spawn rate for elves?
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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.
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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...
Less than in the beginning, thats a fact :roll:
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)
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
Speed Up Cool Down would be a great band name.
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)
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