Talk:Valentine Madness/@comment-37839624-20190212155207

Since we have a 21 day event, I rewrote the manual a bit.

Be smart and keep your resources and advance on the chapters for the 2nd week! And remember the points are earned in the 3rd week.

I wrote this before, but just to put it some more attention to it:

How about the bots?
The sad thing about this game is there seem not enough players to fill the groups. That is both sad but also good. They are adding a lot of fake players to fill the group.

Why is it good? If all players were real, you wouldn't stand a chance to win the daily tournament. So no need to complain since we are actually having a better chance to win.

Why is it bad? There was some bad algorithm in this adding of fake players. They seem to match your score but sometimes a bit higher. This was the biggest problem in the White Pussy Event. Sometimes the bots got a score so high, that playing for a good rank was totally impossible.

It should be better now. I had some correspondence with my friend Lucy O (Sheila Parker is not my friend anymore since she promised 300 rubies but didn't give it) about this topic. She was friendly, thanked for the detailed feedback and actually forwarded it to the programmers. Soon after she replyed:

Feb 8, 01:39 MSK

We've found the issue. There was a misconfiguration for a group of players, so in some cases, several times more points than normal were added for them. The error has been fixed and the excess points removed.

Kind regards,

Lucy O Hooligapps team

I suppose that 'group of players' was the bots...

Anyway soon after the fake players disappeared like many ppl found out. And it's much better now. Things are back to how it was at the Halloween event.

How to deal with the bots

'''There is a way to keep them small. If you open your account late at the day and if you don't collect a lot of points from the start (but say you start at 9 am), they will be small and don't bother you. Take this advice to good use, it's a way to beat the system. The bots are still there (which is good, they are much better then real players) but they don't bite anymore.'''