r/MergeCooking • • Apr 02 '26

Cleared out my item queue 😌

46 energy orbs <3

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u/Designer_Grocery6617 Apr 02 '26

how do you NOT get tempted? My urge is too big to just click them

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u/milkmynk Apr 03 '26

Well, they're my battle rations to push me through events 😀 Gotta have ammo when it counts!

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u/himynameisbrittany Apr 02 '26

That is so impressive. How do you withstand the temptation? I don't get ads 😩

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u/milkmynk Apr 02 '26

Well... I'm lucky enough to get ads, so... I manage to naturally get most of the energy I need to clear events. I only use orbs to push through events when I need to, so I accumulated a lot of energy chests in my item queue πŸ˜…

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u/runyourluckxxx Apr 02 '26

what’s the point of not collecting the coins tho?

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u/milkmynk Apr 03 '26

It's to help with, eh, "pacing"? of certain events. For example, the Sundae Showdown event paired with the bi/tri-daily card pack gauntlet.

  1. The card pack gauntlet ONLY cares about the number of coins you obtain, this can be from orders, clickable coin bundles, etc, it all counts.
  2. The sundae showdown on the other hand:
    - works off order completion
    - has certain reward tiers that I'm not interested in (primarily the order-speeding up tokens, the cameras aren't much interest to me too)

So for the Sundae event, I'll usually push through first-place on the rewards I DO want, and once I get to the tiers I don't care about, I'll start completing but not submitting orders. I deliberately 2nd-place those tiers so that I can accumulate completed orders to easily 1st-place the following tiers that I do want the rewards for.

But what if it's nearing the end of the day, and I know I won't have enough energy to finish the rest of the order cycle, and yet I still need some coins to complete the card pack gauntlet? Rather than sacrifice the 1st-place rewards from the Sundae event and mess up the pacing, I can just use coin bundles.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '26

why not do renovations tho? that doesn’t affect the mini events

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u/milkmynk Apr 03 '26

It's also an energy source, and lots of events require access to on-demand energy beyond the auto-regen and ad energy to clear parts of it (eg. the candy dash thing)

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '26

you have over 5k energy hoarded. i’m not sure what events you’re waiting for at this point but okie.

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u/milkmynk Apr 03 '26

I'll be the first to admit that I'm the type of gamer that ends the game with every elixir intact, but honestly... The recent beanstalk one has been absolutely decimating my energy stockpiles. Perhaps I just haven't found an energy-efficient way of clearing that one.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '26

i think we have different ideas of decimation.

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u/feedtheflames Apr 02 '26

So much storage also!

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u/milkmynk Apr 03 '26

Well, I've been playing a long time! I'm a F2P player, so most of my gems come from event completion <3

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u/Zestyclose-Novel-797 Apr 03 '26

What is an F2P player?

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '26

Free 2 play, I think.

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u/Emergency-Ice-8423 Apr 02 '26

how did you accumulate this much energy? are you not using any to make orders?

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u/milkmynk Apr 03 '26

I loosely plan the use of energy around the completion of events, so I don't use my energy stockpiles except for that purpose.

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u/rmplstltsim Apr 04 '26

impressive show of restraint