Race for the gold

Pepi75

I have a guestion. All the players for the race gold have the same levels of difficulty? Because i was first and sudently i stuck in a level who is impossible to pass with 22 moves and now iam last.

Alienscar

The race for gold (Fast/Episode Race) is just you playing against a record of how quickly other players completed the levels you are now playing. Because it is a record then that player could very well have completed the level years ago when the level might have looked different, or had more moves.

Also players that bought booster packages and gold bars to complete your levels will also be included in your Race.

Pepi75

I thought it was in a real time thank you for the reply

Alienscar

Hello @Pepi75 no not in real time. If you select the 'i' button of the Episode Race you get the message you can see below

Pepi75

All these time i have the wrong idea thank you very much

[Deleted User]

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/2272438#Comment_2272438

Me too!

I Play Alone

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/2272390#Comment_2272390

This makes the race for gold a bit of a con, as it is now harder to win gold bars, being that if you fall below 2nd place, you now only get 1 gold bar for your efforts.

Rox7383

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/2272669#Comment_2272669

Thanks. Somebody pointed out to me few months ago but I did not believe him, now I know the truth/reality.

Alienscar

Yes @Hereonlytoplay the Episode Race is a strange event because only one person wins the gold for all the positions of the Race.

The amount of gold you win is determined purely by how quickly you can complete the fifteen levels compared to how quickly someone else completed the levels months/years ago.

Based on this the lack of differentiation between the rewards for third to fifth is appalling behaviour from King.

Considering Activision is still in charge I suppose none of us should be surprised though. If you search online you will see that Activision has a poor reputation when it comes to microtransactions in their games.

Let's hope that things improve when/if Microsoft takes over.