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So far, so good....

I am still working my way towards the first Final Knockout round with all three of my flowers. My strategy for this round was: Just do enough crushing to make sure I end up in the top 5.

It's been boring so far, but maybe the next round will be harder. I might have to decide which of my flowers will make it to the Final Knockout rounds.

Sunflower is losing gold: I had just over 3000 gold at level 2000 I think, that was the peak. By level 6500 I'm down to 767, so not good. The game really has become a pay to play game, so I do wonder if any non cheater can get to the finals without paying a lot of money for gold bars.

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https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3032611#Comment_3032611

Thanks @Peaches12 That's really sweet of you. But alas, I'll be too busy to even try to succeed. I was running these games as a test and I'll be joining the next round just as a spectator.

Congratulations. I'll be rooting for you in the next round.

I made it, again. All three flowers in the BIG ONE! I can't wait to see how many players will show up on those leaderboards this weekend.

Even Sunflower made it. I don't know how, but the player in 4th place didn't make a run for it. (Maybe they lost the event from their games, stranger things have happened…..)

Screenshot 2024-04-17 at 08.09.09.png

So it's the next round, the one that gets us into the BIG ONE , the one where all the cheaters will make an appearance, no doubt. Not this one yet, it seems, as Sunflower has a board of only 10 competitors. I played this one first, because I reckon it has the least chance of qualifying for stage 4. But I might. After one episode I'm on top.

I will definitely wait with the other two games, given there are only 10 players per leaderboard.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3026279#Comment_3026279

That sounds dangerous. Thanks for sharing.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3026021#Comment_3026021

Ah no, @TPS23 your boosters won't stack up like that. The starting from level 1 method is only good if you have run out of boosters in your main game. I think if your boosters were added then that would be classed as a cheating mechanism and I would not be posting it here. What I was suggesting is a perfectly legitimate way to get back on your feet in a game that you would otherwise have to abandon in the higher ranges of Candy Crush. If you still have boosters in your game then keep going and use them up.

Account merging is an accident that can happen if more than one player or account share the same device. I think some players may have tried to do this deliberately to cheat, but I certainly have no idea how to do that nor would I post about it. What happened to me was that after All Stars 2023 I decided to start a new account from level 1 to see how much gold and boosters I could gather in preparation for All Stars 2024, (as a test really, not to seriously compete). I did really well but every now and then I logged out of that account and played a few levels in my original account on the same iPad. Then suddenly one day when I logged in with my icloud email I found myself in the account of my bt.com email and that other account was therefore irretrievable. Such merging has been reported by other players as well, who ended up in their mother's account if sharing a device. I contacted King support who were very helpful indeed, I must say, and told me that once merged the two accounts cannot be separated, but they kindly transferred the 600 gold bars I had earned in the new account to the now merged account as a one off goodwill gesture (I had been a paying customer up to that point). They told me there is a one account per device rule, and since then I have strictly stuck to that to avoid accounts ever merging again.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3025477#Comment_3025477

I’m curious about “account merging”. How does that work?

Thanks for sharing about playing from level 1 and carrying all boosters to current level. Does it mean the boosters will be added to your current level’s booster stack, right? That’s something I will try when I have more time ^^.

Colleen Companion Welsh

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3025477#Comment_3025477

I may have to try this. Frankly I could not care about the All Star Event. I keep getting to the next knockout round and I am not even interested. Have a great day 😊

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3025475#Comment_3025475

If you mean reset to level 1, yes I have done this numerous times.

Each time you log out of your account you automatically start off again at level 1 as a completely new player. If you ignore any prompts to save the new game and if you then log into your account with the new game at a later stage you can carry over any boosters you earned, but not your gold. So I use the gold to buy boosters before I log into my account. I did this recently in fact: I played a new account all the way to about level 1000 I think and made so much gold from the champions races that I could buy a lot of party poppers and UFOs to help me back onto my feet with my game that I had abandoned at level 15,000. I am now at level 15,637 on that one. However, if you choose save a new game with a new login then there is a risk of accounts merging unless you use a different device. I have four devices and four different accounts.

Resetting your game right now will of course lose you any chance to further compete in All Stars.

Colleen Companion Welsh

Reading both your comments here with obvious interest. @Pyrolight @christinewupp have either of you reset your Candy Crush game? I am not interested in the All Star event but I keep managing to get to the next knockout round without even trying. I am at level 15444, this episode is wonderful, there are nine levels that are hard, super hard, nightmarishly hard or legendary levels. I suspect that I will be here for a while 🤣 Have a great day

Hell, @Pyrolight those levels are awful, you are right. I played the two episodes 651-680 tonight. Dreadfully booster hungry. I played CB and stripe/wrap timed pre level on all the levels, the normal ones were all ok, but all the nightmarish and legendary ones were just win streak blockers and/or pay to play. I got through those with a combination of switches, hammers and gold to play on, but lost my win streak three times.

I started off with 739 gold and finished the two episodes with 703 gold.

I tried playing level 674 without the lucky candy booster: big mistake. Second try with all three starting boosters I got a lucky board and no problem at all.

Level 659 was really bad (as @hug001 noted elsewhere) I thought I had it sorted playing a switch to get the two colour bombs side by side on my starting board, and then clearing the whole board of blockers in no time, but I was still left a few reds short and had to also play on for 10 gold AND use a switch as well on that one. Awful.

The game is offering me 10 extra moves after just one fail, then 15 extra etc, so I just managed to pass both episodes within my 5 lives

I'm sure I remember it getting better from level 710 onwards, but we'll see.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3025082#Comment_3025082

Yes, @TPS23 One or two episodes is a healthy way to play and I know I'm overdoing it at the moment. Yours is a much better way to play. I've gotten a bit carried away with those test games, but am ready to give it all up after All Stars. Enjoy your game and good luck!

That's impressive, @christinewupp ^^. I probably played 1-2 episodes a day. However, as you mentioned in another post (I think), to stay in the top 5 of the first two rounds is simple and possible, just play your games as usual. Today, I'm happy to see "Candy Collection" event showing up again, collecting green candies for boosters. I personally enjoy side events so much ^^, a lot more fun.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3024652#Comment_3024652

That is a good point and thanks for the tip @Pyrolight ! If those levels are bad then maybe I will continue to play up to level 800 now while there is no competition. That is a great idea, thanks! Then once it hots up I'll have the better levels to compete with.

So far therefore I think my newest game, Cornflower, stands the best
chance. I am at level 600 with this and I know that there are plenty of
easy levels to come and it is still making a gold profit with each
Champions Race.

I am curious to see how you fair this time around from 650-800. I didn't make much profit from 650 to 800 simply due to the constant 4-7 stupid levels each episode. 800+ has been a pure joy compared to that section.

On that note, I have been wondering if King have an algorithm up their sleeves to identify cheaters by the facts that they do know about each player ID. I started two test games last summer, one that uses glitches in the game to make gold and one that doesn't. Both are now in the same level range. Sunflower has no boosters and must pay gold for them. Do King know what events they have given my games and therefore what free boosters I might have earned at a maximum?. They also know what gold I earned from Champions Races, Candy Royale and other events, plus they could have recorded my ongoing gold balance on their servers and have record of what boosters I bought with my gold. Then, since last year's All Stars King have changed a lot of levels to take control over whether they can be passed without boosters or paying gold. The level algorithms are fixed to either pass with strategic play, pass with boosters, or pass with gold, so King could in theory calculate what the maximum gold total possible for a non paying player at level 6500 would be after six months play. Maybe I am overanalysing this and King are not that clever though….. But my guess is, if I won All Stars with Echinacea (the pink flower) King would question how I got to 15,000 gold in that account over the past six months.

So far therefore I think my newest game, Cornflower, stands the best chance. I am at level 600 with this and I know that there are plenty of easy levels to come and it is still making a gold profit with each Champions Race.

Comments

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3032611#Comment_3032611

Thanks @Peaches12 That's really sweet of you. But alas, I'll be too busy to even try to succeed. I was running these games as a test and I'll be joining the next round just as a spectator.

Congratulations. I'll be rooting for you in the next round.

I made it, again. All three flowers in the BIG ONE! I can't wait to see how many players will show up on those leaderboards this weekend.

Even Sunflower made it. I don't know how, but the player in 4th place didn't make a run for it. (Maybe they lost the event from their games, stranger things have happened…..)

Screenshot 2024-04-17 at 08.09.09.png

So it's the next round, the one that gets us into the BIG ONE , the one where all the cheaters will make an appearance, no doubt. Not this one yet, it seems, as Sunflower has a board of only 10 competitors. I played this one first, because I reckon it has the least chance of qualifying for stage 4. But I might. After one episode I'm on top.

I will definitely wait with the other two games, given there are only 10 players per leaderboard.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3026279#Comment_3026279

That sounds dangerous. Thanks for sharing.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3026021#Comment_3026021

Ah no, @TPS23 your boosters won't stack up like that. The starting from level 1 method is only good if you have run out of boosters in your main game. I think if your boosters were added then that would be classed as a cheating mechanism and I would not be posting it here. What I was suggesting is a perfectly legitimate way to get back on your feet in a game that you would otherwise have to abandon in the higher ranges of Candy Crush. If you still have boosters in your game then keep going and use them up.

Account merging is an accident that can happen if more than one player or account share the same device. I think some players may have tried to do this deliberately to cheat, but I certainly have no idea how to do that nor would I post about it. What happened to me was that after All Stars 2023 I decided to start a new account from level 1 to see how much gold and boosters I could gather in preparation for All Stars 2024, (as a test really, not to seriously compete). I did really well but every now and then I logged out of that account and played a few levels in my original account on the same iPad. Then suddenly one day when I logged in with my icloud email I found myself in the account of my bt.com email and that other account was therefore irretrievable. Such merging has been reported by other players as well, who ended up in their mother's account if sharing a device. I contacted King support who were very helpful indeed, I must say, and told me that once merged the two accounts cannot be separated, but they kindly transferred the 600 gold bars I had earned in the new account to the now merged account as a one off goodwill gesture (I had been a paying customer up to that point). They told me there is a one account per device rule, and since then I have strictly stuck to that to avoid accounts ever merging again.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3025477#Comment_3025477

I’m curious about “account merging”. How does that work?

Thanks for sharing about playing from level 1 and carrying all boosters to current level. Does it mean the boosters will be added to your current level’s booster stack, right? That’s something I will try when I have more time ^^.

Colleen Companion Welsh

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3025477#Comment_3025477

I may have to try this. Frankly I could not care about the All Star Event. I keep getting to the next knockout round and I am not even interested. Have a great day 😊

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3025475#Comment_3025475

If you mean reset to level 1, yes I have done this numerous times.

Each time you log out of your account you automatically start off again at level 1 as a completely new player. If you ignore any prompts to save the new game and if you then log into your account with the new game at a later stage you can carry over any boosters you earned, but not your gold. So I use the gold to buy boosters before I log into my account. I did this recently in fact: I played a new account all the way to about level 1000 I think and made so much gold from the champions races that I could buy a lot of party poppers and UFOs to help me back onto my feet with my game that I had abandoned at level 15,000. I am now at level 15,637 on that one. However, if you choose save a new game with a new login then there is a risk of accounts merging unless you use a different device. I have four devices and four different accounts.

Resetting your game right now will of course lose you any chance to further compete in All Stars.

Colleen Companion Welsh

Reading both your comments here with obvious interest. @Pyrolight @christinewupp have either of you reset your Candy Crush game? I am not interested in the All Star event but I keep managing to get to the next knockout round without even trying. I am at level 15444, this episode is wonderful, there are nine levels that are hard, super hard, nightmarishly hard or legendary levels. I suspect that I will be here for a while 🤣 Have a great day

Hell, @Pyrolight those levels are awful, you are right. I played the two episodes 651-680 tonight. Dreadfully booster hungry. I played CB and stripe/wrap timed pre level on all the levels, the normal ones were all ok, but all the nightmarish and legendary ones were just win streak blockers and/or pay to play. I got through those with a combination of switches, hammers and gold to play on, but lost my win streak three times.

I started off with 739 gold and finished the two episodes with 703 gold.

I tried playing level 674 without the lucky candy booster: big mistake. Second try with all three starting boosters I got a lucky board and no problem at all.

Level 659 was really bad (as @hug001 noted elsewhere) I thought I had it sorted playing a switch to get the two colour bombs side by side on my starting board, and then clearing the whole board of blockers in no time, but I was still left a few reds short and had to also play on for 10 gold AND use a switch as well on that one. Awful.

The game is offering me 10 extra moves after just one fail, then 15 extra etc, so I just managed to pass both episodes within my 5 lives

I'm sure I remember it getting better from level 710 onwards, but we'll see.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3025082#Comment_3025082

Yes, @TPS23 One or two episodes is a healthy way to play and I know I'm overdoing it at the moment. Yours is a much better way to play. I've gotten a bit carried away with those test games, but am ready to give it all up after All Stars. Enjoy your game and good luck!

That's impressive, @christinewupp ^^. I probably played 1-2 episodes a day. However, as you mentioned in another post (I think), to stay in the top 5 of the first two rounds is simple and possible, just play your games as usual. Today, I'm happy to see "Candy Collection" event showing up again, collecting green candies for boosters. I personally enjoy side events so much ^^, a lot more fun.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3024652#Comment_3024652

That is a good point and thanks for the tip @Pyrolight ! If those levels are bad then maybe I will continue to play up to level 800 now while there is no competition. That is a great idea, thanks! Then once it hots up I'll have the better levels to compete with.

So far therefore I think my newest game, Cornflower, stands the best
chance. I am at level 600 with this and I know that there are plenty of
easy levels to come and it is still making a gold profit with each
Champions Race.

I am curious to see how you fair this time around from 650-800. I didn't make much profit from 650 to 800 simply due to the constant 4-7 stupid levels each episode. 800+ has been a pure joy compared to that section.

On that note, I have been wondering if King have an algorithm up their sleeves to identify cheaters by the facts that they do know about each player ID. I started two test games last summer, one that uses glitches in the game to make gold and one that doesn't. Both are now in the same level range. Sunflower has no boosters and must pay gold for them. Do King know what events they have given my games and therefore what free boosters I might have earned at a maximum?. They also know what gold I earned from Champions Races, Candy Royale and other events, plus they could have recorded my ongoing gold balance on their servers and have record of what boosters I bought with my gold. Then, since last year's All Stars King have changed a lot of levels to take control over whether they can be passed without boosters or paying gold. The level algorithms are fixed to either pass with strategic play, pass with boosters, or pass with gold, so King could in theory calculate what the maximum gold total possible for a non paying player at level 6500 would be after six months play. Maybe I am overanalysing this and King are not that clever though….. But my guess is, if I won All Stars with Echinacea (the pink flower) King would question how I got to 15,000 gold in that account over the past six months.

So far therefore I think my newest game, Cornflower, stands the best chance. I am at level 600 with this and I know that there are plenty of easy levels to come and it is still making a gold profit with each Champions Race.

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