mikegood2
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Jan 5, 2011
Don't forget, this game cloud saves periodically. Thus, if you open a Platinum Chest and you get garbage, you can roll your game back to your last save and try to open the exact same chest and repeat till you get what you want. The drop rates for the "good" stuff are ridiculously bad... When I kept statistics early on to calculate the drop rates for the rare items, we found some of them were worse than 5% chance (1 in 20ish). No big deal for those with deep pockets willing to spend $100s of dollars on a mobile game. But for the rest of us free-to-play players that's the only way to control your fate to guarantee getting the exact item from each drop. And that was the AVERAGE... some times it came sooner... and the other half the times it took many more attempts. Just do the math to find out how much REAL money... it would cost to keep buying gems to keep buying random 5% dice rolls.
Of course, backing up your save file is trivial for player of this game using Windows... those stuck on Android/iOS version the simplest way to backup your save file is to play on two devices (or switch in and out of airplane mode)... Most people have seen the dialog when you play offline or move from your phone to tablet the prompt asking which save file to use if you've played on two devices. Just save right before you open your chest, transfer to device 2... open... and if you get garbage... open the game on the first device again and repeat. There's no reason to waste another Platinum/Gold chest again for useless potions.
BTW, this works on every random drop in game... You can use it to guarantee gems everytime you run the parade... or guarantee an rare/epic/legendary drop after every timer countdown for each character task. No matter what, the game odds still are in play and you're still hoping the game's RNG (random number generator) rolls the right number for you... but as long as you are willing to put in the effort, you can get your Zootopia Racetrack guaranteed on your next Platinum chest.
I have the game on 2 devices, an iPad and iPhone, and rarely have any issues moving from one device to the other. On most days I end up getting 4 gems for watching the trailer, 2 on each device. I've found that quitting the app, restarting/loading it on the same device and then opening it on the other device works best. it makes sure that I'm playing the most up to date version of the game.
I've tried once, using the platinum chest technique between the two devices, but have only been able to redo it 4 times before It rewrote the cloud save to after I opened the chest. Do you need to be in airport mode to get it to work? I really want the speedway since it is the only attraction I'm missing. Doubt I'd use that technique for anything else.