E: 31/03 - Round The World trip & £1000 spends (Quacky Races)

ladycadbury

fuseboy wrote: »

I think what people have been doing (as I believe this thread has pointed out) is to over-top-up your duck so he starts on 122 knots but his bars are actually higher than his optimum levels. And then as the 3 bars decrease he will actually hit his optimum levels for caring and increase in speed before he decreases again (hope that makes sense). That way you can actually get a good average speed and not need to top up your duck for about 2 hours - I have in fact done this myself when testing speeds so I believe it may well be possible with the right dedication.

Thanks for this.

As I can't win, I've been experimenting too and have done this myself but I've always found that the time spent at low speeds (because the duck is too 'full') is always far longer than the time at the higher speeds (as the duck 'empties' and reaches optimum). Hence, I'm still mystifed how you can maintain such a high average, of 124 topping up every 2 hours!

:think:

DoJive

fuseboy wrote: »

I think what people have been doing (as I believe this thread has pointed out) is to over-top-up your duck so he starts on 122 knots but his bars are actually higher than his optimum levels. And then as the 3 bars decrease he will actually hit his optimum levels for caring and increase in speed before he decreases again (hope that makes sense). That way you can actually get a good average speed and not need to top up your duck for about 2 hours - I have in fact done this myself when testing speeds so I believe it may well be possible with the right dedication.

This isn't going to give you an average of 124 though.

Over 2 hours to average 124 you'd need to be going at 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 125, 124, 123. That's 8 speeds, meaning 15minutes at each one. It's impossible to maintain the same speed for 15minutes.

The actual average to get the top time, is 124.6, which you'd have to lose the 122 and 123 the start, and the 123 at the end to achieve, so you're covering 5 speeds in 2 hours, meaning you have to keep them up for 24minutes a piece. Even more impossible.

jaydeebee

You can't achieve 122, 123, 124 etc, on chance you may achieve 122 then 123 or whatever once in one sequence but it doesn't gradually decrease, it jumps down in blocks. Makes it even harder to work out!

DoJive

jaydeebee wrote: »

You can't achieve 122, 123, 124 etc, on chance you may achieve 122 then 123 or whatever once in one sequence but it doesn't gradually decrease, it jumps down in blocks. Makes it even harder to work out!

It does, but the game is rubbish at updating to show it, it only updates every x minutes if you leave it open, so you'll only see a chunk drop off at once.

If you keep refreshing the page you'll see it gradually decrease.

decima_2

ladycadbury wrote: »

Poor duck - need to give it even more hugs - but then she'll get dizzy with too much love... oh no! - can't win either way!

My duck has finally limped over the finish line, thank goodness I can get my life back. I know I'm a saddo but can't get over the fact that I looked after my duck over 400 times and the duck currently in first place was in my oppinion neglected!!:mad:

jaydeebee

DoJive wrote: »

It does, but the game is rubbish at updating to show it, it only updates every x minutes if you leave it open, so you'll only see a chunk drop off at once.

If you keep refreshing the page you'll see it gradually decrease.

Nope it updates fine, when you refresh for some reason only 1 time it will bring the stats down, but won't do it again til you top up. The only thing that doesn't update is the miles travelled, and that updates only when the stats go down.

ladycadbury

decima wrote: »

My duck has finally limped over the finish line, thank goodness I can get my life back. I know I'm a saddo but can't get over the fact that I looked after my duck over 400 times and the duck currently in first place was in my oppinion neglected!!:mad:

I can quite see why you feel that, it really doesn't look straight nor fair

jaydeebee

It should really be based on not just speed and fastest there, it should be about amount of times cared, how long you spend with it etc, much fairer ways of doing this. This is unfair because some of us work and don't have time to be staying up all day and night!

fuseboy

jaydeebee wrote: »

It should really be based on not just speed and fastest there, it should be about amount of times cared, how long you spend with it etc, much fairer ways of doing this. This is unfair because some of us work and don't have time to be staying up all day and night!

Could not agree with this more! Seems a bit unfair that someone who has only "cared" for their duck 60 odd times is leading! Plus I can't sit at my PC all day and night

Would love someone to test the average speed theory properly, would be nice to know how this has all been actually done.

The other thing I don't like is that my finish time (not that it matters cos I was way back) keeps changing for the worse as does my average speed. :huh:

FITZY69_2

its all !!!!!!!! cause i have been caring for my duck non-stop for the last 5 days now and to see that some 1 has cared for there duck less than 70 times and is winning when my duck is always and i mean always at 125 knots and to find out that i have still got 4000 miles to to go and is over the top players time i will be finishing it in about 8 days its all a swiss they just randomley let people win any way all the best