Talk:Crystal Alchemy Store/@comment-5457689-20130130055304/@comment-5457689-20130131001227

Not exactly. This was different from the weekly goals and the only way players knew about the competition was via Tiny Village Facebook page. I think that it is server-side. The time given for the competition was also regulated in the instructions for the competition on the Facebook page. If my calculations of the total recipes that could physically be collected (assuming sanity of the players that would never use 1000 or so crystals to win 250) were right, the time given by TinyCo staff members for those competitions was always exceeded by several hours or even more (maybe similar to terminating the crystal production in temporary producers). That left an impression that these competitions were controlled manually by TinyCo. Or they might have created special files or something like that that would highlight or count the number of a certain recipe (example: Dress from the Clothing Store) collected by all players. Usually these competitions were held for several days. Then they announced that they were doing the counting and in a couple of days they published TinyIDs of the winners (much like they do now). The last time the number of recipes collected among the top-3 players was on average 1500 if memory serves me (maybe more or less).

P.S. I do not know much about computers. Sorry in advance if there are any stupid suggestions on how TinyCo is operating.