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Pointless Animations and their effect on All Stars

@QueenB Here comes a plea about the amount of animations between levels and between episodes currently in our games. Many of the animations can no longer be skipped through, like this one which in my iPhone game comes first:

This is the most annoying of them all to me. To me watching these quests fill up is absolutely pointless and a time waster. Then follows this:

then this:

which is us watching the widgets move on. It cannot be skipped and we now have to wait for our avatar (or flower) to move up to the next level:

Now that my flower has finally reached the new level, instead of being able to click on the level I see this pop up:

Why???

The minimum time taken for between level animations is 16 seconds in this account. The chocolate box or lucky egg animations add another 5 seconds, the end of episode animations add 15 seconds at least. This all adds up to over five minutes of pointless animations per episode.

Given that the winner of All Stars is going to be whoever can play through each episode the fastest, and some of us can do so in under ten minutes, five minutes of animations adds one third of the total time taken, that means King control who wins All Stars by the type of animations they add to players' games, and I know that this differs between accounts.

Have you read those posts in the other thread which are some of us debating ways to cheat the game and skip some of these animations by wild clicking methods in odd parts of the screen? Apparently there is a way to do this so is this what we need to now practise rather than how to crush the most purple candies? Should the winner of All Stars really be the player who can figure out how to out-click the animations the fastest?

So my plea is that please can you send some feedback to the team and can they please make sure this animations overkill gets sorted before All Stars, so that the event will actually find the best players. Unless King really do just want it to be a lottery this year?

I'll tag @GiggzZz on this as well. Hope you agree with me on this.

Welcome! 👋

Comments

christinewupp

I don't know as I don't work for King and none of us can predict how they will run All Stars this year.

I do think that players are randomly assigned to the three types of multipliers and then are grouped on leaderboards only with others who had the same type of multiplier.

christinewupp

This question is off topic for this thread. We'll find out when King decide to make this public. Wait for the official announcement.

Jugador17

Además de eso, me gustaría saber si el evento este año se hará como dicen en Londres o en Estados Unidos

Jugador17

Hola Christinewupp tengo una duda. Estos multiplicadores les saldrán a todos los jugadores o no ? Porqué no salen a algunos y otra sería si este año no se está haciendo el x30

christinewupp

Aren't those two boards just mirror images? What's the practical difference?

michimune

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3478731#Comment_3478731

I think this is a mission impossible to the development team.😂🤣

You know clearly we are playing different games since Candy Crush is released and delivering this message to others they don’t know that: different game versions, different UI, Different Testing Groups. Now you are asking the team to change this basic principle.

In All Stars 2025 Live Finals, the ten finalists had to earn the most purple candies from 3 rounds to compete with the 4 spots. I think everyone will know the numbers of purple candies is not Matter after watching the video. What is the most importance?

Just pass the 3 rounds within 3 minutes each is OK

If Mikki could have pass the round 3, he must replace Cole. He just needed to focus on how to pass the round 3.😔

The round 2 was a critical round for them all, only 4 finalists could pass it. Top 4 spots? But I think everyone has already found they were playing at different board, is it fair? Or King could not change this problem due to we are playing different games.

The winner’s board:

28 moves with the yellow candies on LEFT

The one who did not pass any rounds:

She had also 28 moves ( used one move), but her yellow candies on RIGHT. It is left-right reversal board.

If the colour of candy would be fall was fixed on every finalist on each board, it was the best. But the sad truth is they can’t even get an IDENTICAL STARTING BOARD.

Is it due to the basic principle? We are playing different games🤔🤔

christinewupp

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3478431#Comment_3478431

For the record, I've tried my best at speeding through some episodes to test my time: The best I can do is about 6000 purple per hour. I used to be able to crush more last year. Maybe I'm getting old or maybe the animations have got worse, or maybe the level algorithms with reduced cascading are to blame. These leaderboards are becoming less and less fun. I have tried playing offline. The episode race animations are skipped and if you have filled a chocolate on the box that also doesn't hold us up, so it is marginally quicker. I think if I was in the All Stars final speed crush rounds I would play entirely offline now and forego the episode race and other online events altogether. With the 30x multiplier no longer applied there is no longer a risk of losing out scores if we play offline: Is that really what King want us all to do? Play the entire finals rounds offline?

@QueenB Please could we in this community get some reassurance that:

During All Stars all players will receive the same amount of animation time wastage so the event is fair to all players
During All Stars any multiplier tokens are only available for use during the first three rounds, NOT in the Final Knockout rounds. If multiplier tokens were available for use during those last three rounds which only produce one winner it would be disastrous and would make the event a lottery rather than a means to find the best players. (We could explain the reasoning behind this if needed)

Please pass this on.

GiggzZz

I agree, we have a lot of animations after each level. I think the animation that freezes and consumes the most time is the Champions' Race. If this animation were hidden, I think it would be possible to jump directly from one level to another.

cookiemae

My Facebook does not have all these wigs on it'

Alienscar

We have been asking for the removal of 'pointless animations' since at least 2022 @christinewupp

All Stars or not I highly doubt King is going to change. In fact I have said before that newer animations seem to be longer and non-skippable when compared to previous existing animations.

https://share.google/89cpXX1Yuzcl5KHtg

Carol-38

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/582033/pointless-animations-and-their-effect-on-all-stars

100% correct again @christinewupp And even though I've never had All Stars, for whatever reason, and I wouldn't play it even if I did, so not a problem for me, this needs to be sorted for those who do.

I know what it's like when playing my normal game, annoying. So I'd dread to think what it would be like for those seriously playing All Stars. Again as you said, there are many who know how to and can skip such things and also probably many who don't get them. Hopefully King will listen and take action 🙄

Jejsta123

Nicely written…100% agree!

Comments

christinewupp

I don't know as I don't work for King and none of us can predict how they will run All Stars this year.

I do think that players are randomly assigned to the three types of multipliers and then are grouped on leaderboards only with others who had the same type of multiplier.

christinewupp

This question is off topic for this thread. We'll find out when King decide to make this public. Wait for the official announcement.

Jugador17

Además de eso, me gustaría saber si el evento este año se hará como dicen en Londres o en Estados Unidos

Jugador17

Hola Christinewupp tengo una duda. Estos multiplicadores les saldrán a todos los jugadores o no ? Porqué no salen a algunos y otra sería si este año no se está haciendo el x30

christinewupp

Aren't those two boards just mirror images? What's the practical difference?

michimune

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3478731#Comment_3478731

I think this is a mission impossible to the development team.😂🤣

Just pass the 3 rounds within 3 minutes each is OK

If Mikki could have pass the round 3, he must replace Cole. He just needed to focus on how to pass the round 3.😔

The winner’s board:

28 moves with the yellow candies on LEFT

The one who did not pass any rounds:

She had also 28 moves ( used one move), but her yellow candies on RIGHT. It is left-right reversal board.

christinewupp

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3478431#Comment_3478431

@QueenB Please could we in this community get some reassurance that:

During All Stars all players will receive the same amount of animation time wastage so the event is fair to all players
During All Stars any multiplier tokens are only available for use during the first three rounds, NOT in the Final Knockout rounds. If multiplier tokens were available for use during those last three rounds which only produce one winner it would be disastrous and would make the event a lottery rather than a means to find the best players. (We could explain the reasoning behind this if needed)

Please pass this on.

GiggzZz

cookiemae

My Facebook does not have all these wigs on it'

Alienscar

We have been asking for the removal of 'pointless animations' since at least 2022 @christinewupp

All Stars or not I highly doubt King is going to change. In fact I have said before that newer animations seem to be longer and non-skippable when compared to previous existing animations.

https://share.google/89cpXX1Yuzcl5KHtg

Carol-38

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/582033/pointless-animations-and-their-effect-on-all-stars

Jejsta123

Nicely written…100% agree!