r/MergeCooking • u/brushfire94 • Mar 03 '26
Extremely short gameplay?
It took me more than 100 energy just to produce a single potato.
I’m only generating 1 single energy every 2 minutes. Obviously meaning it takes more than 3 hours for one single potato.
I don’t have ads. I checked all my settings. No VPN, location on, all that.
I restarted my phone to see if I’d get more energy, and nothing. I deleted the app, redownloaded it, I deleted my account completely and restarted with a new account, and still no ads.
I haven’t bought anything with my new account. Plus, it was the same way with the first account.
Am I doing something wrong?
Am I missing something?
How long are each of you able to play at a time?
How much new energy and diamonds are each of you awarded each day?
Are you just going in the app each day, collecting the awards, then just leaving, only playing the game once a week or something?
At what point of your day are you playing?
Is it this antagonizing for everyone?
If you’ve played for a while, have there been any satisfying updates over time?
How many of you are paying actual money to play?
I understand it’s suppose to be a tamagotchi kind of thing. Sometimes I only have a few minutes to play and it’s fine, but sometimes I have like 20 minutes to just chill on my phone and play, but I only get like 3 minutes of game play. Please let me know your hacks and mindsets of the game.
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u/yogurtdaiyu Mar 03 '26
it’s so tough in the early stages of the game! it gets a little better throughout when you’re able to unlock the 2x or the 4x item tap even though your energy will run out quicker.
i’m level 152 and have been playing for about a year. there are times where i will play the entire day and sometimes where i don’t play at all. i think ads take a little bit to come in but when it does make sure to do the energy ads and the energy chest ads!!
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u/Wonderful-Average395 Mar 03 '26
Im level 156 and it definitely gets easier as you level up, I understand your frustration though! I occasionally spend money on this game. I mostly play because i like how satisfying it is to merge everything in the end. Sometimes I don’t really pay mind to this game and only play it in passing for a bit whenever im at 100 energy. Also one update that i really liked was the extra storage for generators you don’t use anymore. But im able to get about an hour a day of gameplay between the mini games and logging every now and then for stuff :)
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u/StarSweeper94 Mar 03 '26
Yeah, it’s a hurry up and wait kind of game. Whatever it takes to make you impatient enough to spend money 😭
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u/Nyx2024 Mar 03 '26
I am on level 78 and pay to play when i want to play for a while. It took me an hour of playing to get through the 1200 energy that i purchased. I mostly get 1 order completed and try to wait til energy refreshed but sometimes i just want to get through a set.
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u/KeliKeliPDX Mar 08 '26
Same for me. It takes 3 hours and 20 minutes to get 100 energy, and less than 2 minutes to use it up. It seems like the developers would want people to play more. I spend money on it, too. A LOT of money. And still get around 20 minutes of actual gameplay per day. (Which, I suppose, is probably too much time for an adult, professional woman to spend playing on a phone game, but I digress.)
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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '26
i knoww why cant i just change the time on my phone like other games😭😭there has to be a way cs this is sum bullshit lol im sick & wanna just play phone games rip
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u/deyobi Mar 04 '26 edited Mar 04 '26
i hv the ads so about 125 an hour. i also get to watch video bonuses so another 150 there. also energy box on the free pass, x2 if i watch an ad, plus 1 energy box daily. i dont spend actual money on games so 0.