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Short Number of Moves

I inquired before about the levels I play are short 5 to 6 moves which makes it impossible to win the level. Why is this happening it’s not fair

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Pyrospring

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/491993/short-number-of-moves

Basically they adjust the number of turns based on the changes they make to mechanics. They also make changes to adjust the difficultly of levels. There are a few issues though

When they make mechanics changes they don't check the actual level with a person. Ie 114 has a dragon drop to the screen at the start of the last turn. This used to be on the 4th last turn but they removed 3 turns due to the new fish. The problem is no one checked the level, if they had they would have realized they needed to update when the fish would drop onto the screen. What you can pass it it is just luck.
The also can make a change to the level but NOT add the new mechanic until later making the level far harder when it should be easier/the same.
Some mechanics, like the new fish, do not work 100% correctly with the current algorithm. Basically the level again becomes harder because unless very lucky the removal of turns makes the new mechanic not work as intended. ie you still needed some extra turns to even have enough fish to spawn.

Basically King objectively has terrible QA.

P.S.

Money event is on, levels can get temporarily changed to get more people to pay as @SH24 mentioned

P.P.S

This time of year last year was a mess for levels as well. Feb to about May was just terrible.

SH24

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/491993/short-number-of-moves

It's this company's stupidity. We can't do anything about that. They always do this time to time so that they could generate money from players.

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Pyrospring

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/491993/short-number-of-moves

Basically they adjust the number of turns based on the changes they make to mechanics. They also make changes to adjust the difficultly of levels. There are a few issues though

When they make mechanics changes they don't check the actual level with a person. Ie 114 has a dragon drop to the screen at the start of the last turn. This used to be on the 4th last turn but they removed 3 turns due to the new fish. The problem is no one checked the level, if they had they would have realized they needed to update when the fish would drop onto the screen. What you can pass it it is just luck.
The also can make a change to the level but NOT add the new mechanic until later making the level far harder when it should be easier/the same.
Some mechanics, like the new fish, do not work 100% correctly with the current algorithm. Basically the level again becomes harder because unless very lucky the removal of turns makes the new mechanic not work as intended. ie you still needed some extra turns to even have enough fish to spawn.

Basically King objectively has terrible QA.

P.S.

Money event is on, levels can get temporarily changed to get more people to pay as @SH24 mentioned

P.P.S

This time of year last year was a mess for levels as well. Feb to about May was just terrible.

SH24

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/491993/short-number-of-moves

It's this company's stupidity. We can't do anything about that. They always do this time to time so that they could generate money from players.