I don't understand how Episode Race works

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-soda-saga/discussion/304906/i-dont-understand-how-episode-race-works

Hello @Debn @hechicerilla and @Nix66 😊

I spoke with the developers in our Studio and I have some more information for you.

So, I can confirm that you are indeed playing against real people! There are no bots and all of your matches are against real people.

The reason that you might feel that you’re playing against a bot is that you’re not actually playing exactly in real-time against other players - there’s a slight delay. This is because our system needs some time to see if the level was difficult to pass for the player, how long it took, etc. So when you are playing the Episode Race, what you are seeing is what other real players did in the same levels, earlier that day or maybe a few days before.

Why the Studio do this? So they can categorize your gameplay performance and pair you with players that had similar performances, therefore your are placed in races adjusted to your level. Imagine, for example, a player took quite a while to finish a level, we don’t want to put him or her against somebody who finished it in no time at all! It wouldn’t be lots of fun for anybody if the most advanced players were paired with players who take their time a bit more, either

So depending on this performance, the Studio puts players into three broad categories: easy, medium, and hard. As you win and lose levels, you’ll move through the categories.

As I said, this way the Studio makes sure that our players have the most fun possible and that they’re matched against people with a similar gameplay performance

I hope that this answers your questions and clarifies things a little more.

Please rest assured that you are indeed playing against other players, there’s just a slight delay to make sure you have the best experience possible.

Have you all a Sodalicious Wednesday 🤗

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Xicore

Oh it most definitely cheats, definitely bots, i was in the race, played one level and was in first place, this would be my second race ever, I took a 10 minute shower, i was then in last place, a d this other person in first place WAS 4 5 LEVELS AWAY FROM WINNING THE DAM RACE!!!!!!! IT IS LITERALLY IMMMMPOSSIBLE TO BEAT THAT MANY LEVELS THAT FAAT!!!! I HAVE NO FREINDS ON THAT GAME EXCEPT MY GF! THESE ARE FAKE PEOPLE! AND I WANNA TALK TO TGE DEVS OF THE GAME! I EANNA SEE YOY GUYD LIE YOUR WAY OUT OF THIS ONE!!! 15 LEVELS IN 10 MINUTES IS IMPOSDIBLE! AND INFAIR TO US AS PLAYERS!

YTEpic_Playz18321

I hate bots.

YTEpic_Playz18321

Like I'm On Chocolate Mountian levels 2346 - 2360 and these people fly right past me on an episode with tons of hard levels and I think they just either get stupid luck or just spend mad money for boosters, gold bars, deals and etc. and it really is just annoying like this game is about chilling out and wish King could make it to where you could have the option to race or not because sometimes we don't want to compete and just chill out and not have to have candy crush in our minds thing to ourselves "I'm gonna lose my streak if I don't win this race and lose gold bars" and be stressed over a videogame like that's kinda crazy if you ask me.

Hello @ElenaVorona !

I merged your comment with this discussion since it seemed it was the same question.

You can find here my answer on how Episode Race works 🤗

ElenaVorona

When I had many levels in front of the game map, I went through 100-150 levels a week. There were more). But less often.

Now I am not a competitor. Because most often I have only 30 new levels per week.

This function is already uninteresting for me. And rarely brings bonuses.

But I think that there are glitches in the game.

There was such a case.

I don’t know exactly what time the new weekly team arrives. But on Monday at 8 a.m., I see that the player who is in the first place has ALREADY completed 293 levels.

Excuse me, but I do not believe this. Even adjusted for time differences.

It is simply not possible.

And further. This player has not added a single level for the whole week. And it remained on Sunday evening - 293. Of course, he won)).

(using google translator)

Perfect. Right now I'm sending the data.

Thanks again 😘

@LadyRaffie

Hello @hechicerilla !

Thank you for your kind words 😍

Yes I know what you mean and the Studio is aware of them. There's a special team that is in charge of banning these called "players" with the help of our players so if you ever see someone that you think it can be a bot, take a screenshot and contact our Support team through the game app 🤗

Thanks @LadyRaffie , the explanation is very good and you fulfill your role of wonder. The counting system seems logical and fair to me. But ... I can assure you that there are machines playing. It is not a suspicion. I know in person, in real life (I do not know if it is understood when it is translated) people who do not play, but they install a program that plays for them, with no limit of lives, no limit of reinforcements. These people appear in the rankings far above the real players. If necessary, I can give data in private messages. A long time ago I contacted the technical service directly from the game and explained what I said, I asked them if there was a way to prevent it, if they could verify and fix it, but they replied that they did not understand what I was talking about 🤷

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Hello @Debn @hechicerilla and @Nix66 😊

I spoke with the developers in our Studio and I have some more information for you.

So, I can confirm that you are indeed playing against real people! There are no bots and all of your matches are against real people.

So depending on this performance, the Studio puts players into three broad categories: easy, medium, and hard. As you win and lose levels, you’ll move through the categories.

As I said, this way the Studio makes sure that our players have the most fun possible and that they’re matched against people with a similar gameplay performance

I hope that this answers your questions and clarifies things a little more.

Please rest assured that you are indeed playing against other players, there’s just a slight delay to make sure you have the best experience possible.

Have you all a Sodalicious Wednesday 🤗

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Hello everyone!

I can undertand how confusing that must be.

Let me talk with the Studio and ask around some questions on why you have been seeing that and will come back to you with an answer.

Does it sound good? 🤗

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True @Debn

In fact I know players who are not real, they are robots, machines playing. I do not know how to explain it, they are not sorry, it is a program created to play. I also know cheat people who hack the game to have infinite lives and infinite reinforcements. I really don't see any sense in that, there's no game in that. He loses the emotion, the overcoming, he loses everything, but it bothers us the real players because they always appear in the best rankings without giving the true players a choice

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Hello @Debn @hechicerilla and @Nix66 😊

I spoke with the developers in our Studio and I have some more information for you.

So, I can confirm that you are indeed playing against real people! There are no bots and all of your matches are against real people.

So depending on this performance, the Studio puts players into three broad categories: easy, medium, and hard. As you win and lose levels, you’ll move through the categories.

As I said, this way the Studio makes sure that our players have the most fun possible and that they’re matched against people with a similar gameplay performance

I hope that this answers your questions and clarifies things a little more.

Please rest assured that you are indeed playing against other players, there’s just a slight delay to make sure you have the best experience possible.

Have you all a Sodalicious Wednesday 🤗

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True @Debn

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Hello everyone!

I can undertand how confusing that must be.

Let me talk with the Studio and ask around some questions on why you have been seeing that and will come back to you with an answer.

Does it sound good? 🤗

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Hello @Debn @hechicerilla and @Nix66 😊

I spoke with the developers in our Studio and I have some more information for you.

So, I can confirm that you are indeed playing against real people! There are no bots and all of your matches are against real people.

So depending on this performance, the Studio puts players into three broad categories: easy, medium, and hard. As you win and lose levels, you’ll move through the categories.

As I said, this way the Studio makes sure that our players have the most fun possible and that they’re matched against people with a similar gameplay performance

I hope that this answers your questions and clarifies things a little more.

Please rest assured that you are indeed playing against other players, there’s just a slight delay to make sure you have the best experience possible.

Have you all a Sodalicious Wednesday 🤗

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Hello @hechicerilla !

Thank you for your kind words 😍

Perfect. Right now I'm sending the data.

Thanks again 😘

@LadyRaffie

ElenaVorona

When I had many levels in front of the game map, I went through 100-150 levels a week. There were more). But less often.

Now I am not a competitor. Because most often I have only 30 new levels per week.

This function is already uninteresting for me. And rarely brings bonuses.

But I think that there are glitches in the game.

There was such a case.

I don’t know exactly what time the new weekly team arrives. But on Monday at 8 a.m., I see that the player who is in the first place has ALREADY completed 293 levels.

Excuse me, but I do not believe this. Even adjusted for time differences.

It is simply not possible.

And further. This player has not added a single level for the whole week. And it remained on Sunday evening - 293. Of course, he won)).

(using google translator)