saving tokens

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edited January 2015 in MPQ Tips and Guides
Anyone noticed if it is benefits to hoarding tokens? I've been resisting the urge to use them as soon as I get them, but when I do it seems that I do manage to get more 3*. Don't know if this is just my perception or what. (I'm still transitioning to 3* so any gold is exciting lol). Anybody have any thoughts on this? Or what is a good level to stop hoarding and use to maximize pulls?
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  • Unknown
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    It depends. Until there are a large number of 3* covers you don't need any more, there is little to no benefit, because the covers-plus-ISO now will help you more now. Eventually, that might change - if there are only a handful of covers that you need in the tokens, it might improve your chances if you wait until more is added to the packs.
  • HairyDave
    HairyDave Posts: 1,574
    eris-wtga wrote:
    I've been resisting the urge to use them as soon as I get them, but when I do it seems that I do manage to get more 3*. Don't know if this is just my perception or what.
    It is. It's just confirmation bias.

    There's no benefit to holding on to them other than if you're waiting on a specific character to be added. But in your situation you're probably better off just using them all up and accepting that a lot will be duds you burn for ISO.
  • wymtime
    wymtime Posts: 3,760 Chairperson of the Boards
    The only benifit of saving them is if you want to use it as a mini slot machine. You have 20-30-100 standard tokens and you are going to the penny slots. You then get to pull cards and see iso, iso, iso, GOLD!!!!!!, iso, iso......

    it would probably be more like 30-40 standard cards for 1 gold.

    Overall your choice.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    wymtime wrote:
    The only benifit of saving them is if you want to use it as a mini slot machine. You have 20-30-100 standard tokens and you are going to the penny slots. You then get to pull cards and see iso, iso, iso, GOLD!!!!!!, iso, iso....

    Lol yeh that is pretty much it lol
  • NorthernPolarity
    NorthernPolarity Posts: 3,531 Chairperson of the Boards
    Two words: nick fury. Im hoarding all my tokens for when hes released so i have a decent shot at rolling him (380 standards, 120 heroics saved). Since hes going to be the hardest character in the game to cover up, might as well get better odds at getting him through tokens since opening tokens now is for the most part useless for developed players.
  • Houtro
    Houtro Posts: 464 Mover and Shaker
    NorthernPolarity wrote:
    Two words: nick fury. Im hoarding all my tokens for when hes released so i have a decent shot at rolling him (380 standards, 120 heroics saved)

    icon_eek.gif That's some huge hoarding!
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    I thought the game implicitly encourages certain people to hoard tokens, particularly when you feel the first pain of having 2 covers you really want, but only enough roster space to fit 1. Also selling maxed characters that you've had for a long time feels sort of painful. I probably would have similar number if I had not opened a bunch of standard tokens recently.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    I think I have around 100 heroic tokens saved for Nick Fury. There's usually not much reason to save your tokens unless you're waiting for some 3* to come into the heroic token pack (say, Deadpool), though the chance of that happening is pretty small given the large pool of 3*s. But in the case of Fury, assuming the percentages stay the way they are you're looking at about 1% chance of pulling him, which is better than the chance of pulling any specific 3*, so that's actually pretty good odds.
  • Unknown
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    Plus I find that good luck comes in bunches, so if my first few pulls don't open anything good, I stop until the next day. I don't tend to store up more than 50, just because I can use every 3 star cover out there still, but as my roster grows, I expect to save them a lot longer.
  • TheHueyFreeman
    TheHueyFreeman Posts: 472 Mover and Shaker
    NorthernPolarity wrote:
    Two words: nick fury. Im hoarding all my tokens for when hes released so i have a decent shot at rolling him (380 standards, 120 heroics saved). Since hes going to be the hardest character in the game to cover up, might as well get better odds at getting him through tokens since opening tokens now is for the most part useless for developed players.

    This. Although I'm also waiting for Deadpool. I have several 10 packs and standards waiting for Nick and Wade.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    TheHueyFreeman wrote:
    NorthernPolarity wrote:
    Two words: nick fury. Im hoarding all my tokens for when hes released so i have a decent shot at rolling him (380 standards, 120 heroics saved). Since hes going to be the hardest character in the game to cover up, might as well get better odds at getting him through tokens since opening tokens now is for the most part useless for developed players.

    This. Although I'm also waiting for Deadpool. I have several 10 packs and standards waiting for Nick and Wade.

    I think it's pretty messed up that when both are available, you'd be more likely to pull Nick Fury than Deadpool. I know why it happens, but it still seems wrong.
  • squirrel1120
    squirrel1120 Posts: 492
    tldr; Adding the most amount of covers possible from newly saved 2*'s atm, so token stacking between roster spot opening.

    Since I've saved a spot for every 3*, I started opening tokens as soon as I received them for a while. Then I realized there was a pretty good chance of drawing some of the 2*'s I'll be building next when i have roster space, so it looks like token saving will be a thing with me for a while more. I could have a mostly covered tiny torch from the ones I deleted after finishing the 3*'s placeholder mission, as well as a half covered m.hawkeye. Either of which will likely be the next roster addition. probably hawk since he should be buffed soon. Should be good for those that have him, but will likely change my meta view of him also, since he's mostly a joke to fight against right now.
  • D3P2K5
    D3P2K5 Posts: 32 Just Dropped In
    It feels better saving up a few tokens at a time before opening. The last few times I did that I would pull one or two 2* from just 5 tokens and a couple of times it was one 2* and one 3*. Really is nice to see that gold come up on the screen and then you start wishing for a certain cover before clicking again to see what it really is.
  • Amazeballs
    Amazeballs Posts: 57
    And I thought I was ballin' with my 100 something tokens saved!

    I got sick of not pulling gold for nearly a month, so just started hoarding them so I wouldn't get annoyed lol. Then I decided I'd wait for the releases of Fury and Wade.

    Random observation- the token counter does not go above 99 for me.
  • squirrel1120
    squirrel1120 Posts: 492
    I've found the token counter gets all kinds of wonky over 99. Sometimes (but not often) it will show a number at 100+ after opening 1 token, but then will revert to 99 again shortly after changing screens. It made me nervous at first thinking i was capped out on them, but it did keep track of them properly as far as I could tell, despite the counter... deciding it will be lazy about showing triple digit counts. heh
  • mouser
    mouser Posts: 529 Critical Contributor
    At least on IOS it drops the 3rd digit a lot of the time depending on how much space the first two digits occupy.

    Mostly worked when I had 100-something tokens. Sometimes at 200-something tokens. And almost always drops the digit on 300-something tokens.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    So when saving heroic tokens.... do these turn into 10 packs when you get to 10? or am I just saving them for no reason here icon_e_smile.gif
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    No, the singles stay singles because the odds are different for 10 packs. It'll show you both the number of single heroics and 10-packs saved, so you can save them across seasons.
  • Unknown
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    daibar wrote:
    No, the singles stay singles because the odds are different for 10 packs. It'll show you both the number of single heroics and 10-packs saved, so you can save them across seasons.

    Thanks, that was why i was saving them up... in the hopes that it would transform into a 10 pack for the higher % icon_e_smile.gif Oh well lol.. time to open some heroic tokens!
  • Unknown
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    Zigram wrote:
    daibar wrote:
    No, the singles stay singles because the odds are different for 10 packs. It'll show you both the number of single heroics and 10-packs saved, so you can save them across seasons.

    Thanks, that was why i was saving them up... in the hopes that it would transform into a 10 pack for the higher % icon_e_smile.gif Oh well lol.. time to open some heroic tokens!

    I find that golds tend to come in bunches. When I get a 10 pack, I open singles first and do not open the 10 pack until I get a gold. So there is still reason to save them.

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