[funkycucumber]

@kurikku

Hmm you want to try emailing them and asking since you have all the evidence?  

-- Mon Jun 09, 2014 7:12 pm --

I'm on Yuris route for a while now..

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Anyone else suprised that he seems to be a little bit of a psychopath? Or maybe I'm not understanding his intentions the right way? It's so confusing! Definitely not what I expected.

haha continue the story.. it will be clearer at the end though I admit it was quite confusing at first.

[Qing]

I'm not sure it has any relevance but in the after change of the friend, your rival is now Risa instead of Shiomi. Although the avatar and elegance remained the same.

[funkycucumber]

I'm not sure it has any relevance but in the after change of the friend, your rival is now Risa instead of Shiomi. Although the avatar and elegance remained the same.

Haha it has always been like that. Whenever you change a friend, your opponent definitely becomes Risa. Perhaps to prevent users to start investigating the unfair love lessons?  

[hentaikitten]

qing and jess, i love how investigative this is all getting! i think it is really worthwhile to contact arithmetic about this. i mean, if there is no specific algorithm to how we are losing so often, then they better clear it up and announce its randomness before they coax everyone into buying more charm...

@kanasawajiri
oh yeah, all the men are quite tsundere, but yuri is weird about how he is so. personally, i like yelisei a lot more :) yuri's brand of psychopathy is supposed to be reminiscent of twilight/50shades, i think. at least that's what it reminds me of, though he's a lot less immediately vulnerable.

[Aiwethryne]

This is the first time I've actually looked at this thread since the first few pages, and those avatars are so cute! ;A; I need to play this game some timeeeeeee and trash the other Arithmetic apps I mentally finished with months ago. And I was skimming through the *investigative* conversation, and, gee, some developers underestimate how thorough people are about finding stuff like this.

And I never realized that GREE had closed apps prior to whatever junk happened with the Voltage ones. This surely is a money-grabbing industry.

[funkycucumber]

Wow. Asena and Isuka's character cards have appeared although with spelling mistakes.. seems like Asena's route is coming our way soon!

[hentaikitten]

born ougust, dislikes penury ^o^
i am so excited for asena's route! his dress is so purdy...
but i also wanna go through maynard D: and before that go through flanelia and rossiyskaya again when i unlock gold login for royal dresses... so many choices!
i guess i don't wanna waste all the specific character suite gacha i've gathered, so it's gonna be a looong time before i get to play asena's route ;~;

[consecotaleo]

qing and jess, i love how investigative this is all getting! i think it is really worthwhile to contact arithmetic about this. i mean, if there is no specific algorithm to how we are losing so often, then they better clear it up and announce its randomness before they coax everyone into buying more charm...

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-- Tue Jun 10, 2014 5:08 pm --

EDIT
Okay so I did a little investigation by friending a Opponent I lost to when partnering my highest charm friend. I found out both her and her highest charm friend has a lower charm than me so there's no way her combined charm could be higher than my combined charm. I also realized sometimes I lose to this specific character but sometimes I win even when I partnered my highest charm friend for all attempts.

So from all these, can infer that partnering a high charm friend will increase the probability of winning but will not guarantee a win in love lessons. To maximize your win rate, you should partner someone with a charm considerably higher than yours. I think it's even more likely to win this way than to buy items to increase your own charm since they tend to pair you with an opponent with similar charm.

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This is the mentioned opponent here! These are my strategies with love lessons:
1) Always do as many love lessons as possible during double feminine hours. This means I will leave 100 points for the start of the hour and I will save my aromatherapies until then.
2) Glance at your opponent for their name and outfit. Check the list from (5) and pick a different rival if needed.
3) Pick your friend with the highest charm. In my case I always pick Erika, since she has the most charm in my friend list.
4) Do love lesson!
5) I keep a list of opponents I have lost against so I can avoid them. This list includes their name and a description of their avatar if necessary. For example, "Risa (rainbow dress, purple eye)" or "Mei K." which does not need a description since the name is unique.

This increases my chances to win by a lot, which is pretty important during special hours when each time you lose means getting 300 less feminine.

[hentaikitten]

thanks for the tips!
i generally try to follow that guideline but i've found myself losing to an opponent using the same friend when i've won on a previous instance :/ maybe, just maybe, there is an actual formula where *your opponent gets a random friend bonus from their list of friends when they get attacked*, and that's why some of these abnormalities are happening? who knows at this point, looks like arithmetic isn't going to answer this question quite yet 3:
random question but does anyone know if there's a cap for the number of petit aroma therapies we can keep on an account? like does it max out at 100, or can we have infinite numbers? i've been thinking about saving all my aroma therapies for a future event or something (since i'm not short on fem nor elegance on my main account) but if there's a cap then i shouldn't bother.

[consecotaleo]

(deleted to avoid clutter. new info in more recent post.)

[hentaikitten]

kay, y'all.
i broke into japanese ios app, just like jess, and took some screenshots.
(could NOT play the game at all because of language barrier and they had events going on, but i'll tell/show you gals what i saw)
first, some new content



soooo cute, right? *swoon*
also, they have an event going on right now that is running sort of like the punishment event was ran. the prizes look really adorable.
and it looks like we have a lot more to look forward to with the dress pieces swap feature. currently, you can swap up to like, 150 dress pieces on the japanese app. the current set features at least 2 of eyes, hairs, and dresses, many accessories, a background, and suite room items and furniture.

[consecotaleo]

Hmm I looked through all the posts and don't think I found any about getting free platinum besides tweeting every 24hr to get some plat.

On Android a few of the Tapjoy (Midwest USA) offers regenerate! This might be useful if you are like me and have downloaded all the apps.
1) (4 plat each) Sears / K-mart ads. You just open the ad. You don't need to enter a zipcode after the first time. It usually reappears after a few hours and gives platinum instantly every time.
2) (13 plat) Orgullosa. You visit the Facebook page. I think you might have to like the page first, but afterwards you just need to visit.
3) (1 plat) Some of the video offers.

Notice that iPhone users can usually get more platinum for doing offers! (thanks hentaikitten for the info)

Also notice that new apps come up every so often, so check back once in a while.

What do you buy? If you've barely scrounged together 400 platinum, I'd advise you to buy a closet increase x30. That's what I did for my first platinum purchase because there are a lot of items you can buy with feminine through the store, feminine gacha, or stories. You can't get closet increases easily any other way, while things like gacha points and story recovery tickets regenerate every day or come in login bonuses. Absolutely don't buy something like a reputation increase or elegance increase! You can get those easily by following tutorials and doing love lessons.

Safety Note: If you have a credit card, be especially careful. Use PayPal if possible. You can use a credit card for the free trial offers from Crunchyroll, Netflix, HuluPlus, or other reputable sources. But if you haven't heard of them, absolutely do not give them your credit card info.

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Nice Dress:

Recently I have been 1st-3rd place in Nice Dress rankings. There is no reward for being in the top 3. From funkycucumber who was 1st, there is also no reward for being top for Princess Ranking.

The app description given is pretty bad, so I'll just clarify. Your Nice Dress ranking is based on how many nice dresses you have received from your friends in the past 7 days.

You can increase your Nice Dress count by maxing out your friend list and making sure you have active friends.

Sending nice dress to other people gives you 20 feminine. Sending a message to a friend gives 10 feminine (once per day I believe).

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Submitting Inquiries to ArithMetic:
(UPDATE: It appears that ArithMetic has difficulty with English inquiries. Tip from funkycucumber is to use simple English so they can try to understand it! See my next posts for more information)
I'm sure everyone has noticed bugs and problems with the app. That's what makes it a 4-star app, after all. You can submit an inquiry to ArithMetic, and maybe if enough people point out a problem they'll do something about it!

Instructions:
Menu > Help > Other > When apply to no Faq, to this > inquiry
(Select "Menu" in top right corner. Select "Help" in the menu. On the Help Page, select "Other". On the Other Page, select "When apply to no Faq, to this". Click on "inquiry".)

Depending on your phone settings, some kind of email application should open and you should get a compose email page. In the subject line will be your identification (a string of letters/numbers). Do not alter the subject line or ArithMetic will be unable to identify you.

In the text box you can write your inquiry or suggestion. Send the email and wait for a reply!

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An inquiry by me:
A few days ago I sent an email to ArithMetic. I actually sent it directly through email first and they told me to resend it through their inquiry system. Here it is.

Hello.

I have played "The Cinderella Contract" for a few weeks now and there are a few issues I'd like to point out. I don't know if any are easily fixed or if you plan on updating the app anytime soon, but I will state a few of the things I noticed anyways!

1) Love Lessons: When you select a different friend ("Change Friend"), your rival remains the same as expected -- but her name changes to "Risa".

2) Invite a Friend: Under "Warning" there are several English errors. For instance, it should be "invitation code" instead of "invitation cord". This was probably error due to translation; perhaps you can find an English editor to proofread everything for you? The last bullet point is also rather confusing... I believe it means something like "If you are using an Android phone you can only receive invitation gifts from other Android users. Likewise, if you are using an iPhone you can only get invitation gifts from other iPhone users. Understand that if you have an Android phone and someone with an iPhone tries to use your invite code, no gift will be received! (And vice versa)." As someone who speaks English as a first language, this makes much more sense to me.

(There were other places where I also noticed English errors, but I chose "Invite a Friend" as an example.)

3) Princess Ranking / Nice Dress Ranking: Perhaps you can clarify "Acquisition Elegance" and "Total Elegance" at the bottom of the page. For example, "Acquisition Elegance is the elegance earned in the past seven days. Total Elegance is the player's total elegance." Additionally, maybe you can say what time the rankings are refreshed (similar to how it says when login bonuses are refreshed).

4) Maturity Rating: I feel that the Punishment Suite event had some pretty mature themes. I haven't completed a full main story yet, so I don't know if the endings are like that as well. A maturity warning for those kinds of events or chapters would be nice! I'm sure there are many younger girls playing this game, after all.

5) Friend Search: There are filters for "Recommended Friends" and "New Friends", but I think it would be most useful to have a list of players with friend slots available. I like to look for players with a high number of avatars instead of just automatically requesting friends, so this would be helpful.

6) Message Limit: The limit is very short! Chatting with people is very difficult. Extending it to even 60 characters would help, but 100 characters would be great.

7) Friend Limit: Perhaps you can make it so that you can use platinum to increase your maximum friend limit (like closets and suites).

Thanks for reading! I enjoy your game and hope this helped in some way :)

Here is their response, which was pretty vague :( I get the impression they didn't actually read it.

This is Arith-Metic, Inc.
Thank you for using our apps.

With regards to the matter detailed in your enquiry,
Thank you very much for your valuable opinion.

We are constantly striving to provide users with even more enjoyable games, and hope that you will continue to use our apps.
Thank you for your continued use of our apps.

Arith-Metic Support Division

[funkycucumber]

5) I keep a list of opponents I have lost against so I can avoid them. This list includes their name and a description of their avatar if necessary. For example, "Risa (rainbow dress, purple eye)" or "Mei K." which does not need a description since the name is unique.

This increases my chances to win by a lot, which is pretty important during special hours when each time you lose means getting 300 less feminine.

On Android a few of the Tapjoy offers regenerate! This might be useful if you are like me and have downloaded all the apps.

Recently I have been 1st-3rd place in Nice Dress rankings. There is no reward for being in the top 3.

Hi friend :) Welcome to kokoro! It's cool how you identified me here^^ Anyways I've been using pretty much the same strategies as you (though I've given up writing the names down because the same names appear over and over again and I can memorize them by now). I've been encountering "Risa" and "Mei K" a lot too, this is further proof that they tend to pair people with similar charm as opponents.

I do realize the likelihood of losing a love lesson seems to be higher on every 5th win (when you can get the suite room bonus points)

Just wondering, which country are you from? I'm from Singapore and the tapjoy offers I'm getting are different from those you listed. It's likely that the offers are country-specific. I've been getting 100+ platinum each time by signing up for things like pixiv, getting the platinum and immediately cancelling my membership before they start charging my credit card. Another good way of getting platinum (100+ as well) is by filling in a survey regarding some consumer product (sanitary napkins for my case lols).

Yeah I do agree buying closet/wardrobe space is the best option especially since many pretty avatars are coming our way!

I was placed #1 on princess ranking and no prizes there as well  

there is an actual formula where *your opponent gets a random friend bonus from their list of friends when they get attacked*, and that's why some of these abnormalities are happening? who knows at this point, looks like arithmetic isn't going to answer this question quite yet 3:
random question but does anyone know if there's a cap for the number of petit aroma therapies we can keep on an account? like does it max out at 100, or can we have infinite numbers? i've been thinking about saving all my aroma therapies for a future event or something (since i'm not short on fem nor elegance on my main account) but if there's a cap then i shouldn't bother.

Haha I've proven that your opponent does NOT get a random friend bonus from their list of friends. Mayuri has me as her highest charm friend yet I've lost to her. Perhaps it's *your opponent gets a random friend bonus from ANYONE in the game*  

As for petit aroma therapies we can keep, the max I've kept is around 120 (much thanks to you and mayuri )

And Aubrey, do we really think the same way?!? I was just going to reply on the event thread how I managed to download the jap version when I saw that you have already managed to do so   Same here! I've absolutely no idea how to play the game in jap since I can only read kanji. I'm using the app just to talk to japanese friends and spazz over the gorgeous avatars.

[consecotaleo]

I'm from Singapore and the tapjoy offers I'm getting are different from those you listed. It's likely that the offers are country-specific.

I was placed #1 on princess ranking and no prizes there as well  

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Thanks for pointing that out! Edited my post to include where I'm from (USA). Noted that both ranking systems had no reward. I guess that was just for the special suite&spice event :( Also added a few things about submitting inquiries ^^

EDIT: To hentaikitten, I sent an inquiry to ArithMetic asking about aromatherapy item limits. Hopefully they will respond properly this time so we know for sure :) The Japanese avatar items look super cute!

[hentaikitten]

@jess
ahah, i totally made a fake jap itunes id just to see what the japanese cc had to offer. tedious process, worth it, but jealousy inducing! i can't wait til they bring it all over to us (they BETTER *sharpens claws*) have you noticed how cluttered the japanese rooms are? like tons of floating chibis and stuff. it's excessive but i kinda like it :3
edit: just read your post about the fact that my random added friend theory is bunk... well dayum then aritmetic is really just messing with us! and look, they just happen to send back all these clipboard responses. wonder if they really cant read english (doubt it, their replies from the punishment event were legible and smooth) or if theyre avoiding us cos we have caught them on their little scheme....

@mayuri but mostly @everyone
as i mentioned before on a post a while ago, not only do the tapjoy prizes vary by region but also by ios/android. i wanna specify again that the user population are separate for the two operating systems, and either fortunately or unfortunately, ios users get quite a bit more free plat with the offers. for instance, the sears/kmart stuff gives me 6 plat ea, and orguwhatever gives me 15. on good weeks (when my tapjoy page releases a few more high plat apps to download) i can get 1k plat. i think that will go down with time though as i use up all the easy plat offers, but i've only been playing cc for about 3 weeks, but have managed to get 4k free plat already (spent 1k of it on dumb stuff, another 3k on silver sweet packs during punishment event for newlywed gacha). i dont know how much free plat you gals have been able to accumulate, but i feel as though my 4k is quite a lot :o the credit card trial offers are really great : )
also, thanks for asking about aromas for me! muacks!