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@Clovos @Bankler — Please note: Players enjoy winning. Sure a tough battle makes it interesting, but losing all the time is no fun at all. Rovio needs to do something to make the AB 2 arena more fun for people who are not going to spend tons of money buying spells.
The two items highest on my list for salvaging the AB 2 arena are the following:
1) Add back a decent number of feathers as awards for at least the top 8 or 10 players (similar to the was it was previously).
2) Include opponent battles where the opponent lost (not to you, but to whomever they were playing when you recorded).
I played the AB Epic arena for quite a while, because I could usually complete all my objectives and fairly easily get promoted to the next higher league.
I played the previous AB 2 arena, because I could get high enough on the leaderboard to get a decent number of feathers. Not getting any feathers for playing the arena is really a bummer.
In the current arena, I am losing more than half the time, and I don’t think it is any fun at all. The only reason I continue playing is to collect data. Yes, I am kinda weird that way.
You didn’t say whether the opponent games that you record and use were all battles where they won. I suspect they are, and I think this is what gives them a better chance of winning even if they are exactly matched to you. You have said that the battle and series of rooms are identical, although the sequence of birds is random. The main reasons I lose against an equally matched opponent are the following:
* I end up with a sequence of birds that is very poorly matched to clearing a specific room, and can spend 3 or even (horrors) 4 birds getting through. This pretty much guarantees a loss.
* I make a mistake, e.g., pick the wrong bird for the job, fling a bird I did not intend to fling, aim or activate poorly.
* I have really lousy luck, e.g. a pig stays alive in a nearly inaccessibly corner.
If you only use opponent battles where they won (which is what I suspect), then they probably did not have any of the problems listed above, which gives them a great advantage.