Today I was stunned to see a poster from Flowplay/CW on the Games page that says, “Crews Payout Pursuit. Bet Big With Your Crew to Win Prizes”. This wording is a blatent attempt to convince crew members that they should be betting at high levels for this event, which is simply not true. It’s definitely not worth it to overspend or have heavy coin/charm losses participating in this event, especially given the very low level of the rewards for completing the goals. Apparently though, Flowplay/CW hopes we’ll listen to what they say and do exactly that. Yes, they’re a business and a business needs to make money, but not by encouraging risky gambling behavior when it’s neither necessary nor well rewarded.
Our crew finished the Stretch Goal late last night. I ranked #4 with 515 3x bet wins. I’ve found it’s actually much easier to win 3x your bet at low bet levels. That’s especially true in this event since charm bonuses also count, unlike in the regular Daily/Monthly challenges. Use high level charms to maximize the charm bonus payouts. Those charms will last a long time, because your bet levels are so low in comparison to the charms’ payout value.
To score 515 3x bet wins, I started at a 1k bet, the lowest level, and never bet higher than 100k. Most of my 3x bet wins came in the 4k, 10k, and 40k bet levels. I did burn thru a relatively small number of charms, but came out ahead in coins. In normal slot play I usually stick to the High Roller bet levels, starting at 1M and going up to 10M. However for this event, betting at those levels isn’t a viable way to maximize 3x bet wins when charm bonuses are included, and can easily lead to considerable coin and charm loss.
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Flowplay will do all they can to maximize revenues and profits…it’s a click based model, and not much more embarrassing than the paltry rewards for the Crew based competitions. Would you like me to mention more such as the ridiculous number of touches/clicks to evolve buildings/work on your city? Ridiculous first week of complete nonsense to reach 570 points on the challenge board before TB timers become reduced (not to mention the smallish prizes)? It really is all so maddening, but here we are paying their prices. Regards,
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I did the same with this challenge. I bet low. 100K and let it spin on auto over-night. ended up with 1,089 and ranked 2nd on our team. We also reached our stretch goal today. No one needed to bet high on this one. Even betting at 1,000 per spin was all that was needed.
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Agree! I am not a big fan of slots so this challenge was not one of my favorites. To make it fun and interesting, I tracked my results. I bet $500k per spin and did 200 spins of each slot machine game. I did not use any charms. I tallied where I started/ended and the G/L. I also tracked how many Free Spin Bonuses, Big Wins and 3x win (since I could just look at the crew results before and after each round). After studying those results, I backed my bet down to $100k. Our crew met our stretch goal last night, I ended with 1,087 points, did not have much fun, did not really win or lose and learned a lot about CW slots in the process!
Just do like I did. Bet the minimum 1000 coins with no charms and put Mystic Millions on auto-spin then walk away. Come back in an hour and your losses will be practically nothing and you’ll have plenty of 3X your bet wins to help the crew. See? All fixed.
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If you’re in a crunch, do fast continuous clicks on a small bet. It’s faster than auto spins.
Really good point Luck_is_a_lady your post reminds me to not get caught up in wasting money frivolously. Thank you for posting and I agree with you.
“Yes, they’re a business and a business needs to make money, but not by encouraging risky gambling behavior when it’s neither necessary nor well rewarded.”
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Ty Flowplay/CW for changing the message on the Payout Pursuit poster. Now it says “Win Prizes By Working Together”, which is great. I think it would have been ok if you just changed the words “Bet Big” to Win Big, but you went a giant step further by taking the focus completely off the betting/winning aspects, to remind us that crew members should be working together as team mates.
Bravo!!
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