Latest Legends 5-Star Cover Exchanges *Updated (6/15/18)

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  • Pants1000
    Pants1000 Posts: 484 Mover and Shaker
    Player1575 said:
    Bowgentle said:
    Daredevil217 said:
    moss04 said:
    The thing about this change that non-5-star players may not realize is that in the old system (with 1:1 cover swaps for latest -which I think was around for at least 2 years), a player that was mildly competitive in PvE and PvP and had most of the 4 star tier championed could earn enough from rewards and champion levels to have a pretty good chance of championing each new latest just before they leave and become impossible to finish due to dilution.  Now with that that change, it may very well be that the most likely scenario is you don't have to actually exchange 5 covers for 1, but they just act as a buffer, but needing to instead earn 17-18 covers to finish a character instead of 13 means that really is no longer possible.  The only ways to make that up are:
    1. Start spending thousands of dollars in buy clubs.  Maybe a few will be baited into this action, but most probably won't.  If you are wealthy enough to whale, odds are you are already doing it.  Most others just simply cannot afford this solution, and either cannot take it, or due to addiction will have a limited time to pursue it before they lose their houses and their families.
    2. Start hoarding again, and skip characters that don't appear to be good enough to be part of the meta.  This isn't very fun.  Saving up CP and tokens in between each 5 star release builds anticipation.  Saving up for 6 months hoping nobody good is released while still building your hoard and/or just idly waiting for the right three in latest once you have enough can become a major grind that reduces anticipation, paces intermediary progress (on new or farming 4 stars) to a slow crawl, and makes the game less fun.
    3. Start chasing classics instead.  If you do this you just accept that it will literally take years to acquire new characters because the dilution is so high.  And that rate will only slow down as the game progresses because it is not like you can trade in covers for characters that you've already championed.
    Maybe option 3 is the way it was always supposed to be.  Maybe it was always supposed to take years to build up new additions to a 5 star roster.  But the fact of the matter is that it hasn't been, whether it has been 6 months or 2 years since a given player has entered into the 5 star meta.  If a player has been making progress on their roster for a significant amount of time and now finds that they no longer can, they simply won't continue to play.  Maybe the game and the rest of the community is okay with that...  That certainly seems to be the position of those arguing that the 1:1 exchange rate should go away because it was always generous/temporary (for 2+ years).  But if it isn't okay there is probably only 2 real solutions:
    1. Keep the exchange rate at 1:1 for Latest Legends but implemented through the new feature instead by customer service.
    2. Slow down the release of new 5 star characters.  I think it is currently a 6 week schedule (?) and would probably need to become a 10 week schedule in order to accommodate earning the extra covers.
    It's no different at the 4* tier.  In fact you can now cover a new 5 in Latests faster than a new 4*.  As a 4* player, I used to be able to keep up with the 4* release and champ them (iso and how much of my hoard I open permitting) in a few weeks.  Now it is going to take forever! This is just the way it is now.  The game has decided to slow progress at all levels with these changes. Not a whole lot we can do about it but adjust and focus more on building the characters we have up and riding with them instead of chasing new shinies.  I agree it sucks but it pretty much sucks for anyone beyond the 3* tier.
    Just BH the 4 you want to cover, it's still very fast.

    That's a good joke. I've had 7 4* BH (1 5*) since I started tracking my pulls a while back, and I'm sure I wasn't getting them any quicker before I was tracking them. I'm at 392 pulls right now. There's nothing fast about that.
    Unfortunately you’ve just had bad luck.  On average 400 pulls will get you 20 BH.  It’s not super fast, but it’s reasonable to get 1-2 4* BH per week.
  • Bzhai
    Bzhai Posts: 507 Critical Contributor
    The rockett said:
    Brigby said:
    Update: For players that have a Latest Legends 5-Star character maxed out at level 550, we will still be offering cover exchanges from the maxed out Latest Legends character to another Latest Legends character. The same is true for if players have all 3 of their Latest Legends 5-Star characters maxed out, and wish to exchange their extra Latest Legend covers for any other character cover of their choice.

    In addition, we would like to offer all players a one-time exception service of breaking down duplicate 5-Star characters into their respective covers. This is not limited to a single character, however you must request all of your character breakdowns at the same time. This offer will have the same deadline as the Latest Legends Cover Exchange (June 27th at 11:59pm PDT)
    WOW!!!   The 5* dupe break up is awesome. This is very very happy news.  I can finally use these 3 roster slots for something else!!!  
    @Brigby am I reading this right? Does this mean if I have 18/13 covers of LumberCap I can request to trade the 5 into any JJ or Okoye covers? 

    Btw does LumberCap have to be max leveled first?
  • Bowgentle
    Bowgentle Posts: 7,926 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited June 2018
    Bzhai said:
    The rockett said:
    Brigby said:
    Update: For players that have a Latest Legends 5-Star character maxed out at level 550, we will still be offering cover exchanges from the maxed out Latest Legends character to another Latest Legends character. The same is true for if players have all 3 of their Latest Legends 5-Star characters maxed out, and wish to exchange their extra Latest Legend covers for any other character cover of their choice.

    In addition, we would like to offer all players a one-time exception service of breaking down duplicate 5-Star characters into their respective covers. This is not limited to a single character, however you must request all of your character breakdowns at the same time. This offer will have the same deadline as the Latest Legends Cover Exchange (June 27th at 11:59pm PDT)
    WOW!!!   The 5* dupe break up is awesome. This is very very happy news.  I can finally use these 3 roster slots for something else!!!  
    @Brigby am I reading this right? Does this mean if I have 18/13 covers of LumberCap I can request to trade the 5 into any JJ or Okoye covers? 

    Btw does LumberCap have to be max leveled first?


    If you have 18/13 you can trade in the covers to champion Cap until June 27.
    If your Cap is 550 you can trade these covers for another 5* cover.

    If your Cap is not championed, but you CAN champion him, you have to do it, you're not getting the covers changed to anything else.


    Edit:
    The forum software is a steaming pile of garbage.
    How can a simple quote function be so atrociously bad?

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