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DD@toolowYup, my friend list is populated again without any action from me. Just when the app is no longer available on the app stores, and almost all my FB friends have stopped playing it for months.
Still can’t play the arena due to the blocking black screen. Yes, one can request support to sort it out, but as I have mentioned many times before, I will never do that again.
DD@toolow@budstheawes
No app updates but the game wanted to restart. After restarting, the videos for free roll on Golden Pig Machines (GPM) now takes an epic few minutes to ready before I can play them. In the past, they are ready immediately or after restarting (when Rovio did not screw up something). No more.
App: ♪ Killing me
softlyslowly, withhis songthis update… ♪
DD@toolowNow I can’t even login to FB anymore from Epic… :(
DD@toolowReplaying some of the battles especially those that give you the ingredients you need. Alternatively, buy the potions using Snoutings, if you have enough to spare. You can get more Snoutings replaying the battles as well, particularly helpful if rogue piggies are present. Some battles will get you more Snoutings than others.
DD@toolowNow that the 50mil FB accounts were breached, more Epic users may be affected by this problem. That is, of course, if it still has a sizeable active user base.
DD@toolowI keep track on who borrowed my birds and who responded to my FE request. (You’re 7th top most contributors for borrowing my birds, top 6th for responding to my requests. Thank you again.) And I priorities who I borrow birds from in case I don’t have the time to service everyone. I responded to all FE requests since it’s no loss to me and I get to clear the inbox. :)
Power level in the 5th digit in arena?! Yikes. I can barely handle half that power level.
Debacles, indeed. :) What is the time zone quirk? Speaking of which, starting this August, leap months are reversed in the calendar :) How is this possible is beyond me!
@pointless, @kennymcc and I used FB messenger in the past to collaborate. Rovio might still be looking to fix the problem, but they might feel little to no incentive for them to do so. Even simple problems some times take months to fix, if at all.
DD@toolowI’m not sure about that since I got FE requests from the same FB friends almost daily still. But Rovio definitely limits daily FE we receive to 5, regardless of how many responses you get.
On the other hand, I don’t receive FEs from some FE friends who borrowed my birds. Definitely smells fishy, indeed.
BTW, many thanks for borrowing my birds at least occasionally still since I do receive a few FEs from you every week. I’d borrow your birds but I haven’t been able to since this debacle began a month ago.
DD@toolowSadly, I don’t receive any FE by asking from friends everyday. I do receive FE from borrowed birds but not getting the full 5 FEs everyday. And I never receive any FE from you borrowing my birds! (which may be a separate problem altogether :( )
Yup. Except I can’t even find the Games page (this one is down to my own ineptitude). In any case, they’re just carry on screwing up. *sigh*
I’d ask to add you (or you can add me), but at this point we won’t be receiving any FE from each other.
DD@toolowGlad to hear that you are not affected. I suggest you avoid removing Epic from Facebook, as it seems that adding it back will not have any option of sharing your Facebook friends with Epic. You can check your Epic app settings on Facebook. And it seems that some other players complained about the same problem on their Facebook page.
Sadly, I will never send them a support request ever again, not after they unceremoniously reset my game profile on the suspicion of cheating upon acting on a separate support request in the past.
DD@toolowAnd this is the cause of the app hanging when autoplay. The thinking must be “How do we make the app feel faster? I know! Queue the remaining actions instead of doing that each turn. Fire and forget! Much more efficient and simpler to handle!”. Never mind beta testing it, I doubt they even bother with alpha testing, or any kind of testing.
DD@toolowI see what they mean by improvement. Instead of wiping your data for having impossible amount of resources, they just surgically reset only those impossible scores. Wow, that’s a huge advance in cutting edge AI unrivaled in the industry or even the world. Definitely an achievement that deserves a pay rise or a big fat bonus. Well done, Rotvio.
DD@toolowYours was maliciously reset, as was my 2nd profile (at least I didn’t receive any emails about “compensation”). But even without consider these, their ineptitude alone continues to bring pain and despair to their users.
Is that recent? If not, may be nobody wants to touch it even with a barge pole. If so, did they fire the last lot? The job description sounds progressive and reasonable just like many other sites. Unless it’s a change of hearts from the management, I doubt the reality is going to be anywhere near to what it suggested.
DD@toolowFor the past week, out of the 87 FE friends, I got FE requests from 20, FE responses from 21, and borrowed birds from 8. That’s down from the hay day of 49, 57, 33. And the rate of reduction has increased lately.
While some are natural drop off, most of them seems to be driven by the changes Rotvio instigated or the (in)actions of their support. For example, I used to receive 10 FEs everyday until v2.3.0 when most people stopped borrow my birds for battles due to the slow loading. Yes, that particular problem may be fixed, but most people are not coming back. And with even more people had their profiles messed up, it can only get worse.
BTW, Rotvio limit the amount of FE to 5 from requests and 5 from borrowed birds per day.
DD@toolowAgreed. However, by Rot-vio calculation, doing the right thing cost them upfront and won’t add anything to their coffers. So it’s not going to happen until significant number of users bail out and their ad revenue dries up. By which time, of course, it’s too late for them to do anything but rot.
DD@toolow@poptimus
I don’t have most of the highest level gear (items), non of them are fully enchanted, and I’ve only got just 1 all-star and 1 challenger class. Luckily, the battles are still manageable most of the time for me. Nevertheless, I get your point of pointless endeavor.
Totally agree on your approach to the arena. Sadly, winning first place in arena is impossible nowadays without grinding once you reach maximum level, except for wood league occasionally. For those of us still grinding, the major liberating achievement is letting go of promotion, or the arena altogether.
*Let it go, let it go…*
DD@toolow@coachmp Or old age pensioners etc.
@p2win
I feel your pain. Occasionally, when I managed to find time, the high score is possible. For example, I spent way too many hours the past 2 days when mayhem is on going, and I managed to clawed my way to 110k. But I don’t, and can’t, do it every day, so 149k is not really out of bounds. Nevertheless, it is a crazy situation. (There were obvious cheating in the past but those people I saw in the arena are just grinding now.)For many weeks / months now, I regularly found super grinders once I got to maximum level and mastery, almost every week. It was annoyingly difficult to promote to the next league, and even sometimes hanging onto the current one.
I get that R wants us to spend time on the game but this is ridiculous. I would go as far as calling this untenable and unethical. But they’re actively encouraging and promoting it with 1st place prizes and larger league tables. But if enough of us keep supporting it, they have no incentive to stop making it even worse.
DD@toolowBy all means gather resources. But don’t hoard them too much lest they think you cheat and ceremoniously wipe your data without warning. Or at least you shouldn’t have too much of any resources when you contact their support to help fix problems in your data. Unfortunately, there is no hard limit what constitute “too much”. You are entirely at the mercy of their arbitrary judgement.
You have been warned!
DD@toolowIt’s one of the undocumented “minor changes & improvements”.
Some time ago, people used to get a Golden Pig every 24 hours with a notice at the top when visiting the map. Then the notice was removed and the Golden Pig appeared between 24 and 36 hours. Now it is simply removed altogether.
DD@toolow@gabe-nestor As in the past, they just omit unwelcome changes from the release notes.
DD@toolowHaven’t seen this problem but it’s not that surprising. Some of their bugs are known to not affect everyone. On my second profile, every time I start the game, it’ll ask me to tap on the nest button and the tutorial level on the map, even though I have done that more times anyone can count.
Hence, no more rainbow bar boost for friends.
I think this is their way to dissuade us from mining mastery and snoutings.
You get some, and you lose more. That has been the theme for quite some time now.
DD@toolowI did sympathies with the duo who did help, until they accused me of cheating, wiped my data from my second profile with no warning, point blank refuse to acknowledge the possibility that they are wrong, actively ignore my pleas and close my replies over the matter, and threaten to terminate my accounts. So no, whatever good will that I had for them is no more.
DD@toolow@quickgaming
I tend to use Paladin / Thunderbird / Seadog / Treasure Hunter. Sometimes I switch to Samurai, Trickster, Wizard and even Marksmen. But the biggest help is to use potions for heal and rage. Pay for them with Snoutings you harvest from battles.
DD@toolow@pointless
They’re just waiting for a coin-operated-arcade-style roll out, modernized to use a credit card instead. And I’m sure there is no plan to update it with blood / organ transfer in the future.
DD@toolowHas anyone seen the 1.5-daily golden pig? Is it absent because of the event?
DD@toolowAs I predicted, some bugs are fixed, others are not or ignored, and at least one new problem added.
As pointed out in previous posts, the excessive load time has been fixed although it is still a bit choppy (which looks like the same problem in the past before they reintroduced it back).
Other problems like item list is still not addressed, and the “load balancing” is not really fixed for everyone.
And now, you can access the shop from arena friends list! OK, so it’s a little convoluted. Navigate to the Friends tab and an arrow will appear on the right of the Season title text. Wait for 1 minute and tap on the arrow.
On the “minor improvements”,
1. no more showering your friends with rainbow bar boost,
2. no more unranked arena battles,
3. more likely crazy stamina drinking at events with rewards from arena chest,
4. more mind challenging picking among the head gears with the new challenger set,
5. more trophies of birds from parallel universes, and more no doubt.On the plus side, at least we’re guaranteed a mythic every season as long as you complete all daily objectives.
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And what the hack does “The battle preparation now saves if you played hard mode at dungeon or world boss battles before” means?- Author