I did not play in week #1, so I may be out of my scope here. But I have done fairly good with very low level plants last week doing 1.5 million continually so I have been willing to give the benefit of the doubt. But it could be you are onto something with EA sneakily trying to end a streak.
But I am not sure there is a point in doing this. The higher your score/deeper your streak, the more you are paired against other players who are just as deep as you in their streaks. Naturally you will be up against tuff, tuff, competition (if not high level plants, perhaps an exploit game/mechanic to abuse). I don't think there is a point in EA even needing fake bot/replays to draw from, because they don't even need them. You will naturally be paired against increasingly stronger opposition the better you do.
What is interesting, is the three last plants they used have some very good synergy that I've been taking advantage of in some of my games. The winter mellons are great for slowing down the zombies on the spikes as soon as they hit the board, and the stunion makes sure they stay and die there for max points.
As for sun.. ok let's see.
- 750 starting sun
- + additional sun that falls during progress of play (anyone know the total metric per min here?)
- Sun producing $ plant.
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total = ?
That said, it is POSSIBLE they used a hex-editor to give them 999999 starting sun, then just filled the board with stuff on the get-go. 🙂
I suppose the next question is, with unlimited sun, would a 2 million point game be possible for Week #1?