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Pam Jonery@pam-jonery@sam-spargo Oh so I just got really unlucky then to encounter two such banners one after the other? Well I’ll try again later but if this keeps happening, I just can’t be bothered. Unlike some here, I’m not willing to buy lucky coins and I don’t have any friends who play the game so I don’t get any kickbacks like FE either. I’m also getting burned out on all the bugs, constantly getting error messages that I didn’t watch a video so I don’t get the prize, clicking on the ‘watch a video to get 5 stamina drinks’ arrow and nothing happens, only win the coin toss on Arena about 10% of the time (statistically impossible if it’s random). Despite my difficulties I often win the Events and that’s about the only incentive that keeps me coming back any more!
Pam Jonery@pam-joneryI don’t know if this is what I’ve just been experiencing this evening compared to this morning. But i noticed that the opponent birds are only KO’d for two turns while your own birds are down for three. This is very unfair and out of two battles, I’ve been knocked out twice (ie lost the battles). It’s been bad enough that I win the coin toss only about 10% of the time. Now, with this, I stand no chance so I’m not going to bother. I sure as hell am not going to spend any $$ to play!
Pam Jonery@pam-jonery@pointless SEVEN HUNDRED stamina? Just from those boxes? Must be some bug, I’m lucky to get one. I’ve found this to be an extremely buggy event as it seems most everybody has. I’ve not really been trying as I’m low on FE and had almost no stamina when the event began so I’ve mostly been using the event to collect stuff and on those occasional battles with Prince Porky in them you get 100 snoutlings when you dispatch him. I think I’m 5th but I rarely get to see the leaderboard so it’s hard to say!
Pam Jonery@pam-joneryWell that was a battle royale. I had to score over 86k to win against my nearest rival who had about 600 less and I started the event with hardly any resources so no re-rolling to speak of. He led the entire game with me playing catch up but I managed to take him at the very end lol. Bet he’s pissed! I had 7 rank-ups out of it, woot! Toughest battle so far and good fun; much better than when I’m fighting folks whose rank is in the teens, it’s like shooting fish in a barrel then.
Pam Jonery@pam-joneryI’ve yet to see Wizpig and there haven’t been many 750 battles available.
For once, I’m in a group where we’re all ranked 50 so it’s proving to be an interesting battle for a change! I was in the lead when I ran out of stamina… probably won’t be by the time I get back!
Pam Jonery@pam-joneryI see Druid has FINALLY been fixed! I got wiped out on the first 750 battle I tried :(
Having to wait for all my ‘lost’ stamina drinks to build up again. I dare not try a 500 game lest I lose more of them. Did they fix it with the update that just came in or not, anyone know?
Pam Jonery@pam-joneryThis isn’t a collect the items event, it’s all about the points.
Pam Jonery@pam-joneryI DID lose my stamina drinks, twice, when starting the medium difficulty battles. I’ve played two of the easy battles with no problems but because it sucked up 10 of my stamina drinks on two battles I didn’t get to play, now I’ve no drinks left. Guess I’ll be avoiding the 500-point battles until they’ve fixed it.
Pam Jonery@pam-joneryI’m surprised to hear you guys don’t use Mighty Eagle’s Favorite Dish much. I pretty much always use that to finish a chronicle cave because otherwise I’d be using tons of other stuff to stay alive and use rage chili. You get 3 of them for 45 LC so it’s a good value IMO.
I managed to get all my ropes yesterday and thus the Illusionist hat and have been busy building that up, that is so tedious! It’s pretty pathetic at the moment, hit power only around 500, not much health. I hope I roll 6000 when the event ends so I can boost his class up. Currently at 2, almost 3.
I notice that the freezing problem is happening in the game outside of the event when I’m using the Illusionist’s skills, not sure if it’s the mirror or cloud that’s the cause but if I haven’t used all my turns and I knock out the enemies, the game locks up.
fortunately for me, I have no competitors in the event so I’ll get first place. Judging by what you guys are saying, my 42k would probably not win the event if I had real people to play against. But I’ve not been re-rolling anything, no point since I have no competition! I hope everyone by now has gathered everything, only 3 hours left!
@mvnla2 I had a golden pig appear this morning in the bamboo area, first one in a few days I think
Pam Jonery@pam-jonery@stevey How long have you been playing? It’s much easier to do this event for those of us who have the max rank (currently 50) and well developed birds. I personally have never spent any cash on the game and won’t do it because of the nauseous advertising. If I could pay for the game and get no ads, I’d do it in a heartbeat.
It seems to me that some versions of the game are more bug-ridden than others. The only bug I’ve encountered is the one where the game will stop doing anything at the end of a battle wave if I have unused birds so I solved that by making sure I’d used all the other birds before striking the final blow. EVERY time I accidentally knock the enemies out without using them all, the game locks and those stamina drinks are lost. But in two days that’s only happened twice so I’ve fortunately lost very few since I figured it out, probably about 30 total since the event began. I currently have 11/25 of the final items so I should get those no problem without using any FE.
@oobear glad to hear you’re not having the lock ups now!
Pam Jonery@pam-jonery@dragonofheart73 Ahh ok, well I beat him pretty easily.
I got into the golden clouds and used Piggy McLure and that was pretty routine too until the last stage and that was routine too as I had a mighty eagle fish to wipe him out lol. So now I just have to gather 21 more ropes and I’m done, yay! I’ll have to go into the golden clouds again tomorrow, if I can afford a mighty eagle, I think I can. It’s very lucrative in there but I should do the math first I guess. I can’t imagine how many resources it’d take to beat him without the mighty eagle fish.
@thisepicplayer I haven’t used any FE because I can barely spare any. Am saving them for if I get to the last few hours and don’t have enough ropes. We still have 65 hours so no need to panic just yet!
Pam Jonery@pam-joneryGood grief, some of you got all the white wool already? I only have two! What’s this Eggman you’re talking about? I’ve defeated the 7 on what I assume is the final sector and am waiting for enough stamina now to enter the dungeon. I’ll probably defeat that using Mighty Eagle’s Favorite Dish if it’s a tough one since I’ll only have that free pig as backup.
My averages on the prizes has been extremely poor but then I’m not using any FE to re-spin the wheel at all so no surprise there!
Pam Jonery@pam-jonery@oobear The key part of what you said there is ‘with at least one bird still active’. I never ever experience the freeze when I’ve used all my birds, doesn’t matter what’s going on (ie mirror, sonic etc). Make sure you use all your birds (even if you don’t need them) before making the final strike against the enemy.
Pam Jonery@pam-jonery@vigilante How come there have been no discounted stamina drinks offered this time around? Every event I’ve taken part in for the past 18 months has offered these at least once and often twice. This is by far the most difficult event considering the game freezes and loss of stamina, although the situation is now slightly improved considering the reduced goal for the white rope. Given how infrequently I get a hit though, it may still be tough to get to the 20 needed! Unlike some here, I don’t have oceans of friendship essence for unlimited spinning of the wheel.
Pam Jonery@pam-jonerySo I get the 25 red ropes yesterday only to find that this morning I needn’t have bothered! Glad I didn’t use any resources to get them. Meanwhile, I’m now absolutely 100% certain that the key to no crashes is what I’ve been doing because I have had zero game freezes while using my method, yet on the odd occasion when I accidentally knock out all the enemies before using all my birds, the game freezes on me. This can’t be coincidence. So I shall continue with my method and suffer no wasted battles!
@sutekh137 It’s the least they could do, given the debacle that this event has been! There haven’t even been any discounted drinks offered this time around which is very unusual.
Pam Jonery@pam-jonery@sutekh137 I’m in a slightly better position than you, I have 24/25 now. I’m doing much better than yesterday when I was mostly unsuccessful with my spins. Then I switched to the second 3-battle and that’s paid out much better than the first one did (like you yesterday I played about 15 rounds and got no red ropes out of it). I haven’t used any additional stamina drinks and missed about 6 or 7 hours overnight (I refuse to NOT sleep!).
@MVNLA2 Where does the FB friendship essence come from? If I create a dummy FB account, I won’t have any friends on it and nobody who actually plays Epic so how do you get FE out of it? I’m not willing to expose my real FB friends to potential snooping by Rovio which no doubt wants details of your friends, among other things! If you’re getting 4 or 5 FE out of that link per day, is that because you have 5 friends? Just curious to know the dynamics of this before bothering with making up an FB account for Epic lol
Pam Jonery@pam-jonery@rizdub I did consider doing that actually. What do you get, a daily FE out of it? I may do that then, once this event is over (they’re certainly not getting my real FB ID!). I don’t want to disrupt my achievements by messing with it right now lol. So it also allows you to ‘borrow’ a bird for the caves? I mostly just do one of those a day using the Pigiana Jones character, he’s the only one that I find to be of much use on the tougher battles. I’m on the last cave anyway so not in too much of a hurry. Thanks for the input :)
Pam Jonery@pam-jonery@mvnla2 I currently have 26 FE which I’ll be reserving for the final stage. Unfortunately I don’t know ANYONE who plays this game so I’m not getting any free FE from anywhere and I’ve noticed that the message totem has been very stingy lately. I cashed in a few old set items for an additional 6 FE. I don’t particularly care about re-rolling for the 6000 mastery for all, I’m more interested in getting Chuck’s class upgrade so if necessary I’ll use the FE to get the 30 ropes. I still have 6 red ropes to get with under 24 hours remaining but I think I’ll get them. I’ve found that the second 3-battle is more generous than the first one as far as good spins are concerned. It’s also easier without that shark! There’s no danger of me not winning top place as all on my leaderboard are apparently dummies. I now have over 31k in points and second place only has about 7k. I wonder how many points folks who are really competing have? It sucks to not know how I’m doing compared to real competitors!
Pam Jonery@pam-joneryI’ve played something like 16 battles today and got only 2 red ropes. Not cool. I suspect if I was re-rolling my chances would increase (because they want you to buy money for FE perhaps). But I only have 20 FE and am reserving them for the final stage.
Pam Jonery@pam-jonery@graugeist Yeah, I reckon they’re trying to get us to fork over $$ by programming in an abysmal hit rate for the prize items. I haven’t given them any money so far and don’t plan on starting! I’d happily pay for the game if it meant no more damn ads, especially the ones that don’t end properly and thus you lose out on the bonus items. Yesterday I went to get my cave freebie and some ad ran, then the treasure chest didn’t open and it said I hadn’t watched the entire video. ARGH! Sometimes you can do the whole thing over but it wouldn’t let me this time around. Could have done with that FE that the chest might have spat out. At least those Norwegian Cruise Line ads seem to have stopped, they NEVER worked right.
Pam Jonery@pam-joneryI’m using Android (samsung smartphone), I use my method of ensuring all my birds are used by the time I make the final strike, and I NEVER experience the game locking up. Since we have so much time to gather the items, I’m not re-spinning the wheel since eventually, despite the poor percentages, I eventually will get all the red ropes. I currently have 6/25. Six in almost 24 hours of play pretty much says all you need to know about the hit rate. Once I’d done all locations in section 4 I’ve returned to only doing the first battle, thus costing me 3 stamina drinks each time and I only ‘waste’ the overnight stamina. I’m using Chuck, Matilda and Sonic each time, using rage on Sonic to knock the shark thing back to zero on the counter – forgot once and it killed Chuck :( . Currently have about 26k in points and no opponents (nearest dummy has 6775). I have almost no FE so I won’t be re-spinning unless things get critical towards the end which they might if we only have 3 days to gather 30 items with this abysmal hit rate!
Pam Jonery@pam-joneryDid NOBODY read my post from yesterday? Especially Rovio since that might help the bug fixers. The problem happens exclusively if you end a battle with potential turns remaining for your birds. Make sure you’ve used all your other birds before striking the final blow and the game never ever freezes. The one time in the past 24 hours it did freeze for me was when I unexpectedly nuked 4 enemies with one strike (using sonic’s cloud and chuck’s mirror). I was left with Matilda’s turn and the game got stuck.
I agree with @jim151 about the horrible luck with the spins. I’ve already got all my rings but I think it took me more than 24 hours of play to get to that point. I’m spinning only for points and rarely rarely ever get the top prize. Mind you, I might as well not bother because I now have almost 20k in points and my nearest dummy competitor has 6775 or something, which hasn’t changed since day 1 (after the two Bond dummies were removed). So if they’d stayed the same I’d be about to overtake them too!
Pam Jonery@pam-jonery@jim151 Same here, all my opponents are dummies. I’m now over 10k clear of the nearest one and it hasn’t moved at all.
Pam Jonery@pam-joneryOK guys, i think I’ve discovered how to NOT have the game freeze on you at the end of a battle. It may be coincidence but when following my rules, I haven’t had any freezes.
Make sure that when you’re getting towards the end of a battle (even if it’s the halfway stage of a 2-waver) that you’ve used all your birds BEFORE striking the final blow. When I do that, it always completes.
So let’s say you have one enemy left and could easily wipe it out with just one of your birds. Don’t do that. First, use up the unneeded birds say by healing everyone with Matilda, give power up using Sonic and THEN using whichever your last bird is (I use Chuck), strike the remaining enemy. Your results may vary but so far I have not had a freeze by using that method.
Pam Jonery@pam-jonerySo I just went back to play the event and it’s disappeared? I no longer have that flag at the top of the screen and there are no gates anywhere. Has anyone else experienced this? I was playing it about an hour ago but since then it’s gone!
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