Though to answer your original question. It is obvious. You have to spend more.
Game relies on your, and others, brains to make the collective conclusion that spending more money is the way to go - as a way to protect your investment, rather than letting it go and quitting.
As a cow you have let yourself be milked. Question is, will you do so again?
The only way to remain consistently competitive at the top is to play for hours and keep spending some serious money.
There are lots of us who feel like we’ve hit a wall at various times - I would advise anyone who’s struggling with the time and effort to take a break, even for a few days, and see how you feel.
Can you come back re-energised and look forward to seeing your alliance again?
Or do you realize you can do without the game?
It might be that a change of alliance freshens things up, too, even if you have made good friends.
I know it can feel like this, but I absolutely believe that this is a myth
Try to screenshot your good boards, as well as the bad and you’ll see they even out
Too bad that wasn’t a starting board — let slip the dogs of war.
Lately, I’ve noticed a bunch of extremes in replacement tiles, both ones in my colors and ones against. But that’s bound to happen when spending one or two world energy per hit while deliberately trying to make combos and diamonds irrespective of color against enemies that don’t hit back.
What needs to be realized in that board is that all my blue heroes are fully charged and ready to fire. The board ended up as shown after the previous move created a diamond in blue, then triggered that diamond, then cascaded 2/3 of the board away killing three opponents. It started though not a lot better than what you see here. I think there were four blue gems to start. It was a long slow buildup to a sudden fast ending.
As I’ve said on other threads, when you make a match-3 playing mono the replacement tiles will on average be 20% the colour you want. That is 80% not the colour you want.
If you are matching your colour you will on average end up with 2 or 3 less tiles of your colour.
Let’s not get into my wang is bigger than your wang contest!
I don’t do mono, one not comfortable n don’t have heros to do it! Happy doing a 2 2 1 or 3 2
My last 3-2 in war today was ■■■■■ no purple tiles at all even trying to get rid of bad tiles no Fn purple come up! My blue was ok ish not enough for a kill or a heal! 17 points
Well then if you’re beating 4500 teams with mono why in Sam Hill are you whinging about mono boards? According to you, you’re winning. (Though you did kinda say in your opening post that you were “no longer competitive” - which in English generally is equated with losing)… but let’s say you’re stable and exceptionally mentally gifted and you mean winning… Do you want to win harder? Jinkies!
And still nothing has changed and you’ve provided zero data.
And it’s ‘longer than’…
And show a screen cap of your 4500+ opponents, because i call horse pucky