What are the responsibilities of a Dachs Delivery Service team leader??

Dachs Delivery Service begab again today, and my team had the following 6 Team Tasks:

As I was on level 4373, I cycled Yeti a few times to pass that level (Team Task #1), but then settled in for a few lives on level 4374 to create “fish + striped candy” events (Tram Task #2) because using Odus as the helper created a lot of striped candies and I just had to create fish and then manipulate the array of candies to get the fish and striped candy together. Finally to help out on the “Complete 10 Quests” (Team Task #3) I backtracked to level 4372 to destroy 50 Caramel Cups for my “easy” Daily Quest , and then backtracked to level 4361 to create Color Bombs and complete my “medium” Daily Quest of creating 8 Color Bombs. So the first 3 Team Tasks now look like:

However, the usual priorities and strategies for advancing levels when playing as an individual , have been completely shifted to prioritizing the completion of the Team Tasks and using each level for its maximum advantage to do that. For me, that is a completely different way to play CCFS, and a LOT more complex! Do any of you also shift priorities and strategies when playing DDS as a team member?

When my team completed all team tasks except these final 2, I had to make a decision whether to direct my efforts at completing “Classic Levels” (blue button), or completing levels to get as many stars as possible:

What would you do?

As team leader, my reasoning was that if I worked on “Earning 150 new Stars”, the 5 team members trying to “Win 20 new classic levels” would be less efficient because only 16 out of each set of 20 levels are the “Classic Levels” (denoted by the blue button), so they would waste their efforts on the other levels. Whereas if I completed the “Win 20 new Classic Levels” Team Task, then we would ALL be working on the final “Earn new stars”, which doesn’t depend on what kind of new level you have, so every completed level counts (and I THINK that if you go back and increase a completed 1-star level to be either 2 or 3 stars, those extra stars count also, if I remember correctly.).

To be maximally efficient myself, I switched between the “20 Classic Levels” and the “Earn 150 new Stars” Team Tasks by choosing the Classic Levels task when I was on a new classic level, but choosing the Earn New Stars task when I encountered a “Hard” or “Super Hard” level. So the Uncle Bob team is now:

Would you have made the same decision??

@Grumpy_Old_Man I think your strategy of doing the hardest Team Tasks first because you have a higher skill level and leaving the easier tasks for less-experienced team members, is a good one! I would absolutely do the same , when confronted by the Team Tasks of “make 20 Color Bombs “, and especially the “Combine Color Bomb with fish/striped/wrapped candy 20 times” Team Task because I typically have to (1) make the Color Bomb, (2) make the fish/striped/wrapped candy, and then (3) very gently and carefully lower the candy to the Color Bomb or the Color Bomb to to that candy. Do you find that to be ticklish work? So often something triggers the Color Bomb or destroys the candy while I’m trying to move them together! Argh! Even if I have a fairly open working grid to make things and move them around, I almost never can average more than 1 of those complex events per life spent at that new level! Do you have that same difficulty? How would you rank order the difficulty of the Team Tasks?

Thank you also for the information that only 5-6 of your team of 20 actively participate. I and my partner, who both lead Dachs Delivery Service teams, also have noticed that often just 5-8 are active, but occasionally as many as 10-11 team members are listed as participating across the 6 Team Tasks, so some folks may be dropping in and out of playing DDS. I am reluctant to bump non-playing team members off the team because we all have real lives where real things require our time and effort, and necessarily take us away from CCFS! BUT, the game system has now on two separate occasions deleted a total of 4 team members who my records showed had not played DDS the previous 3 times it was offered. So there seems to be automatic team purging, and some way that either new people are added to the team , or some way that new people can choose to join my team.

Finally, would you have valued a brief tutorial on how to play DDS when you first joined a team, or not?

I am frustrated that maybe 1/2 of my team members seem to “sit on the same tram task” rather than “switch team tasks as appropriate “ when they are advancing levels in CCFS. That is such an inefficient way to play the DDS team aspect of this game! I would hope that if I could make a 3-paragraph tutorial with labeled screen shots and distribute that to the team members, some of them would learn to play with an eye out to also maximally benefiting the team, but I have not yet found a way to distribute such information to team members.

@Grumpy_Old_Man Hurray! At last a team member I can communicate and coordinate with! I will message you so that I can share information and help you as much as I can!

(I’m at the “end of the road” at Level 4420, so I physically cannot advance right now.)