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Level 7696 on Mobile designed to CHEAT

Level 7696 must have a design flaw because the final key needed to unlock the final two orders required to complete the level falls on the last move. WHAT kind of trickery is that??

Is this a way to force a purchase? Please fix this level, as there is no way around it. During game play, you have to waste several moves just to get individual keys to drop, and with so little moves to begin with, along with other obstacles, it's IMPOSSIBLE!! RIDICULOUS!!

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CatJ

Thanks for the info. This kind of level just isn't for me. Buh-bye Candy Crush. It was fun while it lasted. Maybe I'll check back and try again in a few weeks to see if there's been a rewrite.

christinewupp

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3411557#Comment_3411557

That's funny, I just answered your post about this and now I see I wrote all this here not long ago! I'm getting old, clearly. I'd forgotten I posted all that. I have just tried the level out and for me the key still can drop with one move left, but it really doesn't help, so play that lucky candy booster as MannyFae suggested.

CatJ

Yep. Level 7696 is the reason I'm not playing every day now. Until someone redesigns it so the final key drops before you reach 0, there's no point.

christinewupp

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3379633#Comment_3379633

That is interesting and I think it is another signal for us to take note of @MannyFae and advise accordingly:

The way the AI is rewriting these algorithms takes into account players using all three starting boosters now.

If we now have an automated system that adjusts level difficulty week by week we might see this scenario:

The basis: The old levels were written so that all levels had a "without boosters" solution written into the algorithms. Some of the these older algorithms also grant better chances of passing to players who play starting boosters.
Recently events and features in the game are giving players more timed starting boosters as gifts, so players have no choice but to use these for all levels, even the easy ones.
More players will find the old algorithms easy to beat because they are now using timed starting boosters
The AI senses that these levels are being beaten by more players than are meant to beat them.
Changes are made to tweak the algorithms to make the level harder to pass with starting boosters
As a result the "without boosters" solution becomes harder to achieve
More players get stuck if not playing starting boosters
More events are introduced to help players get unstuck: more features offering (mostly timed) starting boosters, plus features such as jelly fish, multiple win streak boosters and super chargers are introduced to stop too many players get stuck and quit before they become paying customers
More players use starting boosters for all levels, many have super chargers on top of this. Some players have 4 colour bombs on their starting boards!
More players find too many levels too easy to pass
The AI senses this and makes the algorithms harder, even with starting plus wins streak boosters and introduces a "boss level" event that will even defeat players on a top win streak and with the super chargers
and so on….

The result will be a spiralling of difficulty and overall change in the game.

More of less what we have been seeing recently.

MannyFae

Agree with Christine. The keys seem to drop every five moves, meaning the last one will drop with just one move remaining in the best possible situation. However, passing this level is possible with the help of the lucky candy booster, which will create more toffees, so the last key is unnecessary.

Failing that, the last two chests can be opened with hammers.

christinewupp

Attempt no. 3 is the worst of them all and here is my rundown:

Not much chance to get to the keys early on here, so let's try a UFO:

The effect:

NOTHING! Can you see any change??? The UFO was completely wasted, it did not go for any of the toffee, it goes for the rainbow twists and breaks it up making the level even harder.

Here is my first key at long last and I have no change to get it any way other than with a lollipop, so let's do it:

On we go.

Now let's see if the UFO will clear some toffee for us, or help us get some more keys out:

Hell, no! It goes for more liquorice, whyever not…… after all the programme is for us to fail, so of course the UFO will be useless….. These are the places it goes for:

On I play and eventually I get so close…..

I spare you all the moves in between, but trust me I know how to play this game and I made the best possible moves to bring more keys out.

This level was written by human designers and the algorithms were tweaked and rewritten by the AI.

Utter rubbish. Players are being taken as fools and cheated out of a chance of winning the level. No boosters will help: You have to pay gold to pass on your first three attempts at least. I won't try any more now.

This level used to be level 7688. If you check out the YouTube videos you see that the level was designed to have between 28 and 30 moves. Someone at King's has decided to make the level harder by removing two moves.

This is what you get if you leave an AI in charge of running the game.

christinewupp

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/505544/level-7696-on-mobile-designed-to-cheat

I wholeheartedly agree: I have just played the level and this is exactly what happens. For what it's worth. Here is my experience. First attempt:

I played the best possible moves, making matches to under they key dispensers and destroying the keys are soon as was possible.

Second attempt I had the +3 moves offer "from a friend" which somehow resulted in one fewer moves, but still the same outcome:

At one point on this attempt I played a lollipop hammer to get a key that was not possible to match. But yet this is the outcome:

I'll try again, but it does look to me that this level is rigged to require purchase of extra moves.

Comments

CatJ

Thanks for the info. This kind of level just isn't for me. Buh-bye Candy Crush. It was fun while it lasted. Maybe I'll check back and try again in a few weeks to see if there's been a rewrite.

christinewupp

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3411557#Comment_3411557

CatJ

Yep. Level 7696 is the reason I'm not playing every day now. Until someone redesigns it so the final key drops before you reach 0, there's no point.

christinewupp

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3379633#Comment_3379633

That is interesting and I think it is another signal for us to take note of @MannyFae and advise accordingly:

The way the AI is rewriting these algorithms takes into account players using all three starting boosters now.

If we now have an automated system that adjusts level difficulty week by week we might see this scenario:

The basis: The old levels were written so that all levels had a "without boosters" solution written into the algorithms. Some of the these older algorithms also grant better chances of passing to players who play starting boosters.
Recently events and features in the game are giving players more timed starting boosters as gifts, so players have no choice but to use these for all levels, even the easy ones.
More players will find the old algorithms easy to beat because they are now using timed starting boosters
The AI senses that these levels are being beaten by more players than are meant to beat them.
Changes are made to tweak the algorithms to make the level harder to pass with starting boosters
As a result the "without boosters" solution becomes harder to achieve
More players get stuck if not playing starting boosters
More events are introduced to help players get unstuck: more features offering (mostly timed) starting boosters, plus features such as jelly fish, multiple win streak boosters and super chargers are introduced to stop too many players get stuck and quit before they become paying customers
More players use starting boosters for all levels, many have super chargers on top of this. Some players have 4 colour bombs on their starting boards!
More players find too many levels too easy to pass
The AI senses this and makes the algorithms harder, even with starting plus wins streak boosters and introduces a "boss level" event that will even defeat players on a top win streak and with the super chargers
and so on….

The result will be a spiralling of difficulty and overall change in the game.

More of less what we have been seeing recently.

MannyFae

Failing that, the last two chests can be opened with hammers.

christinewupp

Attempt no. 3 is the worst of them all and here is my rundown:

Not much chance to get to the keys early on here, so let's try a UFO:

The effect:

NOTHING! Can you see any change??? The UFO was completely wasted, it did not go for any of the toffee, it goes for the rainbow twists and breaks it up making the level even harder.

Here is my first key at long last and I have no change to get it any way other than with a lollipop, so let's do it:

On we go.

Now let's see if the UFO will clear some toffee for us, or help us get some more keys out:

Hell, no! It goes for more liquorice, whyever not…… after all the programme is for us to fail, so of course the UFO will be useless….. These are the places it goes for:

On I play and eventually I get so close…..

I spare you all the moves in between, but trust me I know how to play this game and I made the best possible moves to bring more keys out.

This level was written by human designers and the algorithms were tweaked and rewritten by the AI.

This is what you get if you leave an AI in charge of running the game.

christinewupp

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/505544/level-7696-on-mobile-designed-to-cheat

I wholeheartedly agree: I have just played the level and this is exactly what happens. For what it's worth. Here is my experience. First attempt:

I played the best possible moves, making matches to under they key dispensers and destroying the keys are soon as was possible.

Second attempt I had the +3 moves offer "from a friend" which somehow resulted in one fewer moves, but still the same outcome:

At one point on this attempt I played a lollipop hammer to get a key that was not possible to match. But yet this is the outcome:

I'll try again, but it does look to me that this level is rigged to require purchase of extra moves.

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