Stop character rotation

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SnowcaTT wrote:

Another way to increase that chance: Increase 3* drop rates from tokens! There are SOOOO many 3* characters now. If the drops were vastly increased, it is still going to take forever (the same amount of time as when the game launched) to get your characters covered. Every time a new character is introduced, the drop rate should be increased (and HP for slots decreased, and ISO drop rate increased...)

Seconded. There's a reason buying hero packs are a joke.

ballingbees

Hood and Sentry are being adjusted WITHOUT being taken out of the token pool.

So the reason that characters are "taken out of the token pool to be worked on" does not stand, as the above two have proved otherwise. It will be helpful if the developers shared with us the real selection criteria for candidates for vaulting if not purely arbitrary.

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Ben is right, character rotation in its current form is a stopgap and is hurting some people while helping others, which isn't ideal. Making it a daily or weekly rotation could let people save up and then actually choose when to cash in tokens for characters they need and knowing they will be back in a couple weeks at longest, instead of...eventually?

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they should make the characters rotated out as the priority as cover rewards in PVE

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That is another problem in itself with 29 3* characters that means each one has to wait longer and longer before they get a turn being event rewards. So even if tokens are evened out, the problem of event dilution is still a growing issue.

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Let players choose from roster pool, make 2 type of tokens (example - newer and older).

Vohnkar

I'm being hit hard by this rotation. My punisher is sitting at 5/3/3 since they took it off the tokens, I managed to get some LThor covers and get him to 4/4/4 and now he is out of the rotation too ><, my 2 damagers won't progress any longer for at least a month. But I prefer to get a chance at new characters. I can wait a month or two to max those 2 characters, magneto is not an issue for me I have him at 85, so I can wait too

The solution is not ideal, but at least we can get the new characters in the tokens sooner than before.

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raziel777 wrote:

Let players choose from roster pool, make 2 type of tokens (example - newer and older).

They have ! the event token but it is too rare and the drop rate is ****....

i get lots of 3 star but none of them is usable as all of them only have 1 2 3 cover... far always from 8 -9

Lystrata

I think it was a good short-term solution, but if this is how it's going to be for the foreseeable future... it's a terrible idea. I find it really, really odd that they can clearly tell over-saturation of characters is causing problems, but their solution is simply to... take away parts of the game? Have never encountered another game that 'solved' a problem by just removing a chunk of that game for a couple of months, only to swap it with another chunk at a later date, etc.

As someone else mentioned, I'm also not buying the 'it's so we can work on them' line any longer - as Sentry and Hood clearly show it's not necessary to remove characters to work on them.

Ultimately, I'd have been happy to be patient with this system for S7&8, if there was a real solution coming... but I don't see much hope for that at the moment?

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They should add some code that randomly switches X amount of characters in and out of tokens at the top of every hour. Then we can have the fun of checking in to see if the character we want to try for has been added. They can even have settings that allow you to be notified through your device and/or facebook which characters are added in. Think of the excitement.

*The level of seriousness I had for this post rose and fell constantly. As of now, I am not sure if I really feel this is a good idea or not.

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I completely agree with the OP. The current model feels like a punishment to transitioning players like me.
For example, I have my punisher at 3 black, 5 green and 0 red. Before he was taken out of rotation, I kept getting green covers, I threw away 4 or 5 of those. I'd love to level Punisher some more, but I just don't have a chance of finally getting some red covers for him. This sucks. I am on day 272 and still don't have a fully leveled three-star-character, but a lot of them are sitting in the early 100s.

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I put a thread in the suggestions and feedback forum - have them set something up so we can choose which characters get vaulted for us personally. It would work as a viable long-term solution and end the annoyance that getting certain characters is becoming a game of token whack-a-mole.

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FaustianDeal wrote:

I am conflicted about the change. It feels like they want to lock in a situation where 2stars represent a fixed % of the drawn cards, if they hold rigidly to that then the individual drop rates for characters drops to nothing. Letting 3-stars comprise a larger percentage of the overall pool appears to be something they aren't flexing on. So either we live with drawing a Blade card (in any color) once every 500 heroic tokens, or we accept this as a compromise.

My internal conflict comes from getting trainable draws from stockpiled heroic tokens on the first day of the rotation both times it has happened. I get so few trainable cards from token pops, so the first day of rotation is like a holiday for those of us stockpiling tokens.

get 4 Heroic from event last day and all 250 iso....petty sad

ScrubJay

benben77 wrote:

get 4 Heroic from event last day and all 250 iso....petty sad

4? I got 8. 2 progression tokens and 6 from #1 finish. All just a pile of moonstones.

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I think they just need to stop being so greedy. the drop rate for 3 stars is already so damn low it's ridiculous! Start taking out the two stars! You can get them just as easy as 1 stars via pvp match rewards. I don't know how the hell a new player is ever supposed to get a working roster with how many 3 stars are out there now.

Dayv

Personally, I love the rotation. I had no reason to open heroic tokens for anything but ISO and Nick Fury before the recent changes, now there are several characters I need in the mix.

They need a better long term solution as more 3* characters are added to the list, but for now it's better than it was during the Great Token Stagnation.

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I think a good idea would be to split the tokens in heroes and villains. That way they can keep a balance of how many heroes vs how many villains you have in the game.

kalex716

Split the tokens into "seasons" and let us choose which one we want to pull from.

Either that, or cycle the "rotation" on a schedule weekly or something.

How is it fair telling newer transitioning players that older STAPLES like Patch, Punisher, Cmags etc. are covers you can't even get regularly anymore, and you have to settle on Collosus, Beast, and Doc Oc now if you want to play *3 star character?

Its hard enough to even break out into the 3 star scene anymore, but now we are making it so people have to do it with below average characters to boot. They'd be better off just staying in 2 star land than to screw up there EV by maxing **** new characters.

Its a raw deal.

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I dont surprise by bad idea of small developer but surprise by so many player invest in such game.....and ask for further improvement .....

Asmodai-o_O

It was the easiest thing to implement and the worst idea in the list. The chance to get a 3* cover is already laughable and now we are in the SECOND season with the same stuff pulled out. I'd love to cover max Punisher and Patch but 2 months out of rotation is absurd... can we either get the choice of what we want vaulted personally or just lower the % of the 2* and put all of the 3* back in? I am supremely confident I will continue to only get Cap Sentinel of Liberty anyways.
If they are so set on vaulting the good characters can two + months be cut to a week or something? ...