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MEBC: The Fly Over

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Mighty Eagle runs a tight ship and expects you to play in Boot Camp daily. Those who do will be handsomely rewarded. Do not be intimidated! This is a great place to practice and earn free rewards. You only get one free run, so make the most of it. If you wish to make additional attempts it will cost you gems, currently 60 gems pre rerun. The goal is to clear as many rooms as you can while causing as much damage as possible until you run out of birds or rooms. There are a limited number of rooms but it is rare for a player to finish MEBC with birds left over. Each room cleared pays Mighty Eagle coins. Additionally, the higher your final score, the more Mighty Eagle coins you will earn when the days training is complete. Your daily placement on the Local Leaderboard pays if you place high enough, and your frame coins are tallied up and paid out at the end of the season. MEBC seasons vary between 40-48 days typically. When you play MEBC you compete against all players in the game. ...
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Quarantine Coffee with Lil Bug

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Hello all my friendly flingers! I invite you in for our second date, some quarantine coffee with me! I’ll wait while you go get your coffee... I would normally do it for you, seeing as you are my guest, but with the quarantine... you’ll just have to do it yourself this time. In all seriousness, I hope you are healthy and managing during this strange time. I have been in quarantine for over two months now and am finding it harder than ever to make time for writing! Now that the house is cleaned and the garden is in time for some fun! Rovio has definitely been keeping us busy. Back to back to back battles with multiple overlapping point events, plus hatchling events, hat events, Rowdy Rumbles, and new mini events! Phew! What did I leave out? I feel like there was something else... How’s your coffee? Mine is hot and hazelnut, just how I like it. Mmmmmmm..... At times the pace of play became a bit overwhelming. Some struggled to manage gems and asked for help more than normal. Others ...
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Gem Hoarding Part 2

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Welcome back! This is the second half of the Gem Hoarding  series. If you haven’t already, check out Part 1 for info on the Daily Challenge and King Pig Panic, Map, Clan Events, and the Tower of Fortune. Part 2 covered MEBC, Spells, Hatchling Events, Rowdy Rumble, and the Arena. The Arena is a place to earn big rewards, even more so during Feather Frenzies, Black Pearl Parties, and Super Streak Weeks. Many times you can progress pretty far into the streak without using any gems. As you get closer to the end of a streak the chances of forking over some pink rock increases. Now, if one 60 gem buy in will finish off a streak it makes sense to spend the gems. If you need multiple buys ins just pass. Shake your fist at the game and start a new streak. Best way to avoid having to spend in the Arena is to bank your spells. Spells should be used for Clan Events and Arena, that’s all. Playing Arena one week on, one off, gives you a chance to bank spells and tickets when you are low or h...
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New MEBC Leaderboard

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February 2020 marks another major Angry Birds 2 update! This includes a change to Mighty Eagle’s Boot Camp, one that many players have been requesting for some time. There is a new leaderboard system in MEBC. Used to be top 100 players for the day, top 100 players for the season, and top 100 clans. Now the three leaderboards are labeled ‘Local’, ‘Global’, and ‘Top Clans’. Top Clans is business as usual and Global is essentially the same as the top 100 players. The new feature is the Local leaderboard. Players are grouped together by flock power size to compete for additional MEBC coins. Only the top 50 earn extra coin. I’m guessing this is top 50 out of 100 players but I’m not sure yet. (I’ll have to bomb a day to place in the bottom so I can find out.) It appears this side competition will have no affect on frames. This means the frame system is probably remaining the same. At the end of the MEBC season the frames will all reset, just as they have in the past. There are two ad...
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New Clan Battle Scoring

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The fourth Clan vs Clan Battle utilizing the new scoring system has ended. What does everyone think? I think it’s great! This new system is purely skill based, in theory... Shall we dissect that theory a bit? Previous scoring system allotted a set number of eggs (or points) per position on the scoreboard. When players changed position on the leaderboard both team scores could fluctuate. The top 15-20 players determined battle outcomes. Many clans adopted dummy flocks to improve matchups. Since the bottom part of a clan scored 1-5 eggs, the 10 eggs missed by a clan with 10 dummies didn’t affect the overall outcome. All that has changed! Under the new system eggs are awarded per millions of points in a players score. This means a score of 68,000,000 in battle would earn 68 eggs. One really cool thing I’ve noticed is a score of 68,531,540 earns 69 eggs. The system rounds up. It’s important to note, when a player increases their score it will not reduce the score of others in their c...
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Dummies Defined

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One of the hot button issues in Angry Birds 2 is the use of dummies in clans. This poses the question, what is a dummy? The FaceBook advocacy group ‘No Dummies Allowed AB2’ defines a dummy as player accounts maintained at a low flock power solely for biasing Clan vs Clan matches. Dummy accounts are usually easy to spot. The main thing to look for is flock power, many times it’s below 65. A combination of white MEBC frames, Vanilla League, no hatchling, and a base level slingshot are also signs of dummy accounts. The dead giveaway is not having the whole flock unlocked. Some dummy accounts may only have three or four birds open. At this point you may be wondering how in the world such a small flock could give a clan any sort of advantage. Valid question! From what we can tell Rovio matches clans based on the number of players and the clan flock power. They didn’t fully account for the distribution of flock power within the clan. Clans with 10 players over 1,000 flock power and 10 d...
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Gem Hoarding Part 1

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Ever notice how you never seem to have enough gems? Are you in the “can’t play anymore because of how much I spend” camp? Then this is just for you! I mean, who doesn’t need a fat gem bank. Hoarding gems is a bit of an art and requires self control and patience. The first habit to break is spending gems to complete map levels. Stop it! The map is really just practice and there is no big benefit to getting further faster. At some point you will be waiting for new levels to come out, no need to rush the waiting game. I have had to play some levels dozens of times, and it may take a couple weeks to conquer the one level, but I mostly never spend. It’s not often you get stuck like that so keep flinging and just replay if you fail. (If you are consistently failing in a world type ie slime, keep practicing those levels on the map.) The addition of the Daily Challenge streak creates a new dynamic when deciding to spend gems. I managed to hit the Legendary Chest twice but had to pay 60 ge...
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