Where to Get Gifts?

[MVNLA2]

@abeggertoo — I just deleted you from my FB friends list. Will try inviting you again tomorrow.

[ABeggerToo]

Ok. I did receive a gift from you (I believe) today. I look forward to returning the favour. Are you still harvesting from level 9? I’ve been completely shut out there for 2 days.

[MVNLA2]

The only blue gifts I’ve gotten since the update were in the map levels, and I frequently don’t see them, but do get them. I haven’t seen a red gift since the update, and forget about the red treasure chest in a level, which I only saw once, and didn’t get.
I’ve only gotten 1 blue gift on level 9 since the update, and wasn’t able to send it to anyone (despite having a lot of friends listed to send it to). I am waiting for @maiasatara’s stats to find out if there is anyplace left to farm gifts.
So Maiasatara — Where did you find the gifts you got, and how many restarts did it take?

[Rovio_Bankler]

The red gifts that were spawning earlier have unfortunately been removed. They have for now been replaced with premium chests that can spawn during some circumstances in some difficult levels that you have not already completed. The level 9 / level 13 gift farming was never an intended feature. I realize this is not the answer you were hoping for. I’m sorry for this. But at least now you know.

The blue ones should be spawning like they did before.

[Maiasatara]

@mvnla2
Not enough to really report but considering the post above:
Level 9 – two blue in first room at resets 6 and 9 out of 25.
Level 13 – two blue in first room at resets 16 and 42 out of 50.

@bankler – as long as you understand it’s a major reason players are quitting. How about gifting me the biggest coin pack for all my frustration so I can really determine how much of a monetary investment it would take to actually progress in a fair way – both arena and bird rank up. I go by the same name in Game Center that I do here and am happy to private msg my real name which appears in Rovio and AB Friends Leagues. I’m on disability income and spent $5 today in an attempt to fend off a string of 5 spell players. It’s the last money you will ever see from me.
Regards.

[Aeshna]

I’ve seen one spawned treasure chest since the update and did not get to open it as failed to complete level (it was about level 414), the temptation was there to spend gems to receive extra cards to finish the level but I made the decision at Xmas not to spend another penny on this game until the cheaters have been removed, something Rovio still have not done.

I also don’t see why those without Facebook accounts can’t send and receive gifts by some other method. I don’t want a Facebook account at all, even one to play games.

Blue gifts have still been appearing, not that I have been actively farming on level 13 anymore. I only used to farm a few boxes a day anyway but since reading players experiences, I stopped.
The twice I have tried, resulted in. Blue box, third throw of 15. Returned after one hour, blue box, first throw.

[MVNLA2]

@bankler — Hope Rovio realizes that it is killing AB2 because of it’s unreasonable greed. Not being able to get any red boxes without paying 80 gems for a chance, and only a chance at one is ridiculous. How is anyone ever supposed to get enough feathers to increase their birds rank?
As for blue boxes, I have yet to find more than one in level 9 or 13, despite many restarts, and the one I did get was bugged so I didn’t get to send it to a friend.

[Birdbrain]

It doesn’t matter whether you get red boxes or not. The game is designed to make you fail and spend money against cheats they have no intention of trying to remove. They could stop hackers easily, they choose not to.

[MVNLA2]

@abeggertoo — I did delete you as a friend from FB yesterday (I just checked). However, I actually got a friends gift and I sent it to you, since you are still on the list of people I can send gifts to! Go figure! Please let me know if you get it.
Will probably wait until tomorrow (Thurs) to re-invite you on FB, just to see what happens. If I were serious about continuing to play this game, I would delete and reinstall (after backing up if that is possible), but the perverse bugs are more interesting than the game itself ATM.

[ABeggerToo]

@mvnla2 I no longer see you in FB, but did receive a gift from ‘a friend’ today. The bugs would be interesting, if they didn’t interfere with the game. At times I wish I could just sit down and play, but changing rules of the game and different ways to navigate become distracting from what I once constpidrred a fun game – not a labyrinth of the Minotaur.

[ger_ych]

Rovio should have corrected the red gift farming error earlier before it became “feature” to many players. May be they should at least increase the feathers from a mere 20 and frequency of giving out in the Arena page.

[DJLarryt]

So now then, what’s the point of even playing in the arena except to be tethered to the game every 3 hours to try to work up to 150 stars @ +10- stars at a time? The chance to be the one person to win 100 gems and move to a higher competition level ….for what? More of nothing to spend to get more of nothing?

Do the accumulated bronze, silver, gold awards even give you anything except a couple of gems at win time? The 150 star award is a measly 20 -38 feathers, not worth all the time it takes to even play. What happens when you win 1st place on the diamond level? Where do you go from there?

I can see it being not too long before the only ones in the arena are hackers and robots playing one another. I won my way into the diamond level once, only to see that the first day of the new contest, the leader was already up to 175+ stars (overnight, how is that even possible) and figured it was not even worth playing because none of my birds are past the Azure level anyway. As a matter of fact, I let all my birds fail down to vanilla level in the arena again, because the only reason to even go in there is to play to get the daily gems and that’s it.

This game has way too much take and so little give.

[MVNLA2]

@abeggertoo @andalaybay — Gifts from FB friends are working again for me.

[kedik22]

@mvnla2

Yes, I can see you again.
Sorry, but not farming right now.
Only the blues ones you get occasionally.
Will be the first I send!!!
Regards.

[Birdbrain]

Has anyone noticed that Saturday night when the leagues come to finish, you just tend to get in battles with level 8 birds and 5 spell cards more often and also have stinking luck with pigs landing in awkward spots etc? These arenas are fixed. Also, why are strategists here that find things out like farming red boxes, telling rovio about these things? Lol

[Birdbrain]

The most games I lose in a row is two yet last 2 Saturday nights lost 7/8 in a row! I had chuck hit a wooden box earlier and it didn’t break

[MVNLA2]

@furious — The statistics were collected 6 months ago, and at the time we trusted Rovio not to nerf every good thing we found out about the game. That seems to have changed.

@kedik22 — I have finished all levels except 460 with 3*, so it is unlikely that I will be getting anymore blue gifts, let alone red gifts, which seem to have vanished.
Not sure I have the stomach for any more farming.

[Birdbrain]

I completed all levels with 3* last week. I’ve been cheated time after time in arenas to get to diamond league. I was 3rd last week then got a got score millions against me to stop me winning my last game before midnight and became 4th by 1 point as another guy went from bottom of league say 60-ish points to 800 in 10 minutes

[Birdbrain]

Just had a pig land on a 45 degree slope and not roll off it! Lol it’s a joke

[DJLarryt]

@furious I just blew up a stone tower with a bomb bird… the only thing remaining were the TNT boxes and tiny little green pigs… explain that one LOL

And here’s a treasure box. Good luck getting it (the first board sucked away 5 of my birds anyways).. and notice the little piglet is stuck under the floor… only one bird could have possibly hit him….. maybe

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[Rovio_Bankler]

@djlarryt Thanks for the screenshot! The pig stopping at the platform is not really a bug, but I agree it looks a little awkward, so we might look into that. Regarding the gift, it should be possible to “skillshot” that chest using Matilda’s egg. Probably one of the most difficult chests in the game though.

@mvnla2 I’m really sorry I haven’t been able to help you with the Facebook gift issues you experienced. I honestly don’t know what was causing them. However, I’m happy things seem to work a little better now.

Btw, @mvnla2, blue gifts can still spawn in levels you have completed, but with a little worse spawn rate (I think it’s around 10% vs the 15% it’d be the first time you play a level). Take those numbers with a grain of salt, as there sometimes might be other factors contributing, but looking at the code, this should be fairly accurate. If that changes your interest in replaying old levels to farm gifts I guess is a different story. I wouldn’t be surprised if you have more fun things to do inside and outside of the game. :)

[Birdbrain]

How is Matilda’s egg going to get that chest? The only chance is using bomb on the pile of timber and stone and hoping debris gets it.

Why can’t rovio kick off cheats? I’ve just played one game in Amethyst and have cheats doing me for the 4th week running. I’ve just won a game to go third, watched an advert to get another game and someone has gone from less than 100 points as were below me, to 274 in 2 minutes. I don’t mind spending a few pounds on the game but I refuse to spend £1 if the only two ways of winning a league are hacking or spending 50 hours and £50 in one week to get up to the next league.

I don’t know how to post pics but I’ve got some physics defying things I’ve got screen shots of!!

[Birdbrain]

In the battles now we have to face people who have got level 8 birds from a glitch that Rovio didn’t know about, so we who have spent weeks and many man hours battling levels to get to level 34 stars and level 6 birds are now fighting star level 10 players with level 8 birds!! The only fair thing to do is make all birds level 8. Rovio are a joke

[Birdbrain]

http://imgur.com/a/Vj3El

[Birdbrain]