures is what makes the multiple levels really, really frustrating. And who asked for six-stage levels in the first place? Were people complaining about the original AB, saying, “Gosh, what I would like to do is have six rooms in a row where if I screw up one room I have to start all over. With limited lives, too please!” Zero people asked for that, because it would never occur to someone that such a scenario adds to a game’s fun factor. It doesn’t.

In direct answer to your question, no, my scores have never gone up overall the more I play a level (and I am certainly not wasting lives working on one level over and over again to do more testing when I have levels yet to clear). My high score might get higher, but that is a very different thing from saying overall play “gets better” (don’t confuse the two). I am topped out on that, and was topped out roughly by the level the OP mentions (150+). Yes, there were idiosyncrasies to learn in the new(er) circus area and with the green goop, but that took literally two seconds to think through and a few levels to perfect interaction. The one level I DO play over and over (just to get stars) is good ol’ level 2. And my high score on that (220,000+) I got months ago. Haven’t even gotten over 200K since, and have no idea how I got such a high score.

It certainly wasn’t skill, though. *smile*

Thanks,
sutekh137