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Two questions about TapFish

I spend mine on breeds and speeding up and a host of other shit lol. I set it to 25,000 about a month ago lol

But no I didn't do anything special just installed it. I had lines with the last screencap app I had.

SN: wtf up with huge (30 day) feeding bricks being sold out?

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(That line is Obee's fault.)
 
Hahahahaha!

Weird about the food bricks being sold out... And why the huge ones for that matter..damnit....? Haha.
 
Probably because it cost coins. I mean after say level 40 or so you can afford 100k coins. But coins don't make them money fishbucks do so it only stands to reason that the best food brick you can buy will now cost you fb instead of coins.

With that being said, and this is my last screen shot, this glitch is out of control.

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I mean I have bucks to burn so it doesn't bother me as much but everyone is not me. So fishbucks are a precious commodity to be wasting. Reviving fish only cost one Buck per tank but each Buck literally has a dollar amount on it and to force players to pay when they shouldn't is beyond low. I put that brick in there at the same time I put the fish in and they starved? Bullshit.
 
I have found the same problem in EVERY one of my tanks too! I have a 30 day brick in each of the tanks and replenish them when needed, but for some odd reason, and more often than you would think, MY FISH ARE DYING ALL THE TIME! Full tanks mostly, but sometimes when I'm just checking or passing by a tank I'll notice a dead one or two in the top corner... When the brick has plenty of time left! Of course we're lucky Mindbenda, but that's why I don't really feel bad for cheating.... :)

And of course they're sold out when all 80 tanks are due for new bricks in a few days! :/ haha I liked the big ones. Set 'em and forget 'em for 30 days!
 
Yeah, I am also upset about them taking the huge bricks off the market and I wrote to them about it. To me, the only reason would be to force people to pay real money for the large bricks. The 7-day bricks are just too short.

The other thing is that I realized that many of the tanks in which I had a 30-day brick had suddenly run out. I hadn't been keeping track of the status of each brick, but it seems that about 50% of them ran out all on the same day. I didn't think I had acquired them all at the same time. It was only when I realized that bricks were missing and went to purchase new ones and found the "sold out" sign. It's a bit of a weird coincidence. Did anybody else find their bricks suddenly running out?

And did you notice that they brought back the Speed-Up button? Like I would spend my precious fishbucks on speeding up a single fish. What would be the point except to make them money? So, apparently they didn't remove that option due to customer complaints after all - they had just reverted to a previous version in order to fix a bug and have now reverted back (the little gear thing is appearing again instead of the wallpaper painter)

At this point, I wouldn't feel guilty about cheating at all, especially since I've spent quite a bit of real money on the game. I don't know how much it would cost if one were to buy all the fish currently available and the nice backgrounds. (We have a really limited selection of coin-purchase backgrounds on the Android version.) Well into the hundreds, I'm sure. The only reason I haven't rooted is that I'm a little afraid of doing it and messing up my phone.
 
Tapros, you sound exactly like me when I first came to this forum! I was conflicted about rooting because I hate cheating, for moral and "no-challenge" reasons, and didn't want to ruin my phone. Didn't really care about the warranty thing though, since this phone is past its two year mark, and I may upgrade soon. But then I began to notice the devious marketing schemes coming from the devs, so it kind of justified the cheat for me. So thus came the gush of my posts, asking lots of questions on how to root!

Well, I sure can say, I don't regret choosing to root and tweaking the game. I do notice a tiny bit of a loss of interest in playing as much as I used to because there is no challenge in earning coins or fb (though I can choose to set that back if I want to). It's fun to have unlimited access to decorate and design the tanks to my liking, which is what keeps me interested. Not to mention you guys :)

About the food bricks mysteriously disappearing - YES! That had definitely happened to me now that I think back... I thought I was crazy at the time for thinking it disappeared, so I just bought a new one and replaced it... And it's happened, maybe, a couple times? When I first bought the bricks, I bought one for each of a group of tanks on the same day, same time (maybe a second or two apart from each other). Then one day, I noticed in a tank in the middle of these tanks, the brick was missing and the fish were hungry.... I thought I was going crazy!!!
 
I don't have the speed up button but I'm gonna update and get it I have a tank of pinks that are like 2days from sell I grow'em and put new one's in now I'll be back on schedule for collecting 30 mil a day.
 
I'm with all of you on the large bricks being "sold out". It's a load of crap and while I understand their need to make $ this has just gone too far.

As for your fish dieing even though you have a brick in there I believe I know what happens. The same thing happened to me a while back and everyone was kind enough to revive my fish. If you put the brick into the tank and the fish are not hungry they don't find the brick and thus die. So you need to put the brick into the tank and visit the tank 24 hours later. Then all the fish will be hungry, they'll hit the brick and you'll be good until the brick expires.
 
In theory that works, but fish are born hungry. So if I fill a tank like the one shown above and feed them by dropping the brick in then they know where it is. Also applies when the brick is already there and I drop fish they bee-line for it. The fish getting hungry and dying with food bricks is a random occurrence.

But it's fine I just made five tanks names "RootPwnz" they are each 122,500,000 coins worth of fish and 186 fish bucks worth of decorations + algea eater each. Just because lol

Thinking of adding two more.

Edit: Added the last two check'em out. The one actually named "FISHBUX" cost me 3,770 just to make.

Icefish.......................... 68 x 50
Reef 4 ......................... 60 x 2
Orange Moneywart..... 20 x 2
World Cup Background 210
 
Haha AWESOME! Lovin' that theme!

And yeah, my fish knew where the bricks were cause when this first happened, I had just bought the fish and they beelined straight to the thing. I have experienced what you are saying though, and I have noticed sometimes when I first enter a tank, all my fish gunning straight to one when they had all the time in the world before to graze. They do that a lot though not just the first time, like they couldn't find the brick and had just discovered it or something. Weird.
 
It's funny to say/think this, but sometimes I wish you could have more than 80 tanks!! Hehe :)
 
Root
Explorer
Plus
SQLite
Editor
Equals
FISHBUX

Best tank theme series ever. That'll teach them to screw with working people's hard earned fish bucks. If I calculated how much those bucks I'm pretty sure it'd be pushing into the $500 mark maybe. Each tank being about 180 bucks (x6=1,040) and the seventh being 3,770 or 4,810 fish bucks total. And that's just bucks still the matter of the six skunk tanks.

122,500,000 (x6=735,000,000) which since you can also buy coins have a monetary value.

Stick it to the man! (Pause)

Edit (dollars and cents):
Fishbucks
1,300/1430 (current bonus for buying them) for $99.99 USD.

Which comes to $369.96 USD or $336.33 USD with bonus.

Coins:
1,000,000 for $99.99 USD (Rip off)
Which my tanks consumes $73,492.65 USD worth of coins...

Hah take that Gameview!
 
Hi,

I am pretty new to Tap Fish and was hoping that someone could help me out. I have been filling my tanks with green snapper to earn some coins. I put ornaments and plants in the tanks and the fish are around 96-98% happiness so when they are ready for sale their price is 15 + 3.

To sell them I go to the menu, select sell, the box pops up offering 15% commission ans says sell for $765. If I have 50 fish at $18 each, shouldn't that be $900? If I sell them individually then I get the full $18 but that is simply too much tapping!

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks :)
 
Welcome, Androiden!
No, you're not doing anything wrong. 15% of 900 is 135. They charge you 135 coins to sell the tank in bulk, so you only get 765. It is a lot of tapping to sell them individually. If you can afford to buy more expensive fish, you can sell them individually for a bigger profit and just use the green snapper for xp.
 
Androiden said:
Hi,

I am pretty new to Tap Fish and was hoping that someone could help me out. I have been filling my tanks with green snapper to earn some coins. I put ornaments and plants in the tanks and the fish are around 96-98% happiness so when they are ready for sale their price is 15 + 3.

To sell them I go to the menu, select sell, the box pops up offering 15% commission ans says sell for $765. If I have 50 fish at $18 each, shouldn't that be $900? If I sell them individually then I get the full $18 but that is simply too much tapping!

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks :)
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You're not doing anything wrong. That's how it works. You want fill the tank, put in enough ornaments to get your fish to 88% happy and just before selling them show the fish some love to get them to 90%. At that point you will receive a 20% bonus so each fish will sell for $15+$3=$18. As a courtisy you can do a bulk sell and the game will take a 15% profit for the convienence of not having to tap the screen 150 times to sell them all. In the begining you'll want to sell them individually because the extra coin is needed. However once you get to the big bucks selling green snappers and losing 15% is nothing. Now, pink skunks on the other hand are worth it because you lose millions of coins doing a bulks sell.

If you're looking to gain xp as fast as you can then filling a tank with green snappers and bulk selling is the way to do it.
 
This is the response I got from Gameview to my complaint about the food brick:

Hello,
We apologize for the inconvenience, and you are correct the huge food brick is currently sold out. We are currently working on possibly releasing new version of the huge food brick and possibly of larger bricks of food that will last for longer durations. We thank you for your patience, and we are working as fast as we can to have these up in the near future. At this time we ask that you use of the other smaller food blocks. Again, we apologize for the inconvenience this may cause you.
Regards,
Gameview Studios

This was my original message:
Why have you taken the huge bricks off the market? So that more people will spend fishbucks on the large brick?
 
Tamagoshi, thank you for your post about your favorite tanks. I agree with your choices and there are many more great tanks around, but in addition to those people currently active in this forum, there are a few who seemed to have dropped out who have some awesome tanks! Here are their names and my favorite tanks:

Cookiemonster - AndyFarm
Treetank - Moonatee
Witches - MarioBro
Enseitankado - this player has never been on this forum, as far as I can tell, but his/her name has been on my neighbor's list from the beginning and the tanks are amazing (they were the first ones I saw that were highly decorated and had every type of fish)
Yoitsnex - Royal G (this is another one whom I haven't seen on the forum)

These are just a few. There are many others that are really impressive but my neighbor list is getting very long I can't remember them all.

I also think everybody should post their own favorite tank, since we each know our own the best and it would be nice to invite people to visit a specific tank. I will think about mine -- I keep changing my mind!
 
My favorite tank changes daily I'm so about Aquaman now. And the Ugly/Beauty tanks

As well as U of M (University of Michigan) I'm working on a lions one but I need more blue and silver fish.
 
It's that time again. A new cash fish has been created. Introducing the Merman.

Merman (Endangered Species):

Cost: 350,000
Adult Sell Price: 357,000 (5 days)
W/ 90% happiness: 428,400
Profit per fish: 78,400

Commitment:
To make a full tank of these it will cost you 17,500,000 coins (17,150,000 with an algea eater). Seems steep, but like the other fish the high price only adds to the 20% bonus. A full tank of these at full maturity sold one at a time will bring in 21,420,000 or 20,991,600 if you use an algea eater. That is a five day profit of 3,920,000 or 3,842,600 per tank. Now this is not too much different from the electric eel, however the fishman...thing costing more means you're in a better position to step up. If you're on gramma this is you're next easy step in profits. I don't like them personally so I won't make a merman tank to display this. Just know the math is right. Enjoy ;}

-AntarRSB
 
I'm still around Tapfish, Hehehe. Been quiet and steadily building my super secret plan of doom. Added Dust tank, which is my favorite, also if you peak inside a few you might find a a large population of skunks. And its about damn time they added the hermit crabs!
 
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