It’s natural that people don’t admit to buying gems, but I did an experiment for this particular event:
When I got all the stuff during the Rovio error, the gems that I got, I ended up getting the Valentine 2017 Hull SS item when doing the first 20-gem slot.
Then, since I already had some gems in my inventory, the next 20-gem slot, I got the Valentine 2017 Mast SS item. They both were within the first day of the re-started event.
So I was itchy to see if I could get the trifecta.. needing the Valentine 2017 Bow SS item… decided to buy the $29.99 60-gem pack two days ago solely to use them 3 times in the 20-gem slot. It was a bust, really.
Yesterday, I bought the 2nd of 3 $29.99 60-gem pack… also a bust in some senses (got some piggies upgrades though and one SS item that I didn’t have for one of my birds).
Today, I bought the last of 3 $29.99 60-gem pack… another bust. So in 3 days, I charged basically $89.97 on my credit card just in hopes to get the 3rd of the trifecta and I’m letting everyone know that it didn’t prevail for me, drats.
The ironic thing is that I haven’t used any gems during the Valentine 2017 event (other than the ones I bought for the slots) and I’m doing well; currently ranked about 600 with 11K points. It was another goal that I didn’t use any gems to replenish my ship energy. If I ran out of ship energy, I simply waited another hour or so to use them.
So this experiment was both a success and a bust. Anyone else experiencing this as well?
* CalvinTy