New Feature - Saved Covers *Updated (6/19/18)

Persephone

I updated the app, Android.  I was able to save two covers right before expiring for my farming of OBW.  
I found this change to be helpful.  Thanks!

broll

zodiac339 said:

mega ghost said:

broll said:

Nabistay said:

BOO YOU CAN'T SAVE COVERS IF YOU ARE LACKING ISO BOO

THIS IS THE MOST DISAPPOINTING THING TO HAPPEN TO ME TODAY. SO FAR.

What?  How does ISO factor in at all?  Are you sure it's not that the ones you tried were already at 13 covers?

Must be, because I have no idea what he's talking about otherwise. I just saved a 4* Gamora cover and two 2* Storm covers, and ISO had nothing to do with the process whatsoever.

Not sure why you don’t understand. The translation is “I don’t have 500K ISO to spare on my 13 cover Epic to max and Champ, and can’t save cover 14 because cover saving only works when the character is 12 covers and lower. Boo.” Or Doc Oct is at 13 and I really don’t want to spend ISO on him. Something like that.

That's my assumption, but since that's not what he actually said I'm not 100%.  I have no characters that apply so I can't test it so that's why I followed up to see if others had seen ISO somehow be an issue or if it was a misunderstanding by the poster.

McThunderpants

broll said:

McThunderpants said:

Odd. Refreshed 3 times by closing the App Store and still no mpq update for me (EST). Guess that’s what I get for being born under a bad sign.

You have to swipe down the app store screen to see it if it's too recent.  Closing the app doesn't refresh it.  It's a really dumb change they made with iOS 11.

Got. Thanks!

Daredevil217

Wait I have a question.

I have 5 characters max-covered with no iso in them. Three of them have a single covered dupe rostered because I wasn’t sure if I wanted to leap into the 5* tier and didn’t have the iso to champ the main anyway. 

I’m very curious if CS would break down both the original and the dupe??

I have a 5/4/4 DD and a 1/0/0 DD. If they break it down I could build him 5/4/0, apply the extra Yellow as a saved cover and then add the Purples. Would they let me do this??

Also, I would consider busting more of my hoard for Okoye if they would break my 3/5/5 Jessica Jones down (no dupe). Because again, I would be allowed up to 5 extra pulls of her. I could rebuild her and before hitting 13, just make sure I bank those covers. 

bbigler

This change should have been presented better, like this:

 - You can now save unusable covers, up to 5 per character, to avoid cover waste
 - When you champ the character, those saved covers turn into champ levels
 - If for some reason you are extremely unlucky and unable to get the needed covers, you can exchange 5 unusable saved covers for 1 needed cover.  This is unlikely to happen, but we thought we would cover this situation anyway. 

So, I'm happy about this change.  Consider the probability; it's unlikely that you would ever need to exchange 5 covers for 1. 

TriSentinel

I was looking forward to this update not realizing that the only way to save covers is to already have that character at max level prior to championing. This doesn't really help players as the main reason to want to save a cover is to have enough time to acquire the ISO to max level and then champion. Nice try d3go, valiant effort, but I would like to see this improved to allow any cover for unchampioned characters of any level to be saved until championed.

huktonfonix

bbigler said:

This change should have been presented better, like this:

 - You can now save unusable covers, up to 5 per character, to avoid cover waste
 - When you champ the character, those saved covers turn into champ levels
 - If for some reason you are extremely unlucky and unable to get the needed covers, you can exchange 5 unusable saved covers for 1 needed cover.  This is unlikely to happen, but we thought we would cover this situation anyway. 

So, I'm happy about this change.  Consider the probability; it's unlikely that you would ever need to exchange 5 covers for 1. 

If they hadn't even included the 5:1 exchange option and just gave people the ability to save 5 covers, I think the response would have been much more positive.

Smart80

bbigler said:

This change should have been presented better, like this:

 - You can now save unusable covers, up to 5 per character, to avoid cover waste
 - When you champ the character, those saved covers turn into champ levels
 - If for some reason you are extremely unlucky and unable to get the needed covers, you can exchange 5 unusable saved covers for 1 needed cover.  This is unlikely to happen, but we thought we would cover this situation anyway. 

So, I'm happy about this change.  Consider the probability; it's unlikely that you would ever need to exchange 5 covers for 1. 

Careful there. I said the same and was immediately treated with my Okoye going from 2/3/2 to 2/5/2... ;-)

mega ghost

broll said:

zodiac339 said:

mega ghost said:

broll said:

Nabistay said:

BOO YOU CAN'T SAVE COVERS IF YOU ARE LACKING ISO BOO

THIS IS THE MOST DISAPPOINTING THING TO HAPPEN TO ME TODAY. SO FAR.

What?  How does ISO factor in at all?  Are you sure it's not that the ones you tried were already at 13 covers?

Must be, because I have no idea what he's talking about otherwise. I just saved a 4* Gamora cover and two 2* Storm covers, and ISO had nothing to do with the process whatsoever.

Not sure why you don’t understand. The translation is “I don’t have 500K ISO to spare on my 13 cover Epic to max and Champ, and can’t save cover 14 because cover saving only works when the character is 12 covers and lower. Boo.” Or Doc Oct is at 13 and I really don’t want to spend ISO on him. Something like that.

That's my assumption, but since that's not what he actually said I'm not 100%.  I have no characters that apply so I can't test it so that's why I followed up to see if others had seen ISO somehow be an issue or if it was a misunderstanding by the poster.

If that's the case then I think they just didn't read the info about the new feature well enough and are paying the price. I mean, my heart goes out, but the new feature is great and so far is working as advertised.

spatenfloot

TriSentinel said:

I was looking forward to this update not realizing that the only way to save covers is to already have that character at max level prior to championing. This doesn't really help players as the main reason to want to save a cover is to have enough time to acquire the ISO to max level and then champion. Nice try d3go, valiant effort, but I would like to see this improved to allow any cover for unchampioned characters of any level to be saved until championed.

Level has nothing to do with it. Only number of covers.

Nick441234

TriSentinel said:

I was looking forward to this update not realizing that the only way to save covers is to already have that character at max level prior to championing. This doesn't really help players as the main reason to want to save a cover is to have enough time to acquire the ISO to max level and then champion. Nice try d3go, valiant effort, but I would like to see this improved to allow any cover for unchampioned characters of any level to be saved until championed.

They did say this only applied for characters who are under 13 covers. If they allowed you to save covers no matter what everyone would just abuse it. Just as you want to do. 

tiomono

TriSentinel said:

I was looking forward to this update not realizing that the only way to save covers is to already have that character at max level prior to championing. This doesn't really help players as the main reason to want to save a cover is to have enough time to acquire the ISO to max level and then champion. Nice try d3go, valiant effort, but I would like to see this improved to allow any cover for unchampioned characters of any level to be saved until championed.

Well good news for you. Your proposed improvement is how it already works. Once you have 5 covers in one power the 6th can be saved. You do not need to put any iso on them. Just have less than 13 covers and pull a 6th in the same color.

DAZ0273

Well I pulled like my 10th red Nightcrawler cover and am happy that it is now tucked away in the bank. 😀

GrimSkald

Smart80 said:

bbigler said:

This change should have been presented better, like this:

 - You can now save unusable covers, up to 5 per character, to avoid cover waste
 - When you champ the character, those saved covers turn into champ levels
 - If for some reason you are extremely unlucky and unable to get the needed covers, you can exchange 5 unusable saved covers for 1 needed cover.  This is unlikely to happen, but we thought we would cover this situation anyway. 

So, I'm happy about this change.  Consider the probability; it's unlikely that you would ever need to exchange 5 covers for 1. 

Careful there. I said the same and was immediately treated with my Okoye going from 2/3/2 to 2/5/2... ;-)

Yeah, that's not impossible.  When this system went in I looked up all my swaps (not that hard I just needed to look at the outgoing email in that account - I don't send from it very much.)  I did swaps for the following characters:

Archangel

Black Bolt

Captain America (Infinity War)

Daredevil

Doctor Strange

Gambit

Hawkeye

Thanos

I swapped two covers on Archangel and Daredevil - Blue and Purple respectively.  I would have finished Archangel anyway the day after I got my covers.  Daredevil... may have been problematic - I'm not sure how much yellow I needed.  If it was one I would have gotten it a week later.  If it was two, a month (and I drew a lot of Green and purple in the meantime.)  It's not impossible I would have needed the swap before a cover expired, though in the end I would have been able to skip it - particularly since he has a feeder.

Dotproduct

Updated and saved 3 4* and 1 2* right off the bat. 

Sim Mayor

Nick441234 said:

TriSentinel said:

I was looking forward to this update not realizing that the only way to save covers is to already have that character at max level prior to championing. This doesn't really help players as the main reason to want to save a cover is to have enough time to acquire the ISO to max level and then champion. Nice try d3go, valiant effort, but I would like to see this improved to allow any cover for unchampioned characters of any level to be saved until championed.

They did say this only applied for characters who are under 13 covers. If they allowed you to save covers no matter what everyone would just abuse it. Just as you want to do. 

Yep, I'm one of those poor tinykitties who misread the description the same way. I had 12 Medusa covers with one on the vine, and over the weekend they offered me a 13th cover in the H4H store. I jumped on it thinking I'd be able to save my vine cover on Monday. Logged in this morning, updated the game...and cried.

skittledaddy

Dotproduct said:

Updated and saved 3 4* and 1 2* right off the bat. 

Congrats!
This is exactly what this new feature is for and why I was excited for it from the first day it was announced.
To be used, not abused through some loophole (as many others have hoped to do).
Ironically, this is the first time in quite a while that I didn't have an unusable cover somewhere on the vine. Oh well, that day will come again; just ask my 10/0/0 Prof X or my 0/9/1 Bl4de. ;-)

Daredevil217

Next time Thanos is in a featured store, I MIGHT have bust my hoard there.  Mine is 1/4/4 currently and the bank makes it a much less risky proposition.  As long as he isn't paired with Thor, DD, Gambit, Jessica, or Goblin (max-covered)... or Panther, Angel or Rider (11 covers each)

You know what... never mind...

Dragon_Nexus

Ha, one thing I didn't anticipate is you can't unsave the saved covers.

They're just kinda...gone.

Brigby

Dragon_Nexus said:

Ha, one thing I didn't anticipate is you can't unsave the saved covers.

They're just kinda...gone.

Thankfully though, if you end up pulling the 13th cover, and Championing the character, then those saved covers are converted into Champion levels. No waste!