Agggh! I hate it when this happens: opened Dragonvale to check my breedings, reminding myself that it's Friday and potentially a double weekend in a few hours, and my finger takes it upon itself to start tapping on treat farms. Why are you so weak, finger? What is it about an untapped target that's so irresistible?
Stupid finger.
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.
Now I am become Chaos, the Destroyer of Simplicity.
I have come to regret my role in the present arms race and the resulting policy of Mutually Assured Confusion. To that end, I am renouncing my previous policy of spiraling complexity in favor of an approach that is simple and yet NOT boring (but not necessarily interesting either). In other words, literally NOT boring, or the inverse of the boring set: I will pay all contestants a gem EXCEPT the winner.
Garçon, please change my order to !Boring.
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.
I am only going to aim for 1 Spooky Theme. I stopped spending gems because if my calculations are correct then if I get 160 gems per day at least until November 3rd then I should have enough candy for 1 Spooky Theme.
I am doing the same thing as you are. I spent gems generously during the double weekend but stopped spending gems.
Ditto and ditto
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.
Seemed too easy to me too when I did a rough esitimate in my head.
Assuming max candy every day, and two double weekends, how much extra candy would be needed to get a second spooky theme? I haven't been maxing usually... but I'm curious how close my purchase of 400 candies could have put me towards theme #2. If I could keep on maxing gems and then would only need to spend a couple bucks for another theme... maybe id do it.
Well, assuming the second theme is the same cost as the first, you'd need 3840 for the last dragon and two spookies. Assuming you did a full 205 yesterday, your two double weekends adds 6 "full days" to the 14 from the first estimate. That gives you around 4100 candies by the end, easily enough for the extra theme.
ETA: Also, for completeness, if you use the Kairos strategy I've written about before and can use the "prevent park from reloading" exploit that "Guest" posted about for your Colosseum, that nets you four double days per double weekend, for an extra two "full days", or 4500-ish candies.
And now I'm done until three runners up and the winner are decided!
Hmm, while I don't doubt you sent it, a gem hasn't arrived yet, anyone know who long they take to be delivered?
It's usually just about instant, but I have seen it take hours, presumably because of server issues or the like. If you don't receive by the time my gems reset I'll send another. I still have 2 discretionary gems a day while looking for another daily gem buddy!
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.
Bought 400 candies to get the first Nosferatu over the weekend. I would have normally waited till the next double weekend to purchase, but I didn't want to wait any longer to hatch my ragnarok, and i liked the idea of getting nosferatu first so that my first dragonarium completion could be finished with ragnarok. Yay sparkles.
So how many more days do we have left? Don't see the end date in the OP, and I need to figure out how many more days i should try maxing out on gem candies. I might be able to get all prizes if I only buy more giant habitats during one more double weekend...
I hatched the first Nosferatu last night, so I'm looking at a total of 2160 candies for the last two prizes (actually a bit less since I had 7 candies left over after turning them in). Assuming full collection without spending any gems I can collect 165 candies per day, meaning I need just over 13 normal days. Counting today and assuming full collection on Nov 3, there are 14 normal days left in the event. No double days or gem spending required.
Am I missing something? That seems too easy... Can somebody double check me?
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.
Bizarrely, I got to 408/410 candies for my last double day. That points to missing a single gem purchase. I can't think of any other way to reach this point Remember these are double candies so in normal terms it is a single candy short
Problem was, spending gems would not release that last award.
I even sped up one of my ragnorak breedings so I could try for a fourth to really annoy wapatango. Sadly my next two breeds were in the 8 hour region. First was a lava. Waiting to see what the next is.
A glitch I think. This happened to me the day before yesterday, with the exact same end result (408 rather than 410). Thing is, I'm tracking explicitly with a tally app and I had all candy awards exactly accounted for, and I saw the shortfall occur while I was collecting treats (got 2 candies instead of 4 for 1 collection). Like you, I tested a single gem spend to try to collect those final 2 without success (even though I was confident I hadn't miscounted).
Interestingly, I had the reverse happen before the double weekend when I collected 207 candies instead of 205, with the overage appearing in my treat collection category. So at least I'm net even!
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.
The tips are applicable to the current event as well, except that it's not possible to get a full four days worth of candies because the colosseum is a collection category this time around and can't be pulled into the doubling period.
Actually you can, if you exploit the fact that the double event doesn't end until you reload your park.
If you schedule your Colosseum to end shortly after That Time When Things Happen (say for example, 16:32 UTC), you can open your park at 16:28 on Monday, then wait out the 4 minutes and collect your Colosseum with doubling still active.
Just wish I'd thought of that before the event started.
That's a really interesting idea. Sounds like it requires both careful planning as well as careful execution... Hmmmm.
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.
My Kairos was ready today, and it reminded me of a strategy someone (don't remember who) suggested during the Firefly Festival. In my game, the Candies reset around 11pm, but the Candy sale will go until 9:30am on Monday. So I am saving Kairos until Monday morning so I can get an extra round of longer treats and DC collection before the double weekend is over (assuming that double candies will end when the sale ends). If it works, I will have 4 days of double candies (minus the Colosseum, which doesn't reset in my game until the evening).
The tips are applicable to the current event as well, except that it's not possible to get a full four days worth of candies because the colosseum is a collection category this time around and can't be pulled into the doubling period.
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.
I'm gonna be ending with a total of 1433 candies at the end of the day. Ugh so close to getting that Dark Island theme. I don't really care about the theme, but it would mean I'm that much closer to getting the Nosferatu!
Yeah I feel the same way. By my calculations I should hit the theme tomorrow. And then it's working towards Nosferatu! Looks like the first Nosferatu costs a little less than the dark theme. And then the second Nosferatu is a complete steal!
I've been turning in my candies daily to reset my bank to zero before each day's collection, so I'm not sure exactly how many I've accumulated toward the dark theme. Is there any way to tell (i.e. an exact count in a window somewhere)?
Visually it looks like I'm at about 3/4 of the progress bar and I'm on track to collect 410 candies today if I take gold in the colosseum, so I might hit the dark theme tonight!
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.
Hydrogen is a colorless, odorless gas, which if left alone in large enough quantities, for long enough, will begin to think about itself.
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