@robertdebla wrote:
I have no problem with the algorithm but there is still too much space for cheaters. I am in the jade league and am using several purchased plants. Just can't get beyond the 6tth or 7th match in a row, have just been defeated by someone whom had all level10 plants... Not a level 9 and a level 11... All precisely level 10....
But the really unacceptable fact is that the #1 in my league is above 2000, and there are still 3 days to go, #2 is at 1300... ...how can these guys get all these gloves????
How many hours are they playing?
Is this possible ????
Having a whole lot of Gauntlets IS possible.
If you can build up a sufficiently long win streak, gained through consistently winning and/or occasionally using gems to retain the streak, a multipler kicks in. Under 100 consecutive wins gives no multiplier. Above 100, a times two multiplier comes into force. If you win a Pinata that shows x2, you will get x4. This carries on at approximately each 100 steps in a streak until you reach a maximum level of a times ten multiplier when you get to just below 1000 consecutive wins/retentions. The same x2 Pinata as before would then give you x20.
The same works for Coins, Mints, AND Gauntlets. Someone with a long enough win streak to have the times ten multiplier would win gauntlets every 14 won or retained matches the same as anyone else, but instead of the x2, they would get x20.
I'm guessing that numbers one and two in your Jade League are among those who have the benefit of a high multiplier and they win more gauntlets than they use. If someone uses a few of the daily Free Plays and all the daily Free Gauntlets a total of 8 free matches is quite feasible. Doing that would result in them using only six gauntlets from their stockpile to progress to the next Gauntlets award. Assuming they won all their matches, they would then get a further 20 Gauntlets. So, in exchange for their 6 gauntlets they would win 20. A nett gain of 14. Even without the free plays and gauntlets they would still gain 6 more than they used.
That answers the gauntlets part. As for time spent playing to reach 2000 crowns. That's 400 matches. The matches this week last one and a half minutes. 400 x 1.5 = 600.
600 minutes = 10 hours.