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TWICE already this morning the Arena has frozen at the point where I should be watching a video for an extra bird!!! Once at the fifth round and now again in the SEVENTH! I only need 100,000 points and this set of 500 feathers will rank my bird up to a 12. Everything is pulsing but can’t select. The first time I gave up and tried selecting everything, video, play on and X to close but none worked. I always open another AB game first which usually works. This time I’ve opened THREE others and played levels but get back to AB2 and it’s still frozen. Of course, when I force close the app it doesn’t reset to the level where it froze but resets back to 1. Amazing how, in the face of the game’s own failure the player is the one punished. I’ve suggested before that the game owes me a variety of all items – spells, gems, pearls, tickets, etc. and I’ve been about 75% serious. Now this is absolute, outright inexcusable greedy bullshit, Rovio, and I’m serious now. YOU OWE ME @hank. I actually got promoted to Amythest (after being demoted two weeks in a row.) I think because I was a lucky player who got into arena right away. This week, after an hour, the leader had 167 to my 46. I’m sorry, but if Rovio thinks it’s reasonable that the only way to win again is to set my alarm for every three hours and spend a week of my life never entering REM sleep, they are insane. I lived very well during the two demotions. I just have to quit. You’re banking, literally, on finding players who don’t quit when things in our real lives get tough. This is finally my breaking point. It’s bad enough with all the ploys while the game is working. But to start freezing us out in a variety of ways is the epitome of kindergarten childish greed. If this resets me back to zero and no attempt is made to compensate me it will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back. I will be done. And if you think I’ll be spending money in the bullshit daily challenges in Seasons think again.
Maiasatara@maiasataraI’ve been away from most of Rovio since they ruined the Arena in AB2 for many of the reasons I see here. Found Mighty League today about 3 hours before the end of day so I played the first 6 levels (2 leagues.) my question – The display box for the league shows 4 jumps to make it to the slingshot. At which point I assume one earns something for flinging within this tiny box. There are three levels earning me three stars and three jumps. How does one get the FOURTH JUMP to reach the sling? From what I’m reading I don’t envision me sticking with it. Not at $3 for 5 tickets!
Maiasatara@maiasataraI promise to catch up on my reading later so I’m probably going to repeat what others have already said. My email has blown up with forum notifications, lol.
Ok – I was lucky to get in to Arena because I watched the countdown to the week turned over. I had over 150 before anyone else joined so I saw this as an opportunity to earn back one of my two recent demotions. In a few hours someone not only caught up to me but has also surpassed me by almost 200 now. I’m playing what I consider a ridulous, insane amount and can’t catch him. Because since everyone came back, I can’t win with more than 7 stars! The last two weeks I was all 8, 9, 10, even in the last three rounds in a streak. Just now, in a Round 6 match, I literally HIT A PIG WITH FOUR BIRDS before it finally perished! I still won without a video but only earned 5 stars. I would have killed it had that one bird not been protected by some diswine intervention. As for chests… when I wanted feathers I got gems. When I want spells all I get are feathers. I had survived two demotions very well – it broke the spell – and I was ready to uninstall. Then the opportunity to catch up presented itself. But when a game notoriously always flies in the face of logic, the laws of physics, and gives the exact opposite of what one needs it becomes impossible to justify. And yet Rovio does. It’s like a person gets caught cheating and the spouse actually SEES the other person in bed with another person and h/er reply is, “I didn’t cheat. I can’t help what you think you see.”
Maiasatara@maiasataraHi @deaftalk and @chucky-2 – I just sent friend requests so I can send you each a message. Good luck this week!
Maiasatara@maiasatara@adbjester – wow, I was happy with my 100 points in my personal league, but 600+ in one day – you are my idol! It dawned on me when I just ran out to Dunkin Donuts, that any of us who had early access will be shuffled into new leagues together so I’d better hit things a little harder if I want a promotion.
Good luck, all.
Maiasatara@maiasataraI can’t believe that yesterday was the day I tried my experiment of watching the countdown to the week change because it let me in (mentioned last night in another post.) In Massachusetts, USA btw. I’ve been wondering why no one else in my tournament had ZERO stars. Had I not WASTED my surplus of tickets (about 40) trying not to get demoted I could really make this work to get promoted again. My guess – when they fix it everyone goes back to ZERO. Because that’s how luck works for me. It doesn’t.
And to reiterate what others have said – MUCH LOVE to The Nest and everyone who works hard to keep it going. Rovio has recently sucked 99% of my enjoyment out of ALL versions because of the frustrations with the Arena. But that’s on Rovio. I will always be a fan of ABN!!!Maiasatara@maiasataraCorrection. My star rank is 54 with 271 of 275 earned toward 55.
Maiasatara@maiasataraI tried something this week. I opened the Arena and watched the countdown of the last two minutes. About ten seconds after it hit zero I saw my finishing place, got the gems and immediately saw Free Entry. The problem is (imagine that; there’s a problem) my phone got a notification and closed out the game. It didn’t reset to “Paused” like normal. It pretended I’d never started. Then NO VIDEO for the second play. I spent one of my few remaining tickets and BARELY won a Round 2. Despite cycling through three full streaks with no problem today alone. Now, three hours later, I played my newest Free Entry. After I won – again, NO VIDEO FOR FREE ENTRY. I was demoted two previous weeks in a row despite many reporting that demotions weren’t happening. (Saw it once myself but had assumed I just read my ranking incorrectly at the time. I don’t think being down in Emerald is the reading for a decent win ratio today because my opponents have the same Star Rank – 57 and birds that are better than mine. Not hard to do with one 9, four 10s and two 11s (one earned today.)
So – to have access right after the week ends just watch the countdown to the switch. Just don’t expect to be able to play afterward.Maiasatara@maiasataraWell NO one gets demoted. People report this every week. “Was in 14th place and didn’t get demoted guess they aren’t doing that.” Well guess what! THE BASTARDS DEMOTED ME THIS WEEK. I barely played because, well we ll know why – Rovio has made the arena miserable and I hate it. Then on Friday I played up from 15 to 12. Then Saturday I lived my life and honestly forgot ALL about Angry Birds. Yay me. Then just now (11:45pm EST) I check. Got pushed to 13th place by a disgruntled person I passed, and there it was. Demoted to Amythest. You know, if a player makes it to Diamond it should lock. Everything before the end you have danger of demotion but once you reach the top you stay. Old arena I had hope. Obviously, as I made it to Diamond.) Now? There’s not a chance in HELL I will EVER win enough to advance again. Unless I want to spend money, of course. And the transparent greed rears it’s ugly head again. Well, Rovio. You won. This demotion is the first step toward deletion. Unless I wake up one day this week like Shirley Temple in The Little Princess where she’s living in a dirty cold attic and one morning there appears an abundant buffet of food and drink (my buffet is a promotion back to Diamond, a stash of the good spells that disappeared – peppers and sardine cans) and an unlimited lifetime supply of coins… then I’m done. @hank
Maiasatara@maiasataraJudging by the end of tournament placement Rovio should be noticing that people are barely playing. Instead, for the start of the new week, EVERY MATCH IS A NAIL-BITER! Starting right out of the gate. By the third match (aka the magic loss match) I had the “one pig out of reach of any bird that game deigns me worthy of receiving. All while my opponent gets duplicate bombs and yellows.
For several weeks now there’s an inequality in bird card earning. If we see the match progress bird-by-bird, regardless of knowing in which ROOM our opponent uses them, and I am ahead by 1.5-2M points, then when I show two birds remaining HOW DOES MY OPPONENT ALWAYS HAVE 3? They should have not been earning more because I’m significantly ahead in points, and we aren’t at the “last bird thrown and now my opponent uses a video bird.” Oh no, because that comes, too! And they get a million points with a bomb (to my blues against stone) and then they EARN another bird and get a million with IT. Now my last three have been USELESS even if it’s the “right” bird for the structure. Then my video bird earns 2M and I miraculously win. That actually happens but most often I just get useless birds. I really want to know how, bird for bird me winning, opponent has more. That just doesn’t work. Neither does every match from 1 being like a match 7 opponent. Not when I’m used to 9-10 in the first 4 rounds. The hits keep coming.
Maiasatara@maiasataraSo my only hope of winning the 7th match of a streak is to bring at least a Duck and a Chili. Since I have no chilis I knew I’d need to play the daily challenge. I’m also within 20 stars if being demoted out of Diamond and I will NEVER WIN ANOTHER ARENA so that’s a permanent situation. After THREE HOURS OF CONTINUOUS PLAYING I STILL HAVEN’T EVEN SRRN THR LAST ROOM OF ROUND THREE!!!!! WTF? Finally I got strikes in rooms 1-3 and a birdie in 4 and then bam. SIX BIRDS IN ROOM FIVE. Four on one pig. Caps don’t yell loudly enough and I refrain from swearing (mostly) because ABN is a family site. But really Rovio. H E Double Hockey Sticks is too good for you.
Maiasatara@maiasataraI’m glad to hear there are still people with birds in the 8-9 levels. I was beginning to think I was the only one. Someone mentioned Terrence. Hunh yeah, big lumbering ox Terrence. Everywhere else he’s powerhouse but in the Arena? A limp noodle. Useless. I had ONE day when I couldn’t play (writing deadline) and woke to discover I’d gone from 4th place to 13th! Took me 4 games of 10/10/9/9 just to get 4 points into 12th. So the struggle begins.
I want to come up with profiles of players based on their bird levels, number of wins, star rank and willingness to discuss gameplay, lol. One quick non-arena issue. The Tuesday Blues challenge – in three hours I haven’t even SEEN the last room of round 3 yet. Seriously? (Think Grey’s Anatony and say 5 times more.) at this rate I’ll never see another pearl…
Maiasatara@maiasataraThere’s a trick that is used by shopping mall developers. When the mall is first built there are fewer than normal parking spaces painted into the parking lot. It’s so a shopper feels that it’s so easy and comfortable from the moment s/he pulls in. Subliminal manipulation. THEN, after a little time, the spaces are repainted with the intention of cramming in as many possible shoppers as possible. When it’s harder to park the next time, you think it’s because the mall must be just that popular; you MUST go or you might miss the great deals. The repainting cheat never enters your mind because it’s so far-fetched. Well, Rovio has repainted the Arena, my friends. works every time there’s a new build. And I noticed a NEW phenomenon to add to the list:
Near the end of a match my birds significantly lose destruction power, especially if the game is VERY close and I AM WINNING. The last two birds do less than 100,000 damage as opposed to my opponent, who has now overtaken me. By fewer than 5-10 thousand. Now THAT is a new level of frustration!) So, if it’s a milestone match (100 or 500 feathers) I “Play On” and BAM – my next single bird earns 500,000 and I’m winning easily. What SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED with my last two cards and the video bird.
Oh yeah, after the two hour close out after the weekly switch over, the first place person in my league had triple digit stars within 4 hours. Yeah. That’s a pace I can keep without spending. Awesome work, yet again Rovio.
Maiasatara@maiasataraSo it’s about 12 hours before the end of the tournament week. I have 442 stars, the most I’ve EVER obtained in a week, but am in 11th place. Almost demotion territory. To earn ANY pearls here, I’d need to win a minimum of another 100 stars. And that’s assuming mister 544 and everyone near him play nothing today. To earn first place, I would need to overtake the current score of 885. Ninth place is the lowest rank to earn 10 measly pearls. Considering how little they accomplish, why not make 25 the cut off but give them to everyone from 8th place down? Same for 3 gems? And while we are here – regarding the big treasure chest prize near the end of a streak…for the record two snowflake spells here is a slap in the face. 150+ feathers, 50 pearls, Sardine Cans (plural) – THESE are decent prizes.
Maiasatara@maiasataraSo I figure I’m owed 3 Sardine Cans, 3 Hot Peppers and 2 of whatever the Green thing is. Oh, yeah, and the gems I wasted having to “Play On” when I should have been able to use the last of the Sardine cans for a Game 7 in a steak for 500 Red feathers. Had the Sardune Can not disappeared I’d easily have won. What burned me even more, the last can showed up again, available to be used in a regular level, then disappeared again two levels later for one designated as a “Hard Level” – in the 470’s.
I can see earning Pearls in the weekly League competition will be impossible if the standard top place is 1000 and the people getting even the lowest number are already over 509 with two days to go. At this point, the only thing that would actually make me happy would be – Give me for free enough gems, pearls, spells and tickets to play HARD and UNLIMITED by budget for a solid month to see whether money makes this world go round or not. If I’m proven wrong, I’ll shut up and sing your praises to anyone who’ll listen. Don’t worry, though…I don’t see any of this happening. Going to devote more time to the TNT Beta. @hank
Maiasatara@maiasataraAfter, frankly, far too much time and energy spent thinking about this game I’ve come to the conclusion that the sad, sad bottom line is this:
For all the struggle to “Rank Up” our birds the normal player will NEVER REAP ANY REWARDS FROM THR INCREASE! Because of the “algorithm” used to select our competitors, we will ALWAYS fall behind the people who have the disposable cash, the low self esteem that’s compels them to spend it being “better” than others. I literally did not get ONE MATCH against a person with a regular sling once I had gone bronze? Before that, all matched had plain old original sling. Now that I JUST ranked Red up to a 9 I have four Level 9 birds. Guarantee my first match in three hours WILL have more 10s.
There should be at least a period of time, right after we earn something, where we actually SEE the benefit. Give us the former algorithm for the remaining 24 hours even. If my “Community” or “League” or “Rank” was ALWAYS THE SAME PEOPLE (with similar monthly spending habits!!!!) then we are competing against a finite group. We could track our progress among each other. If you spend more, you Rank Out of that group and get thrown to the spending sharks.
Rank 1 – $0/month
Rank 2 – $0.01 – $4.99/month
Rank 3 – $5.00 – $14.99/month
@hank – I’m even impressing myself, here, with this idea born during the composition of this email, lol. To avoid people getting into the low group only to Spend Up immediately to screw everyone else, a player has to Opt Out of access to the store for the month l. So if you click on Rank 1, you get NO ACCESS to the store until your month is up. Or for higher Ranks, you’re frozen out once you’ve spent your competitive limit. This is very lose to fair!Maiasatara@maiasataraNot Terry Star but Turkey Star in Diamond League. If I knew who it was, and if s/he is here, I’d say Thank You!
As for today, I’m thinking that if a player hits some magic number of saved Arena Tickets that player will not win again until the number has been depleted to below the threshold. I won a 7th round to complete a street today then lost THREE IN A ROW IN ROUND 1. Wow. Twice to a 100% unreachable survivor and once to a 99% unreachable survivor that ate up 6 birds.
I’d love to start spreading a suggestion via private message (where Big Brother isn’t listening.) Anyone interested in hearing it, please friend me and send a DM. @sambeaver – I’m thinking our Star friend(s) are related to my thought. Sorry to be so vague (I ordinarily hate posts that hint at something but say nothing) but the last time we discussed Levels 9 and 13 gave really great gift chests they were ripped away from us. I never even discussed backing out to save an arena entry ticket and that was ripped away within one release!
Good luck in the remaining 3 days. I’ll need to catch up another 200 stars to even get ANY pearls and I’ve been playing OFTEN! Forget the unattainable first place. As for spells, I thought it was my imagination because I never have dozens at a time but yes, they disappear on me, too.
Maiasatara@maiasataraWell mark it on your calendars. I fear that the SSDD has returned!
Tuesday, July 19, 2016 at about 6:45pm I got slammed with many of my old favorite bullshit circumstances four rounds in a row. It started when I got to the 100 feather reward in the streak.It began with:
1. Unlikely Survival of a Lone Bird and then
2. Competitor Behind Me By 1 Million Gets Miraculous 2 Million Point Comeback With Last Bird.Then I LOST a round 1 match in the SECOND ROOM to:
3. One Far Far Away Princess Survives My One And ONLY YELLOW BIRD and I Futilely Fling Remaing Six Birds But None Cone Even Remotely Close.Barely win next reset Round 1 then lost in Round 2 to:
4. Birds Hit Targets But Do Zero Damage and Fall Dead Out Of The Sky Laughing.I knew it was too good to be true. If I didn’t love all my fellow, commiserating players so much I’d be shouting I TOLD YOU SO from the rooftops (picture Mary Poppins style with Dick Van Dyke and the blow softened by some animated penguins.)
Hope to be proven wrong. Doubt I will be. Let’s see how the week plays out.
Maiasatara@maiasataraEven after I post a brand new reply it’s going back to the top of page 1!
Maiasatara@maiasataraAside regarding this Forum – why doesn’t it default to the most recent location? Getting tired of having to scroll to the bottom of the first page to access the ability to select the last page. Then have to scroll to the bottom of it. And that’s when I’m selecting the comment from within an email notification!
Maiasatara@maiasatara@jon3800 – I have to agree with you and others because I just completed a streak. What I’m noticing FUNALLY –
The players with lower ranked birds but high star ranks actually play better than those with high ranked birds and lower star ratings. This just proves that people who haven’t played very long but excessive spend money on Spells and multiple options to Play On CAN’T PLAY VERY WELL and must rely on this false ranking up to kill us with bonus points. As a result, it’s been tougher to beat people at the beginning of a streak because they are hardcore PLAYERS rather than PURCHASERS. I cannot get Bomb out of Level SEVEN!!!!! My others are half 8 half 9. I mistakenly thought I could mix and match my Hats and bought a 100 pearl hat for Bomb and my other lowest bird BEFORE giving everyone a 20 Pearl hat. Now I need 40 more pearls to finish my Bronze sling. Bottom line, SO FAR, I have not taken to serious profanity or wanting to hurl my phone at the wall while playing. Still early to judge…Maiasatara@maiasataraThe “er” suffix earns you a pass. : )
Maiasatara@maiasataraIt’s been 56 minutes now. I’ve been shown in both 4th place and 1st place while it tries to connect and fails repeatedly. But I can enter/play every other area of AB2.
Regarding the update: losing a ticket when I back out is bullshit. It’s bad enough I have to lose my streak position. Ya just keep taking away the fun. One upside – the competition SEEMS fair two days in. I say SEEMS because I’m just waiting for the other shoe to drop. When I do well it’s reflected in my score. Not every competitor is striking every single room even when it’s impossible. If ANYONE suggests it’s too easy to run a full streak, I invite you to go to h*ll. The arena has been so unfair for so long that any changes that look like they even approach fairness should be encouraged and not criticized. Now if it would just open…
Maiasatara@maiasataraWhat are the total number of players in each platform? I’ve often felt, on a level-by-level basis that there are some that clearly DON’T favor IOS but don’t have any records kept. We also don’t know how many hours each group plays. Do IOS and Android play more frequently because their devices are more portable? The end result numbers are interesting but I think we’d need data on more variables to make any meaningful conclusions. I, too, studied Music, (and Psych) but the only math classes I enjoyed were Statistics!
Maiasatara@maiasataraThis week (Monday July 11th) I was awarded 4 stars in q level where I only earned 1 heart (the heart in the Pig Chalkenge seems to be what is a star normally – i.e. 3 star level.) This makes no sense. Especially because on Tuesday and Wednesday I obtained 3 hearts but only 3 stars. It’s just another money grab within the sacred original games where we bought them and were competitive in a PURE, non-power up manner. If they make the original core games like Star Wars and AB2 there would be international outcry so thru are testing how far they can push us for money. I will play until my power ups run out then I’m done. Sorry Rovio, you’ve gotten the last of my money forever.
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