I played the slot A LOT. I did the 20 gem one each time, must have spent close to $200 [i didn’t realize it at the time, it seemed like $12-18 here and there until I saw my credit card statement a few days ago]. I was mostly trying to get better stuff to fight the pigs in the lab but ended up with shark ship parts. I sell off the lesser stuff to make improvements on the stuff I have. I like the other ship parts I have more because normally they’re worth more Attack & ‘D’. [My mast is the Stella goes twice mast]. I usually beat the regular pig ships with 3 stars all the time [although I’m not good at the PVP or lab pigs] but when the Kaijuu monsters were there, the shark ship parts that had lesser value [even when upgraded] were like uber-duper extra credit. [I don’t know WTF they do to figure anything out, but my ship would have 1x,xxx+yyy [like over 10,000 plus whatever i earned in that puzzle]. But if the Shark ship isn’t special against the next set of monster pigs for the next monster pig thing [like if there’s a new ship you need to be special against the next set of monsters] then I want to sell off the ship to improve my other stuff.
I was pretty good against the monster pigs [especially since they didn’t have any sabotage that was really bad – that always just throws my whole game off] with the Shark Ship, but had issues because some of the fights never counted towards my score. The fight wouldn’t be in the log book, if it was the pig I needed for a new slot ticket – it wouldn’t be counted and I’d not get the slot ticket, and my score wouldn’t change. I thought something was weird with the scoring at first but then I started keeping track and confirmed some of the monster pig fights just weren’t counting. I sent Rovio some open support tickets b/c I was really upset that I’d spent all this money on the slot to get the shark ship and stuff and my some of the battles didn’t count. [Some were group battles and some were just my own monster pigs]. They sent me 3 monster slot tickets the first time I complained and then when I had screen shots of another fight that didn’t count they sent me like 5 gems – but never fixed my scores or position in the rank.
I don’t know exactly what my rank was because I got frustrated from the fights not counting but it was somewhere just over 5,000. [I started a little late into the tournament]. I finished in the second set of prizes, the 5,000 – ? [the one that got 2 pieces of another ship].
Now I am trying to win the lab to save the piggie in the lab [although I’m now not sure this is even possible – see my recent post about this] So I’m trying to improve my equipment to fight the pigs. I didn’t know if I should sell the shark ship parts or if the next monster tournament the Shark Ship would be special against whatever monster pigs were there. [Or maybe there’d be a new ship we needed against those monster pigs].
As for switching stuff, I usually switch between what I fight the pigs with and the PVP stuff unless whatever I have is the most powerful against PVP AND has a lab pig bonus.
Like my Stella has a Chinese Fan [SS+, 4/4 Stars] with 418 Attack but doesn’t do anything against the lab pigs. Stella also has a Pin Wheel [SS++ 5/5 Stars] that has a lesser attack, only 336 but gives me a 30% or 40% [i forget which] attack boost against Dr. Pig. So I use the pinwheel against Dr. Pig and switch to the Chinese Fan in PVP. I think that kind of switching is OK. There’s no need for any other Stella weapons. I do that with a few of the birds, just have 1-2 weapons/hats/accessories depending on if I need a second one for the lab pigs. I sell everything else to enhance them. Recently I’ve been having issues with some of the sabotage [mostly from the pigs because it lasts too long and the puzzle is so short] so I’m trying to find accessories that block sabotage from pigs. [The PVP sabotage blockers – unless they’re really powerful – hardly ever fight the bird they’re for and don’t make sense to trade down for the ‘hope’ it might be right. The PVP sabotage isn’t as long as the lab pig one either so it isn’t too bad.
So I basically sold off everything from all the gems I bought in the slots to enhance the top 1-2 weapons/hats/accessories and wanted to sell the Shark Ship parts to enhance the bird’s weapons. Like Red has a Monkey King Staff [SS++ 4/5 Stars] that is 446 Attack and has a boost against security pig. It costs 45,000 coins to enhance it to the 5th star [max] which would make it 478. Red also has a Double Decker Bus [SS++ 4/5 Stars] that has 188 Defense and the final enhancement for it is 36,000 coins to bring it to 204 Defense. So I’d need to sell off my Shark Ship parts to enhance his stuff. So if the Shark Ship parts aren’t special against other monster pigs – they’re not my best ship parts, I might as well sell them BUT if some new monster pigs come along next week and the Shark Ship is special against them [or if the Kaiju Family might come back in a few weeks] I’d save the Shark Ship.
Do you know when they had previous monster pig tournaments, was it a Shark Ship that was special against them or a different type of ship? [This was the first tournament I was really paying attention to, I think I remember the Scorpion Pig thing, but didn’t really understand the whole tournament thing so I don’t remember what kind of ship it was].
I don’t think it makes sense to hold onto a lot of lower ranked less powerful stuff unless it has a special skill [like for me anti-pig sabotage would be helpful, I literally just freeze when the lab pigs turn the screen b&w and it lasts almost the whole puzzle.]
I guess if I was better at the game it wouldn’t matter as much if I enhanced the weapons, but I’m not so great so trying to get as much of an edge as I can. [My Blues wears ice cream on his head for a 120 Defense Boost – Ha Ha LOL]
Sorry for the long post . . .
–Dezi
