Punishu777 said: @Brigby Initially three 5* characters received a "4* feeder" within a week of each other (Medusa -> Black Bolt, Gamora -> Thanos, and Vulture -> Peter Parker). Since that time the releases have been slowed to one updated 4* now giving 5* covers per month. While I don't want to be construed as looking down on these gifts, the development team also releases a new 5* character approximately once per month. What this means is that we will unfortunately never catch up, and will remain at a deficit of about 16 characters. Is this by design? Or will the speed of updates to 4* character champion rewards eventually be increased?
fight4thedream said: I prefer that they keep with the one-a-month pace with the occasional double or triple bonanza for a few reasons:1.) Iso. While not particularly true in my case, I am sure there are a few players that have a few or more 5* almost cover maxed and not exactly swimming in Iso. Keeping it at the current pace helps prevent overburdening ill-prepared rosters. 2.) News value. It's nice to have something else to look forward to on the forum. In terms of regular news information, currently we have: *MPQ Sneak Peek (released at the beginning of the month and updated weekly) *Marvel.com new character press release (twice a month) *RXX Release notes (I actually don't know how frequently these are posted lol)I think having these Character Reward Updates adds value to the forum as a source of information and speeding up the process where it catches up to all available 5* characters would deny us the desire of wanting to know "Who's next?" and the pleasure that comes from its fulfillment. 3.) Gives the dev team some breathing room. Ideally speaking or at least what I am sure what we all hope for is that all 4* characters will eventually give out 5* rewards. However, it's not clear if that is the ultimate design goal. Taking it slower allows them time to think through how they want to proceed as well as analyze feedback and the current state of the game.I noticed some people wondering why Elektra wasn't chosen this round but it's totally possible that down the road that she, too, will give DD covers at a future date. Or perhaps not. I personally think one character a month with the exception of special events like the Anniversary and big movie release *sneeze* Avengers Infinity War *sneeze* (pardon me *blows nose*) where we may get 2 or three is not a bad move.4.) LTs. If you are in the fortunate position of having a lot of 4* champed, then you actually benefit from a delay in release as you are able to obtain LTs in the pre-updated state. If they quicken the pace, it basically means less rewards, not more.But these are just my two cents on the issue.
The rockett said: Oh i don’t disagree that this is a great change to see. I am glad they are doing it and maybe they will do a 2/3 at one time. That was awesome with the first Big Bang they did.
Jarvind said: Cool, now just undo the lousy update that ruined Kingpin as an actual useful character.
There's actually a fair bit we can infer from this particular update - there seems to be a pattern emerging. It's a bit early to say for sure, of course, but we now have two new 4 -> 5* feeders after the initial burst, so we're getting something of a pattern. These are the conclusions I came to:
- It seems to be about once a month. That's a pity, as with a six week release schedule it will take a long time for all 5* to be fed, but it is what it is. They may speed this up as they get good statistics on how it impacts the game.
- They're not only going to have the newer 4* feed 5*s, as some people have speculated. Kingpin was literally the eighth 4* introduced to the game. They're going to have them thematically linked. So far we have two direct antagonists as well (Movie Vulture -> Movie Spidey, Kingpin -> Daredevil.)
- They're almost certainly not going to introduce any feeder until that 5* leaves Latest.
- So far it seems that they will prioritize the 5* that have just left latest. Both Parker and Murdock got a feeder very quickly after they left Latest. That's only two, so it's not a rock-solid conclusion, but it does fit the idea of prioritizing newer characters over old.