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I have obtained over 8500 levels in this game over a number of years. Recently when playing for 1,2,3 in the weekly ratings, my opponents are newcomers who have only just started. Obviously the difficulty level for them is much less than mine, why has this suddenly occurred when previously I was playing against players from a similar level. Thank you for your help. Chris
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Hello @Chris_Carsberg Welcome to the Community.
This is a change King made to all our games and so far no one from King has commented to explain it. My guess would be that it's a change made so that King can better control this event and make it harder for each and every one of us to get onto the podium (so we will be encouraged to crush more and spend more).
You could check these threads for this if you like:
I've been playing this game ever since I had an Iphone and I've never paid any money to progress. It's always been done on personal achievement and to put players against newcomers with less than 100 levels is not really playing fair. I've achieved over 8500 levels and to be playing against newbes with less than 100 levels has really sunk to low levels! Perhaps they need the revenue to continue adding new levbels to the game? It's rather sad I think.
As I stated in my threads above, we are all in the same position and I believe the other players are fake, so what level they are at seems rather irrelevant if they aren't real. I have the same people show up in my weekly races in two completely separate accounts. Here are two games of mine. Note the same player Antonio is present in both.
I think we need to crush one episode per day now to get onto the podium it seems, regardless of what level we're at. The only one really at a disadvantage are those at the end of the map who only have three episodes per week to play. They are doomed to fail.