This is one of the games on Mistplay that is not as straightforward as it looks. I used to play it on my G6 Play and my Samsung A41 but the G6 is crashing so I'll uninstall it.
This is my experience of the game and yours may differ. I'm not going to say you have to do this or that because it's subjective. Your goals may be poles apart from mine.
This is just what I do. I collect my free crates every couple of hours, there was a glitch yesterday and I was able to get two. I didn't even notice that I could watch adverts for ten gems.
Full disclosure. I am always a free player but I accidentally made a purchase and briefly turned into a paid one. It was coins, gems, core boosts and loyalty tokens.
I check to see if any of my crates can be opened for free. I guess some people spend gems to collect goodies quicker but I have found better uses for them.
I use my gems to buy coins or golden tickets. My reasoning behind that is, I constantly need to promote my toons to get them stronger.
It is very expensive to do that so I need to be careful with my currency. The golden tickets are used to spin wheels and get some new or old toons.
When I click on World, I'll click on houses and upgrade them a lil to get free toon pieces and cash. The higher the upgrade, the tiniest chance you get a few more pieces.
The last couple upgrades are a joke in terms of cost. I am on player grade 49 so I have five houses available to pick from. My Iron Mutt toon is on level 9 with one more to go.
It will cost me 20k to move it to the maximum level and all I will get in return is probably just under 2k per 6 hours. It's not worth it at all.
I only have one toon at the highest level and that is my adorable Baby Elmer because there was an event going and no other way to collect pieces.
It kinda sucks about the special toons, once the event is over, you can only get them from the houses. There are always events happening so different toons need to be leveled up slightly.
I only just figured it out that even when the houses are maxed, you still don't get pieces from legendary characters grr. Just gold, considering how expensive and energy consuming it is, you should get both!!
I have to be smart so I know that I can only do events up to a certain point so I will either replay them when I'm stuck for goodies or I will just quit and move on to the regular campaigns.
There is an important event taking place for a legendary toon. I don't know if this is the highest level. It looks like it and I had to make a choice between getting this toon, Anubis K9 or just levelling up newer less impressive toons.
To get Anubis I had to sacrifice 15 golden tickets for 1 lousy spin of the wheel to get from 45-300 at the very minimum. I wasn't prepared to do that.
Instead I focused on the roadrunner event wheel. For every spin it only cost 3 golden tickets and toons amassed to 125-300.
A much better deal for me. Oh and the kicker is. Toons need to have a certain amount before they can be used or "activated" Anubis needs 300 pieces lol!!!
While I am taking part in the event, I am reaching goals anyway and collecting a bunch of toons. The next time the event rolls around I can re-evaluate the deal.
I currently have 90 just from participating and instead of getting that one toon. I have 3 that I acquired in play. Different events, require other toons.
Four play at a time in battles so I work on at least two of them and get them tougher, increasing their skills and power.
Core boosts are a way of increasing the statistics for a core group of toons. WB Studios, Avalooney, Tasmania, Forest, Town, Farm, Desert, City, Space and Summit.
I am prioritising Forest, City and Space because that is where some of my highest ranked toons are and also my event toons.
There is a choice between what statistic you want to increase. Attack - increases damage. Defence - decreases damage. Health - increases health points aka stamina.
Lastly we have Speed - makes you have your turn faster. It's a tricky one. Either you can work on one group and one statistic or mix and match.
I personally chose to focus on Attack and HP to start with and then Defence because I wanted to be more aggressive and last longer before expiring.
These are hard to build up, so use them wisely. I wonder if crates are still stealable once they reach the Open stage. Also some people choose to steal crates and not open or store them to quickly rank up for more benefits.
Everytime a crate gets pilfered you loose ranking points aka trophy's but you do get cash. I do a mixture of both. When you open a certain amount there are bonuses to collect.
Inside the crates vary from cash to xp potions which will help to increase the level of your toon to make it harder to beat. Also some contain materials that will help to tune-up your tunes.
In other words increase the skills, so look at your toons and figure out what you need and then attack the team hosting the crate and steal steal steal!!
Be sure to check out their team power and make sure it is beneath yours for a fairer chance to gain it. There is also cosmic stars to elevate your toon even higher.
I'm not sure who to recommend as I'm still new. However I do like Iron Mutt, Leopold, King Bugs, Scout Foghorn, Cannoneer Canasta. Presto Pig and Gridiron Gossamer so far.
One last thing. It is recommended to get a mix of attackers and defenders on your playing team. I don't think I have ever done that before.
I tend to go for the autoplay x4 the fastest and it seems like half the time, whoever has the highest team power appears to get more attacking opportunities.
This is why I concentrate on a handful of toons for most things and then when events roll in, I go and level up those toons and leave my core team alone because the money runs out super fast.
Do play the Arena battles even if you are a weak player. There are still rewards to be had. I used to lose all the time and now I get second or first place.
These are some characters that have the potential from tune-ups to attack multiple enemies at a time. Leopold, Van Wile, Starseeker Lola, Iron Mutt, Cannoneer Canasta, Cupid Elmer.
