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ADBjester
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Please allow me to play devil’s advocate, people.

I think the Halloween update has made the arena BETTER. It did exactly what it needed to do — diminished the power of spells, while evening out matches through the exact same “flock power” calculations that I illustrated within this very thread a few months ago.

If your reason for it “not being fun” any more is that you don’t routinely get a 7 win streak and 750 feathers…. well, golly, gee, we can’t all win *every* time. And that’s what was happening before. Every match was the original flock of your opponent, vs. your flock of 7 + 5 spells, and often mismatched.

Players were getting not streaks of 7…. but streaks of 70 or more. Losses were rare. It was grinding to keep up with all the other grinders, and wasn’t a challenge. It was a time sink.

Now, it is competitive again. You can load up on spells… but they don’t do you much good. You stand a risk of losing.

Note that spells are *STILL* valuable…. but their optimal strategy has vastly changed. Before, if you had a mighty eagle, you wanted to use it first, because that increased your chances of being awarded ANOTHER eagle. For top scoring, you timed your spells such that you got spells as bonuses. (Note, too, that the long-time complaint about getting a Blue as a bonus is related… as if you hoarde the blue, you’re more likely to get it when you spend it).

NOW, you absolutely do NOT want to use a spell to open a room. They are 1/30th of the scoring power of the flock birds. Use your flock to clear most of the room…. and then if you didn’t strike, use the spells to pick off the stragglers, leaving your flock birds for “first shots” in the next room.

In turn, those “first shots” will score much more highly, and bonus birds will be more likely to be flock birds. Now, spells are BAD to get as bonuses… so you want to spend them while your meter is low.

So, in short, to all the whiners, knock it off. You had it good for a while… and now Rovio has evened up the matches. That’s what you SAID you wanted, but what you really wanted was a way to win without challenge.

Where’s the fun in that?

Jester