User blog comment:RobinCarr/How Does Crystal Production Shutoff/@comment-5116140-20130122014041

Tuesday Crystal Deactivation Hypothesis?

A lot of different things are scheduled for deactivation on Tueday - including the crystal volcano offer, both versions of crates and this week's theme with its asociated items of the golden Topsy statue and the House of Mysteries. In general, a lot of themes have been  deactivated on a Tuesday.

Hypothesis - could  all or most crystal producers be deactivated on the first Tuesday after their advertized time of production is up? This would allow all the deactivations to be included in a single push? Tuesday is also a good day in general since so many Mondays are holidays during the year. I have not been paying much attention to what day of the week earlier crystal producers expired, so there might already be counterexamples out there. Just brain stormin' for now.

It will be really interesting to see exactly how this crystal producer handles the shutoff.

In particular does it finish the last recipe or not. If we knew this, and got a sharper handle on the cutoff sate and time, we could possibly plan a final triple-crystal run to maximize the total number of crystals produced.

Of course if the final run is just aborted to give a few lousy coins, then this strategy won't work. No one is really complaining here if that is the case. We all just want to help each other get the maximum crystals possible and are very happy with the extra bonus crystals so far.