Express Delivery messes with the randomizer?

シリンダーノット

Has anyone noticed that candy spawning luck is just… different during an Express Delivery attempt? I noticed a very stark contrast of "luck" in my recent completion of level 2,990.

This is level 2,990. The striped candy, wrapped candy, and color bomb were from my ongoing timed boosters:

Attempts 1 and 2: The randomizer gave me cascades that produced tons of special candies in convenient places. Wrapped + wrapped combinations did tons of damage to the cake bombs and the surrounding icing layers. I came close to winning, but I had no ads, so I failed both times.

Attempt 3: It played out just like the first two attempts, but I was offered ads after running out of moves. In order, the rewards were +2 moves, +1 move, and +4 moves with a color bomb. I went to watch the last ad, but it glitched and sent me back to the level. I only had 3 moves, and I could not win.

Attempt 4: Express Delivery! Cascades almost never happened. I barely made a dent in the icing. The cake bomb never went off. I ran out of moves, and the 35 moves that the game offered certainly were not enough, so I decided to lose a life. Even if I had 100 moves from the beginning, I probably would have failed.

Attempt 5: My cascade "luck" was identical to that of my first three attempts. The constant explosions were back, and I destroyed the cake bomb in record time. The nearby icing was almost completely gone at that point, so I was able to finish the level with 7 moves remaining. Victory!

It's interesting to see how the "luck" factor changes so drastically at times. No wonder levels usually seem way harder for me during Express Delivery attempts. I suspect that it messes with the randomizer. At least this minor misadventure had a happy ending!

christinewupp

I have tried playing this level in two of my accounts to see if I get an equally lucky algorithm. Both of the accounts I scrolled back and was offered 5 ads to watch (which I didn't) on each attempt. Account 1 I played 15 times and failed badly, on the other account I failed badly five times and then gave up. I never got the old fashioned lucky board with lots of cascades you describe.

So we are apparently playing different versions of the algorithm. It may be that players who approach a level as a new level get a different difficulty/luck algorithm altogether. I have wondered in recent months if there are two test groups, one with more old fashioned lucky boards and others with fishy lucky boards. I seem to be in the fishy group for this level. I saw lots of jelly fish and got some fish + colour bomb combos, which were of no use at all. I wonder if the fact that this one is an end of episode level, so everyone before you would have been playing the Concert Chaos version, means that the AI has not yet reprogrammed this level to incorporate the new fish behaviour. With the older wriggly fish these boards would have been lucky for me because those fish used to go for the cake bomb first. I was surprised how impossible my boards were.

I am not convinced that the events we see like the Express Train really mess with the randomiser (assuming that the sequence of fail/pass boards is random). However I have often wondered about this myself but for the opposite reason: I thought that my levels got easier to pass when I saw the express train or the fishing boat offer. I think the verdict is still out on this. I wonder what others have experienced.

christinewupp

I have tried playing this level in two of my accounts to see if I get an equally lucky algorithm. Both of the accounts I scrolled back and was offered 5 ads to watch (which I didn't) on each attempt. Account 1 I played 15 times and failed badly, on the other account I failed badly five times and then gave up. I never got the old fashioned lucky board with lots of cascades you describe.

So we are apparently playing different versions of the algorithm. It may be that players who approach a level as a new level get a different difficulty/luck algorithm altogether. I have wondered in recent months if there are two test groups, one with more old fashioned lucky boards and others with fishy lucky boards. I seem to be in the fishy group for this level. I saw lots of jelly fish and got some fish + colour bomb combos, which were of no use at all. I wonder if the fact that this one is an end of episode level, so everyone before you would have been playing the Concert Chaos version, means that the AI has not yet reprogrammed this level to incorporate the new fish behaviour. With the older wriggly fish these boards would have been lucky for me because those fish used to go for the cake bomb first. I was surprised how impossible my boards were.

I am not convinced that the events we see like the Express Train really mess with the randomiser (assuming that the sequence of fail/pass boards is random). However I have often wondered about this myself but for the opposite reason: I thought that my levels got easier to pass when I saw the express train or the fishing boat offer. I think the verdict is still out on this. I wonder what others have experienced.