(Ok, so this thread might be fodder for the angry mob, but I'll start it anyway with my personal opinion. This is an opinion only: I am NOT King staff, but I have studied and analysed the game over the past two years and I've seen a leaked copy of the Terms and Conditions)
Will All Stars be fair?
NO
Why:
- Most of the world is excluded. South America is partly included, but would need to gain a visa at short notice if they won, so in practice they can't win any money as they can't travel to the live finals
- King seem to exclude a lot of honest eligible players for reasons unknown. If they don't fix this with an update next week a lot of top long standing players including members of this community will be excluded simply because they have been too good at passing levels and at hoarding gold bars
- King control what events players get and are likely to use events to help some players' progress while blocking others. They have practised and tested these methods for the past twelve months: King have rewritten levels 1-3000 to aid new players to compete. They have introduced the super colour bomb, simplified and dumbed down lots of levels all along the game and changed the fish mechanics for this purpose. The super colour bomb plus top win streak plus starting boosters is now very powerful and can allow anyone to match the speed of top players. King can now control our games by either granting access or denying access to the super colour bomb booster and timed boosters from events. It is speculation on my part of course that they will use this to control outcomes.
- King have taken huge steps in recent months to try to eliminate "unfair play" during this competition. Although this now probably means that in theory anyone can win if they spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on boosters I do predict that King's control mechanisms will kick out a significant number of innocents along the way as well
- Certain level ranges are not suitable for All Stars due to the slow nature of opening up the board. Players near the top of the game cannot score enough points quickly enough to compete in the final rounds
To win All Stars players will need:
- to be able to play non-stop 24 hours for the final round 26th-27th April 2025
- to be able to score around 150,000-200,000 purple per hour (i.e. play 3-4 episodes per hour)
- be lucky: There are thousands of other players who can achieve this
In practice the above means that players will need to either have a lot of boosters and/or gold bars already saved up or spend a LOT of money. Even those who do will have only a tiny chance of getting to the live finals. Watching adverts won't help anyone in the final knockout rounds at all as it is too time consuming
To any would-be cheaters or anyone who has not been around in the past year or seen the Terms and Conditions yet:
I have read in the leaked Terms and Conditions that there will be a cap on the amount of purple scored per level this year and that trying methods to exceed this capped score will be regarded as "unfair play". This means that anyone using the dragon hiding techniques is likely to be eliminated by automated systems. King have now tight control over how much each player can score on each level. King know our gold balance, King know our spending history. King know which level we are playing. King will input all this information into computers to eliminate cheaters, but at the same time King can tightly control which players will get to the final round as well.
All Stars is not a lottery.
All Stars is not a competition to find the best player or strategist.
All Stars is an event designed to make money from masses of naive players who think they stand a chance to win money by "investing" in their games with purchases
On those grounds I think the event is not a fair event.
