Dear @zackvoyager,
U understand your frustration. I would like to explain my view on the points you are raising. I admit that some of this stuff is, also for me, in a grey area with a thin red line. Therefore, I believe that this topic warrants a proper discussion.
I definitely do not speak on behalf of the community. I do have some strong opinions about all this and invite anyone in here to agree or disagree with me in any way.
Many people in this forum have been playing this game for some time now and many are trying to get as much out of it as they can. This whole forum is based on maximizing points and scores. Have a look at the discussions in all the walkthroughs, leaderboards and other places around this forum.
What you are referring to with the excel tables and efficient farming actually builds on maximizing one’s efforts on getting maximum points. To gain amounts of snoutlings, mastery, XP or even LC’s that can actually make a difference in the game, it takes an incredible amount of in-game hours. People who are using these methods are spending large amounts of time in the game. (I personally spent half a year of farming to gain enough to max-out my birds!)
Please don’t take this the wrong way, but if you really don’t care about maximizing your personal effort in the game, then why bother with criticizing the efforts made in this forum to help out players who do? All these efforts on describing efficient farming methods are nothing more but strategies for maximizing game results.
Now, about this lucky coin business. This method has been around for a long time now and for the exact reason you are pointing out in your post, I have chosen to post it in this thread. Many people knew that this exploit was out there but it was kept quiet only because it caused cheating in the arena. That last one is a big issue since it keeps others from having any chance of winning in the arena. Therefore it was heavily moderated in here.
Since this does not work anymore and most people already knew about this exploit, I decided to share it. Mostly because I had received many many requests from people who wanted to know how to gain these LC’s. This way everyone will have a chance to gain some more LC’s, if only to complete their collection of helmets.
Don’t you think it is really unfair to get the sea dog arena objectives without having played long enough to buy sea dog? Or what about you joining recently, only to find out that you discovered the game too late to receive the 60LC compensation for the messed up holidays events? Or missing out on the 100 LC gift because you don’t follow Rovio on twitter? Or about hearing that in the beginning, you could replay the golden cloud as many times as you liked? Or what about having paid money for LC’s to buy mastery classes which suddenly are obsolete after Rovio changed the system? Well, enough of these examples although there are plenty where they came from.
I guess what I am saying is, why keep it secret to a few players while everyone else is struggling and paying real life money, only to find out that the LC’s are completely worthless.
Yes, with lucky coins your birds may get some more mastery, but not a lot. At least not in the amount which gains you a serious advantage in the arena. It will take many many months of serious “farming” before you can gain enough LC’s AND snoutlings to maximize your birds, even with the LC farming.
Yes, you can buy rolls on your golden pig to help you with set items. Well, I have not seen many teams (if any) without complete sets and this LC exploit is NOT the cause for that, nor will it make a lot of difference.
There have been many, many bugs which caused epic set items to appear for everyone and one is still out there, randomly filling rainbow bars for random players. Not just ABN readers. The only difference is that in here, we’re usually trying to find out what is happening exactly. By doing that, we actually also provide data to Rovio in order to help solve these kind of issues.
To conclude, please direct your anger towards Rovio. They have been notified months ago about this exploit since it caused most of the cheating. Explanations have been incredibly detailed, but Rovio chooses to keep these exploits in. The very simple reason is that using the local clock/timezone enables them to present in-game elements based on your own time. In turn, that makes Rovio more money. It really is that simple. They consciously prefer higher income over proper programming.
Oh, and a final note, please play this game the way you like to play it.
If you don’t want to get more LCs, then don’t.
If you want to give Rovio a lot of money for overpriced in-game stuff, do so.
If you are bored with the gameplay and are looking for improvements, do so.
If you want to speed up the process of getting some needed items for your nest which cost an incredible amount of LC’s (equivalent of years of gameplay), then go ahead.
It’s your choice.
