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The behaviors you initially explain sounds like either a bug or a cheater to me. I’m just guessing here, but it could be a bug where the game doesn’t show the correct amount of birds used by the opponent. If not, it could sadly be a cheater who managed to manipulate their score. If a level 6 bird clears a room by itself and gets scores close to a million, something isn’t right.
Spell usage went up a lot with the addition of the Arena Winning Streak. This isn’t something we planned for, it’s simply an effect of competitive players stacked against each other. We are however discussing internally how we should handle spells (@pappybear) and the impact it has on the Arena.
As stated before, you will face harder opponents the further into a Winning Streak you get. We are however not fully satisfied with the implementation of this and it will change soon enough. If you try out the new update released today you might realize there’s a few new parameters we need to consider when we test new values.
When it comes to always facing “perfect runs” as you guys have described it, I tried to dig a bit deeper. This is something that concerned me after reading on Nest and I’ve personally gone through match making, set up meetings and discussed with our lead programmers to make sure the runs we save are actually random and not cherry picked in any way. We haven’t been able to find anything indicating that only good runs would get saved. I think this is something more frequently occurring in the high leagues where many of you play, as the opponents simply are higher skilled.
Hopefully the League Bouncing is now fixed that the new update is live. Please report your findings if that’s not the case.
The cutesy names is something we allowed all players (not connected to Facebook) to choose from if they liked it. Once they’ve found a name they like, that’s the name that will show for the opponents. It does not change randomly for other players after being chosen.
Try out the update and give us your feedback!
Thank you guys, have fun playing the new update!
/Hank