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What are the gold bars for and where are the ones I earned from the team challenge?

Gold bars are used exclusively to select styles for certain 3x3 buildings and the 4x4 Estate. If you tap on these buildings and select the green button with the house and hammer icon, it will take you to the Style Picker, where your amount of gold bars are also displayed. At this time, the buildings with Style Picker options are only: Estate, Fountain, Stables, Orangerie, Windmill, Vineyard, Central Station, Observatory, and Bathhouse. But more are anticipated. ... + 1 More Answers

Anyone else notice the blatant cheaters on Spot the Diff competitions? Some of those scores are ridiculously high and I’m positive no human could get them. For reference, I take 20-30 sec per round and I take no breaks in between. For a 45 min comp, my scores are usually around 1.5 to 2 mill. Each of the top 5 teams for these comps usually have one or two players that score up to 2.5 mill, and I understand that. BUT There’s this one team “Letter J” where nearly all their members score upwards of 5 mill every. single. time. The score difference between them and all the other top teams are insane. Every time, they win first place and it’s unfair to the rest of us. And they’re not the only teams that cheat, there’s many more. But this one is so not subtle about it. I know lots of teams even opt out of Spot the Diff comps specifically BECAUSE of these cheaters. We just don’t stand a chance against literal bots or whatever program they created. The time rush comps are fair; I mean you really can’t cheat those ( fingers crossed). It just sucks to have gameplay ruined and Wooga always responds with the same auto-reply response saying they’re “working on it” but there’s been no results even with countless reports by other players. These teams are still HERE. I legit face “Letter J” every single spot the diff comp bc the junes journey grouping algorithm knows my team scores well and groups us with all the other high scoring players which unfortunately include those cheaters. I feel like Wooga is just not being proactive about this issue and it’s not high up on their list when it’s affecting so many players. Although I love spot the diff comps, if cheating is going to be the norm, I say they scrap the game from competitions completely.

My team was normally in the top 5 with normal scores. Over the past 3 or 4 months we have dropped to top 10 and now are sliding out of that spot due to super high scores that we can NOT see how that can happen. As far as the debate over ME, I agree its not cheating, although it never did anything for me except give me a headache. I personally don't need a boost for STD but I take no issue with anyone who does use it for a slight advantage. What I do take issue with is the cheating that's clearly happening and Wooga won't do anything about it. So one of my teammates said something the other day that resonated with me. She said she thought these teams could actually be bots that Wooga created to win in order to drive up sales of their diamonds. I mean, it makes sense. They are getting huge; I actually saw a commercial about the game the other day. So they are now big enough to put ads on TV. The other thing I noticed was that these high scoring teams do not play every game. In about 5 games they will play 3 to 4. When they dont play, we get our 1st and 2nd place spot back. That also makes me think something is fishy. They don't play every game so not to lose their players from frustration. But give them that little boost of hope so they may think buying diamonds would be advantageous to their game. Wooga makes money from the sale of diamonds. This is a big win for Wooga. And to the player that said they wouldn't earn that much money from the sale of diamonds, let me put that in perspective...lets say most people won't pay the $99 for the largest bundle of diamonds but would be willing to drop a 20 spot for a bunch. Lets say, for the sake of argument that out of the 10m downloads that Google play claims for this game that only 10% buy diamonds. To keep the math easy on me lets say that 10% buys the $20 package..that, my friends, is $2m!! That's not chump change. What if those same people buy on a weekly or even monthly basis? Ugh to be able to have a small percentage of that revenue and I could retire! So, all that being said, do I feel this is a ploy by Wooga to earn more money? Absolutely I do! The question is what do we do about it? We have options, for sure. We can delete our downloads but we have built communities in our teams. My team comes from all walks of life and, in my opinion, are my friends. I don't want to lose that friendship over a greedy company. Option 2 just play the games and deal with it. I don't like that either because it gets frustrating when you could be expanding your game instead of saving for the comps just to lose to bots. Then the last option we have come up with is a massive "sit out" where we get as many teams as possible to have an organized sit out of either a particular game or a select number of games. For this to be effective we have to have a large portion of teams to join before this could even be effective. They would not notice one or two teams. But have only the bots playing, they would notice. The key is to get any team that feels the same way to join and stick with it. Only then will Wooga come clean. If you contact them they will say there is no cheating going on and that the complainants are being "out played ".... their words. Really? If that was the case it would not be a hit and miss as I've previously stated. I'm trying to post on any and all gaming formats to get the word out what we feel is going on with Wooga's Junes Journeys. I will leave you with these thoughts: This is a great game that I personally have enjoyed. I was able to start a team and meet awesome people from around the world and I like to think we are friends. I dont want to risk losing these comrades because of a game developer being greedy. Think about this and decide for yourselves if a mass boycott would at least send a message to Wooga that WE SEE THEM. ... + 17 More Answers

How many chapters are there in total?

100 chapters in volume 1 50 chapters in volume 2 25 chapters in volume 3 35 anticipated chapters in volume 4 Total = 210 chapters (1050 scenes) with possibly more to come. ... + 2 More Answers

What are the keys for and where do you find how many you've earned?

Keys are only earned during Detectives Needed Challenges. When a DNC event is active, you will see a stopwatch icon on the left side of your island screen. Tap on the stopwatch to see how many keys you have, how many you need for the various prizes, how to earn them (i.e from playing scenes, completing Help Wanted cases or both), and how much time is left in the event. Keys do not carry over from one DNC event to the next. ... + 1 More Answers

What happens once the island is full?

They give you Sunflower Island. Property separate from Orchid Island. ... + 4 More Answers

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