spawn rate for elves?

sugarpuffi

this is just a guess based on me playing so much today but it seemed like 3-4 every 5-10 mins. Max I do not know, it may be 60 based on another post I read.

wadebear

It's looking like 3 elves every 15 minutes to me.

I think the limit is 60 based on another comment I read, so that would make them max out every 5 hours.

I could be wrong...

wadebear

Well now I just got 4 elves, so I AM wrong.

neuroheart

Any definitive info on this yet?

amazonprimechic

I tend to believe the addicts site of 3 every 15mins. Seems to be about right IME. The max they say is 40 with the possibility of a bank holding more,

brickevand408

neuroheart wrote:

Any definitive info on this yet?

Less than in the beginning, thats a fact :roll:

casbythoug530

Based on what some other site said, the XMAS spawn rate was faster than the non XMAS rate. (I have a hard time finding them all even with the zapper and turning off the buildings and decorations so I'll synchronize my game by going to KL or neighbors and sometimes 3 New elves will appear.

Relatedly, how exactly does the elf tunnel spawn elves? I make sure to clear 6-8 elves (& more if I get the your town is full notice on login) but tapping the floating elf head doesn't seem to work like the Rigellian hut from Halloween. It also doesn't seem to increase my elf total. (I know it doesn't drop New elves right near the tunnel)

neuroheart

brickevand408 wrote:

neuroheart wrote:

Any definitive info on this yet?

Less than in the beginning, thats a fact :roll:

Is it? I still have at least 100 extra elves. (I'm not spending donuts to speed up cool down.)

casbythoug530

neuroheart wrote:

brickevand408 wrote:

neuroheart wrote:

Any definitive info on this yet?

Less than in the beginning, thats a fact :roll:

Is it? I still have at least 100 extra elves. (I'm not spending donuts to speed up cool down.)

In the town where I didn't get locked out I have around 100 extra but in the locked out towns I'm going to be at 7-10 elves left after this next cannon (I have been able to get down to the no more elves left in your town popup in the locked out towns but I lack the XMAS cushion) (I'm going to logout for 6 hours and see what that does and will report back here tomorrow)

meinaz

casbythoug530 wrote:

neuroheart wrote:

brickevand408 wrote:

neuroheart wrote:

Any definitive info on this yet?

Less than in the beginning, thats a fact :roll:

Is it? I still have at least 100 extra elves. (I'm not spending donuts to speed up cool down.)

In the town where I didn't get locked out I have around 100 extra but in the locked out towns I'm going to be at 7-10 elves left after this next cannon (I have been able to get down to the no more elves left in your town popup in the locked out towns but I lack the XMAS cushion) (I'm going to logout for 6 hours and see what that does and will report back here tomorrow)

I have used the cannon every time it has been available from the beginning, my surplus of elves ran out yesterday. I know that I am not getting as many elves as the beginning. I am getting around 21 every three hours, which is the current time that I have between cool off.

leeana69

meinaz wrote:

I have used the cannon every time it has been available from the beginning, my surplus of elves ran out yesterday. I know that I am not getting as many elves as the beginning. I am getting around 21 every three hours, which is the current time that I have between cool off.

Same here. Last time I fired 3 X 11, I had 3 elves left to spare. Ive now been ready to fire again 3h15m later for about 45 min now and I only have 28.

pollardfreek

I was under the impression (but I could be very wrong) that it depends on your neighbors. On the Elves Fired leaderboard it mentions "firing Elf-in-Bottles to neighbouring springfields," I figured the elves you fire go to other springfields, like an incentive to add friends during events.

casbythoug530

Remarkably consistent results (I included the number of elves for each cannon firing in case the level of the cannon impacts it but it doesn't seem to)

7-ish hours away (none of these towns got the in game "Your town has too many elves" on log in so I'm guessing that the reported banking effect works (and probably goes to 60 as reported)

Town 1 (not locked out over XMAS, 11 elves per cannon fire) found 44 elves (got the in game No more elves remaining once I was done finding elves)
Town 2 (locked out over XMAS, 10 elves per cannon fire) found 46 elves
Town 3 (locked out over XMAS, 10 elves per cannon) found 48 elves (but this included a couple of synchings and waiting about 4 minutes, it might have also included the elf tunnel spawning

So, if we say 42 elves in 7 hours that's 6 elves per hour so I can see how a banked supply will run out (the elf tunnel only maybe spawns 4 per 8 hours but again, it didn't immediately add to town 3s total and might have only appeared as 4 new elves after a couple of synchings)

casbythoug530

pollardfreek wrote:

I was under the impression (but I could be very wrong) that it depends on your neighbors. On the Elves Fired leaderboard it mentions "firing Elf-in-Bottles to neighbouring springfields," I figured the elves you fire go to other springfields, like an incentive to add friends during events.

The leader board has nothing to do with what you do in your neighbor's towns, it simply reports the number of elves you have fired from the cannons you have in your town (ie I started at 27 after 1 time I fired my cannons, then I was at 54 etc (it's not a linear progression because as you upgrade the cannon you can fire more elves.

Hendri1992

I got like 3 elfs every 10 minutes. I have now 170 to spare...

22steelpaw

casbythoug530 wrote:

pollardfreek wrote:

I was under the impression (but I could be very wrong) that it depends on your neighbors. On the Elves Fired leaderboard it mentions "firing Elf-in-Bottles to neighbouring springfields," I figured the elves you fire go to other springfields, like an incentive to add friends during events.

The leader board has nothing to do with what you do in your neighbor's towns, it simply reports the number of elves you have fired from the cannons you have in your town

But #pollardfreek was talking about what happens to the elves you fire from the cannon in your town. This is what is reflected on the leaderboard.
It is not impossible that, as he/she suggested, the elves you fire in your own town do have some effect on the number of elves in your neighbours' towns. Not impossible, but maybe hard to organise - how are the 30 elves you fire each time apportioned across your 100 neighbours, for example? Randomly? In turn?
In support of this theory, when you log in to the game and you've got new elves, you see elves in jars flashing out of the sky and hear the jars shattering on the ground. The logical place for them to be coming from, to fit within the storyline, is from other Springfields. They definitely don't appear to come up from the tunnel.

smohqy

neuroheart wrote:

speed up cool down

Speed Up Cool Down would be a great band name.

fuffazzoni

My cooldown is already lowered to 3h, but I still have 200 elves to shoot. If you get 3 elves every 15m that's 12 per hour, and 36 in 3h. I shoot 10 or 11 elves three times, that makes 33 in 3h. I don't see how your elves supply is draining so quickly, mine is actually increasing, at least until next cannon upgrade.
Also I have a great glitch that makes the timer for the elf tunnel complete upon sync, so every time I login I have 4 more elves. I don't have the patience to spend the day logging in and out to farm elves, but I'm already happy getting 4 more elves every 3h (cannon login) instead of 8h. Also when I visit my friends I randomly get bart screen or crashes so I have to login (and get 4 elves) a couple times more.

casbythoug530

fuffazzoni wrote:

My cooldown is already lowered to 3h, but I still have 200 elves to shoot. If you get 3 elves every 15m that's 12 per hour, and 36 in 3h. I shoot 10 or 11 elves three times, that makes 33 in 3h. I don't see how your elves supply is draining so quickly, mine is actually increasing, at least until next cannon upgrade.
Also I have a great glitch that makes the timer for the elf tunnel complete upon sync, so every time I login I have 4 more elves. I don't have the patience to spend the day logging in and out to farm elves, but I'm already happy getting 4 more elves every 3h (cannon login) instead of 8h. Also when I visit my friends I randomly get bart screen or crashes so I have to login (and get 4 elves) a couple times more.

I'm not getting 3 elves every 15 minutes (I was during XMAS) I was clear with no more elves remaining at 9pm eastern, didn't get the "you have too many elves" at 4am eastern today and got basically 1 every 10 minutes... glitch? It happens across 3 towns (I just logged back in 2 hours later and my next "you have no more elves remaining showed that I collected 139-123 (16 in 2 hours, with a 4 elf tunnel is 12 in 2 hours)both times I got the success, you have no more elves screen)

casbythoug530

I synchronized a couple of times, logged out logged back in and the 2 hour test gave the results above.

Possible thoughts about this glitch:
1) the game is meant to spawn 1 every 10 minutes and the higher rate is the glitch
2) the game is meant to spawn the higher rate and the lower rate is the glitch
3) the game is meant to spawn at some intermediate level and both rates are the glitch

I don't know how to report this to EA support... can I say multiple forum users are reporting low spawn rates and others are reporting 3 every 15 minutes?

I would guess this is a server problem (ie towns on one server have the spawn rate X and towns on a different server have spawn rate Y) but this is across 2 different servers in my 3 games (2 were locked out for XMAS, 1 wasn't but all three show 6 elves per hour) (I know there are more than 2 servers so it still could be a server issue.)

I synchronize by going to friends list and going back into town, going to and from KL *ie I see the synchronization text

fuffazzoni

I know for sure that elves come in batches of 3. It happens that when I'm doing stuff in my town, after clearing all the elves (got the popup), I randomly hear three crashing sounds, if I look around I can find three new elves and the clear popup comes again. So, be it 10, 15 or 100 minutes, elves come in batches of three. When I tap the tunnel I hear four crashes and I find four elves.