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Tourney Talk
pmin
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Good luck to everyone in the UFO tournament! Even though there isn't a big music season type prize, there still are bragging rights. Feel free to share your scores.
And in case you didn't know, there are 3 rounds. 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the final round get 20, 12 and 8 UFO boosters. Not a 6 round tourney like the Music Season was.
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Thanks for the info. 20,000 players each getting 20 UFOs is not huge, but the event could be fun and a nice test run for us to work out if we are good enough to win the big tournaments. Have the UFO shaped candies disappeared for you as well? Mine are just boring green candies now. As the Terms and Conditions for this one are short and sweet I don't think King will do much to weed out cheaters in this one. So everyone beware and give up if you find you are up against someone running away with it in the final round!
I note they have started the event the same day as Don't feed the Troll popped up, making it a hard choice for anyone who would have preferred to join later on in the mega long first round. King do know all our tricks. Do I forego the benefits of beating the troll three times for the sake of getting an easier run in the qualifiers? Decisions, decisions…. 🤷♂️ I'll go for the Troll of course! So joined early and now have some catching up to do.
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My progress this morning. Playing at a leisurely and enjoyable pace with the main goal of making gold bars (CandyRoyale showed up, plus 4 episode races and one gold chocolate box, no gold spent but using up boosters I had)
I make that roughly 130,000 points per hour, not my best, but then I was taking my time, e.g. watching ads for extra episode race gold, topped up my coffee, and the game hung up on me three times and I had to reload as well! Level 4273 the fishes kept zooming across the screen like madfish at the end after I 'd passed, so I had to quit and reload, (which cost me my win streak and super colour bomb but luckily was after Candy Royale had finished) and one ad hung up as well, black screen scenario. There are a lot of glitches at the moment and I miss the UFO candies.
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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.
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The problem is there is never much interest here in the community in these mini tournaments and even the official thread has been taken off the top now. These mini tournaments are nice for us to work out our best possible scores but few people care about that and will either stop or slow down playing. You will find the community always goes to sleep after a big tournament. Also your header is not something that many people would recognise as relating to the UFO tournament. We're basically back in boring "where are my ads?" and "Why can't I connect?" territory in the community, but do hang around. Are you planning to participate in the next big one @pmin ?
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Yeah I think the thread is still getting decent hits, I thought of putting UFO in the title but I didn't want to exclude discussion of past/future tournaments. Since I agree you can use mini tourneys to test scoring and practice for the Allstars 2025.
And honestly I'm unsure if I'll be in it, really depends on how this situation you're already aware of plays out. Obviously I'm naturally good if I'm getting that high a final result, first go, while spending very little....so I would like to see how I could do, especially if I were to restart my account and attempt levels now that I know how they work (it would save me a lot of time). But...just dependent on this music tourney and how the outcome is handled.
Geez, yeah casually playing I got to 700k and next in line was 130k, my group is asleep. But all you need is to qualify, so you're fine.
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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.
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"Tourney" has started again. I'm not sure I can keep up as I'm limiting myself to just one episode per day max, but I had my six day daily win reward today, which is 10 minutes Party Popper and 15 minutes UFOs, one each per level. So the perfect chance to see how much I can score at maximum speed.
That was 13 minutes play while I had those boosters to help me. 45,600 points in 13 minutes makes 3500 per minute, 210,000 points per hour. I thought you might be interested @pmin . Incidentally this was a pass rate of one level per minute because of the party poppers speeding it up. That would surely be the maximum anyone can reach during normal play. It gives a yield of just over 5 million points in 24 hours if playing non-stop. I think this is roughly a calculation that King make as well, and the winning scores of the All Stars winners they selected were in the 4-5 million range both in 2023 and 2024. King know that more than this is not possible unless using methods not allowed by the rules.
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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.
