Elf spawn

Why are so many people reporting much higher numbers?

Well that's VERY disappointing then...

leeana69 wrote:
Why are so many people reporting much higher numbers?

Three possibilities: (my guess is 1 because I assume people are trying to be helpful but tracking the elves as I did today takes some effort...I only tracked because I wanted to find the maximum amount of time I could be away from the game overnight, so far it's more than 7 hours (based on yesterday-- I didn't hit max elves.

1-they are taking the widely reported 3 every 15 minutes thing as the truth (I think it was valid on XMAS but there was one site that said "this was an XMAS bonus type deal, it will decline") or

2-they have some sort of glitch (I've seen one forum regular report that the elf tunnel resets every time the user logs on (ie if they relog in every 4 hour they get twice what a non glitched person would get) or resynchingbetween KL and your game retriggers the spawning of three) or

3-the lower numbers are the glitch so lots of people report what they see which is the higher number (I'm getting 3 every 30 minutes as well based on a 7 hour trial when I was sleeping, a 2 hour trial later, a later 3 hour trial...basically I tracked from "your town is clear" to "your town is clear" and was always getting this rate (when I got more it was always harvesting the elf tunnel)

I feel like the elves are glitchy anyways as it seems like I needed to synchronize my town to see them especially the tunnel elves.

Eta autocorrected spelling problems

casbythoug530 wrote:

leeana69 wrote:
Why are so many people reporting much higher numbers?

Three possibilities: (my guess is 1 because I assume people are trying to be helpful but tracking the elves as I did today takes some effort...I only tracked because I wanted to find the maximum amount of time I could be away from the game overnight, so far it's more than 7 hours (based on yesterday-- I didn't hit max elves.

1-they are taking the widely reported 3 every 15 minutes thing as the truth (I think it was valid on XMAS but there was one site that said "this was an XMAS bonus type deal, it will decline") or

2-they have some sort of glitch (I've seen one forum regular report that the elf tunnel resets every time the user logs on (ie if they relog in every 4 hour they get twice what a non glitched person would get) or resynchingbetween KL and your game retriggers the spawning of three) or

3-the lower numbers are the glitch so lots of people report what they see which is the higher number (I'm getting 3 every 30 minutes as well based on a 7 hour trial when I was sleeping, a 2 hour trial later, a later 3 hour trial...basically I tracked from "your town is clear" to "your town is clear" and was always getting this rate (when I got more it was always harvesting the elf tunnel)

I feel like the elves are glitchy anyways as it seems like I needed to synchronize my town to see them especially the tunnel elves.

Eta autocorrected spelling problems

I've been seeing something unusual over the past 2 days. When I log into my town, my cannon now clears itself of the handshake upon entry, leaving a fuse. Many, many times. I synchronize every time I play and when I return throughout the day, it's ready to fire. Repeatedly. I can't seem to keep enough elves to fire away. It will just sit there with the fuse while I'm scrounging for more elves. This glitch seems to be helping me on my leaderboard which is full of some heavyweight gamers. Gotta love when the glitch benefits the player. :D

*Not trying to sound arrogant with my post or as if I'm complaining about something good.

I've been seeing something unusual over the past 2 days. When I log into my town, my cannon now clears itself of the handshake upon entry, leaving a fuse. Many, many times. I synchronize every time I play and when I return throughout the day, it's ready to fire. Repeatedly. I can't seem to keep enough elves to fire away. It will just sit there with the fuse while I'm scrounging for more elves. This glitch seems to be helping me on my leaderboard which is full of some heavyweight gamers. Gotta love when the glitch benefits the player. :D

*Not trying to sound arrogant with my post or as if I'm complaining about something good.

I'm glad to hear you aren't angry about a really really great glitch you are experiencing. At first I did think you were complaining and as I read your post I was thinking 'what an ...........' well I won't finish that. Enjoy your good fortune.

I never thought I would say this, but I really would like more elves.

skirata1138 wrote:
I never thought I would say this, but I really would like more elves.

I want more elves but what I'd really like is consistency between what user 1 experiences and what a different user experiences...ie why so inconsistent EA? (It was reported that the XMAS spawn rate would decrease post XMAS but that kind of messes up those who were locked out for a large portion of XMAS

barryriddl474 wrote:

I've been seeing something unusual over the past 2 days. When I log into my town, my cannon now clears itself of the handshake upon entry, leaving a fuse. Many, many times. I synchronize every time I play and when I return throughout the day, it's ready to fire. Repeatedly. I can't seem to keep enough elves to fire away. It will just sit there with the fuse while I'm scrounging for more elves. This glitch seems to be helping me on my leaderboard which is full of some heavyweight gamers. Gotta love when the glitch benefits the player. :D

*Not trying to sound arrogant with my post or as if I'm complaining about something good.

I've always noticed that the cannon clears itself of handshakes. You're running out of elves, but are you seein a higher rate of 6 per hour? I'm also close to the top of both of my towns leaderboards, but I'very not been able to use my cannon as often as its ready. I've shot nearly 700 elves so far, what about you? Just curious to know how other leaderboards are doing.

unfortunately I have a cold so can't do much else so I keep logging onto TSTO and can confirm that it appears only 3 elves each 30 minutes. What is the point of lower cool down periods when in 3 hours you can only get 18 elves but at the moment I can fire 33 elves in a similar time period?
over a 24 hour period you then can get 144 elves which at my current fire rate of 4 bells per elf that means only 576 bells per day. this of course is supplemented by the 4 additional elves every 8 hours from the elf channel so this takes it to about 600 bells per day.
getting bells from the neighbours daily earns somewhere between 330 and 500 bells depending on how many doubles you earn.
So that is about 950-1000 bells per day.

The daily rate required is about 1185 so with the bonus bells on tasks completed plus bonus bells where a good neighbout has tapped the cannon or channel you should be able to get there.
I know more elfs per blast are available per upgrade of the cannon so this will make it easier as you upgrade, although this yask is painfully slow with the limited elfs available and then the 30% chance of getting cogs.

It seems that it is achievable but you must be a committed player to get there (if you do not use donuts)

leeana69 wrote:

barryriddl474 wrote:

I've been seeing something unusual over the past 2 days. When I log into my town, my cannon now clears itself of the handshake upon entry, leaving a fuse. Many, many times. I synchronize every time I play and when I return throughout the day, it's ready to fire. Repeatedly. I can't seem to keep enough elves to fire away. It will just sit there with the fuse while I'm scrounging for more elves. This glitch seems to be helping me on my leaderboard which is full of some heavyweight gamers. Gotta love when the glitch benefits the player. :D

*Not trying to sound arrogant with my post or as if I'm complaining about something good.

I've always noticed that the cannon clears itself of handshakes. You're running out of elves, but are you seein a higher rate of 6 per hour? I'm also close to the top of both of my towns leaderboards, but I'very not been able to use my cannon as often as its ready. I've shot nearly 700 elves so far, what about you? Just curious to know how other leaderboards are doing.

The automatic clearing only recently started for me. I have a rate of 4 per hour, level 9 cannon, 9924 elf bells and I've shot 818 elves.

EDIT: Also, 97% of the time I am only tapping cannons and caves when visiting throughout the day.