@franciscrawford – you posted on this when the competition was not yet three hours old to say that you had had two runs over 150 and a few over 100. You would only have had six free runs at that point – and my experience is that most runs are under 100. How many gems are you using for this competition? And have you asked yourself just how many of…[Read more]

I have tried various TFs – even those that can knock out a mortar tower with a single hit in regular play are taking multiple shots in the competition mode.

I am struggling to believe in this competition. Most contests, I come first or second every day with little expenditure in gems. But this one seems to be following the same pattern as one previous one (the one with the gold optimus prime IIRC) where regardless of the time of day you start, there are opponents called Drew, Igor, Sergio and various…[Read more]

I was also playing at the end – finished in second place and got 500 tokens. No problem (apart from the two runs in a row with only 36 points available that cost me first place Grrr).

Also, does anyone know whether having two accessories offering, say, +10% damage would add up to +20% damage, or does one just duplicate the other?

I can’t see myself losing sleep over this one.

@sukerman13 – yes, I was having a little bit of fun, but only in the most gentle way. I certainly didn’t mean to cause any upset, but I still think you are incorrect that the odds in the lab for each outcome are equal.

If you don’t mind my saying so, you illustrate very well the success of Rovio’s current format. You see these limited edition transformers as must have and on other threads, people report spending huge amounts of gems to achieve them. I am imagining that new players would move heaven and earth to get the new transformers. But giving people second…[Read more]

@optimuspig – the good news is that the probability of that happening is only 2.7%. Therefore your experience, just like mine and TriPolar’s, is a statistical outlier and is balanced by Francis Crawford and Sukerman’s never ending run of success on the old lot machine.

When I was at school, there were a couple of people in my year who swore…[Read more]

I presume clip size refers to a TF that shoots – say, five bullets in a single shot – and increasing the clip size by 20% would mean firing six bullets in that single shot.

Many things in life are available for a limited time or for a limited quantity. If you didn’t get them at the time, you miss out. That’s just the way it is.

I saw a lovely antique carpet in Marrakech. I wished I had bought it, but I didn’t. I saw some lovely ikat scarves in Tashkent. I wish I had bought them, but I didn’t.

There are limited…[Read more]

And I am telling you that the probabilities were altered a few updates ago to make it very rare to win anything other than coins on the high yield spins. Numbers are my thing and I can tell that these probabilities are not equal even by feel because they are so far from it.

But that’s not right. The probabilities of each of the outcomes is not equal – the odds are massively stacked in favour of coins. If you don’t believe me, keep records and run the maths to see how unlikely the outcomes would be if there were equal probability of each outcome.

By way of example, the odds of blowing all three spins and getting…[Read more]

Is it just me or does anyone else think that Windblade looks like a gay clone from the front – with a bushy moustache and a police style cap with a big metal badge on it?

Agreed – but I don’t see that coming back any time soon. I guess they paid out a lot of gems in that event and gems are what they charge cash money for.

There is no point saving the tokens, but not much point in spending them either once you have bought what you want. The carry over was a one off because the token centre closed early by mistake. It won’t happen again. But then again, once you have bought the new TF and any attack related accessories, there’s not much value in anything else – some…[Read more]

I suspect that the 5%, 10% and 20% are not mathematical certainties but just represent rough hierarchy of magnitude. Since we want to be as destructive as possible then we should be going for 10% explosive force rather than 20% defence – unless we are regularly dying.

I believe they are human on this one. I thought the opponents for Shockwave were probably not.

One thing with every run scoring similar results is that you get some insight into how people use gems. Yesterday someone used two lots go gems (i.e. 10+20) straight away, zoomed up the leaderboard and then finished well down after failing to run the full set of regular missions. Today there are two players who used gems straight away – one used…[Read more]

Just had a soft update. Silver had gone down to 4000 tokens – but the leaderboard glitch is still there.