pheregas said: TLDR: A 5:1 exchange rate is way too high. At max it should be 2:1 because even at pulling one LT a day, you'll rarely ever champ a 5* ever again at 5:1. Even a long time vet with a full roster won't be able to champ any more 5s without extreme RNG luck.
Bowgentle said: pheregas said: TLDR: A 5:1 exchange rate is way too high. At max it should be 2:1 because even at pulling one LT a day, you'll rarely ever champ a 5* ever again at 5:1. Even a long time vet with a full roster won't be able to champ any more 5s without extreme RNG luck. A long time vet with a full roster is making WAY more than 1 LT pull per day, though - more like 4-5.
bluewolf said: This isn't meant to be conspiratorial but just an honest question. Would the average player feel better if they knew swaps exist for super whales but not anyone else? Like, imagine you have a 0/5/1 Okoye and pull 6 Yellows after that. Does it make you feel better or worse to know that some guy who spends a ton can just swap his covers? Maybe you're OK with it, others would be mad.I wouldn't be surprised if 550 dudes can still get swaps. It makes good business sense.
pheregas said: If I can summarize, I think many people would be on-board with this if it weren't for the 5:1 ratio. Especially in the 5* tier.Let me give some real personal numbers. For background, I'm day 1563. I basically operate F2P anymore, though I have taken advantage of some of the clearance level bundles. I have every single 3* champed (and only 4 away from all max champed.) I have all but Black Widow, CW: Spidey, and Wiccan champed in the 4* tier. I have all but 8 of the 5*s champed (3 of which are currently in latest). So between placement, progression, and champ rewards, I earn about 1 Latest LT a day. I very rarely hoard (only ever did it twice, and never more than two weeks). I've only ever had four 5* Bonus Heroes so using that for this system is not really a viable option. (I know this isn't the same for all players, and that I may be an outlier, but keep reading because if things aren't going to work out for me, who are they going to work out for?)Given all this, let me tell you how my non-feeder 5s are setup.In no particular order:Ghost Rider lvl 451 - two swaps from CSArchangel lvl 456 - two swapsGambit lvl 456 - two swapsPP Spidey (prefeeder) 453 - two swapsStar Lord (prefeeder) 453 - two swapsThor lvl 454 - two swapsDoc Oc (prefeeder) 450 - one swapThat's 7 characters with a total 10 swaps that Customer Service had to deal with. I can see why they wouldn't want to be burdened with so much.But lets look closer... I never cash in classic tokens. Which means that of the above, in the timeframe for which they were available in latest tokens, I was able to successfully get more than 5 covers exactly twice.Had the 5:1 ratio existed back then, I would not have been able to champ any of those characters. For each duplicate cover pull, you now need 5 pulls to offset it. I would have had to pull 4 more covers of either Archangel or Gambit to even champ them.My highest 5* (Thanos) is 462 and OML (460). Those were the days before massive 5* dilution and both now have feeders. TLDR: A 5:1 exchange rate is way too high. At max it should be 2:1 because even at pulling one LT a day, you'll rarely ever champ a 5* ever again at 5:1. Even a long time vet with a full roster won't be able to champ any more 5s without extreme RNG luck.
PenniesForEveryone said: pheregas said: If I can summarize, I think many people would be on-board with this if it weren't for the 5:1 ratio. Especially in the 5* tier.Let me give some real personal numbers. For background, I'm day 1563. I basically operate F2P anymore, though I have taken advantage of some of the clearance level bundles. I have every single 3* champed (and only 4 away from all max champed.) I have all but Black Widow, CW: Spidey, and Wiccan champed in the 4* tier. I have all but 8 of the 5*s champed (3 of which are currently in latest). So between placement, progression, and champ rewards, I earn about 1 Latest LT a day. I very rarely hoard (only ever did it twice, and never more than two weeks). I've only ever had four 5* Bonus Heroes so using that for this system is not really a viable option. (I know this isn't the same for all players, and that I may be an outlier, but keep reading because if things aren't going to work out for me, who are they going to work out for?)Given all this, let me tell you how my non-feeder 5s are setup.In no particular order:Ghost Rider lvl 451 - two swaps from CSArchangel lvl 456 - two swapsGambit lvl 456 - two swapsPP Spidey (prefeeder) 453 - two swapsStar Lord (prefeeder) 453 - two swapsThor lvl 454 - two swapsDoc Oc (prefeeder) 450 - one swapThat's 7 characters with a total 10 swaps that Customer Service had to deal with. I can see why they wouldn't want to be burdened with so much.But lets look closer... I never cash in classic tokens. Which means that of the above, in the timeframe for which they were available in latest tokens, I was able to successfully get more than 5 covers exactly twice.Had the 5:1 ratio existed back then, I would not have been able to champ any of those characters. For each duplicate cover pull, you now need 5 pulls to offset it. I would have had to pull 4 more covers of either Archangel or Gambit to even champ them.My highest 5* (Thanos) is 462 and OML (460). Those were the days before massive 5* dilution and both now have feeders. TLDR: A 5:1 exchange rate is way too high. At max it should be 2:1 because even at pulling one LT a day, you'll rarely ever champ a 5* ever again at 5:1. Even a long time vet with a full roster won't be able to champ any more 5s without extreme RNG luck. Time out, let's look at this a little closer......AA, Gambit, Spidey, SL, and Thor all got 2 swaps, but are also all at 454 or higher, or now have a feeder. So if you hadn't been able to get those swaps, and had to bank them......you still would have likely pulled the covers you needed, champed, and be at the same 454+ that you are at today. Only Ock and GR would still be unchamped - both finished with a feeder eventually.Stop thinking of 5:1 being the replacement exchange rate for the old 1:1 swaps - you likely won't ever use that. Instead it's just going to take you a little longer to champ the Latest 5*s.To be clear - for Latest tokens this is absolutely unquestionably worse than the previous swap system......but it's not 5:1 worse for the vast majority of us that haven't been completely obliterated by RNG. And for the 150 other characters that aren't the 3 latest ones this new system is infinitely better than what we had before. I think I'm OK having the 3 latest characters take a little longer to champ if it means a benefit to the 150 other characters on my roster......
HoundofShadow said: Assuming that 5:1 has been turned into 1:1 or 2:1, this will lead to complaints about lack of iso-8 to champed characters in time, thus covers getting wasted, which render Saved Covers useless to that group of players. Ultimately, it will be back to colourless cover or unusable covers with no expiry date plus at least 50-100% increase in Iso-8 earnings per day.End of the day, it's all about:1) more Iso-8 and 2) covers that don't expire or colourless covers that don't expireThat will make the players happy and not spend a single penny anymore.
Player1575 said: I feel like the only thing more controversial than losing 1:1 LL swaps would be if they finally nerfed gambit, so I'm assuming that's the next step for the devs at this point.
broll said: Toweliesox said: I never ever post complaints about this game but here we go. 1. 5 covers for 1!!!!!! You have literally now just forced people to mass pull before the deadline, and then forced everyone to hoard until they have 0 over the latest 5*'s or have champs they dont mind increasing. 2. Why don't you just do colourless for latest?! Then you keep everyone happy, and make it so nobody is contacting CS! I do not understand why you guys do this......it's so god damn frustrating. 1. They did nothing of the sort. I and many many other won't be mass pulling from Latest before the deadline. In fact I'm actually thrilled to do a mass pull from Classics as soon as the new system comes into play. The mindset of focusing on Latest is instilled into people, but there's no requirement to stick to it. I suspect there will be a lot of people that will focus more heavily on Classics vs Latest and feel less need to hoard than ever before. I sure do.2. Anyone who thought colorless covers was ever going to happen was dilution. Everyone would have been happy for a month until they either undid the system or closed down the game because they could no longer actually make money. Cover stress forcing sales is a larger driver of how the game stays in business. The fact that this is only 5:1, you get the extra champ levels if you don't trade them, and that there's no HP, ISO, or CP cost to us it is WAAAYY more generous than I expected.You understand because you're not seeing it from both sides.
Toweliesox said: I never ever post complaints about this game but here we go. 1. 5 covers for 1!!!!!! You have literally now just forced people to mass pull before the deadline, and then forced everyone to hoard until they have 0 over the latest 5*'s or have champs they dont mind increasing. 2. Why don't you just do colourless for latest?! Then you keep everyone happy, and make it so nobody is contacting CS! I do not understand why you guys do this......it's so god damn frustrating.
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) Just 5s or 4s as well?
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)