Nooo! I already collected my day's worth of FFs this morning! I guess that's what happens when I can't wait to get the Duskfall Edifice
Oh no!
As I recall from magic egg event there was at least one item that I got the balance of the double eggs on Friday when the doubling started and I had already collected the normal amount. Perhaps clearing obstacles or collecting party hats.
Post by The Lemurr on Jul 18, 2014 11:27:37 GMT -6
It looks like my double FFs has started now. Upgraded last cold habitat to giant for 25 gems, earned 50 FFs. Purchased giant seasonal for 7,500,000 DC, earned no FFs.
Hi all! Long time, over a year, lurker here. Thank you all for your continually educational and informative posts.
My park is a level 51, I have 10 islands. I have never spent real money on this game.
Double FFs has not begun for me yet, Mountain Standard Time.
Since the event began, my info button on the firefly icon has always told me 2 hours to reset. Always. Until today, now it has said 14 hours since early this morning. Weird.
An easy and quick way to monitor your daily collection, is (provided you don't have the total amount needed for the next item) to tap on the gloaming gate and choose "turn in fireflies", at which point you will know how many you still need. Collect your FFs like normal. Before signing out, try to turn in your FFs again, and subtract the number you now need from the number it initially said you needed. This will give you the exact number you have collected at that gaming session. Quick and easy tracking.
Again, thank you all for sharing your experiences and tips here, it has been very helpful.
Welcome aboard! Glad to see another lurker come out from the umbra.
I went crazy again and bought enough double FF to get my Dusk and special habitat... I have bred my Dawn with Sun & Dusk with Moon and I'm now the proud owner of seconds of Dawn & Dusk (only had a few Sun & Moon fails and of course used up more of my gem reserves). I'm now turning my seconds into babies. I really love the design of these gorgeous dragons, adults & babies. Well done BFS!
Rearrangement done and I'm happy with the new layout
The new habitat didn't use up a habitat allowance, so it's an extra habitat and the Dawn & Dusk eggs hatched as quickly as the 'gift' ones.
All is good in Noodlesland, now I can slowly collect the rest of my FF for the tower.... and not have to worry while I'm working away from home with limited Wi-Fi & 4G yay!
Main Park - playing since July 2012 Friend ID: Noodles#4656
Post by ukwildcats4ever on Jul 18, 2014 12:06:54 GMT -6
I had already collected 40 ffs from breeding and just now sold a storm egg for 20ffs. I am also earning more ffs from collecting treats. So I think it is possible to get the double today even if you had gotten the max.
I have only been able to get 4 more treats for a total of 44 on the day.
I went crazy again and bought enough double FF to get my Dusk and special habitat... I have bred my Dawn with Sun & Dusk with Moon and I'm now the proud owner of seconds of Dawn & Dusk (only had a few Sun & Moon fails and of course used up more of my gem reserves). I'm now turning my seconds into babies. I really love the design of these gorgeous dragons, adults & babies. Well done BFS!
Rearrangement done and I'm happy with the new layout
The new habitat didn't use up a habitat allowance, so it's an extra habitat and the Dawn & Dusk eggs hatched as quickly as the 'gift' ones.
All is good in Noodlesland, now I can slowly collect the rest of my FF for the tower.... and not have to worry while I'm working away from home with limited Wi-Fi & 4G yay!
noodles that's great (and I thought I was impatient), I'm about five hundred away from the Dusk Dragon and now you have me rethinking my strategy--lol....Thanks for letting us know about the habitat and breeding. Koala to all
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Yay! Double Firefly has started... *feeling excited* There is a minor glitch in the Treasure section where there is no actual price listed on the fireflies card.
Koala, everyone!
Mine has a price listed.
I think it was a temporary glitch that was fixed very fast. It happened before also when the event was first introduced.
Yay! Double Firefly has started... *feeling excited* There is a minor glitch in the Treasure section where there is no actual price listed on the fireflies card.
Koala, everyone!
I did test it with a small purchase on Android and it worked fine.
noodles that's great (and I thought I was impatient), I'm about five hundred away from the Dusk Dragon and now you have me rethinking my strategy--lol....Thanks for letting us know about the habitat and breeding. Koala to all
noodles inspired me as well: I've now made what I consider a minimal investment in both FF and gems that should keep me going till the light switch
(I know you could just BUY the dang things, but it's so much fun trying... particularly when you don't think of it as an expense, but a payback.)
Next thing you know, I'll be looking for a dragon-sitter... or better yet, hiring myself out as one.
I did test it with a small purchase on Android and it worked fine.
Hi!
Did you test it when the price was not listed?
Yes and it was fine. I also just went back in (thanks to noodles and did it again) and the prices now showed. It seems that happens the first time I log in everytime there is a sale.
On another note (again thanks to noodles) I purchase some fireflies and now have my Dusk Dragon! Yahhh!
As an FYI, I had also never leveled a dragon using gems and wanted to test it and you will also receive FF for spending gems to level them instead of treats. Koala to all, as I actually do some work at my RL job.
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Post by flutterbye on Jul 18, 2014 12:53:14 GMT -6
For those in Europe, I'm getting 4 per farm. So double ffs is working fine for me. And I just hatched a Gold, and got 40 extra, as I had maxed out on hatching ffs this morning. My renewal time is still 7 am, unchanged.
Kindle park1: nearly all dragons are frolicking in their habitats! (A Thorny little problem to resolve...)
Smartphone park2: Geode, a dragon with rocks in! Still to breed 4 dragons...
Double ffs for me as well. I foolishly hatched my 40 ffs worth of eggs this morning when I got up but then remembered that it was Friday and that doubling was likely to start later in the morning, so I didn't collect any of the others. Seems like I have about a 10 hour delta between ff reset and double start time, so I should be able to get 4 separate collections for most collection categories on Sunday night and Monday morning if I plan carefully.
These things are always a learning process!
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Hydrogen is a colorless, odorless gas, which if left alone in large enough quantities, for long enough, will begin to think about itself.
Nooo! I already collected my day's worth of FFs this morning! I guess that's what happens when I can't wait to get the Duskfall Edifice
You should still be able to get bonus fireflies from stuff that doesn't have diminishing returns! I.e. gems, breeding, party hats.
At least that's how it worked during the previous events.
Thanks for this! I hatched another egg to test this and got another 20. Hatched one more for 20 additional ffs for a full 80 for egg hatching, so I haven't missed out on any double payouts yet!
GCID: akaSkitch
Hydrogen is a colorless, odorless gas, which if left alone in large enough quantities, for long enough, will begin to think about itself.
You should still be able to get bonus fireflies from stuff that doesn't have diminishing returns! I.e. gems, breeding, party hats.
At least that's how it worked during the previous events.
Thanks for this! I hatched another egg to test this and got another 20. Hatched one more for 20 additional ffs for a full 80 for egg hatching, so I haven't missed out on any double payouts yet!
POTM for Backflip Studios fixing this this time aorund!
Edit: Added to POTM
Last Edit: Jul 18, 2014 16:18:17 GMT -6 by ElektronX
Hi all! Long time, over a year, lurker here. Thank you all for your continually educational and informative posts.
My park is a level 51, I have 10 islands. I have never spent real money on this game.
Double FFs has not begun for me yet, Mountain Standard Time.
Since the event began, my info button on the firefly icon has always told me 2 hours to reset. Always. Until today, now it has said 14 hours since early this morning. Weird.
An easy and quick way to monitor your daily collection, is (provided you don't have the total amount needed for the next item) to tap on the gloaming gate and choose "turn in fireflies", at which point you will know how many you still need. Collect your FFs like normal. Before signing out, try to turn in your FFs again, and subtract the number you now need from the number it initially said you needed. This will give you the exact number you have collected at that gaming session. Quick and easy tracking.
Again, thank you all for sharing your experiences and tips here, it has been very helpful.
Welcome aboard! Glad to see another lurker come out from the umbra.
You should still be able to get bonus fireflies from stuff that doesn't have diminishing returns! I.e. gems, breeding, party hats.
At least that's how it worked during the previous events.
I'm a little confused. What do you mean? O.o
Collecting from habitats and treats has a diminishing returns algorithm to it, in addition to a hard limit. Basically when you collect a treat, there's a chance that you will get fireflies, and that chance shrinks with each firefly you get.
When they start a double event, they raise the daily limits, but the diminishing returns are not reset. So if you already got fireflies from 20 habitats, the chances of getting some from your 21st could be at 0%, or at a value very close to it.
I suspect they're doing an exponential diminish this time around, so it could be possible to get an extra 40 fireflies from treats if you already collected 40 earlier. It might just take you a very, very, very long time.
Hatching dragons on the other hand is not subject to that at all. You get fireflies 100% of the time. When the limit is raised halfway through the day, you can just hatch a couple more dragons and you're done.
Collecting from habitats and treats has a diminishing returns algorithm to it, in addition to a hard limit. Basically when you collect a treat, there's a chance that you will get fireflies, and that chance shrinks with each firefly you get.
When they start a double event, they raise the daily limits, but the diminishing returns are not reset. So if you already got fireflies from 20 habitats, the chances of getting some from your 21st could be at 0%, or at a value very close to it.
I suspect they're doing an exponential diminish this time around, so it could be possible to get an extra 40 fireflies from treats if you already collected 40 earlier. It might just take you a very, very, very long time.
Hatching dragons on the other hand is not subject to that at all. You get fireflies 100% of the time. When the limit is raised halfway through the day, you can just hatch a couple more dragons and you're done.
Well I'd say it was a pretty bad idea for me to collect 38 of my DC collecting fireflies before the limit was increased. It's gonna take me a long time to get the other 42.
Post by dragonmagic1 on Jul 18, 2014 14:41:46 GMT -6
FYI,
We knew that the sale was for 72 hours but now it is confirmed (in case I missed it somewhere else) as I just had a pop up on my Android which basically says Double Firefly Weekend July 18th THROUGH July 20th Koala to all
Last Edit: Jul 18, 2014 14:42:03 GMT -6 by dragonmagic1
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