Hard to trigger the boss

[miaomiao]

Anyone have problem triggering the boss? It becomes so hard to trigger this time. I spend 60 stamina for getting only 2 trigger and 1000 energy for 1 trigger.

[Evan1000]

Anyone have problem triggering the boss? It becomes so hard to trigger this time. I spend 60 stamina for getting only 2 trigger and 1000 energy for 1 trigger.

The triggering rate is definitely down, I noticed that the first boss, but I haven't spent 60 stamina to trigger two.. unless you were trying to trigger them back to back which in that case you have to wait like 3 mins before each trigger or else he won't pop up.

[Fredfreddy]

yep, it's not back down to unreasonable levels from a several months back, but it's definitely down from the "fixed" spawn rate an EB or 2 back. Really don't understand why they keep changing this, poor EB spawn rates literally don't benefit them at all, and only serves to annoy folks.

[Miss Soprano]

That's why you never thank gree for anything!!!

[Perin]

After you kill a boss force close the game...

[Tora]

Yes seems much harder to trigger the boss this time :(

[Eraleth]

I'm not a real techy kind of guy, so maybe I'm off base here.. But the way I see it.. Its kinda like Word or Excel. Where it autosaves your progress, but you can also hit the save button at any time.

So with CC, your data that's on your device autosaves to the server, at specified intervals. (I'm just gonna call that the refresh rate). However there are certain action within the game that sort of act as a save button- refreshing the rivals list, opening syn chat, etc. Hitting these buttons connects you to the server to access refreshed/updated data.

Here's what I think.
As part of the fight against cheaters/glitchers, Gree reduced the refresh time. This effectively force synchronizes devices and server more frequently.
A side effect of this was the Epic Bosses seemed to be easier to summon. Another huge side effect, was the data surge.
So now we have ppl happy with EB (unintended) but really not happy with their data usage (also unintended). What can Gree do? I believe they have adjusted the refresh again. By the sounds of what you guys are saying- not back to where it was originally, but tweaked enough to reduce the amount of data required, which again has an unintended consequence of making it seem like the bosses are harder to summon.

I do say "seem" harder to summon, because I have never had an issue summoning a boss, as long as I don't rely on the app to autosave for me.

Carmen Rivera is still my "goto" npc for summoning. The method is simple- force refresh a few times, then hit Carmen a few times, then force refresh again. More often than not, a boss is summoned. Low energy req, low xp gain.
If there's an LTQ, I pvp for bosses.
For pvp, I do the same thing essentially. Force refresh a few times, beat on a target a few times, then force refresh. Robbing, fighting- doesn't matter. Win/Lose, doesn't matter.

Gree:"Every action has a chance of summoning an Epic Boss". The key is to let the server know that you just completed an action.

As I said at the beginning, I'm not real techy. So maybe I'm out to lunch here.... But I do know that I very rarely have problems getting a boss. Same with the rest of my syn.

TL;DR: no issue here.

[Evan1000]

I'm not a real techy kind of guy, so maybe I'm off base here.. But the way I see it.. Its kinda like Word or Excel. Where it autosaves your progress, but you can also hit the save button at any time.

So with CC, your data that's on your device autosaves to the server, at specified intervals. (I'm just gonna call that the refresh rate). However there are certain action within the game that sort of act as a save button- refreshing the rivals list, opening syn chat, etc. Hitting these buttons connects you to the server to access refreshed/updated data.

Here's what I think.
As part of the fight against cheaters/glitchers, Gree reduced the refresh time. This effectively force synchronizes devices and server more frequently.
A side effect of this was the Epic Bosses seemed to be easier to summon. Another huge side effect, was the data surge.
So now we have ppl happy with EB (unintended) but really not happy with their data usage (also unintended). What can Gree do? I believe they have adjusted the refresh again. By the sounds of what you guys are saying- not back to where it was originally, but tweaked enough to reduce the amount of data required, which again has an unintended consequence of making it seem like the bosses are harder to summon.

I do say "seem" harder to summon, because I have never had an issue summoning a boss, as long as I don't rely on the app to autosave for me.

Carmen Rivera is still my "goto" npc for summoning. The method is simple- force refresh a few times, then hit Carmen a few times, then force refresh again. More often than not, a boss is summoned. Low energy req, low xp gain.
If there's an LTQ, I pvp for bosses.
For pvp, I do the same thing essentially. Force refresh a few times, beat on a target a few times, then force refresh. Robbing, fighting- doesn't matter. Win/Lose, doesn't matter.

Gree:"Every action has a chance of summoning an Epic Boss". The key is to let the server know that you just completed an action.

As I said at the beginning, I'm not real techy. So maybe I'm out to lunch here.... But I do know that I very rarely have problems getting a boss. Same with the rest of my syn.

TL;DR: no issue here.

You're not real techy? I call lies

And this actually made sense and would explain what happened.. and do the same exact thing to summon bosses :P

[Tadaaah]

Epic boss should be spawning as normal. Thanks.

[Vile Lynn]

I'm not a real techy kind of guy, so maybe I'm off base here.. But the way I see it.. Its kinda like Word or Excel. Where it autosaves your progress, but you can also hit the save button at any time.

So with CC, your data that's on your device autosaves to the server, at specified intervals. (I'm just gonna call that the refresh rate). However there are certain action within the game that sort of act as a save button- refreshing the rivals list, opening syn chat, etc. Hitting these buttons connects you to the server to access refreshed/updated data.

Here's what I think.
As part of the fight against cheaters/glitchers, Gree reduced the refresh time. This effectively force synchronizes devices and server more frequently.
A side effect of this was the Epic Bosses seemed to be easier to summon. Another huge side effect, was the data surge.
So now we have ppl happy with EB (unintended) but really not happy with their data usage (also unintended). What can Gree do? I believe they have adjusted the refresh again. By the sounds of what you guys are saying- not back to where it was originally, but tweaked enough to reduce the amount of data required, which again has an unintended consequence of making it seem like the bosses are harder to summon.

I do say "seem" harder to summon, because I have never had an issue summoning a boss, as long as I don't rely on the app to autosave for me.

Carmen Rivera is still my "goto" npc for summoning. The method is simple- force refresh a few times, then hit Carmen a few times, then force refresh again. More often than not, a boss is summoned. Low energy req, low xp gain.
If there's an LTQ, I pvp for bosses.
For pvp, I do the same thing essentially. Force refresh a few times, beat on a target a few times, then force refresh. Robbing, fighting- doesn't matter. Win/Lose, doesn't matter.

Gree:"Every action has a chance of summoning an Epic Boss". The key is to let the server know that you just completed an action.

As I said at the beginning, I'm not real techy. So maybe I'm out to lunch here.... But I do know that I very rarely have problems getting a boss. Same with the rest of my syn.

TL;DR: no issue here.

Well said! very helpful, too. :)

I haven't had any problems popping bosses since the event began.
I close the app each time after killing or wait 2-3 mins.


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[The_]

1) wait 2 mins after boss is dead (simply set your lock-screen every 2 mins)
2) hit carmen 5x
3) click globe asap

done.

[Vile Lynn]

...wait 2 mins after boss is dead (simply set your lock-screen every 2 mins)

That's a handy suggestion! Good idea!

[Cereal K!ller]

Uninstalling and reinstalling does help too. Once I did this I had no issues.

[TobysPaw]

Epic boss should be spawning as normal. Thanks.

Depends on your depends on your definition of normal though! It's normally been pretty bad for the last year or so, then a couple of cycles ago (it was the boss called Tyrone Bentley) summoning was joyfully easy. It's now back at where it was the rest of the time - doable, but trickier than it should be.

[Captain Torgue]

Anyone have problem triggering the boss? It becomes so hard to trigger this time. I spend 60 stamina for getting only 2 trigger and 1000 energy for 1 trigger.

Nope, looks like its just you bromo

[surfinguy369]

If you lift more the boss will be there!

[cynicalmofo]

Depends on your depends on your definition of normal though! It's normally been pretty bad for the last year or so, then a couple of cycles ago (it was the boss called Tyrone Bentley) summoning was joyfully easy. It's now back at where it was the rest of the time - doable, but trickier than it should be.

Completely agree with this... Last 2 bosses were easier to summon... Finally!

As a result, I actually managed to summon enough bosses between other events and used gold to finish it.

I haven't even managed to summon 60 bosses so far so no gold spend from me.

Don't understand why the bosses would be hard to trigger... so hard in fact that it makes people not want to bother with the event.

[The Squeeze]

Yes, at times I did have a problem getting the boss to appear. Quite a few times I had to do several jobs, or rob/attack several people before he finally appeared. Not a good start to a new account I was trying to build slowly, but kept leveling because of trying to trigger the boss. And yes, I followed the 2 minute rule.

[JonJones]

Yes, at times I did have a problem getting the boss to appear. Quite a few times I had to do several jobs, or rob/attack several people before he finally appeared. Not a good start to a new account I was trying to build slowly, but kept leveling because of trying to trigger the boss. And yes, I followed the 2 minute rule.

Its because no one cares. Players are addicted to their att/def or syndicate rank. GREE only wants your $$. Everything else is a distant after thought..

Triggering the boss has always been a tedious joke lol

[SFCALI]

I having a hard time to trigger for Epic Boss on iOS :mad:

[Synapse]

Everyone should be making tickets... Flood them and they will code...

[PhantomNine]

Seems like my rivals list has gone down the drain.....seeing a ton of level 1s and other low level players (I'm a 250 on IOS )

[Mcockbur]

Seems like my rivals list has gone down the drain.....seeing a ton of level 1s and other low level players (I'm a 250 on IOS )

Bosses not appearing (only 4 in 3 hours) and rivals of lvl 1??? Gree wants everyone to quit the game...

[PhantomNine]

I can't find squat to hit! No buildings to rob (no high end stuff anywhere) and no PvPs (they're all beat up!

[t12pm]

I can't find squat to hit! No buildings to rob (no high end stuff anywhere) and no PvPs (they're all beat up!

Use your news feed until it won't let you

[Nipper]

Gree are a bunch of greedy bastards who are ruining this game on a daily basis **** you gree you bunch of incompetent *******s

[azgrunge]

Epic boss should be spawning as normal. Thanks.
'should'? perhaps
Is it? NO!!!!!
Fix it

[ghetto69143]

Bosses not appearing (only 4 in 3 hours) and rivals of lvl 1??? Gree wants everyone to quit the game...

it took me well over 4hrs just to get a hold of boss #4....thats pure idiotic of gree.. onder if everyone will finish the event