Please tell if you have some useful tips for WW.
edit: Asked about Weekday Warrior mechanics. Previously WW worked differently. My question is no longer relevant so deleted the question.
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Please tell if you have some useful tips for WW.
edit: Asked about Weekday Warrior mechanics. Previously WW worked differently. My question is no longer relevant so deleted the question.
It seems that there may be 2 ways to use unlimited energy. One is above exactly. My experience was different. Once I force closed, my timer changed to unlimited as shown in the picture.
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I wonder if it depends on how much energy you have to start with??
S8 advise that when the unlimited energy expires the Energy you had left before unlimited energy started will show up. What is being looked at is that you shouldn't have to force close to see your balance after the unlimited energy expires.
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Available to players Level 20+
Couple of general tips I've found useful for the warrior:
Park a beast on Thursday; if you have the beast lair or troll sparring pit, they will be ready on Friday and will be a guaranteed spawn.
Stock mushrooms and seed in odd moments through the week. The potion shop counts as crafting, and the earthen potion only takes 6 minutes. Using both shops that's 18 minutes for your crafts.
For some reason, the plant in a log ( 2 chops) counts as clearing stone/ rubble. So you do one rock outcrop which you have to do anyway and two plant in logs, 24 energy for your 3 stone e items.
I've only ever had the bar that said "unlimited," never the refill style. I'm thinking maybe SW is onto something with her theory because I've also never had below 40 energy when the WW rolled in. It would be interesting to hear from some folks who have completed WW with more than 40 energy and also less than 40 so we could figure out if there is any correlation.
I think that the refill style sounds like it might be better in the long run to help cut down on the freezing and lagging that occurs so frequently during the unlimited energy. I now make it a point to quick collect after every 30-40 moves to reduce the lag because the game always seems to have issues with processing any more moves than that. However if I only had 40 at a time then the game wouldn't ever have to struggle to clear more than 40 moves which would likely stop the lagging and force closing...maybe.
It's most likely a case of the grass being greener since both styles of unlimited have their pros and cons but I'm still interested to try the other style just for comparison sake. It would be super awesome if we got to choose which style we received. Maybe one style is better for certain devices or for certain strategies but we may never know.
Info: Android. Level 26. Never started with over 40.
I had the "not unlimited, just repeated 40 refill" my first WW (few weeks ago) and it lasted FOREVER; definitely felt like more than 10 mins and I was exhausted by the end, lol. It would refill itself randomly, I didn't always get down to 3 or whatever. Probably because I was incredibly slow, lol. Half the time I didn't notice.
Following week I read about "force close" on forum. All WWs since, I get down to nothing (because I'm faster now lol), panic and reboot to get the unlimited symbol and timer. I assumed they had corrected whatever anomaly had caused it.
Android user TIP: fastest "Force Close" for me is to slide the app window off the screen, then click desktop icon to start fresh. Android Task Manager/Settings not needed to forcibly "Stop."
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Other "Tips"
4 May I cleared grass and small rock piles first. Had a rock outcropping at 15 ... and the requirement completed when the rock vanished ("cleared.") Didn't have to start a new one. :-o
Reminder: watering tree saplings counts for flowers, so do Mushrooms. Someone on forum said finishing a tree counted for something. Blue blossom trees from event a few weeks ago counted as flowers. So consider surprises from special event items if trying to control kickoff of unlimited reward.
For newbies: IMHO fighting monsters is a slow waste of time during unlimited. you could be getting a lot more done elsewhere. park a monster for all of Goal 3 unlimited reward. You can spawn monsters all week and still be better off.
Also newbies: you don't have to click, then collect, then click again. I had no idea, lol. You can click like mad and let the software catch up. (but watch out for gem traps). iOS has some big swoop collect feature which someone will tell you.
And as basic weekend warrior instructions state: don't complete all Goal 3 steps during Goal 2 unlimited reward time. Some people did not get their full time and theorize it was overlapped. Why take chances?
Good previous post (with a few edits) for reference:
Lavenderdale said:
MAY NOT BE RIGHT, FOR REFERENCE ONLY
Goal 1: Weekend Warrior
* Weed the landscape 0/10 CHOP | clear any foliage
* Clear rubble 0/3 CLEAR | clear any rocks (plant in a log counts, rock outcropping listed next counts as 1 of your 3)
* Mine a rock outcropping 0/1 MINE
Rewards: 100 coin, 1 xp, +30 energy
Goal 2: Weekend Warrior
* Visit town buildings 0/10 COLLECT
(Farmhouse, cottage, marketplace, tavern, windmill)
* Harvest from flowers 0/15 HARVEST
(apple, orange and lemon trees count here, so do mushrooms)
* Craft goods 0/5 CRAFT | any crafting building works (mermaid and faerie worship also count, greenhouse does not)
Rewards: 100 coin, 1 xp, +10 minutes of unlimited energy
Note: you may have to force close to see this. The place were you see your energy balance will change and in its place will show UNLIMITED ENERGY and a timer counting down from 10 minutes.
TIP: During your first unlimited time, do NOT finish these next tasks!
(I collect the crops and animals, fight 3 monsters, spawn the 4 but then do not defeat that 4th monster)
Goal 3: Weekend Warrior
* Harvest crops 0/10 HARVEST
* Tend to animals 0/10 TEND
* Fight monsters 0/4 FIGHT
Rewards: 5000 coin, 25 xp, +10 minutes of unlimited energy
Note: you may have to force close to see this. The place were you see your energy balance will change and in its place will show UNLIMITED ENERGY and a timer counting down from 10 minutes
Yeah! Weekend Warrior!
Okay, I'm back to report. Decided to try the refill rather than rebooting. Here's my summary: It doesn't refill until my character stops running around catching up on my advance clicks.
I made sure to kick off at below 40, but the first thing that happened was it filled me to 40. (So I don't think that is the telling factor.) I spammed clicked and the energy counter clicked down accordingly. I don't know how it looks for you guys, but my character still goes through the full motion of watering or whatever. So I am clicking on crops when my character is still over there watering flowers.
So the counter gets down to zero. I wait nervously for a refill. Nothing. Nothing. When my character catches up to my clicks, BAM 40 again, here we go.
Without the infinity display and 10-minute timer, what shows is the ordinary "3-minute refill" timer. Which was alarming when I was at 0 energy. Would I have to wait 3 mins? Turned out no.
All in all? I'd rather reboot and use 9 minutes. You have no idea where you are in your 10 minute span - I didn't know if I had time to plant corn for xp (I tried it and I did.)
So. If someone wants to try it, ride the energy down to zero and if you spam-clicked wait for your character to catch up. Within 5 seconds you will be filled.
It helps if you aren't panicking about an event when you try this. I'd already finished collecting, so WW was just for the xp.
Caveat: I'm on Android. No idea if iOS is different.
Well, we all know to watch out for that thieving blue bird when she's returning to the nest on a normal day but I'm here to make sure you really make sure she's not due to fly in when you're doing WW. Nadina really did a number on my realm!
I was clicking away in my first 10 minutes and I'd just pulled up the bar to do a quick collect when everything went wonky before freezing up for over a full minute. After a force close, I'd lost a few gems on who-knows-what and everything I'd tried to quick collect was untouched. Thankfully I make sure to quick collect every 40-60 taps so I didn't lose out on too much work but that bird definitely wreaked havoc on my timer. I've learned my lesson and will only be participating in WW when that bird is on her nest.
P.S:
We all know that if you have stored energy, after WW it claims you only have 40/40 until you restart the game. My question is: Has anyone used the 40 energy before restarting and if so, does it come out of our stored energy or not?
i have never lost stored energy in either mode, soon as unlimited time is up/or i used the last 40 they gave me, my stored energy shows back up where it should be without me having to even close the game (when it is not unlimited mode, it does take almost a minute to show my energy amount though).
@ AnnirasSweets
Last night.. during that time.. my game did freeze up many times but not in use of the WW or cause of the blue sparrow coming in or moving out. I was watching the free videos.
After video was finished and automatically should return to the game stating what you've won.. it froze instead. This happened about 5 times.. eventually rebooting and repeating.. but was the same.
I abandoned video watching so I could continue to work on the crafts as I understood the game was NOT running smoothly.
I didn’t get the second 10 minutes of unlimited energy! I don’t understand why?
Thanks for confirming that for me. I'll have to give it a try next WW!
Interesting. Perhaps it wasn't the bird at all. I should apologize for assuming it was Nadina but I shan't because more often than not she is the culprit, lol. For future reference, every time you see I've written something about the bird, just know that my eyes are squinted and my fist is raised... Apparently she brings out the persnickety old woman in me.
I wonder if any of those traps from monsters past that we have in our inventory could be used for this....I have one trap that I can't even store so it sits in my kingdom, I think it's a wyvern trap. It would be great to get rid of those and not have to worry about trying to spawn something in a hurry.
I have chopped event traps way after the event and the animal still spawned. The traps seem to work as intended regardless of time but the animal won't drop any items either event items or regular items. It's sort of like fighting the ghost of the animal, lol.
So basically:
Good news - You can for sure get rid of that trap and fight the Wyvern.
Bad news - You won't get any drops for fighting the Wyvern.
Learned something new during this round of Weekend Warrior - fruit trees (apple, orange, lemon) count as flowers for the harvest 15 flowers.
First time I ever got the extra 10 minutes, whoot! The first unlimited was the standard 10 minutes but after the forced close, the second timer was at 19:38 unlimited. I got so much done and feel so accomplished all thanks to the WW. I really will miss this when/if it goes.
Does anyone know when the second weekend worried comes? I want to be ready because I missed the first one.
I hope we get another. I'll use a boost and be finished.
This hasn't been so bad. I've been coasting along through this. At least I'm not being faced with outrageous, ridiculous goals.
I've been staying steady in the middle of the pack. Not scrambling for the top dog position.
The first time they offered WW there was some confusion as to how it worked and a lot of European players missed it due to time zones so they offered it again the following day. However, since then WW has only been offered once each week on Friday so I don't think we can expect another until next week. Of course, this is just my educated guess as all things in CS are subject to whims and fancy of those in charge but I believe this to be a safe assumption based on all previous data.
My best tips for maximizing Weekend Worrier ;-)
* If you're planning on expanding the forest area, do it on Friday. You'll probably get a rock outcropping and weeds for the WW tasks and if you get any unnecessary stuff like trees and rocks, you can use the unlimited energy to chop them off right away.
* You can chop the rock outcropping 18 times beforehand, just don't finnish it until Baron asks you to.
* Planning is the key. I check the inventory about 4-5 hours before WW, to check if I'm low on wool, mushrooms, crops etc. so that everything I need is ready to collect when WW starts. Put out farmhouses for town building task (you should have 5, build some more if you don't) and check that 5 crafting buildings are running and ready to collect at the right time.
* The cheapest cows only take 10 minutes to reload, so if you need milk, they are the way to go. If you don't have many, you can buy them cheap and grow them on the next WW, they grow very fast.
* If you use refill method, start with the little watering cans and arrows, since they take the most time per click. Sometimes in the middle of your refill time the time changes to countdown mode and then you won't have time for them anymore. Chopping rocks and trees takes much less time so they are the way to put the actual unlimited energy on better use.
I am utterly lost. I'm trying my darndest to get what you guys are talking about cuz I love this game and I really want to keep playing it ( and as I'm sure u all know unlimited energy or something of the sort would really help :) anyway if anyone wouldn't mind messaging me or adding me I'd really appreciate it. Storm8 id is kricketwon1 and kingdom name I'd kricketskingdom. Thank u :D
Weekend Warrior is a new game feature where for a couple of hours (depending on your time zone, Friday night/Sat am) you complete the first two goals and get 10 minutes unlimited energy and then you complete the third goal and get another 10 minutes unlimited energy to do with as you like.
We don't know if it's a permanent ongoing feature or not, but they are same time each week. You don't get notice of it on a splash screen, just a new goal in your book for 5(?) hours to complete. If you look at the first post of any of the last couple of event threads (including the current one about the Toy Shoppe), you'll see the goals and notes. This thread has tips and strategies about how to be prepared and make the most of the 20 minutes of unlimited energy you get.
I'm in SA, so my time zone would be about the same as yours, but my friend in WA will need to start by 7 am or before to be able to compete it I think. Thanks for your help :)
L50 w about 8 daily Ali?s and 3 weeklies earned through game play here.
My tips: run down your resources for milk, hide, bacon, eggs, stone, glimmer dust, wood, water on things you need to craft in the days leading up to it as much as you have animals and resources that can refill them. Save any repetitive chopping needed for a goal until WW and have those items purchased and placed if you can. Thursday?s I fill up the empty spaces of my kingdoms with 3 minute mushrooms, animals that will close my resource gap, and second highest coin producing buildings that are usually in storage. Be sure there are 10 town buildings, though I’ve been leaving those out full time now. During my first unlimited energy I prepare a 19 chopped outcropping that I can use for the following week with a single chop.
I don?t do more than the necessary farming because I think the bonus energies you get are lost. You?re better off farming during a regular time using a rune boost when the doubled energy output makes the entire harvest nearly neutral.
This time around I?m waiting to chop my last 5 or six toy boxes for plush knights until tonight. I don?t have the troll plush to make the toys anyway so I?m better off starting to stickpile energy (I can get 18 energy from wizarding schools two or three times a day and another 50 or so a day from the alicorns. It?s cool to build up 500 energy over the week for a monster hunt or non weekend warrior time when I want to sit down and play for a half hour. It also takes the pressure off of constantly checking the game and rechecking to get those three more energies that accrued in the last ten minutes while I brushed my hair or gathered my stuff for work. Breaks the addiction cycle for me, anyway.
Faerie Houses count as town buildings & give very good coin each collection. They only take up 1 square. 12 hr collection though, so you have to remember not to collect within the 12 hrs before WW starts. I'm thinking of buying some more to fund the Tidegate.
Reefs count as flowers.
With all the happy & hurried 'WW' tapping.. remember NOT to collect from whatever buildings that may be needed for the event start later on. It's Thursday!
Better a couple coins less.. than a 12hr late-start of an Event!
I just did a ten-minute stint, and at the end had a 'roll-back'. Suddenly all my horses and mushrooms and a hundred other things are uncollected. I'd taken it easy for the last two minutes just ****ing monsters, but next time I will do a restart at the 7 minute mark even if it wastes a minute.
Hi all, Does anyone have the same problem as me? namely when my 10 minutes of unlimited play has ended and I get a 40 energy refill then in a minute or so it goes down to 28 or 33 energy even if I stop playing and quick collect a minute or so before time ends. I can?t figure out why it happens.