Talk:Tickets/@comment-13848480-20150921151324/@comment-13848480-20150921225908

You mean you don't understand what I did? Or you don't understand my explanation of why it works like it does?

First of all, for my timezone (UTC +1) the time each day when new tickets become available is 19:00 (7:00 PM). If you don't know when that is for you it should be easy to check, just tap on the game tent and and try to play one of the games, if you have played all your 10 games already today it should show you a timer how long before you can play more games/collect more tickets.

Anyway, what I did is this, I logged in a while before 19:00 and once it was 19:00, I just started collecting tickets like normal, and the game acted as if it was still double ticket weekend, I found double amount of tickets and I was able to collect 1000 tickets instead of 500. Simple right?

Why it works like this is probably less important, and it's probably more complicated to understand too, but the simplest way I can explain it is:

How much tickets you earn from anything, like if the wheel of chance gives 1/15/40 or 2/30/80, if challenges give 50/100 or 100/200, if visitors with flags give 25 or 50, if collecting food/cash can give 2 or 4 tickets and so on, and if you can get 500 or 1000 tickets that day before reaching the limit. I think that all that is information that the game downloads from the server at the loading screen and then the game decides for itself how many tickets you get without having to contact the server and ask it each time.

The result of this is that if you are logged in while its still double ticket weekend, when the double ticket weekend ends and you are still logged in, the data about how many tickets you get is still the same as when it was double ticket weekend, because until you get to a loading screen by restarting the game or visiting a friend, that data doesn't get updated.

Lastly, I was speculating that maybe this might be used to earn tickets the day after the event ends, because that the event has ended will probably also not be loaded until you get to a loading screen. So unless they create a block on the server side on new tickets, we might be able to collect tickets one more day. If it does work, what we need to do is log in before the event ends and stay logged in until it ends, then when it ends try collecting more tickets, and don't log out, don't visit friends, don't turn off the screen on your device or switch to other apps, until we have gotten to the ticket limit. If it works and you are addicted enough, it might even work for more than 1 day as long as you can stay logged in the whole time.