Still able to do it. Did it with 5 malus. Just water two at a time instead of four. It's easier to line up that way.
Yes, that's how I've done it since the beginning, (I tried the 4 way at first because of that suggestion) though I usually go down and then sideways rather than the other way around (I'll try it sideways first next time) The 4 way suggested way much earlier in the thread is bunk, even before the change. So you did it with 5 malas, which is 2 less than the 7 malas you get for having won once.
If you're going to increase the malas directly in response to giving us malas discount for giving away keys, that's like having done worse than nothing. Instead of a reward, it's more a punishment for not giving away keys, which further divides us players between those with fast machines who can get multiple keys in a day despite malas, and those of us who can't. Someone who can get multiple keys in a day can more easily give away keys which means further reduction in malas and more given away keys!!!
Please scratch/remove the malas reduction for giving away keys and remove some base malas for winning. If you want to further reward people for giving away keys, further increase the creds given for doing so. Or have no further incentive for giving away keys, we already have reason to give away keys we can't use without the malas reduction.
Devs, can you lessen the divide system speed has on game performance please? One tool to do so is to show framerate like I've requested before. If people had an idea how fast the game was running for them, they'd be able to report discrepencies easier, making it easier for you folks to adjust things.
One issue I'm now having that I wasn't having before, the audio is lagging. That mostly impacts the mining challenge, which I listen to the strikes on to know when to stop hitting a rock so I don't waste a swing. But because the audio lags now, I can't do that, using the audio I'll waste at least one swing on a rock that is no longer there because of the audio lag, which makes a siginificant difference in how well I can do the challenge. Before I could win mining with zero malas, now I can't even do that. It also effects the tree chopping challenge, but I was rarely ever successful on that one even with zero malas before the audio lag. Still, please eliminate the audio lag!