Musings on day 348*

DFiPL

Der_Lex wrote:

DFiPL wrote:

Der_Lex wrote:

Drummerboycroy wrote:

Day 600+ (about to get the next Cage reward), zero fully covered 3*s, a few with 8-10, and a small bunch with 3-7.

Congrats, you're doing better than me.

DBC

Are you part of an alliance? And/or do you play very casually? Because at 600 days you really should have several fully covered 3*"s by now. (not trying to rub it in, sincere question to see if any pointers can be given to help you expand your roster a little).

Personally I'm on day 423 , but I did take a break of almost half a year from the game somewhere in between. I have all but 5 3*'s cover-maxed, with Grocket proving my most elusive 3* at 8 covers. For 4*'s, I have two maxed, 2 at 12 covers, 1 at 11, and the rest of them are in the 5-8 covers region, except for my 4-cover devil Dino (my break period included the anniversary week, unfortunately).

What's weird is I remember getting, although not keeping, Devil Dino. I took my break after that. But my daily login isn't yet up to 365, so I'm wondering what's going to happen when I hit that.

You should be getting your 3 Dino covers at 365+ as well, since everyone gets those. I also had one cover waiting for me after I logged in again after my break, guess they sent that to all active accounts.

Hrm. Now, to be fair, "not keeping" could well be "lost when the cloud save switch got flipped and my PC account got overwritten." I don't specifically remember selling DD, I just know I got 3 covers and don't have 'em no' mo'.

if I get three covers for him in two weeks here, I do have a roster spot for him, so that's good news.

Heartburn

16 fully covered 3*s but only 5 fully leveled @ day 461

optimus2861

lockness wrote:

To summarize, the devs projected timeline was:

Transition to 2* roster – couple of weeks
Transition to 3* roster – 1 to 3 months
Transition to 4* roster – 6 months

Link to original forum topic of timeline

That's hilariously, ridiculously, unrealistic, unless ye be whalin'.

Day 236 here: Two 3* with 11 covers, four with 10 covers, six with 9, three with 8. There are still six 3* characters I have not rostered. I have zero 4* characters because I can't compete for them and I can't count on tokens to build them; they'd be dead roster slots for me.

TxMoose

need to preface this by saying 1) I play - a lot and 2) I kickstarted my *** transition with 6 cover purchases and have purchased one since. I've spent a total of ~150 for slots/covers/shields and my pile is down to ~3k now. but that said, at day 228 I have 16 characters with 13 covers (several need respec - really need a cap blue - 10 are spec'ed correctly), 5 with 12 covers and 7 with 11.

I had no idea I was that close to completing so many characters. I have 2 maxed characters and one that will join them this week (looking forward to playing with maxed fist). with only 2 at 166 I still think of myself as a transitioner but looking at it again, maybe I'm past that.

regarding their 'timeline' - what a joke. if they really want that they need a complete revamp of the reward structures where ****s are given where ***s are given now, ***s are given where **s are given now and so forth. not sure why they'd want **** rosters developed in 6 months, that's when some vets lose interest and leave the game when you have nothing else to play for. because even with spending the money I have, I've just only recently fully come into *** land and that was at more than 6 months. without the cash influx, would have taken a year or so.

Linkster79

Day 394

4*
X-Force L131 3,1,2
Nick Fury L70 1,1,2
Devil Dino L70 1,1,1
Invisible Woman L70 1,1,1
Star-Lord L70 1 red, 1 yellow
Ant-Man L70 1 purple
Electra L70 1 red

3*
Black Panther L166 4,4,5
Punisher L166 5,3,5
Patch L166 4,4,5
Steve Rogers L153 3,5,5
Magneto L153 4,3,5
Hulk L153 5,2,5
Hood L132 5,5,3
Daredevil L127 4,3,4
Doctor Doom L127 4,4,2
Black Widow L120 5,2,5
Psylocke L120 5,3,2
Falcon L114 4,5,3
Human Torch L114 4,2,4
Iron Man L94 5,4,4 (curse you 4 yellow covers)
Daken L89 2,2,3
Thor L78 2,1,5
Blade L66 3,1,2
Deadpool L63 2 red, 2 black
Spiderman L62 4,5,3
Gamora L55 2,1,1
Bullseye L53 1,1,2
Mystique L44 1,3,4
Beast L43 1,2,1
Iron Fist L43 1,1,1
Sentry L40 3,3,3
Captain Marvel L40 2 red, 1 yellow
Kamala Khan L40 1 yellow, 2 green
Squirrel Girl L40 2 yellow, 2 green
Scarlett Witch L40 2 blue
She Hulk L40 2 blue


Also have about 9 2* ata max levels and 2* at max. I really need to target certain characters to start building like Iron Fist, Blade, Deadpool and LDaken.

Unknown

Der_Lex wrote:

Drummerboycroy wrote:

Day 600+ (about to get the next Cage reward), zero fully covered 3*s, a few with 8-10, and a small bunch with 3-7.

Congrats, you're doing better than me.

DBC

Are you part of an alliance? And/or do you play very casually? Because at 600 days you really should have several fully covered 3*"s by now. (not trying to rub it in, sincere question to see if any pointers can be given to help you expand your roster a little).

Personally I'm on day 423 , but I did take a break of almost half a year from the game somewhere in between. I have all but 5 3*'s cover-maxed, with Grocket proving my most elusive 3* at 8 covers. For 4*'s, I have two maxed, 2 at 12 covers, 1 at 11, and the rest of them are in the 5-8 covers region, except for my 4-cover devil Dino (my break period included the anniversary week, unfortunately).

Yeah, what was a great alliance (completed 1st and 3rd Ultron events), now limping along due to some significant recent losses (three commanders within a week).

Played far more casually up to about 5-6(?)months ago, then played with much more intent before burning out on the whole "second job" PvE thing. I get hit after my first 38 point win in PvP, so I've never been able to do much there. You know, the whole "losing more than you can win" thing.

TBH, if I hadn't been faced with so many "tough but fun choices" with regard to roster slot prices and having to throw away heroes, I'd likely be a bit farther along. Add tho that the fact that I've never been a big gambler, and apparently this has translated to MPQ, because my luck with tokens over the years has been a thing of abysmal legend...

Plus side, I did just recieve my Day 600 and whatever Luke Cage, bringing him to a robust 3/2/0, so I've got that going for me...

DBC

Esheris

Day 149

I have 13 fully covered 3 stars and a whole bunch close behind. All at level 122 and working to get them up at the same time.

My 4 stars are awful, but I can't complain too much since I have at least 1 of each for events.

TxMoose

Esheris wrote:

Day 149

I have 13 fully covered 3 stars and a whole bunch close behind. All at level 122 and working to get them up at the same time.

My 4 stars are awful, but I can't complain too much since I have at least 1 of each for events.

that is impressive. let me guess - the single thing holding your roster back = iso shortage. yeah. posted about that too many times already...

Esheris

TxMoose wrote:

Esheris wrote:

Day 149

I have 13 fully covered 3 stars and a whole bunch close behind. All at level 122 and working to get them up at the same time.

My 4 stars are awful, but I can't complain too much since I have at least 1 of each for events.

that is impressive. let me guess - the single thing holding your roster back = iso shortage. yeah. posted about that too many times already...

Thanks! ^_^

Yeah Iso is a shortage, but I'm at a steady pace leveling them each day and take advantage of Lightning Rounds when they are up.

Buret0

Day 257 (67 Slots):

4 Stars:

Hulkbuster, 183, 0/5/5
Carnage, 178, 5/3/5
Prof X, 166, 5/3/5
Thor, 121, 1/5/2
Invisible Woman, 94, 2/1/1
Thing, 93, 1/0/3
Star-Lord, 86, 0/0/2
Kingpin, 78, 1/1/1
Wolverine, 78, 1/1/1
Electra, 74, 1/0/1
Nick Fury, 70, 0/3/1
Ant-Man, 70, 1/0/0
(Missing Devil Dino until day 365)

3 Stars:

Scarlet Witch, 166, 3/5/5
Cyclops, 165, 5/3/5
Beast, 160, 5/5/3
Squirrel Girl, 160, 5/3/5
GSBW, 147, 5/3/5
Human Torch, 144, 5/3/5
Kamala Khan, 142, 3/5/5
Magneto, 140, 4/5/4
Gamora, 140, 0/5/5 (intentionally, I'll build another 166 with 5/3/5)
Luke Cage, 137, 5/4/4
Blade, 131, 3/5/5
Falcon, 131, 5/3/5
Captain Marvel, 130, 5/3/5
Daken, 130, 5/5/2
Hulk, 125, 5/4/4
Patch, 125, 5/3/5
Mystique, 124, 4/5/4
Hood, 124, 5/5/3
Storm, 121, 5/3/5
Loki, 120, 5/3/5
Quicksilver, 120, 5/5/3
Deadpool, 120, 3/3/5
Black Panther, 120, 5/3/2
Captain America, 114, 4/5/4
Thor, 114, 5/3/3
IM40, 112, 5/5/2
Iron Fist, 107, 5/2/5
Sentry, 104, 5/4/2
Rocket and Groot, 95, 3/5/2
Daredevil, 90, 4/5/2
Punisher, 81, 2/3/4
She-Hulk, 78, 2/1/4
Ragnarok, 75, 3/5/5 (I actually had fun using Rags/2Storm/2Mags in the Enemy of the State Storm nodes)
Doctor Doom, 75, 5/5/2
Colossus, 66, 3/5/3
Bullseye, 64, 3/2/4
Spiderman, 63, 2/0/3
Psylocke, 53, 2/2/3
Doctor Octopus, 50, 3/2/4
Vision, 44, 2/3/0
(Missing None)

2 Stars:

Bullseye, 94, 3/5/5
Magneto, 94, 3/5/5
Storm, 94, 5/5/3
Thor, 94, 3/5/5
Wolverine, 94, 5/5/3
Captain America, 66, 3/5/5
Black Widow, 53, 4/5/4 (Yes... I know, I know... I'll get around to it.)
Ares, 15, 5/3/5
Captain Marvel, 15, 3/5/5
Moonstone, 15, 3/5/5
Spiderbags, 15, 2/3/3 (Do you want to build a Bagman?)

1 Stars:

IM35, 50, 5/5/3
Juggs, 23, 5/5
Black Widow, 1, 0/5 (Makes an excellent gift to your alliance teammates)
Venom, 1, 0/1 (I had HP left for a roster slot and he filled it, will become the next release)

The biggest difference maker was DDQ and the cheaper ISO cost on the early levels. Combined with the weekly boosts, I was able to quickly advance from early to late 3* transition and have begun my 4* transition process by taking IMHB and Carnage over level 166. I can attest to the fact that, while the levels of my enemies seems to have grown quite a bit faster than my roster, I'm actually still having a much easier time killing them than I did in the 2* transition days. The 3* characters are just way more powerful. This has also made top 25 PvP and top 10 PvE possible, depending on which I feel like grinding. My schedule is really the only barrier to success at this point.