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All stars competition is just scam for King to make money surely
Wendy_Dersley
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I had invested in the bonuses and gold bars which I don’t normally do but I thought it was a good investment in a competition which had a good return. However, after leading my group for most of the time I finally came up against someone who kept earning points but never won a level. My levels changed and I earned points with each one but this other kept increasing at a faster rate even though their level did not change from one day to the next. I can’t help but think this is just a scam. Won’t be playing this game ever again and I have played it off an on for over 5 years!
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Hello @Wendy_Dersley🤗 A Warm Welcome to the King Community!
We have multiple complaints in the last 2 days about the same issue! So, I have inquired with our Community In-charge and this is what they informed me⬇️
"The reason for this is not necessarily that the player is cheating. I heard from the studio that this "Activity this week" information does not update that often. The leaderboards update in realtime, so players will continuously see the correct score of their opponents. The score shown on these player cards might only be updated a few times per day."
But, if you still suspect foul play, please feel free to report through this link —> How to report cheating? (click on the green letters to open the link). The Player Support team will be able to see if there is cheating involved👍️
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I understand that it is not realtime but I would have expected it to update at some point over the 48 hours. It was odd that everyone else’s was updating just not the one who kept moving above me into first position. They also managed to stay awake all day but only when I played a round - t was if they had a way of knowing I was online (unless they literally were watching my score 24/7??) I am sure this person was not a real person.
Therefore I have sent this complaint further. I only risked what I could afford on but I am concerned that some people would have risked a lot of money thinking this was a fair competition.
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100% a scam...same thing is happening right now on the tournament. Player is a bot and let's you catch up kind of than jumps ahead 60k in an impossible amount of time. There is more than one bot too as one stopped playing and another caught up like 400k in like 30 minutes..there levels completed never change and they just keep moving just far enough ahead to bait you to buy bars. Need a class action lawsuit as promising prize money off a rigged game you buy into.
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I understand that it is not realtime but I would have expected it to update at some point over the 48 hours.
Hello @Wendy_Dersley the point you have missed about the Player Card is that it doesn't matter if they update every hour, or every 48 hours because they are inaccurate and do not always show real/accurate values. We have seen a Player Card that shows a player on level zero and a Player Card that shows a player on level 19,000. There are only 16,000 levels to play so hopefully you can see why you can't/shouldn't use the Player Card as evidence of anything.
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I am playing for the free gold bars for a year it's a total scam as well as soon as it started some players were within minutes 10-20k ahead I am by no means a rookie and not claiming to be the best but there is no way a human could get past that many levels that fast also I slept for 3 hrs woke up I'm behind over 600k now.
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Thanks for this post I am competing on the gold bars challenge the leader is doing the same thing I have followed and screen shot his progress he passed 182 levels in 16 minutes I have proof as I took screen shot no his level and games won do not match his progress so I said let me win another level and see what mine shows and sure enough every game won my level and games won show correct,This is a complete scam I will never play another competition again I have played candy crush a long time as I'm over 10k level player I'm by no means the best but no way is their someone beating me by 800k this fast
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A correction to the time he went up 182 levels in 50 minutes sorry on my math mistake I went back and checked my screen shots to make sure I was correct!
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Hello @rlrifle You have posted this in the wrong thread where no one will see it (except me, I was curious, but most people don't look at old posts from months ago) and it's not relevant to the header. I suggest you post here:
Also I've been doing some studies of what players are doing and what I can manage to score myself. I get to 167,000 points in one hour. I'm not sure that levels passed is as relevant as the hourly score in leaderboard finals. You can rush through each level in half a minute if you play a party popper +/- a UFO at the ideal time. I passed 107 levels in two hours using this method today. I'm not sure if much more than that is possible. In All Stars any suspicious accounts will be eliminated by King's bots, but I am not sure if they are bothering to eliminate cheaters in this Winter Cup competition.
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