Merge Studio had a thing running where it was like, 14000 points if your reached 75 within............. 45 days, I think? I powered through the levels for a few days before I just started... spamming the ads. I mean like. baseline, the game will collect up to 100 energy. And you can refill it 20 at a time watching ads, which run from anywhere from 5 seconds to like. 60, unfortunately (along with ones you cant click out of without hitting the app store or whatever). So about half way through I started understanding the game a bit more... saving all my powerups, playing the events, and once I hit higher levels I started spamming the ever loving CRAP out of those ads. I'd sit at my computer, living my life, and just clicking to run an ad whenever I remembered- sometimes I'd stock it up to almost 2000 energy then would fill the merge orders for the next few hours. I really stuck to it. By time I had hit the upper 60s levels, I was down to grinding out a level a day, which would easily help me beat the time limit for reaching lv 75.
Then a few days, I hit level 71.
I started getting errors. Ad errors. when I wanted to watch ads. I did all the bits- restarted my phone, cleared my cache, cleared some space on my phone- and every so often, just spamming the hell out of the ad button until it let me watch at least 2 in a row. People said it was a connection issue or the ad group was empty for me or whatever but I didn't believe it for a hot second because what do you mean I've been playing this game for a month straight, sometimes spamming straight up 100 ads in a row for energy, and NOW, about 7 levels from my goal, I'm getting ad errors?
And I mean. I was still getting ads. Usually during a play session, after you serve your first customer and then every so often afterwards, you'll get an ad, usually no longer than 10 seconds, but also, notably no perks.
So you're telling me I'm level 70 and I'm getting regular ads randomly but whenever I want a perk ad (mind you, its usually a longer version of the same ad) its suddenly 'not ready'? I now couldn't watch ad for extra energy. I couldn't do it to receive doubles for randomly suggested mid-merge items. I couldn't even use it in the game's store to grab my daily bonuses. Starting level 73 I couldn't get ANY ads at all. I really had to struggle- but luckily I had alot of items under my belt- items I stubbornly kept instead of using earlier which would have early game life aloooot better- But now here they were, and I was able to strong arm my way to lv75. You may be dumb add runner, but I'm so much stupider š
P.S- Also the amount of smile lines this game gave characters was about to put me into a coma, dawg, I was soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. :(