what to do with so many elves?

Mirality wrote:

hondab16tune wrote:
I never have ENOUGH elves. I always have to wait to shoot mine. Granted I used donuts and got my cannon up to level 20 already but it shoots 13 elves and cools down at 2 1/2 hours, but I am only getting around 30 elves every 4 hours or so.

Doesn't a level 20 cannon require something like 12,000 donuts? Even with Gil sale boatloads that's at least $400.

It was a LOT. My family normally gets me around $200-$300 worth of iTunes cards per year. I use them on this game. I have around 20,000 unused donuts. Not trying to brag, but my family is pretty well off and this is the only mobile game I play. I am a HUGE gamer and have been since around 1983. Yes, I was playing Atari years before most people here were born. LOL

hondab16tune wrote:

Mirality wrote:

hondab16tune wrote:
I never have ENOUGH elves. I always have to wait to shoot mine. Granted I used donuts and got my cannon up to level 20 already but it shoots 13 elves and cools down at 2 1/2 hours, but I am only getting around 30 elves every 4 hours or so.

Doesn't a level 20 cannon require something like 12,000 donuts? Even with Gil sale boatloads that's at least $400.

It was a LOT. My family normally gets me around $200-$300 worth of iTunes cards per year. I use them on this game. I have around 20,000 unused donuts. Not trying to brag, but my family is pretty well off and this is the only mobile game I play. I am a HUGE gamer and have been since around 1983. Yes, I was playing Atari years before most people here were born. LOL

Please adopt me.

Raven_Darkstorm wrote:
6 x 24 = 1,458. Cannon shot ever 3 hours minus sleep = 5 or 6 times per day. 6 x 30 = 180. So we should have in excess over 1,000 per day. Assuming no waste from downtime and no delay in firing. I don't have this many in excess so I'm not sure how many we are really getting per hour. I'm basing this math off posts that say we get 6 per hour. I do know for sure that I am getting more elves than I can possibly fire with a 3 hour wait time between 3 sets of shots.

I knew something was off when posting, too tired plus who knows what happened with the calculator = bad math. This should be 6 x 24 = 144. If 6 per hour is correct I'm not sure how I'm getting excess with shooting every time it is ready.

Raven_Darkstorm wrote:

Raven_Darkstorm wrote:
6 x 24 = 1,458. Cannon shot ever 3 hours minus sleep = 5 or 6 times per day. 6 x 30 = 180. So we should have in excess over 1,000 per day. Assuming no waste from downtime and no delay in firing. I don't have this many in excess so I'm not sure how many we are really getting per hour. I'm basing this math off posts that say we get 6 per hour. I do know for sure that I am getting more elves than I can possibly fire with a 3 hour wait time between 3 sets of shots.

I knew something was off when posting, too tired plus who knows what happened with the calculator = bad math. This should be 6 x 24 = 144. If 6 per hour is correct I'm not sure how I'm getting excess with shooting every time it is ready.

Don't forget you also have 3 shots between cooldowns, so your other calc is wrong too. 6 X 3 X 30 = 540, not 180. So, we only get 144 elf per day, with a possibility of shooting 540. So yeah, I think you have something weird working in your favour. Either that, or those of us getting only 6 have a bad glitch.

hondab16tune wrote:

Mirality wrote:

hondab16tune wrote:
I never have ENOUGH elves. I always have to wait to shoot mine. Granted I used donuts and got my cannon up to level 20 already but it shoots 13 elves and cools down at 2 1/2 hours, but I am only getting around 30 elves every 4 hours or so.

Doesn't a level 20 cannon require something like 12,000 donuts? Even with Gil sale boatloads that's at least $400.

It was a LOT. My family normally gets me around $200-$300 worth of iTunes cards per year. I use them on this game. I have around 20,000 unused donuts. Not trying to brag, but my family is pretty well off and this is the only mobile game I play. I am a HUGE gamer and have been since around 1983. Yes, I was playing Atari years before most people here were born. LOL

*shakes head thinking about how all that money could have been better spent other than slightly changing how a few pixels look in a silly game app.

leeana69 wrote:

*shakes head thinking about how all that money could have been better spent other than slightly changing how a few pixels look in a silly game app.

Don't criticise the premium players for spending. Their money supports the rest of us freemium and quasi-freemium (Gil special and the odd Golden Scratch-R) players.

Oops.

Sorry - posted this under the wrong topic.

22steelpaw wrote:

leeana69 wrote:

*shakes head thinking about how all that money could have been better spent other than slightly changing how a few pixels look in a silly game app.

Don't criticise the premium players for spending. Their money supports the rest of us freemium and quasi-freemium (Gil special and the odd Golden Scratch-R) players.

It's not about premium players. This person spent 300-400 dollars changing the appearance of ONE item. Not 'getting' the item, just changing how it looks. That goes beyond all sense.

leeana69 wrote:

22steelpaw wrote:

leeana69 wrote:

*shakes head thinking about how all that money could have been better spent other than slightly changing how a few pixels look in a silly game app.

Don't criticise the premium players for spending. Their money supports the rest of us freemium and quasi-freemium (Gil special and the odd Golden Scratch-R) players.

It's not about premium players. This person spent 300-400 dollars changing the appearance of ONE item. Not 'getting' the item, just changing how it looks. That goes beyond all sense.

No different than people that spend $500-$800 a month on an apartment that they will never own.

I am married, have 3 kids (18, 16, and 7), have a 4,200 sq.ft. house that is paid for (in cash), a few vehicles, a vacation home in Pigeon Forge, and I am retired. My wife works as an RN and is headed back to school for fulfill her dream of being a nurse practitioner. By the way I am 36 years old, and the wife is 32 years old. We have over 7 digits in our savings account which nets us over $2,000 a month in interest and all we have monthly is around $1,700 in bills. The wife makes right at $1,500 every 2 weeks as a nurse. Both my daughters work and have their college funds ready ($80,000 each out away) and my son does as well.

Now taken that into account neither one of, my wife or I, drink, smoke, party, etc. I either stay at home, play golf/basketball when I can and generally stick to myself. I collect Star Wars, and help build/restore cars. She works 3 days a week and when she's off, we run errands for my parents or stay at home.

Our situation is certainly unique, and I understand that.

What does go beyond all sense is someone judging how others spend their money without knowing the circumstances.

I'm just a wizard who gets gift cards for Christmas.