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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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@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.
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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.
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