PiMacleod said: I think they need a new permanent store... or something akin to it. A new place to spend Heroic tokens. Remember when they started Elite tokens? That used to NOT be a thing. But it is now, and it's nice.So how about a new type of heroic token store? Have it accept heroic tokens just like the current one does. Have the new store keep only the earliest half of 4*s (and of course all 3*s and 2*s)... and the current / regular store keeps just the newest half of all 4*s (and all 3*s and 2*s).This way, the player chooses where to spend them, thus trying to aim for a character gets a little easier. Honestly, you could put out multiple types of these... put out 4 of these stores if you want - each one focuses on one quarter of the 4*s. But the key is to make sure they all accept heroic tokens, so that the player can choose where they spend their resources. Just a thought. Obviously change percentages and numbers and whatnot to fit better... you get the idea.
jgomes32 said: Character dilution and Iso will kill the game. It's just too much to catch up this point. It will either cost a lot of money or take too long to get anywhere. I wouldn't start today and definitely don't recommend the game. The above has been my response to the in'-game survey for years now. But hey, we have character skins now...
brontag1 said: Just an idle thought.. maybe the problem with having so many characters and this dilution issue is to change the game a bit. A few things that would really help come to mind.. 1) up the BH chance, 2) let us mark characters as 'retired'.. that way any character the player marks as 'retired' will not be able to be pulled from a vault, and 3) don't make the battle requirements so stiff.. instead of requiring a specific character, change the requirements to things like 'must be an avenger', must be 3 villains, etc.. that way we can concentrate more on the roster we want and let the characters we don't like slide a bit.
pheregas said: I don't know why we just don't have weekly featured list of characters in tokens. Just pop 10 - 15 Four stars in tokens and change those Four stars weekly.
tupacboy said: here's my ramble.... sorry typing this while my daughter naps... my apologies ahead of time if this is kind of a cluster f*ck.i'm on day 390... spent about $45 on this game... i have all 3 star champed, 2- 4star champed and am 8 slots away from rostering all 4 stars.i'm struggling to stay positive about 4 star land but its much harder now then when i started this game.i pulled over 1200 heroics when i got to 4 star land (stashed them all since starting because i wanted optimal chances once i got to 4 star land) and clearly that was not enough to champ even 1 4 star.I've hoarded 3000 cp and about 74 LL as of now. The reason I don't pull is like others I think the path to just save to about 350 pulls and going to 5 star land makes more sense. You hope for kitty just so you can compete more in both PVP and PVE. .. you figure i'm basically 1/2 way there and thats with factoring the first 3 months or so I basically didn't add anything to CP nor LL.... seems like a better idea to hoard for another 7-8 months then pulling all and hoping for 4-5 fully covered 4 stars... and then still needing to save for 7-8 months from there to get close to 300 pulls again... PVE is tough because you have to be on the clock constantly and even then you don't have the 5 star to place in scl7, not to mention all the 5 star players that take all the top 10 spots. You play scl7 basically for progression only at my stage cause at least it guarantees you 1 4 star cover. PVP is tough because everybody basically has gritty and you really can't do enough damage to compete, so you strive to get 575 just for the cp.one idea maybe is 5cp for a 4 star pull... even then you need 1040 pulls or 5200 cp with perfect coverage to achieve championing all 4 stars... seems crazy still... 5200 cp give or take earning 150 cp a week = 35 weeks... and that's with perfect pulls... oyi...Another thought is more boss events where its not as time sensitive as PVE... you get 3 covers and a LL if you do full progression and you're in a decent alliance. But even then... that's just 4 covers.... even if we had 1 event a week... that's a total of 208 covers a year... not sure what's a good solution... but knowing they'll probably add more an more 4 starts moving forward... something hopefully done soon because i'm getting bored of the struggle and basically sucking...
AlexR said: DeNappa said: Pongie said: The solution is to completely skip the 4* tier. Hoard your latest tokens and command points to jump directly to 5* tier with 3 latest (hopefully 3 that are good enough). The 4* tier is just for essentials, champion rewards and feeders to 5*s. This is what I was thinking as well. If you're not a veteran, and at the end of 3* play, you might be better off hoarding CP and then pulling from 5* stores that feature a good trio of 5* characters. (With dilution also slowly marching on in 5* tier, going classic legends is probably not a good idea). I disagree with that. The initial hoarding for those 5* will take you longer anyway than it "normally" takes for 4-5* transition, because when skipping the 4* tier you're missing out on LTs from champing 4s and get significantly less LTs from Crashs since you're not pulling to cover your 4* as you're hoarding for those 5*. Also, no cp from 4* champ rewards. So, less ressources = hoarding for those 5* will take longer than usual. Second, even more important-- what's the point? If you skip the 4* tier - which as mentioned will also take a good while - congratulations, you've successfully skipped the most fun and varied stage of the game and you will now be stuck with those 3x latest 5* for a long time. You have no boosted 4*s to get some variety in there. And no feeders champed either, so no help with helping your 5* from there. Hope you like playing those three 5*s, because you just completely locked yourself into them until you cover new 5* from scratch. I champed my first 4* about this time last year (spring of 2018), so while I didn't have the level of dilution 3-4* transitioners have now, it was already not pretty. I'm now comfortably in mid-4* land. The sheer variety of characters you can play around with and make teams with is the best experience I've had with the game. Dilution does need a fix or work-around, but skipping the most varied part of the game can't be it, that's a terrible and unfun solution.
DeNappa said: Pongie said: The solution is to completely skip the 4* tier. Hoard your latest tokens and command points to jump directly to 5* tier with 3 latest (hopefully 3 that are good enough). The 4* tier is just for essentials, champion rewards and feeders to 5*s. This is what I was thinking as well. If you're not a veteran, and at the end of 3* play, you might be better off hoarding CP and then pulling from 5* stores that feature a good trio of 5* characters. (With dilution also slowly marching on in 5* tier, going classic legends is probably not a good idea).
Pongie said: The solution is to completely skip the 4* tier. Hoard your latest tokens and command points to jump directly to 5* tier with 3 latest (hopefully 3 that are good enough). The 4* tier is just for essentials, champion rewards and feeders to 5*s.
Pongie said: AlexR said: DeNappa said: Pongie said: The solution is to completely skip the 4* tier. Hoard your latest tokens and command points to jump directly to 5* tier with 3 latest (hopefully 3 that are good enough). The 4* tier is just for essentials, champion rewards and feeders to 5*s. This is what I was thinking as well. If you're not a veteran, and at the end of 3* play, you might be better off hoarding CP and then pulling from 5* stores that feature a good trio of 5* characters. (With dilution also slowly marching on in 5* tier, going classic legends is probably not a good idea). I disagree with that. The initial hoarding for those 5* will take you longer anyway than it "normally" takes for 4-5* transition, because when skipping the 4* tier you're missing out on LTs from champing 4s and get significantly less LTs from Crashs since you're not pulling to cover your 4* as you're hoarding for those 5*. Also, no cp from 4* champ rewards. So, less ressources = hoarding for those 5* will take longer than usual. Second, even more important-- what's the point? If you skip the 4* tier - which as mentioned will also take a good while - congratulations, you've successfully skipped the most fun and varied stage of the game and you will now be stuck with those 3x latest 5* for a long time. You have no boosted 4*s to get some variety in there. And no feeders champed either, so no help with helping your 5* from there. Hope you like playing those three 5*s, because you just completely locked yourself into them until you cover new 5* from scratch. I champed my first 4* about this time last year (spring of 2018), so while I didn't have the level of dilution 3-4* transitioners have now, it was already not pretty. I'm now comfortably in mid-4* land. The sheer variety of characters you can play around with and make teams with is the best experience I've had with the game. Dilution does need a fix or work-around, but skipping the most varied part of the game can't be it, that's a terrible and unfun solution. Skipping the 4* tier doesn’t mean completely ignoring it. It just means don’t bother chasing to collect and champion all 4*s. If roster slot is the main issue while you are in 3* tier, you could also hoard heroic and event tokens as well. What you don’t open now may delay your progress, but it also prevent wasting covers due to roster slot. Keep farming 2*s and dabble into pvp to earn those HP for more roster slots. Once you can afford one, you pull some of those heroic or event tokens till you can no longer roster anymore and back to hoarding. When you hit the 300 pulls of latest/command points, start deciding if the 3 latest 5*s are what you want to jump into the tier with. Maybe check out the special store for alternatives, just bear in mind later tokens doesn’t count towards the ~350 pulls, and remember to save HPfor the 3 additional roster slots too.
Palookaville said: Can't there just be a vault/option to use CPs and all you can get is a random 5* (say 50 cps or 100cps per pull)