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Attachment 204866Attachment 204866I finally move up to the Expert League in the Derby. I am only choosing the tasks worth 320pts. I am not using diamonds to speed anything up, because I cannot afford to do this. However, I am not wasting any time. My boats are most often completed within the first hour and sometimes the first few minutes. Again I am not using diamonds to speed up the boat arrivals.

This is my frustration....even with doing all of this, someone achieved 2880pts within the first day. That would be the 8 tasks plus the 9th bought with diamonds. Two other people are also pretty close. How is this possible unless they are using diamonds for everything? What does it matter how hard I try? Even if I reach 2880pts, which I will, I still will never be in the top 3 and advance to the Championship League. What is the motivation to try hard and spend so much time on this?

I appreciate your input. Thank you.

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Originally Posted by ht1025

Attachment 204866Attachment 204866I finally move up to the Expert League in the Derby. I am only choosing the tasks worth 320pts. I am not using diamonds to speed anything up, because I cannot afford to do this. However, I am not wasting any time. My boats are most often completed within the first hour and sometimes the first few minutes. Again I am not using diamonds to speed up the boat arrivals.

This is my frustration....even with doing all of this, someone achieved 2880pts within the first day. That would be the 8 tasks plus the 9th bought with diamonds. Two other people are also pretty close. How is this possible unless they are using diamonds for everything? What does it matter how hard I try? Even if I reach 2880pts, which I will, I still will never be in the top 3 and advance to the Championship League. What is the motivation to try hard and spend so much time on this?

I appreciate your input. Thank you.

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I am afraid that is life in small derbies. Your best bet would be to practise a delayed start. Load up the task board with all 320 point tasks, and prepare for them, but don't take any tasks until maybe 2 days left in the derby, if you can.

you are not pitted against anyone until you take that first task.

I didn't realize that. Thanks.

This can happen in bigger derbies too. Occasionally you get matched against diamond fiends that just run away with it. It's not the way I want to play so we just let it go and hope for a better match next Derby.

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Originally Posted by ht1025

Attachment 204866Attachment 204866I finally move up to the Expert League in the Derby. I am only choosing the tasks worth 320pts. I am not using diamonds to speed anything up, because I cannot afford to do this. However, I am not wasting any time. My boats are most often completed within the first hour and sometimes the first few minutes. Again I am not using diamonds to speed up the boat arrivals.

This is my frustration....even with doing all of this, someone achieved 2880pts within the first day. That would be the 8 tasks plus the 9th bought with diamonds. Two other people are also pretty close. How is this possible unless they are using diamonds for everything? What does it matter how hard I try? Even if I reach 2880pts, which I will, I still will never be in the top 3 and advance to the Championship League. What is the motivation to try hard and spend so much time on this?

I appreciate your input. Thank you.

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That always happens to me too. I get into the expert league, if I'm lucky, but end up in the bottom 3 and am ALWAYS demoted down. The tasks are difficult in the expert league so you can't even do many of it or it times out right before I am able to collect the stuff for the task! The tasks I am good at are never offered in the expert league, either. But with those tasks, others might oversleep!! Mining.

I see the appeal in wanting to be in CL but the derby only matters as much as you make it. I don't play derby for the prizes or the placing i play because their is nothing better to do with my game. Don't get me wrong i love the derby and the game but if I didn't play I would not have the motivation to play HD everyday. This is not everyone's case.

You are right. I don't play Hayday to just play in the Derbys. I enjoy all of the other aspects. However, I would be lying if I said I don't want a Championship trophy. :)

It would be nice to win the derby without having to use diamonds - but it is within the rules to win that way and to utterly smash the other teams. Personally I don't understand the glory in winning that way.

Delaying your derby start by even a few hours can mean you have an easier time.

Thanks! I will try this on the next derby.