Talk:Pundemic Strike/@comment-24.152.148.102-20200510034240

I've been studying a recent change in my game. The scores in the daily tournament are much higher than before the last event. I noticed the change during Pundemic Strike, but dismissed it as a result of players seducing the event cards and driving up the scores. I rarely compete in the daily tournament during events because it is more difficult to distinguish the bots from human players, so I wasn't watching very closely. Now that the event is over I was itching for a tournament win, but the initial leaders when I first logged in (around 5 hours into the day's round) were already higher than most winning totals at the end of the day.

I have been following this for several days with two accounts logging in at different times, but the outcome is the same. Initial leaders 2 to 3 times what I am used to seeing (around 2000 rather than 700 to 1000), and first place winners around 1.5 to 2 times the score that usually rates as a win for me in the past (1200 to 1500). I'm not driving up the scores by my own play. The only mojo I've collected is from mining resources in battles and opening bronze boxes - around 110 mojo for the day. I expect the numbers would be higher if I was actively pursuing a win. There could be an instance of foolish human play (most of us know better than to shoot our wade in the first hours of the daily tournament), but not every day with two different accounts. I am confident that most of these leaders are bots.

This has been consistent behavior for 4 days now so I don't hold much hope that it is just a run of bad luck, but I will ask. Are there other players that have observed what I describe? I will wait a few more days for my luck to change for the better, but if this is the new normal I think it is time to retire. Grinding for resources is dull enough without having to do it half again as long for each daily tournament win.