Tourney Talk

Alright my first round is pretty dead. I guess I'll have to wait until the next round to see if some people play. Curious to see how high a score pops up. But I guess part of my post was to remind people that the prize is very different this tourney. Would hate to see someone drop a ton on it thinking it's a do-over for music season. But still fun nonetheless, I enjoy these mini tournaments.

Might start a tournament tips discussion. People were constantly accusing me of being a bot/cheat/whatever, then the ones that see I'm real ask me how I get my score without spending much at all. But there are tons of complaints too of people accusing 2 million type final scores of being bots too, which is a very doable score....I think if more people had an understanding of what scores are realistically possible, they wouldn't feel so cheated. Then again if people knew the top scoring rates, checked how they stack up against them and saw they were nowhere close.....they might not blindly spend as much money early on trying to win. Lol yeah the discussion might be doomed for deletion already.

Oh I know that's borderline the cap. I had 4 hour periods where I would average 230k/hr, had I optimized a tiny bit more I could've possibly gotten it up another 10k, but that's ultra perfect peak play on good levels with boosters. In a 24 hour tournament you will not play at that efficient of a rate the entire time. In a 42 hour tournament, definitely not. Fatigue and variety of levels will lower that rate. I checked other winners of this tourney, everyone slowed down. And the highest score that was willing to post their results (since the absurdly high ones usually hide) averaged 183k/hr.

So someone averaging 240k/hr for 42 hours when the highest confirmed score this tourney was 183k (with super color bombs for part of it) and 210k last 24 hour tourney.... It's absurd. Plus you can tell that rates of 600k/hr are just exploitive.

King could easily fix the exploit by enacting a 30k max candy per single level completion cap. Allowing someone to beat 1 level 1 time and get millions of points is insane. Review wise, it takes admins 1 minutes to tell if someone is doing it. Select a time frame of play, sort the levels based on either candy score, length to complete or moves to complete; excel data sheet style. Then the player's profile would immediately show at the top that on one level they scored 2 million in 4 hours using 1000 moves. Analytics are part of the game. Or you could do rate comparisons like I demonstrated in other posts.

Anyways... the more you think about it, the clearer it is that 500k/hr scores are illegitimate, they're easily preventable and easily fixable. I'm not mad at King, I'm tired. Just want this fixed so that myself and future players no longer have to deal with exploiters attempting this to steal prizes.