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treysmith
14y ago
For sure, we learned a ton :)
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treysmith
14y ago
See my other reply, it wasn't just XP and Level. Earn Rates per minute, cost of items per level, etc was also similar.
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treysmith
14y ago
Haha, no. I did not pay someone to do that. I paid someone to find out how much of these economies are copied. We had numbers for everything including cost of unit per level, earn rate per minute per level, etc. Everything followed the s
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treysmith
14y ago
I'm the author and I highly doubt that. They are far from the first company to really focus on conversion optimization. I paid a statistician to reverse engineer the economy of Dragonvale, Tap Pet Hotel and Tap Zoo. All of the games follo
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treysmith
14y ago
They copied the gameplay style and tutorial. Again, I mentioned many times it's a smart move. I don't think they copied CODE or did anything shady. But go play galaxy life and then Clash of Clans. It's dead obvious.
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treysmith
14y ago
Fixed :)
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treysmith
14y ago
They are at about $60,000 per day. Not bad considering.
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treysmith
14y ago
Haha, I'm not making $700,000 per day. Which is apparently very evident because I can't even keep my blog up.
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treysmith
14y ago
Sorry, server got overloaded but they are working on it!