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David Martin
@david-martin

It just dawned on me yesterday that you can force quit the app after winning an arena match, retain the stars from that victory and your winning streak so far, and also get back any spells you used since you last logged into the Arena. This is essentially a loophole that allows players to use all 5 spells every single time they pay the Arena, without earning them as rewards within the game or paying for them.

For example, I currently have a Duck and Chili spell that I won from a DC. I can use both in an Arena match, win that match, then force quit and play another Arena match with those same two spells. Then I can go play the regular game for a while (so long as I do not exit out of the Arena back to the map, but instead restart the app to get there), and as long as I don’t use those spells elsewhere, I’ll continue to have them available for Arena matches. Along the way, let’s say over time I acquire a Blizzard, a Pig Inflater, and a Mighty Eagle. I could then use those repeatedly in the Arena. There wouldn’t even be much of a point to having more than one of any spell in my arsenal.

Now I should point out that if you open a treasure chest as a reward for completing match #3 or #6 in a streak, and it contains a spell, and you force quit after that, you won’t retain the new spell. It basically resets your spells back to the start of your last Arena match. You also can’t use this trick to get back a used Arena ticket. It correctly takes one away from you as soon as you agree to start the match, even if you force quit during or after the match. (Force quitting before you start the match is still a nice way to take a mulligan when you get a ridiculous opponent on match #1 in a streak, though.)

I don’t mean to encourage such an obvious exploit that will make the game more unfair for anyone who hasn’t stumbled across it yet. I bring it up because Rovio needs to acknowledge it and fix it, and once they’ve done that, stop matching us up against performances prior to the fix.

I honestly feel that any match-up shouldn’t take spells into account – only the scores earned by the player’s birds during the match. However, that might make it too easy to defeat any opponent just by using a few spells. So I’m not sure of a better way to balance things, but we’ve got to be able to improve on the broken system we have now.