Thread:BehindTheEight/@comment-26388711-20171009062310

Dear BehindTheEight,

I am Mulliganaceous, and I have tried out this game over six years ago, back in SEP 2011. However, I first played this game for real in 2015, though I did take a two-year break. Nevertheless, I have tracked the wiki ever since WC came out, and this has been the first game I have played in the long term (the other is Candy Crush Saga, which I first tried in 2013).

I recently returned to the game, though I am only a Level 33, and I must go back to previous events in order to fill up the missing information. Also, the most recent events have a lot of missing information. Since you played this game for a much longer term, you are able to extract more content without relying on F12 and close analysis of encodings and internal workings in this game.

I am impressed about how much you contributed during your free time. You also showed good photo formatting and extraction skills (this is also the first game I extracted, and I am also the one to extract large rank pictures, albeit under an anonymous name), to the point that you practically rule the wiki. I wonder how you could extract so much information and pictures in regards to new units and events? Which things can you extract just by using F12? How long does it take to extract the information for each page (It will depend on whether it is a unit, event, base, or other mechanic)?

Similarly, I am an admin, soon to become bureaucrat for Candy Crush Wiki, and I am the one responsible for extracting all the information of level configuration files and encodings for each of the levels. I wrote a program worth thousands of codes to extract each level, and the total program took up several megabytes of disk space (due to the configs), and up to a hundred megabytes of memory while my program is extracting all configs. As I am diversifying my interests and contributions, I am able to help you in information extracting, filling up the information, and making template creation easier in order to keep this wiki up to date.

Since WC is more hardcore, and may pressure casual players more than CCS, it obviously have much less players than CCS. WC peaked at around 5M monthly active users, and is still running strong today, while CCS got over 150M monthly active users. Nevertheless, the CCS forums (King Care) is poorly designed, and the WC forums are still going strong.

I hope you can fill out the remaining information in your free time, and that I can help you in filling up and obtaining information for the wiki.

a mulligan. (talk) 06:23, October 9, 2017 (UTC) 