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Someone in my clan got a reply.  They are investigating why they can play however they said that no rewards will be given.

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Looks like October 14th bannings will eclipse the July 4th bans.

Itchy, Solo, For Solo (aka Leia, aka Sola Alexa) among others have been banned today.

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Not everything resets at the same time.

The daily apples and the arena reset at 00:00 UTC

Your personal Daily Quest would usually reset at around 5am or 6am in your local timezone.

Clan events and battles now start at 05:00 UTC, the 200/400/600 events used to start at a time relative to the clan’s home country’s timezone but Rovio stopped that as some clans cheated by getting rewards twice by changing their location from Fiji to Western Samoa.

Battles also used to start at 00:00 UTC but haven’t done so for about a year.

MEBC also resets at 05:00 UTC.

So all in all, there are only two reset times now depending upon what it is.

As for maintenance, it’s usual for this to be done overnight, as Rovio are a Finnish company it would be done overnight in Finland. 8pm in NY would be 3am in Finland.

 

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Up to and including level 3 it is sustainable if you feed every 48 hours.  Level 4, costs 50 apples per feed and is possible to sustain at that level for plenty of feeds if you are diligent and complete the Daily Challenge and King Pig Panic but your apple stash will go down slowly.

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I’ve never heard of this but if I were you I would make a couple of screenshots before and after collecting.

Before collecting, on the first tab titled “YESTERDAY”, it will tell you your position and below that the number of MEBC coins you earned.  For 70 coins you would finish between 1000th and 1999th position. Take a screenshot of that first.

Then before collecting go to the “TOP PLAYERS” tab, it will tell you your Total Mighty Eagle points in this season on the left, take a note of the number and screenshot it.

Go back to the “YESTERDAY” tab and click “COLLECT”.  If the number shown isn’t the number it said you would be collecting then screenshot that too.

Finally go back to the “TOP PLAYERS” tab, it should be the number collected on to your previous total on the left.  If not screenshot that.

Finally send a report to Rovio.  I’m sure they will compensate you for the missed coins as you have highlighted a bug.

 

To answer your question, I’ve not heard of this particular issue before.

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You could just ask them.  They are an EU company and as such bound by the GDPR data laws, part of which is that they are not allowed to collect data that is not relevant and must be able to explain why access to certain data is necessary.

If they fob you off, tell them to refer to Article 13  https://gdpr-info.eu/art-13-gdpr/

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Another Beak’s perspective…

I get FF for completing stage 7 of arena (but I haven’t done that in a while), like the apples on stage 2 you can only get this FF once per 24 hours.  During Super Streak Week it disappears.

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If you reply in the app rather than email they usually respond.  Assuming you haven’t gone off on a massive rant, I find them to be helpful in cases like these.

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This is a good thing for these reasons:

1: Clans who have 100% participation from their members as every million they get in their scores count.

2: Clans that use a large number of very low FP accounts to get favourable match ups will be hindered as their lower FP accounts will not be able to get many eggs.

3: Every minor improvement by each player will help the clan, under the old system a player getting a 1m or 2m improvement may not have translated into more eggs; referring to point 1 it will encourage clans to behave more like clans and help each other out.

4: Any cheaters removed from a battle by Rovio, their scores disappearance will have a greater effect on the outcome than it currently does (current system means everyone moves up a place including the cheater’s clanmates so effect is less profound).

 

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I had an issue like this once but with fewer rewards lost.  I did get a response and some compensation in Piggy mail.  Firstly, you say you contacted Rovio, did you use the reporting tool in the app?  If you emailed, they don’t reply, use the app.

Secondly did you include the screenshot you posted here?  If not, I suggest you add another ticket with the screenshot.  Thirdly, be polite rather than angry.

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Stage 1 has four rooms, which suggests that stage 9 is probably going to be 8 rooms.

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I don’t think the leagues are rigged as such but be aware that of the 14 other people you see in your league won’t necessarily see you in theirs.  So while you see a player accumulate what appears to be unnecessary points on a Saturday when they are a couple of hundred ahead already, that player may see another player much closer to them.  I once had a player from my clan in my league but they didn’t see me in their league table, in fact none of the players they saw matched any of the players I had but in my final table my clan mates final points tally agreed with what they said they did.

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To answer your question there’s no hard and fast rule.  Sometimes as little as 100 may be enough to stay in Diamond but to be honest I’ve never really looked.  Even in Legendary League one week 500 may be enough to win it, in another week 1000 isn’t enough to finish in the top 3.

The other point I was trying to make was that if just staying up is your aim then as you get little or no reward below the top 5 or 6 places in Diamond then is it worth doing so?  You may be better off taking a couple of relegations and then going for a couple of promotions from Emerald, through Amethyst and back to Diamond and repeat.

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Furthermore, I doubt that the winner of your Diamond league with 1922 points is a cheat.  However 1922 points I reckon equates to around 4 hours per day solidly for a week.  That is not worth 300 gems and Black Pearls, therefore I conclude that the player is an idiot.

Putting it further into context, using UK figures…

Minimum wage is £8.21 p/h, multiply that by 28 (hours I reckon is probably needed to get 1922 points), that equals £229.88

Rovio sell 400 gems for £5.99

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To answer your original question, if you simply don’t have the time or tickets then why fight to avoid relegation in Diamond?  You could put in loads of effort for 10 gems and possibly another week like it the same the following week.

When I was on holiday in the summer I dropped from Legendary to Amethyst but played a few times to get free tickets in those couple of weeks.  Once I was back I won Amethyst with little effort, and the rewards for winning Amethyst are almost the same as winning Diamond other than the fact that winning Diamond takes you to Legendary.

As Buster said a few posts ago, it’s for you to decide when to fold.  In my Legendary League last week I had the top 4 all over 1200 points, although I had the tickets to compete I have better things to do than to spend many hours per day just to keep up.  The eventual winner had over 400 within 24 hours of the start; that made my decision nice and early, but only doing free plays I accumulated about 40 additional tickets.

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I see your point, many people don’t, and on the other end of the scale some people spend ridiculous amounts of money per month.

I pay a little, I usually spend amount £10 per month which I justify based on the fact that I use it a lot and I certainly use it more than I use Netflix for example where I spend ~£8 per month, but I don’t go crazy with money on the app.

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I see now they have moved the egg from level 40 to 60.  Getting to 40 was hard enough, maybe about once a month for me, but level 60 is almost unattainable for the vast majority of players.  In 2 years I have got there about 3 or 4 times.

I haven’t had adverts in ToF since January, however I believe that they usually only give ads in ToF to players who don’t pay for any of their packages.  If you have bought something, you would have to wait 3-4 months before you get your ToF ads back.

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Whatever Rovio do they simply have to be consistent.  I don’t mind either way but they cannot make changes at random times.  Today wasn’t an issue for me as it’s the last day of the season and I’d already levelled up yesterday so I was never going to level up again but no doubt it has affected people.

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I agree with you that they should not have changed it during a season.  However as a result everyone’s final score and MEBC coins collected will be lower; but the change favours above average players shot selection and execution wise with lower FPs than high FP but not very good players.

Other than losing out on some MEBC coins compared to previously, good players should welcome this change because it lowers the need to pay more real money to get ahead in the game.

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As I understand it you need all x10 hats.

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@guava564 as Buster says, watch the videos, you will see higher FP players fill up the d-meter faster.

Furthermore, I have an inkling the change was brought about because Rovio wanted to do something about Solo.  I have noticed that with one exception (probably due to cycling boulders in a lava layout) that Solo hasn’t been near the top 3 n most days.  A couple of months ago there were rumours that Solo is a cheat (I don’t know either way) and other top players were renaming themselves as “SoloIsACheat” etc.

I have no proof of this but it’s just a theory of mine.

I think Solo was maxing out near to what the top possible points were, i.e. except in the case of lava levels where a boulder cycle can occur the maximum number of base points available in any room is 100,000.  The base points scored is then multiplied by the used bird’s power.  In MEBC there were a maximum of 15 rooms, that number is academic now because a strike in each room would only allow you to clear 11 rooms at most.

Therefore the top scorers need to clear the pigs out as quickly as possible to get higher scores whereas before the change it may have been more beneficial to destroy as much structure as possible and then the pigs if that player was certain to recycle the d-meter; certainly this would have been the case in the early few rooms.

As I said yesterday, the new method, despite us not getting as many MEBC coins as we did before, I think it is better for players who don’t have massive FPs but are playing well.

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@tubby it’s not down to AB2.  If a leader is inactive for a week then there could be a valid real-life issue that player had to deal with that takes precedence, however for the length of time you mention I’m surprised you didn’t leave already.  You wouldn’t not leave a sinking ship because it was nice once upon a time.

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The MEBC coins per room was only added about 4-5 months ago so you still get more than you would have previously done so before that change.

 

What I have noticed though, is that my daily finishing position is higher on average than it used to be.  When you think about it the reason is quite obvious, a player with a high FP filled the destructometer faster than a lower FP player could, therefore even an average player with a high FP would always beat a very good player with a much lower FP.

Now with that advantage removed, a more competent but lower FP player may be able to get through more rooms and create more damage per room than a poorer player with a higher FP and therefore record a higher final score.

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Where did I crap on your ‘achievements’? All I said was that sometimes you get easier match ups than other times and the frame of your opponent *may* give you an indication of how skilled they are.

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Someone who is not a great player will not score a great score for their flock power in MEBC, as the season progresses people with similar FP will achieve later frames faster than a poor player would.  Therefore if towards the end of the season you have a battle against a player who has the same FP as you but they are a few frames behind then you can be assured that they are not necessarily a great scorer period.

That said, someone with a higher frame may have a nightmare and score badly or a lower frame play may have a good run or a bit of luck.

All I was hinting at is that if the frame of the opponent is inferior to yours by more than one then it’s likely that their scoring ability may be inferior to yours too.