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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 problemsI'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.

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ravendarkstorm
11 years ago
it sounds to me like there is some sort of glitch allowing some people to fire the cannon more times than they are supposed to be able to. I fire it every 3 hours and am getting more bottled elves than is possible to shoot. I'm now at 300 stored up only 4 days into phase 2. In fact the top end of the leaderboard of my friends list would indicate such. Assume 10 x 3 every 3 hours and you didn't sleep you could have 960. However this is more than would be actually possible since we started with less per fuse and longer reset time and have to sleep. So the actual amount just about everyone should have without speeding up the canon should be about 475 elves shot. This assumes little to no error in using it the moment it is ready and that one is sleeping a normal nights sleep.
casbythoug530
11 years ago
Raven_Darkstorm wrote:
it sounds to me like there is some sort of glitch allowing some people to fire the cannon more times than they are supposed to be able to. I fire it every 3 hours and am getting more bottled elves than is possible to shoot. I'm now at 300 stored up only 4 days into phase 2. In fact the top end of the leaderboard of my friends list would indicate such. Assume 10 x 3 every 3 hours and you didn't sleep you could have 960. However this is more than would be actually possible since we started with less per fuse and longer reset time and have to sleep. So the actual amount just about everyone should have without speeding up the canon should be about 475 elves shot. This assumes little to no error in using it the moment it is ready and that one is sleeping a normal nights sleep.

In the town where I wasn't locked out I'm at 789 (I was logging in every 4 hours except for a 6-7 hour sleep break but I've been at 11 elves fired per cannon for a while (& my elf rate was 6/hour which is fewer cogs than those who get 12/hour). What is your elf spawning rate? My guess would be whenever you resynch you get 3 more elves regardless of time (because I'm down to a 50 elf bank)
or1onbelt
11 years ago
Am I doing something wrong?

I have a grand total of five elves left in my bank and my level eight cannon is due to be fired in 2 hours.

I have been logging on every couple of hours to clear my town of elves, including the tunnel until I receive the "you have collected all your elves" message.

Am I missing something? I would think my bank count would be higher...

:?
casbythoug530
11 years ago
Or1onBelt wrote:
Am I doing something wrong?

I have a grand total of five elves left in my bank and my level eight cannon is due to be fired in 2 hours.

I have been logging on every couple of hours to clear my town of elves, including the tunnel until I receive the "you have collected all your elves" message.

Am I missing something? I would think my bank count would be higher...

:?

Nope that's where all of us in the 3 elves every thirty minute club are...basically I just fire the cannon less frequently (I can log in every 4 hours instead of every 3, it's nice that I don't feel like I have to log in every 4 hours to get all the elves (if you are clear before sleeping, this rate means 7 hours is fine with no loss of elves, I think you should try to hit all the 8 hour elf tunnels though if you are behind (I'm ahead in bells by a good bit because I go tunnel and cannon hunting in friends visits
yasj_84
11 years ago
So it's about 150 a day?
The cannon now fire 33 every 3 hours
So it should fire about 250 a day
We need more elves bottle
ordinarilybob
11 years ago
Happycarlton wrote:
...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? ...

This.

As of last night, I've used up all my bottled-elf reserves, and I can no longer fire the full 33 elves that my Level 10 canon should be able to fire. At about dinner time I could only fire 28 elves, and before bed, I only had 22 elves gathered, meaning that I couldn't fire my third volley... So when I woke this morning, after collecting overnight-elves, I fired off that third shot (11 elves), but then I'm on cooldown again for 2hrs, 45mins.

I has sad.

:cry:
bqlehmann
11 years ago
Sounds like most folks are only getting 6 per hour, and so am I. I haven't read any posts from anyone lately getting 12 per hour, so looks like we're stuck with the lower total. Glad at least to find out I'm not the only one!
stevedilge752
11 years ago
It is good to know I'm not the only one running out of elves to launch. So I'm just trying to wrap my head around some EA math. My cannon is only at level 8 and takes 3 hours to launch 33 elves, in which time I can only collect 18.... makes perfect sense. By the time my cannon is at level 16 every 2 hours I could shoot 39 and can only be able to collect 12? It just doesn't make any sense even if you add in the bonus 12 per day from the tunnel.
meinaz
11 years ago
I have found that my rate has increased. I have a level 10 cannon which fires every 2 hours and 45 minutes. The two times I have fired it today I have had 24 elves from tapping (I had 28 once from the additional 4 elves from the cave). Yesterday I was constantly getting 21 elves every 3 hours. It still isn't enough to fill all the cannons, but it is enough to fire all of the cannons.
vic147
11 years ago
I only can think that EA wil launch an Elf generating "thingie" at a hefty donut price.