Patch R59 Discussion - Live 8/18

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  • whitecat31
    whitecat31 Posts: 579 Critical Contributor
    IceIX wrote:
    Gameplay
      - Alliance members can now send Team-Ups to other members - Characters sent to Alliance members will be "On Patrol" and unavailable for the sender to use for a short time after being sent off - Characters On Patrol may either come back for use after that time or immediately on use of Hero Points
    I believe this is TWO separate mechanics or you are saying you cannot send a team up out, unless you own that character with that particular ability.
    The idea of people sending alliance members level 166 cover 5 SuperNova Team ups or Magnetic Translocations or Human Torch flame jets or pick the most powerful one seems unbalanced. Especially, if they have it for an AI fight.
    I guess it could affect demographics of hard core alliance character build selection. You have to build a certain character up, so you can loan team ups out when you go to sleep type of thing. LOL
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    I thought that the on patrol referred to TU covers...?
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    IceIX wrote:
    Gameplay
      - Alliance members can now send Team-Ups to other members - Characters sent to Alliance members will be "On Patrol" and unavailable for the sender to use for a short time after being sent off - Characters On Patrol may either come back for use after that time or immediately on use of Hero Points - Team-Up tiles now correctly deal damage when matched with Strike tiles on the board - The enemy team is no longer able to use Team-Ups for characters on that team - Team-Ups can now be deleted - Enemy teams now use 1 Team-Up instead of 3
    Character
      - Hawkeye (Modern) will no longer Avoid AoE damage created by his own team

    hi IceIX ..sorry for de offtopic recently registered on the forum looking for an alliance, people contact to me sending private messaging. and i cant reply de PMs Because i cant send private messages.

    Need contact the administrator to resolve this... thx for helping
  • OnesOwnGrief
    OnesOwnGrief Posts: 1,387 Chairperson of the Boards
    Seriously, if Characters On Patrol refers to team ups, then they should have used Team Ups on Patrol, used proper listing, or stated somewhere that abilities sent will become On Patrol. Their language is becoming consistently inconsistent.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    The new version can be downloaded by steam users - just did it.
  • SolidQ
    SolidQ Posts: 247 Tile Toppler
    Sumilea wrote:
    The new version can be downloaded by steam users - just did it.
    and it's R59, not 58 icon_e_smile.gif
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Do I understand correctly that when you send team-up to alliance mate you not lose it forever, so even if he USES IT IN BATTLE, you get it back later and can use/send it again?
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Sumilea wrote:
    The new version can be downloaded by steam users - just did it.
    The delete button is real! It's a miracle! Christmas is saved! icon_razz.gif
  • yogi_
    yogi_ Posts: 1,236 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited August 2014
    The "Team-Up Edition" is live. Discuss.

    First person to find stealth update wins. Doesn't seem to be anything too massive (unforseen at first glance). Overhaul of some main graphics.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    To someone who has it - can you check to see if anyone new has been added to tokens? Specifically looking for She-Hulk, Captain Marvel, Deadpool, and Nick Fury on the heroics page.
  • yogi_
    yogi_ Posts: 1,236 Chairperson of the Boards
    Ben Grimm wrote:
    To someone who has it - can you check to see if anyone new has been added to tokens? Specifically looking for She-Hulk, Captain Marvel, Deadpool, and Nick Fury on the heroics page.

    No token update. Sorry.

    My semi-thought is they are juggling the % values of adding all the new characters and how much they have to reduce the % of the 2*'s.

    Also too soon for Fury and just a little early for DP, I would imagine. Can't see reason why at least She-Hulk and maybe Marvel can't be there already - maybe they want to milk it a tiny bit longer still.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    edited August 2014
    Milk what exactly? They're not included anywhere (except perhaps standards?), surely adding them to the mix would up token sales?
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    I had talked with Demiurge Will on one of the other threads about it, and he said that one of the problems they're facing is that odds have gotten so low on a lot of the 3*s in the tokens that they were reluctant to lower them further. I sent him a big list of options for that (just stuff I could think of, much of which has been mentioned here), but emphasized that the best thing they could do would be try to engage with the players on it, and figure out what would make everybody the happiest.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    We can trash teamups finally! Hooray!
  • Phaserhawk
    Phaserhawk Posts: 2,676 Chairperson of the Boards
    The easiest way is to split the cards into seperate packs. You could have a good guy/bad guy pack. When you get a token you can elect to pick the good guy pack or the bad guy pack, although we are rather skewed on good guys. You could just randomly assign characters to pack, either way, segregate them. So lets say for arguements sake we did good guy/bad guy. When I get a Heroic Token, I can either elect to spend it on the Good guys pack or the Bad guys pack, much like a Pvp event token is specific to a certain character allotement, we can do the same for that. It would be a simple fix, and could allow players to chase the cards they need.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Also you can ask for teamups from your alliance members then they can send 5. Weird.
  • simonsez
    simonsez Posts: 4,663 Chairperson of the Boards
    This is kinda weird, getting an update when it's not the last 3 hours of a 9 day event...
  • yogi_
    yogi_ Posts: 1,236 Chairperson of the Boards
    Ben Grimm wrote:
    I had talked with Demiurge Will on one of the other threads about it, and he said that one of the problems they're facing is that odds have gotten so low on a lot of the 3*s in the tokens that they were reluctant to lower them further. I sent him a big list of options for that (just stuff I could think of, much of which has been mentioned here), but emphasized that the best thing they could do would be try to engage with the players on it, and figure out what would make everybody the happiest.

    Interesting and pretty much what I suspected. They can't lower the odds any further and they won't want many more 3* cover tokens out in the wild but without reducing the % value of the 2* characters much, they are stuck.

    It's a catch 22 for them and the issue is actually broader in that since the 2* characters are now (almost too) easy to build (compared to a few months ago), their perceived value has decreased significantly in tokenville and so you have to start doing more radical stuff, eg. get rid of Bagman. Their two "easiest" options are to slash the 2* character percentages or retire another 2* character from tokens.

    Either way, the problem is only going to get worse and a new cover distribution model will be needed at some future stage. Which then leads into other discussions about characters and star rankings and so on...
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    It is live on Android as well.
  • simonsez
    simonsez Posts: 4,663 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited August 2014
    yogi_ wrote:
    They can't lower the odds any further and they won't want many more 3* cover tokens out in the wild but without reducing the % value of the 2* characters much, they are stuck.
    Not really... they just need to split them into separate packs.

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