Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-26829117-20160522124555/@comment-27170954-20161013142234

Per Person, no i have not tried that in this instance. i've tried it before when trying to get more ads, but it never worked. Probably becase I was capped at 5. I  may try it next time.

My experience today was similar to yesterday. Got 2 inintially. after repeadly cloud restoring and force-closing/relaunching I settled for 6 GC ads today. But I "watched" 18 to get those 6. ("Watched" because i don't actually "watch"). I got 6 on my second cloud-restore, but decided to keep going. i don't think i'll do that anymore.

Here's why:

1) The conspiracy theorist in me wants to say this is intentional on the part of FM/EA. I "watched" 18 to get 6 but FM/EA probably got paid for 18. So they've created a "bug" that increases their revenue. Their incentive to "fix" this is low, and it will probably take them a long time to do so.

2) Looking back at my personal ad history since this release i've had 2 ads 5 times and 6 or more ads 16 times. Not once have I had 3, 4, or 5 ads. So, I may employ this trick but only until the first time I get more that 2.

So far my average ads per day including the days with only 2 is a bit over 9. If i exclude the days with only 2 the average is a bit over 11.5.

My theory on this new ad model is it was intended to implement a system where a user would get a random number of GC ads centered around a target value - but they introduced bugs. I would guess the problems with this new ad system is what delayed this release.

Individual targets may vary depending on unknown factors (IAPs, maybe). I'm guesing my target is 8 or maybe 10 based on the first 10 days of October before I started trying this manipulation. If that is true, then I think 2 things might happen if you use this manipulation technique:

1) By excluding the minimum values fromt the average, one may be able to increase the average a little. Or maybe you can't. Maybe it will only influence the extremes.

2) The algorithm may have logic that tracks daily ads over a period of time. If so, then the manipulation may not have an effect on the average over time. If this is the case, then the occurrence of high ad counts on a given day will probably be less frequent.

That's my theory. i'll report back after using the manipulation technique for 10 days.