Opinions welcome! First place prize option

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edited March 2014 in MPQ General Discussion
Now, I know that first place offers a boatload of rewards for PvP, but what do you think if they added an option for first place finishers to pick either the established prize package (Door number 1) OR give up the prize package for a choice of any single cover you want (Door number 2)?

Not saying it's is an outstanding idea but one that just occurred to me, and figure maybe a thread to see what you all think. This way, maybe you choose a cover you really need, BUT that choice gives up everything else in exchange for free choice.

Thoughts? Want to tell me I'm a fool? Go ahead. Just throwing this out there.

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  • Unknown
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    Nice thoughts, but it won't happen.

    Allowing free choice breaks the lottery system in place in MPQ. There is value is keeping the populace needing additional covers, as that is one of the components that drives players to keep playing this game. Free choice on cover prizes allow players full control over their roster growth, which is not good for the devs as this inhibits any desire to purchase covers with Hero Points.

    Also, you can already acquire covers via free choice... for $1-$25 each (depending on tier), but only after acquiring the first cover/color the hard way. This allows some free choice for the player, but keeps the devs ultimately in control of the game as you have to play the events they want you to play to earn that all-so-important first cover of each character's powers to enable "free choice" purchasing of the remaining covers.
  • Unknown
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    Back of the napkin math: you'd be trading a 4* cover, two 3* covers, 3000 iso and 100HP for basically 1250HP (cost of a 3* cover). Convert the 2 3*s thats 1000 iso + the 3000 base iso (4000 iso) and whatever a 4* is worth (750 iso?)... Probably not often anyone would make that trade? Unless you had cruddy pull luck on covers. I just dropped HP on the Hood 10-pack because i could not for the life of me get a blue cover. 5 Yellow and 4 Black... But honestly, would't you just wait for the PvP where the cover you need is the reward?

    That said, regarding cover drops: are some more rare than others? Like for Punisher is there a color that's "more" rare than the other?
  • Unknown
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    Still its 1250 hp vs 3 to 6 multi colored covers you get from placing top 1 to 5 in events.
    Unless you are working on a non lightning rounds old character or 4 star, almost always your better off spending the hp on shields.
  • Spencer75
    Spencer75 Posts: 232
    coffeeandbacon wrote:
    Back of the napkin math: you'd be trading a 4* cover, two 3* covers, 3000 iso and 100HP for basically 1250HP (cost of a 3* cover). Convert the 2 3*s thats 1000 iso + the 3000 base iso (4000 iso) and whatever a 4* is worth (750 iso?)... Probably not often anyone would make that trade? Unless you had cruddy pull luck on covers. I just dropped HP on the Hood 10-pack because i could not for the life of me get a blue cover. 5 Yellow and 4 Black... But honestly, would't you just wait for the PvP where the cover you need is the reward?

    That said, regarding cover drops: are some more rare than others? Like for Punisher is there a color that's "more" rare than the other?

    So in one sentence you say people wouldn't go to those lengths and then in the next you say you shelled 3800 HP to get a specific cover

    Got it
  • Spencer75
    Spencer75 Posts: 232
    That said it'll never happen. Lyrian is absolutely correct.
  • Unknown
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    Since you're using the "doors" game, you should go all the way and add a 3rd door that contains bag-man and you cant see what's behind the doors until after you open it.
  • Dayv
    Dayv Posts: 4,449 Chairperson of the Boards
    coffeeandbacon wrote:
    That said, regarding cover drops: are some more rare than others? Like for Punisher is there a color that's "more" rare than the other?
    No, not for token pulls.

    In play some powers are more common than others, but only because they've been given away more freely in events or as daily rewards.
  • HailMary
    HailMary Posts: 2,179
    ihearthawthats wrote:
    Since you're using the "doors" game, you should go all the way and add a 3rd door that contains bag-man and you cant see what's behind the doors until after you open it.
    This just in from D3's secret underwater HQ: all future first-place rewards will give you a chance to play Monty Hall with an eight-3*-cover door and two Gold Bag-Man doors.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Spencer75 wrote:
    coffeeandbacon wrote:
    Back of the napkin math: you'd be trading a 4* cover, two 3* covers, 3000 iso and 100HP for basically 1250HP (cost of a 3* cover). Convert the 2 3*s thats 1000 iso + the 3000 base iso (4000 iso) and whatever a 4* is worth (750 iso?)... Probably not often anyone would make that trade? Unless you had cruddy pull luck on covers. I just dropped HP on the Hood 10-pack because i could not for the life of me get a blue cover. 5 Yellow and 4 Black... But honestly, would't you just wait for the PvP where the cover you need is the reward?

    That said, regarding cover drops: are some more rare than others? Like for Punisher is there a color that's "more" rare than the other?

    So in one sentence you say people wouldn't go to those lengths and then in the next you say you shelled 3800 HP to get a specific cover

    Got it

    I blame my OCD. and I pulled multiple hood covers, so there's that... but yes, as I was doing it, I was shaking my head at myself icon_razz.gif

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