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ADBjester replied to the topic Conspiracy theories and more… in the forum Angry Birds 2 Forum 6 years, 9 months ago
Hello All,
You’ve seen my posts here, but I’ve left the AB2 family. I’m now playing AB Evolution instead, which seems to have fewer exploits and is more reasonably competitive. Though it has its own flaws, they are FAR fewer than AB2, and the game is more aggressively supported by Rovio. It also plays “better” without payment.
See you in th…[Read more]
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ADBjester replied to the topic About the Angry Birds 2 Arena in the forum Angry Birds 2 Forum 6 years, 9 months ago
Hello All,
You’ve seen my posts here, but I’ve left the AB2 family. I’m now playing AB Evolution instead, which seems to have fewer exploits and is more reasonably competitive. Though it has its own flaws, they are FAR fewer than AB2, and the game is more aggressively supported by Rovio. It also plays “better” without payment.
See you in th…[Read more]
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ADBjester replied to the topic Help! Can't beat the Ox Boss 2ith Horns in the forum Angry Birds Evolution Forum 6 years, 9 months ago
I finally beat him. I got lucky, but gained insight in the process.
I beat him because I got lucky on rebounds and hit the boss from the back several times in early shots. This is not the preferred way.
What I determined instead (mainly from watching opponents in arena matches) is that what you need is a very powerful white bird with s…[Read more]
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ADBjester replied to the topic Help! Can't beat the Ox Boss 2ith Horns in the forum Angry Birds Evolution Forum 6 years, 10 months ago
I am stuck here, too (it is the next to last challenge in Chapter 19), for the same reason. As level 37, I can’t ever do enough damage to off the boss, and if he’s allowed to attack even one time, the match is over.
I went Googling for videos on how to beat it and only found January pre-launch videos… but the boss in those videos was FAR less…[Read more]
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ADBjester replied to the topic Arena matches. in the forum Angry Birds Evolution Forum 6 years, 10 months ago
I agree, and was just coming here this morning to make this same post. But the criteria is not strength + trophies (as it should be), but trophies alone. My first week in the game, I mastered the arena after a slow start, and landed in the Champions league as only a level 29. When I get matched against a 70+, it doesn’t matter if I land all fi…[Read more]
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ADBjester replied to the topic Cost efficiency question in the forum Angry Birds Evolution Forum 6 years, 10 months ago
@DC228 Cost effective has nothing to do with it. Level 1 and 2 birds are NOTHING but fodder for leveling up. You don’t want to level up a 1/2 bird, ever. Those should be merged into Level 3+ birds.
You’ll very quickly reach the point where leveling up even a Level 3 bird is only useful to acquire a “Collection” bird for an evolved 3-star. Y…[Read more]
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ADBjester replied to the topic Coins in the forum Angry Birds Evolution Forum 6 years, 10 months ago
Farming coins is tough work.
Every ~10 minutes, you’ll get an arena ticket. Play it. You’ll earn green keys.
Every time you build up 10 or 15 keys, and when you have 2500 XP of the same color, visit a dungeon. You’ll earn 75 coins for beating it. That amounts to 75 coins every 2 hours, give or take.
Play every Adventure you can, as…[Read more]
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ADBjester replied to the topic Clock Adventures in the forum Angry Birds Evolution Forum 6 years, 10 months ago
It means, if the adventure starts in the “blue” region, then choosing blue birds to go on the adventure will reap greater rewards.
IOW, it takes fewer birds (XP) of matching region color to move the bar to a 12 hour quest with higher rewards, than birds of a non-matching color.
I tend to go for 3-hour quests during the day, and…[Read more]
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ADBjester replied to the topic Anyone else with Critical Server Errors? in the forum Angry Birds Evolution Forum 6 years, 10 months ago
Had them a few hours ago. They went away. Server issues happen.
These aren’t the birds you’re looking for.
You can go about your business.
Move along.
Jester
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ADBjester started the topic Shiny Totems and where to apply them in the forum Angry Birds Evolution Forum 6 years, 10 months ago
Question: is it better to apply a shiny totem to a low value bird, and then use that bird to level up a strong one, or to apply the totem directly to the strong one?
The write up of the totem makes it sound be like the former but that doesn’t really make sense to me.
Jester
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ADBjester started the topic Clan Leaders vs. Members and Clan Levels in the forum Angry Birds Evolution Forum 6 years, 10 months ago
Hello All,
I formed a random clan, and ten people joined. I haven’t been able to muster up much coin-for-XP giving (I may throw this lot back and seek more enthusiastic members here), but I do see in the Clan screen where I could acquire a “First Aid Kit” for 500 gold coins.
Am I as leader the only one that could make that purchase, or could…[Read more]
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ADBjester replied to the topic Arena — skill, strategy, or pure luck? in the forum Angry Birds Evolution Forum 6 years, 10 months ago
I think I’m starting to get the hang of it. It isn’t as much luck as I thought, and Dmitry is only partially correct in that it is all about team strength.
Since posting, I’ve managed to rack up 600 trophies in the current (Bronze II) entry level league, good for second place.
You can easily defeat a much stronger opponent, if you’re able to…[Read more]
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ADBjester started the topic Arena — skill, strategy, or pure luck? in the forum Angry Birds Evolution Forum 6 years, 10 months ago
Hello Flockers!
Having had AB-E now for a few days, I’ve yet to find any rhyme or reason to “hit points” in the Oinktagon Arena.
It seems that the damage you do to them and they to you has no correlation to anything.
Not to the number of hits you score. I’ve scored 8 hits, and caused less damage (on the health meter) than an opponent who gets…[Read more]
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ADBjester replied to the topic Conspiracy theories and more… in the forum Angry Birds 2 Forum 6 years, 10 months ago
If you’re sitting on top of 30,000 gems, you could run into two dozen pigs and the rewards would still be worth it all the way to the top. But I doubt most AB2 players have this level of stash.
Hitting 22 pigs costs 51,170 gems, and that would be four pigs higher than expectation (even with the bias I’m discovering built into p…[Read more]
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ADBjester replied to the topic Conspiracy theories and more… in the forum Angry Birds 2 Forum 6 years, 10 months ago
@cognitive wrote:
I don’t have enough gems to climb the tower, unfortunately. I rarely go above 2 pigs’ worth. But, at lower levels, hitting 6 feathers then pig near daily, easily 50% of the time for me, isn’t inspiring a lot of confidence in their randomness.
I do, though only once. :) I’ve saved them up over months of buying the letter,…[Read more]
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ADBjester replied to the topic Conspiracy theories and more… in the forum Angry Birds 2 Forum 6 years, 10 months ago
@ryan-kochie wrote:
Would love to see them do this for the ToF, prove it’s random. Agree on gems and pearls counts stored locally (and feather counts?), besides just how easy it is to exploit, it also makes backing up player data harder when their device breaks down, causing those saving up to 25k to be frustrated if they lose their pearls.
No, t…[Read more]
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ADBjester replied to the topic Conspiracy theories and more… in the forum Angry Birds 2 Forum 6 years, 10 months ago
@cognitive wrote:
Jester, I’m afraid we will disagree here. I have 32 years experience as a software developer, anything from mainframes to Android.
Then we’re speaking as peers, though with an experience gap. I’ve been developing software since 1977. 32 or 40 years, makes little difference. :)
The mystery points brigade is simply shor…
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ADBjester replied to the topic Thoughts on the update in the forum Angry Birds 2 Forum 6 years, 10 months ago
@ryan-kochie wrote: They update every 2 weeks in general. I would hope for a major bug like this they would update sooner, but probably have to wait 1 more week. At least do a patch. But they have their update schedule I suppose.
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I doubt you’ll get an answer from Rovio (aside from “next update”), for a couple reasons, but I can offer you…[Read more]
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ADBjester replied to the topic Conspiracy theories and more… in the forum Angry Birds 2 Forum 6 years, 10 months ago
@ryan-kochie wrote: @hank, care to comment on the randomness of the treasures? How we can get rewarded the feat before selecting the card?
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Having worked in gaming, I predict Hank will not answer, not because there’s a conspiracy, but because it’s a ludicrous theory. So, I’ll say what Hank likely wants to (my guess), but cannot:
It ne…[Read more]
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ADBjester started the topic Conspiracy theories and more… in the forum Angry Birds 2 Forum 6 years, 10 months ago
Hello All,
I want to address some of the theories I’ve seen posited here, and to debunk them from the perspective of an experienced developer / user. Background: I worked in game security for the world’s largest online poker site for 10 years as a key “anti-cheating”, game integrity principle.
1) CLAIM: The Tower isn’t random.
I’ve charted m…[Read more]
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