Talk:Obstacles/@comment-24555662-20140302074921

It's not quite true that there is a maximum of 40 obstacles at one time, or that you start with "about" 40 of them, or that they all yield 0-6 gems.

Currently, you start the game with exactly 49 obstacles which are always the same in type and position. Until you've lowered that number to below 40, no new obstacles will spawn, and the maximum is maintained at 40 thereafter.

On the three accounts which I created to test, all of them started subsequent to the patch which raised the maximum gem yield of obstacles from 3 to 6, none of the initial 49 obstacles yielded more than 3 gems. While that may be a remarkable coincidence, it would rather seem to indicate that the patch affected only spawned obstacles and that the starting ones are still working by the old rules. It may also suggest that each obstacle's gem count is determined at the time of its generation rather than at the time of its removal by the player.