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Strange Player cards in leaderboards

I have just started to play the Warcraft finals and am finding something strange about some of the player cards in my leaderboard. Most of the nameless players appear with blank faces and at level zero on their player cards, though their other account statistics, such as levels won are there.

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https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3217066#Comment_3217066

Oh yes, I definitely agree with that @cookiemae. I am sure that's what they are testing, and I have myself played four accounts to test out how purple candy collection works out at other level ranges. I have come to the conclusion that King are trying to make All Stars accessible and winnable to all, regardless of playing experience and skill. The removal of chocolate and introduction of the super colour bomb dumbs down gameplay to such an extent that with the simplest of playing strategy anyone can score as much as we do, if they are willing to invest smallish amounts of money and large amounts of time (I guess if they pull this off I'm out of the competition). King might be testing if they can allow the newly growing and lucrative market of Asia to be included. I am starting to suspect that King are actively supporting online rumours that money can be made from playing Candy Crush in the run-up to All Stars. I had a recent nudge from QueenB in one of those many posts we now see, that asks about gaining real money from the game, which made me think about it. Until then I used to think that only experienced players could stand a chance to win All Stars. But now I see that with the recent changes King are working hard to try to change that.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3216455#Comment_3216455

@christinewupp @Alienscar I wonder if these changes are because of the coming all stars? If they are just testing now trying to maximize the money that will be spent. The way I see it is that this is the end of the year and some changes probably need to be tested and changed before the all stars.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3216351#Comment_3216351

There have been a lot of changes to the game in the past two weeks @Alienscar and making the Weekly Contest more bespoke and more challenging by replacing friends with players who are just a little faster/better than ourselves has been one of those changes for everybody. These changes all date to when the super colour bombs appeared, so it may be that King are testing out the effect of those on the game. It does certainly appear that all recent changes seem to be geared towards making players play more levels more quickly without thinking. I do not like where this seems to be leading. I hate the replacement of chocolate with frosting and how boring and predictable the game has become.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3216351#Comment_3216351

The ones I mentioned in my post were part of a leaderboard event, not the Weekly Contest. However, my Weekly Contest is now like yours: no friends, five players from Czechia, and two faceless level zero players. Last week, all players in my Weekly Contest were from Czechia. My theory was that they use geolocation/IP to match us with players from the same country, but if yours are primarily from India, I'm not sure what to think now.

All were from India, all below level 1,000.

It is odd @MannyFae it was only two months that everyone in my Weekly Contest was a player in my friends list. Now week after week none of the players are in my friends list.

Similar to what you noticed five of the eight players in my Contest are from India.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3216018#Comment_3216018

Mine is the same as yours @cookiemae . My best guess is that these are fake players put into the event by King. It seems to be handled the same way as the weekly race: As you can see my opponents have been picked to match my own abilities. We are, as always, essentially playing against the game, or against ourselves in order to better ourselves, but I would see this as evidence that we are not playing against other players in either the weekly race or the star tournament.

I'm not sure if any events are real any more in Candy Crush. Even the latest live leaderboard competition had several trolls in it. The fact that the others are just "opponent" is probably a glitch because I can't imagine that King would want us to know that these players are all fake.

I don't know if anyone here is playing the star tournament but I still don't have any names on the leaderboard. I wonder if right now they are bots.

Screenshot_20241208_173151_Candy Crush Saga.jpg

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3215172#Comment_3215172

In fact three of them responded to my friendship request and I now have them on my friends list, which is very strange. One of them sent me a life. I just want to add here @Alienscar that I am pretty sure (say 90%) that a while back I spotted a chat bot placed into this community, which I started to engage in a conversation and lured into befriending me, so this would not be the first time I have had automated players on my friends list.

What they are exactly though remains a mystery.

The level zero and silhouette avatar is affecting the Weekly Contest as well @christinewupp

I can't believe they will fix the white avatar though because as I said previously that is an issue that has been going on for years.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3214942#Comment_3214942

As it only relates to the Warcraft leaderboard event which finished yesterday it is not a glitch that can be fixed on Monday since it no longer exists now the event is finished. I don't know what they are telling you @PummyRaj but personally I don't believe anything King tell us any more.

Whatever it was, I'm guessing it played a role in why my Current login streak listed 0 for a day (days?). Haven't really been paying attention. Though I do see that seems to have been fixed today; my Player Card now says 945 for it.

I admire you guys for hanging in there. I've officially lost interest in the game & community since King won't fix my account.

Hello All 🤗

@christinewupp , @Alienscar , @MannyFae , @cookiemae , @MarirKlepp

I missed to update you all yesterday! One of the CMs updated me that this glitch will be fixed on Monday👍️

I have two silhouette players and they have the nicknames of Monday and Toffee. These names don't seem 'real' to me and it all makes me doubt that the Player Card is working.

While playing KitKat leaderboards, I noticed players named Sunshine, Breeze, Moose, Dolphin, and so on. Just words, not names. The second time I met someone named Sunshine, I began paying attention. All were from India, all below level 1,000. I thought that King began giving such names to new players who didn't save their games, but now I'm becoming suspicious.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3212574#Comment_3212574

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3212577#Comment_3212577

Thanks for your thoughts. I've invited all those blank faces to be my friends. I'll be curious if I get any replies.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3212564#Comment_3212564

That Warcraft qualifier round I played I very much felt that the opposition was hand picked to match my own ability. It was stronger than any other qualifying round I had previously sailed through, and it did not feel random.

I agree that King is probably testing something about how they do leaderboard events. I just think those player cards with blank faces and level 0 are a glitch.

I'm doing better in the Weekly Contest this week, as I was given opponents who actually matched my score, unlike last week. I have a good chance of winning, and I guess that will result in them giving me someone who plays 300-400 levels per week again. Oh well.

To be honest @christinewupp there is just so much wrong with the game that I can't really decide what is going on.

I would say definitely not a bot. Bots aren't as sophisticated as most people think they are and a Candy Crush playing bot can't play the game as well as a person.

The avatar of a player being displayed as a white silhouette is an issue that has been going on for years, so no conclusion can be made from that.

An issue that is becoming more and more common is the issue of players completing more levels than they have played. Whilst this wouldn't affect the score of a player it makes the Player Card redundant.

The level zero is the most intriguing thing for me as I believe that if I understood what that really meant then things would make sense.

The real problem I have with King is the Troll in the Weekly Contest. The Troll proved that King can introduce a fake player profile into any of their features/events whenever they like. The Troll player is worse than a bot as a Troll player when introduced by King doesn't have to play the game as King just codes the Troll to stay within a certain score range (eg: Troll score = Player 2 score + 1000). This might explain the level 0.

Overall I just don't trust the Player Card to draw any firm conclusions though. In my Weekly Contest I have people indicated as 'Firstname' but when I click on them I am presented with real names. I have two silhouette players and they have the nicknames of Monday and Toffee. These names don't seem 'real' to me and it all makes me doubt that the Player Card is working.

You know when you complete an online form and the fields have greyed out entries for your name and dates. The issue reminds me of that. By that I mean it is like King has got the coding of the Card wrong and we are seeing some of the coding text (Firstname) instead of real text.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3212561#Comment_3212561

I hope it's just a computer glitch of some sort. Those player cards were never a good idea. Too much can go wrong with them. Something isn't right with the events though in the past couple of weeks. The opposition in the weekly race is definitely now tracking our scores from the previous week and matching us accordingly. That Warcraft qualifier round I played I very much felt that the opposition was hand picked to match my own ability. It was stronger than any other qualifying round I had previously sailed through, and it did not feel random. I'm not sure if you saw this thread:

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/476958/is-anything-still-random-in-candy-crush

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3212555#Comment_3212555

A player card from the Weekly Contest was posted by @Alienscar above, which looks very similar. Either the bots are now present everywhere, not only in this leaderboard event, or it's just another issue with King's servers/data not loading. I think it's the latter. Sneaky Melon Duck, again.

I would now lean towards thinking that these bots are placed in the groups in order to nudge us to compete to beat them. My other three groups were won with a score between 600,000 -700,000. Both Asran and myself stopped playing altogether yesterday evening. Is it a coincidence that the bot overtook us? Any thoughts @Alienscar @MannyFae ?

We know King do this in other events such as the episode race, weekly race and I think also the Star Tournament. Are they really doing this in live leaderboard competitions as well?

I am pretty upset about this:

I stopped playing to let the real Asran take the top prize, (I guess I felt guilty about having initially thought he was a cheater) and then overnight one of the placeholder bots actually overtakes and wins the group!

For the record the other three leaderboards I have followed all had real players in the top spots. But why not this one? This is their player card.

Comments

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3217066#Comment_3217066

Oh yes, I definitely agree with that @cookiemae. I am sure that's what they are testing, and I have myself played four accounts to test out how purple candy collection works out at other level ranges. I have come to the conclusion that King are trying to make All Stars accessible and winnable to all, regardless of playing experience and skill. The removal of chocolate and introduction of the super colour bomb dumbs down gameplay to such an extent that with the simplest of playing strategy anyone can score as much as we do, if they are willing to invest smallish amounts of money and large amounts of time (I guess if they pull this off I'm out of the competition). King might be testing if they can allow the newly growing and lucrative market of Asia to be included. I am starting to suspect that King are actively supporting online rumours that money can be made from playing Candy Crush in the run-up to All Stars. I had a recent nudge from QueenB in one of those many posts we now see, that asks about gaining real money from the game, which made me think about it. Until then I used to think that only experienced players could stand a chance to win All Stars. But now I see that with the recent changes King are working hard to try to change that.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3216455#Comment_3216455

@christinewupp @Alienscar I wonder if these changes are because of the coming all stars? If they are just testing now trying to maximize the money that will be spent. The way I see it is that this is the end of the year and some changes probably need to be tested and changed before the all stars.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3216351#Comment_3216351

There have been a lot of changes to the game in the past two weeks @Alienscar and making the Weekly Contest more bespoke and more challenging by replacing friends with players who are just a little faster/better than ourselves has been one of those changes for everybody. These changes all date to when the super colour bombs appeared, so it may be that King are testing out the effect of those on the game. It does certainly appear that all recent changes seem to be geared towards making players play more levels more quickly without thinking. I do not like where this seems to be leading. I hate the replacement of chocolate with frosting and how boring and predictable the game has become.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3216351#Comment_3216351

The ones I mentioned in my post were part of a leaderboard event, not the Weekly Contest. However, my Weekly Contest is now like yours: no friends, five players from Czechia, and two faceless level zero players. Last week, all players in my Weekly Contest were from Czechia. My theory was that they use geolocation/IP to match us with players from the same country, but if yours are primarily from India, I'm not sure what to think now.

All were from India, all below level 1,000.

It is odd @MannyFae it was only two months that everyone in my Weekly Contest was a player in my friends list. Now week after week none of the players are in my friends list.

Similar to what you noticed five of the eight players in my Contest are from India.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3216018#Comment_3216018

Mine is the same as yours @cookiemae . My best guess is that these are fake players put into the event by King. It seems to be handled the same way as the weekly race: As you can see my opponents have been picked to match my own abilities. We are, as always, essentially playing against the game, or against ourselves in order to better ourselves, but I would see this as evidence that we are not playing against other players in either the weekly race or the star tournament.

I'm not sure if any events are real any more in Candy Crush. Even the latest live leaderboard competition had several trolls in it. The fact that the others are just "opponent" is probably a glitch because I can't imagine that King would want us to know that these players are all fake.

I don't know if anyone here is playing the star tournament but I still don't have any names on the leaderboard. I wonder if right now they are bots.

Screenshot_20241208_173151_Candy Crush Saga.jpg

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3215172#Comment_3215172

In fact three of them responded to my friendship request and I now have them on my friends list, which is very strange. One of them sent me a life. I just want to add here @Alienscar that I am pretty sure (say 90%) that a while back I spotted a chat bot placed into this community, which I started to engage in a conversation and lured into befriending me, so this would not be the first time I have had automated players on my friends list.

What they are exactly though remains a mystery.

The level zero and silhouette avatar is affecting the Weekly Contest as well @christinewupp

I can't believe they will fix the white avatar though because as I said previously that is an issue that has been going on for years.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3214942#Comment_3214942

As it only relates to the Warcraft leaderboard event which finished yesterday it is not a glitch that can be fixed on Monday since it no longer exists now the event is finished. I don't know what they are telling you @PummyRaj but personally I don't believe anything King tell us any more.

Whatever it was, I'm guessing it played a role in why my Current login streak listed 0 for a day (days?). Haven't really been paying attention. Though I do see that seems to have been fixed today; my Player Card now says 945 for it.

I admire you guys for hanging in there. I've officially lost interest in the game & community since King won't fix my account.

Hello All 🤗

@christinewupp , @Alienscar , @MannyFae , @cookiemae , @MarirKlepp

I missed to update you all yesterday! One of the CMs updated me that this glitch will be fixed on Monday👍️

I have two silhouette players and they have the nicknames of Monday and Toffee. These names don't seem 'real' to me and it all makes me doubt that the Player Card is working.

While playing KitKat leaderboards, I noticed players named Sunshine, Breeze, Moose, Dolphin, and so on. Just words, not names. The second time I met someone named Sunshine, I began paying attention. All were from India, all below level 1,000. I thought that King began giving such names to new players who didn't save their games, but now I'm becoming suspicious.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3212574#Comment_3212574

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3212577#Comment_3212577

Thanks for your thoughts. I've invited all those blank faces to be my friends. I'll be curious if I get any replies.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3212564#Comment_3212564

That Warcraft qualifier round I played I very much felt that the opposition was hand picked to match my own ability. It was stronger than any other qualifying round I had previously sailed through, and it did not feel random.

I agree that King is probably testing something about how they do leaderboard events. I just think those player cards with blank faces and level 0 are a glitch.

I'm doing better in the Weekly Contest this week, as I was given opponents who actually matched my score, unlike last week. I have a good chance of winning, and I guess that will result in them giving me someone who plays 300-400 levels per week again. Oh well.

To be honest @christinewupp there is just so much wrong with the game that I can't really decide what is going on.

I would say definitely not a bot. Bots aren't as sophisticated as most people think they are and a Candy Crush playing bot can't play the game as well as a person.

The avatar of a player being displayed as a white silhouette is an issue that has been going on for years, so no conclusion can be made from that.

An issue that is becoming more and more common is the issue of players completing more levels than they have played. Whilst this wouldn't affect the score of a player it makes the Player Card redundant.

The level zero is the most intriguing thing for me as I believe that if I understood what that really meant then things would make sense.

The real problem I have with King is the Troll in the Weekly Contest. The Troll proved that King can introduce a fake player profile into any of their features/events whenever they like. The Troll player is worse than a bot as a Troll player when introduced by King doesn't have to play the game as King just codes the Troll to stay within a certain score range (eg: Troll score = Player 2 score + 1000). This might explain the level 0.

Overall I just don't trust the Player Card to draw any firm conclusions though. In my Weekly Contest I have people indicated as 'Firstname' but when I click on them I am presented with real names. I have two silhouette players and they have the nicknames of Monday and Toffee. These names don't seem 'real' to me and it all makes me doubt that the Player Card is working.

You know when you complete an online form and the fields have greyed out entries for your name and dates. The issue reminds me of that. By that I mean it is like King has got the coding of the Card wrong and we are seeing some of the coding text (Firstname) instead of real text.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3212561#Comment_3212561

I hope it's just a computer glitch of some sort. Those player cards were never a good idea. Too much can go wrong with them. Something isn't right with the events though in the past couple of weeks. The opposition in the weekly race is definitely now tracking our scores from the previous week and matching us accordingly. That Warcraft qualifier round I played I very much felt that the opposition was hand picked to match my own ability. It was stronger than any other qualifying round I had previously sailed through, and it did not feel random. I'm not sure if you saw this thread:

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/476958/is-anything-still-random-in-candy-crush

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3212555#Comment_3212555

A player card from the Weekly Contest was posted by @Alienscar above, which looks very similar. Either the bots are now present everywhere, not only in this leaderboard event, or it's just another issue with King's servers/data not loading. I think it's the latter. Sneaky Melon Duck, again.

I would now lean towards thinking that these bots are placed in the groups in order to nudge us to compete to beat them. My other three groups were won with a score between 600,000 -700,000. Both Asran and myself stopped playing altogether yesterday evening. Is it a coincidence that the bot overtook us? Any thoughts @Alienscar @MannyFae ?

We know King do this in other events such as the episode race, weekly race and I think also the Star Tournament. Are they really doing this in live leaderboard competitions as well?

I am pretty upset about this:

I stopped playing to let the real Asran take the top prize, (I guess I felt guilty about having initially thought he was a cheater) and then overnight one of the placeholder bots actually overtakes and wins the group!

For the record the other three leaderboards I have followed all had real players in the top spots. But why not this one? This is their player card.

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