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    @angrlee

    So it took another 8 months since I started this thread for me to truly get out. I came back quietly after a couple of months. Checked the forums to see what was happening.  Then it started again. Waking up early to make sure I had time to play before my family got up and caught me. Playing in the bathroom. Getting made fun of. Planning around it. All kinds of justifications. All sorts of shit a grown man should be embarrassed about. Wow. Never again.

    Slowly I got sucked back in. Thanks to @optimuspig to revive my own words. Thanks to @pcguru for the real “business strategy” of rovio and exient. And thanks to two real game hackers (@lemongrab and @datguygamer). The evidence of cheating SO evident. Never answering questions that are unanswerable. Screenshots carefully cropped but still somehow with levels like 1364 amd accessories with levels over 300. Or new characters at level 25 within hours after release. Whatever. We know that the game, no matter how many gems you have, even if you were the benefactor of the gem glitch years ago, could explain. Some things are time locked or connected to competition token exchanges or just simply not possible, Sure, its frustrating. Seeing impossible things… Actually, i will say to the true game hacks, good work. You helped push me out. I will never compete. Truly. On any of the three levels i intend in that statement.

    It doesnt matter. It is unregulated gambling. With my TIME. The most valuable thing i have. So fist time shame on you and second time shame on me. This is shame on me.

    This time I burned it all out. No gems left. That was the “condition of my reentry” last time. When my gems were gone so would I be. Then i changed strategies. Preserving my precious winnings. Built up over 3.5 years.

    Burned them all tonight. Tonight was the last and final straw. I will look back and call these the Angry Birds years. My kids will too. And that folks makes me happy. It will be a look back. Not a current source of making fun of me.

    It was fun from time to time. Now its time to do something with those 2 hours a day.

    My best to all. Be wary. Watch for addiction behavior. If you are wondering, then yeah, that qualifies. @angrlee out. Peace So it took another 8 months since I started this thread for me to truly get out. I came back quietly after a couple of months. Checked the forums to see what was happening.  Then it started again. Waking up early to make sure I had time to play before my family got up and caught me. Playing in the bathroom. Getting made fun of. Planning around it. All kinds of justifications. All sorts of shit a grown man should be embarrassed about. Wow. Never again.

    Slowly I got sucked back in. Thanks to @optimuspig to revive my own words. Thanks to @pcguru for the real “business strategy” of rovio and exient. And thanks to two real game hackers (@lemongrab and @datguygamer). The evidence of cheating SO evident. Never answering questions that are unanswerable. Screenshots carefully cropped but still somehow with levels like 1364 amd accessories with levels over 300. Or new characters at level 25 within hours after release. Whatever. We know that the game, no matter how many gems you have, even if you were the benefactor of the gem glitch years ago, could explain. Some things are time locked or connected to competition token exchanges or just simply not possible, Sure, its frustrating. Seeing impossible things… Actually, i will say to the true game hacks, good work. You helped push me out. I will never compete. Truly. On any of the three levels i intend in that statement.

    It doesnt matter. It is unregulated gambling. With my TIME. The most valuable thing i have. So fist time shame on you and second time shame on me. This is shame on me.

    This time I burned it all out. No gems left. That was the “condition of my reentry” last time. When my gems were gone so would I be. Then i changed strategies. Preserving my precious winnings. Built up over 3.5 years.

    Burned them all tonight. Tonight was the last and final straw. I will look back and call these the Angry Birds years. My kids will too. And that folks makes me happy. It will be a look back. Not a current source of making fun of me.

    It was fun from time to time. Now its time to do something with those 2 hours a day.

    My best to all. Be wary. Watch for addiction behavior. If you are wondering, then yeah, that qualifies. @angrlee out. Peace So it took another 8 months since I started this thread for me to truly get out. I came back quietly after a couple of months. Checked the forums to see what was happening.  Then it started again. Waking up early to make sure I had time to play before my family got up and caught me. Playing in the bathroom. Getting made fun of. Planning around it. All kinds of justifications. All sorts of shit a grown man should be embarrassed about. Wow. Never again.

    Slowly I got sucked back in. Thanks to @optimuspig to revive my own words. Thanks to @pcguru for the real “business strategy” of rovio and exient. And thanks to two real game hackers (@lemongrab and @datguygamer). The evidence of cheating SO evident. Never answering questions that are unanswerable. Screenshots carefully cropped but still somehow with levels like 1364 amd accessories with levels over 300. Or new characters at level 25 within hours after release. Whatever. We know that the game, no matter how many gems you have, even if you were the benefactor of the gem glitch years ago, could explain. Some things are time locked or connected to competition token exchanges or just simply not possible, Sure, its frustrating. Seeing impossible things… Actually, i will say to the true game hacks, good work. You helped push me out. I will never compete. Truly. On any of the three levels i intend in that statement.

    It doesnt matter. It is unregulated gambling. With my TIME. The most valuable thing i have. So fist time shame on you and second time shame on me. This is shame on me.

    This time I burned it all out. No gems left. That was the “condition of my reentry” last time. When my gems were gone so would I be. Then i changed strategies. Preserving my precious winnings. Built up over 3.5 years.

    Burned them all tonight. Tonight was the last and final straw. I will look back and call these the Angry Birds years. My kids will too. And that folks makes me happy. It will be a look back. Not a current source of making fun of me.

    It was fun from time to time. Now its time to do something with those 2 hours a day.

    My best to all. Be wary. Watch for addiction behavior. If you are wondering, then yeah, that qualifies. @angrlee out. Peace

    AngrLee
    @angrlee

    funny thing. Checked in here. This thread still on main page. that is all I needed to know. Good decision to get out.

    AngrLee
    @angrlee

    @ramonpontes

    I know exactly how you feel. If I can JUST get this or JUST get that… remember these are literally a few megabytes of data that represent your user profile. You can’t share it with people, there is nothing material. If Rovio decided tomorrow to shut ABT off, then so be it. They did this with Croods. Or they could nerf TFs or weapons or change the fundamental economics of the game or or or. All of which they have done multiple times. You are chasing an imaginary “best” that lives in the cloud somewhere.

    Anyway, I wish you luck. It was really hard for like three days as my routines were turned upsidedown. I ended up with about 2.5 hours back in my day, and got a lot more sleep, and stopped sneaking around to get a half hour in. I had played for 2.5 years. was not easy to remember what I did with that time.

    So glad I climbed out.

    AngrLee
    @angrlee

    Likewise @pampeans and @optimuspig

    Just checked in to the forums. Been a couple months now. Nothing new at aall. Same sh!t So glad I got out.

    AngrLee
    @angrlee

    @optimuspig

    I think your approach is a good one.

    I will share here that getting out of this has been a total life changer. I realized that I had reworked my whole life schedule around this stupid game. I purposely set my alarm an hour earlier than I needed to EVERY day to make sure I had time to do all the daily quests, the spark run, collect my mission materials, spend 25 minutes in the lab for a few paltry gems, do the Jenga runs – 4 of them – if the day’s reward was gems, and do the 5 challenge runs during a challenge. Every night, I would stay up an extra 45 minutes getting everything I could done. So every day, it was the last thing I did, and then when I woke up, the very first thing I would do. Sick man.

    This morning, I literally found myself with like nothing to do since I have been getting up just to do this for 2.5 years. So I did some work, texted my kids, read, took a leisurely shower then changed my alarm clock.

    Similarly, I used to carve out an hour between work and dinner. I would sit in my car in a freaking parking lot like some stalker and do all the things I could again. GAH, what a sickness.

    What is weird is that I felt kind of off balance without this thing in my life at first. The release of stress is amazing. I had no idea how much I had modified my life around this game and I didn’t realize how often it was dominating my mind. If someone asked for a meeting, I would evaluate whether it would impact the 30 minutes I blocked on my calendar midday to play. And now I realize how many times during the day I used to think about how badly I needed to check in to see where I stood in challenges and try to sneak a run in without spending stupid gems.

    So good luck. I know you will find a similar release as you climb out of the ABT hole.

    AngrLee
    @angrlee

    Dropped in here to see what was new. Nothing. Not a damn thing. It appears Rovio has nerfed the characters that mattered. You know the ones you put weeks or months or years into maxing out. So glad I am out,of this trap. Quit the game. For weeks or a month or for good. Come back and SEE what nonsense this is. Imaginary cartoon characters under the power of the developers we spent years (in my case) playing. The FB group is called ABTDAILYPLAYERS for God’s sake. Like that is OK or normal.

    Have read 3 books, slept in, played with my kids… wow, did I get sucked in.

    I stand by this thread. If you are competitive or obsessive in anymway, get out. This game has been well crafted to suck you in and not let you out. Well done Rovio. You make a living literally exploiting addictive personalities. Wow. If you were selling drugs, you’d be organized crime. Instead you addict players to micro rushes of endorphins playing a “free” game.

    Good news is that I got free. Like Stockholm Syndrome. Wow.

    Hope that anyone else like me has a moment of truth to get out of the anxiety overloaded, sleep deprived, addicted hole you so elegantly created and so finely tune to keep your whales buying stupid shit. With their real money and more importantly their real time.

    Peace. Out.

    AngrLee
    @angrlee

    I just checked in to see if this thread was still running. Since I deleted the game, I have played a game with my children, read 1.5 books, gotten at least 1.5 hours more sleep per day.

    I see the posts with crashing and rebalancing, and the time it would take to get your TFs to Lvl25 being measured in years.

    I actually shared with my family that I deleted the game.

    For anyone who is driven to “be in the top 5%” of everything they do, you should get out. I realized that I spent a whole FTE year playing it and imagined all of the things I had sacrificed. They are coming back now. I didn’t start with a lot of free time, and somehow this thing came up and gobbled ALL that I had and some that I really didn’t have

    I still think about it. Obviously, I am posting here, but I deleted the game. Wish I could sell my UID – 2.5 years and max everything. Would be worth thousands.

    Anyway, if my post causes even one of you to get your 2.5 hours per day back in your life, then it will be worth it.

    AngrLee
    @angrlee

    I have opened level 20, but I am only able to get around 160 sparks from it. So I am staying on level 16 for now. I usually get 250 sparks from it. Muy bonus is 265% with gold crown EG, Dead End and Energon Lockdown. Anyway, agree with many of the comments above. Reset your device and kill all open apps, and do ONLY the spark run or controls get wonky or end of the world or crashes occur.

    With the current rate of sparks (assume 500 from daily plus 250 from spark run), it will be YEARS before we can get a gold crown in each squad. Kinda wished I had started a Megatron – sounds like he is a good choice for promotion, but am committed to getting EL there first, then pick a new one. Since we all have at least two fully promoted (at 105%), it means that you need to get to at least 40% bonus with the 3x multiplier before it is better to use one of the chosen squad as opposed to one of your gold crown TFs.

    I think at this point that the game has actually become too complicated. This addition of level 16… I don’t even know what that means. I think I will start a thread on that…

    AngrLee
    @angrlee

    There are two varieties.

    One is when it requires two presses to perform an action. Could be base navigation or targeting.

    Second and worse one is when it requires two simultaneous touches plus an offset. If this happens, try a two finger press about a half inch to the lower right of what you are trying to press.

    In both bug modes, swipe aiming with the grimlocks is impossible.

    I. ALWAYS hard close the app before starting a competition node or a spark run. This resets ram and gives you best chances of it acting normally.

    When you exit the game regularly, it does NOT close out. The game is TSR. All ram remains committed and bug can manifest.

    Hope this helps.

    AngrLee
    @angrlee

    @optimuspig

    Dead End used Pig Iron to upgrade. What is your theory?

    AngrLee
    @angrlee

    And this is on top of the fact that there are a group of ios users that got Chromia. She was available for like 12 hours in the token exchange for ios users only and some people used gems to grab her immediately. So now they sell her for 50 bucks. That is so ludicrous I can’t even imagine the discussion…

    Hey, let’s put a virtual character (you know, one of 45) up for 50 bucks on a free game, almost twice what we tried to get for any other character.
    anything special about her?
    nope.
    Then 50 bucks. Sure, great idea.

    Hahaha

    AngrLee
    @angrlee

    @lewie4 fyi, new release still broken. Texture rendering still broken.

    AngrLee
    @angrlee

    @ed209 feel your pain. Been playing since Nov 2014. Believe it or not, this is far, REALLY far from the worst nerfing, code release or fundamental game economics screw up.
    not to minimize the current issue but wow, has this game been a test of perseverance over the last 2 years.

    AngrLee
    @angrlee

    Challenge nodes crash the game. All other parts of the game seem to work for android. Just no challenge


    @lewie4
    fyi. Android fix is not fixed.

    So ios players you arent missing the Implosion event, just all other game play.

    Have to agree with @joel687 though. Event name is hilarious. Exient/Rovio really imploded this one!

    AngrLee
    @angrlee

    Nope. Not working. Updated, and can’t enter challenge events.

    AngrLee
    @angrlee

    @armourbender

    Nope, no music in my head. At one point I hadn’t had the sound on for like a year and turned it on just to see if it had changed. It hadn’t. The WORST is the noise in the lab. Drove me nuts.

    AngrLee
    @angrlee

    @geli. +1 haha! Particularly my wife!

    AngrLee
    @angrlee

    Thanks folks. I have been wondering for a year or so. Lab sounds make me wanna toss my tablet. Like 400 times a day, same sounds. Wanna kill myself. Gah!

    AngrLee
    @angrlee

    @gabe-nestor

    You and I were in the same line up!!! haha! I came in 4th. You and I were gunning for 3rd hard, but yeah, wth with the leader. I started a new thread on that. there have not been enough sparks available by any method to achieve that rank. This is definitely cheating


    @lewie4

    Please look at player DDD, there is no way he/she could have achieved max spark rank.

    AngrLee
    @angrlee

    Has anyone noticed that the spark conduit, canister and capsule are all one time purchases? Also notice that the canister has one dot on it and the conduit has two dots on it.
    now zoom way in on the “coming soon” area (that has been coming for 2 years) and look in the hole. Does it look like the spark conduit to anyone else? I think there is some relationship between the sparks and the coming soon thing.
    also consider the obvious bad math on the price of the three spark containers. The canister is 750 for 750 but conduit is 1200 for 1500 and the capsule is 420 for 500. If sparks were like coins then you could “buy” them over and over. Again, it seems to me that at some point we will need each of of these things. I could be wrong. Rovio has shown a complete lack of logic before but thought I would throw this out there to hear all of your thoughts…

    AngrLee
    @angrlee

    For sure Bumblebee. He is the coolest of the TFS in the movies, and he is shit here. He was also the first we got. Accessories to the max he is still a wimp. Isn’t he supposed to be the resilient warrior?

    Anyway, the list of nerfed TFS is long as stated above.

    Key is to pair them with right energonicons to offset their many weakneeses. In most cases this is the the health generator. Since at level 15 for 41 TFs, there are like 4 I like playing it’s easier to list those I like but I won’t since they will get targeted for nerfing. Sigh

    AngrLee
    @angrlee

    This event is super buggy. Have lost 50 percent of nodes to freezing glitches. If it is reflectron, then good. At least I know why. Grrr, two years of this shit. Why do I still play? … I don’t know…

    AngrLee
    @angrlee

    So far, I have had three days where all 8 objectives were achievable and I got the daily reward. My strategy is really just to focus on the ones that have either gems or chips as a reward. Usually there are one or two that give 10 gems or chips. Those are woth chasing. Some of the objectives are just stupid. Like visit the meadow 8 times. Dumb. Since you have no control! And if you are high level, you get pig city more than anything else. Anyway, I have scored a few gems and chips that I converted to gems in the lab that were worth the effort. Overall I still think the daily challenges are an add. Not always achievable but usually some part of it is.

    AngrLee
    @angrlee

    @rowdypup

    Ihad a crazy one during the comp nodes too! went all the way sideways and stopped cold. Then the falling tower took me out. Went to the back up TF and it was one of those rows of FTs. Had to go through two more fallen towers. Emerged with a fraction of a heart and made it to the end, but wow.
    Agree, pig city is the worst, but it seems to be happeneing all over. And it has been getting progressively worse. Had one come to a stop – was shockwave I think. Then had Rodimus jump almost off the screen on a bump.
    Truly, I think they are setting us up to have to buy the “transform” power upgrades to manage the increasingly unstable vehicle mode.


    @lewie4

    Any comment here?

    AngrLee
    @angrlee

    @lewie4

    This is broken. 6 for 6 comp nodes crashed. Reset device. Went WiFi to cellular. Ran regular nodes. Nada. This is BS. how can a stable game go unstable using a proven competition code base. This is ridiculous. Please fix and reset competition.

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