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🎶 Get Ready for the Candy Crush Music Season here 🎶
🎶 🎵 Guess the Genre and for a chance to win 50 Gold Bars!
🎶 Get Ready for the Candy Crush Music Season here 🎶
🎶 🎵 Guess the Genre and for a chance to win 50 Gold Bars!
It's an events frenzy this week!
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This morning's update:
Factory Frenzy again shows up. Jelly streak pays out, 10 minutes party poppers came in handy to help pass half an episode but I only gained 1000 blue candies in those 10 minutes. Given the way that levels can't be drawn out to make lots of blue candies (they either self terminate or I risk having to use a lollipop at the end) I will have to probably play a lot more to get my prize. But the gold balance remains in the green, so I will play on tonight.
I've been playing timed colour bombs and timed wrap/stripe throughout because the game is not giving me enough boosters.
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I actually did bring that section of the T&C up with the Player Support agent when I inquired about why my game hasn't been receiving these special events. Obviously I wanted to know what is meant by "good standing". Apparently, it just boils down to one's location—being in a country that has the ongoing event. This was the relevant portion of the reply:
"I understand you would like to know if your account is in a good standing for the Music Season event. As I can see in your account you are in the United States, which is one of the countries where the event is available from 12th September to 14th October.
As I mentioned before, we randomly select a group of players to test the new feature and, based on their feedback, decide whether to roll it out to all players. This helps us ensure that the feature is well-received and functioning properly. If you haven't seen the event, that means that there is a high possibility that we are facing an incident with some accounts in the eligible countries."Last sentence basically gives a BS excuse lol—they don't know. Suuure.
It's not important enough to me to save the progress of these alt games to a different account. Booster prizes, like party poppers from Candy Cup, don't really matter to me. As much as I'm complaining about this current Music Season event, I'm not really a concert guy either. 😆 The only worthwhile event would be All Stars' possibility of a money prize, but I doubt I'd win that anyway haha.
I am putting these 2 games to use though, per my comment in the recent "Adventure path - no gold pin?" thread. In my head, I've started to view one game as GC, where the goal is to only get gold crowns for levels I need crowns for on my main game, and the other as SS, where the goal is to only get sugar stars for levels that don't have them in my main game.
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I find that reply odd @Deryck . That is not how I would interpret "good standing" and if that is the case then how does "no undisclosed violations" relate to that?
- Have an account which is in good standing with King with no undisclosed account violations
I think that customer care advisor didn't know what they were talking about, quite frankly.
@cookiemae I don't know what King's naughty list is or if indeed they have one, but I do suspect that there is one and that this may be the explanation why some of the most experienced players never seem to get these events that every newbie to the game seems to get.
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Fully agreed @christinewupp! It got a laugh from me at the time. I thought the explanation not only odd, but even silly. It's unsurprising though since clearly King reps wouldn't admit to the existence of a blacklist—bad for business lol. Like you, I definitely think there is a list though, likely consisting of User ID #s with a programming command to not get special events.
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Back to my game: I made it before bedtime.
As is just about visible on the screenshot I had to play to level 537 to get to the top of Top That.
By the late 400s I wished I hadn't decided to test out if I could get there, because that is when the fun ended and the slog began. All the levels ending in the digit 5 are just awful. I used up all those boosters the event frenzy had given me by level 500. In fact exactly at level 500, as if it was written into the game: Thou shalt not pass level 500 without paying. That was exactly the point at which I had no lollipops and no UFOs left.
The volcanic panic keeps giving a few boosters every four episodes, and the Bubblegum Battle test event popped up and gave me just three boosters.
So was it worth it?
My highest gold balance was 813 gold bars. By level 471 I started losing gold slowly as so many levels needed 10 gold bars to pass. Interestingly not a single level that I failed on my first attempt was passable on my second attempt. NOT ONE! So usually I paid the 10 gold then to get on with it, as 15 extra moves were obviously enough.
My final balance, after finishing the episode, was this:
Personally I think that rushing through the episodes to get to the top of this ridiculous event is NOT worth it. Essentially my net gain was 46 gold bars. I should have stopped in the mid 400s when I had 813 gold. But well, at least I know now how many levels it takes to win Top That…..
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I had it a little easier. I didn't end up with the worst possible levels at then end. That being said it did take a 12 hour grind session to get the last two done. Not doing that again.
Also since I was speed grinding to 800 anyway, only 800+ loses would be a factor if they were unusually high. I think it was 50-70 gold at most used leaning more towards 50.
Can't lose money it you change the rules :P
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I didn't realise you were going for the Top That as well @SneakyMelonPyroDuck . Congratulations on getting there, and it's good to hear that your conclusions mirrored mine. Quite frankly I think anyone who has the power and stamina to go for the 250 gold prize and win it might as well store up their energy (and their gold bars) to use in the next All Stars. I think the effort needed is similar to getting to the final knockout round in All Stars, and maybe even beyond that. I might start my own Top That thread with my findings now we've managed to establish what it takes.
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No need to just think it @christinewupp. We have the data to prove the worthlessness of Top That. :p
Your screenshot gave me the idea to mirror your progress. My gold bar + inventory on my GC game below:
I just won the episode, hence the timed lollipop, but I think I had 14 of those at the time.
I don't have access to the device where I began the SS game (work PC), but will Monday. I gave up on TT for both games at Tier 21 (without getting the poppers btw). Didn't have it in me. 😅
But it seems I made more profit regardless. And if I hadn't rushed through many eps in pursuit of the top TT prize, I'd have made substantially more gold. To be clear, I did spend the 10 gold for occasional levels in an episode. I ensured to do so sparingly, once or twice.
Another way to conserve gold is by maximizing the Gold Chocolate Box. Before beginning an episode, I make sure the 3 tasks are complete, leaving the 4th one ready when I begin an ep. I only use the crown-the-levels or pass-unplayed-levels tasks. Due to their "abnormal" goal (usually 17/18 or 21, respectively, for me), this means I'm forced to play 2 episodes. So, another way I make the most of things is by completing another round of the 3 choco box tasks during a race in preparation for a new episode. It's risky, yes, but if you're a skilled enough player, it's doable. Just remember to pay attention to the scoreboard to keep an eye on whoever's closest behind you.
The double color bomb combination is invaluable for most levels to boost the odds of getting a lucky board. That's why there should always be a decent color bomb supply in one's inventory. So, I only use a color bomb from my inventory for Legendary or Nightmarishly Hard Levels. Hard and Super Hard should be fine with the single CB from the candy necklace, though I have encountered exceptions of course.
Misc. notes: Your and Pyro's heads up about L502 being booster-locked was good timing! Coincidentally, I resumed playing when the Jelly Streak prize was given to me. I didn't even think twice: used the timed party popper right as the board opened. Smooth sailing.
I finally Sugar Starred L505 on my last move. 🤩 That was a thrill, esp. being prepared to lose.
Was mad L560 is one of the replaced Volcanic Panic levels. I need to Sugar Star it and came nowhere close. If it had been the regular board, who knows.
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That info is absolutely precious @Deryck . I also get that super colour bomb at the moment, I never liked it so much last time round, but I'll check out this morning how I get on with it thanks to your advice.
The chocolate box I use in the same manner that you describe in my regular game, in which I actively try to not play so many episodes as I want to keep it for All Stars. It's proving quite tricky as there is always something such as Candy Royale popping up and I needed to pass 14 levels to charge up the double colour bomb. I particularly value your advice on not using pre level boosters for hard and super hard levels. That is valuable advice I will try out in my next endeavour. I do waste a lot of gold by running out of boosters and then buying the timed ones for 9 gold each. I can play an episode for the duration, but it does cost me a lot of gold profit.
