Heroes For Hire: It's Us Deadpool (8-25 to 8-29)

Hyzen

$19.99 8x value! This is the best deal I have seen so far. Been playing for 2 weeks. Is it worth it?

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Hyzen

Some rambling... 
What is this game with having such tight roster slots vs card covers?!? Are you f kidding me? How the hell am I supposed to come up with 500 gold coins for 3 roster spots, but have 20 different card covers waiting? Maybe a little help here. I am getting barely any gold coins a day. Currently unemployed and playing this game like Armageddon is going to come crashing down to earth in the next day. How much do these roster spots cost? Do they keep going up 100 gold coins per 3 roster spots? This is madness as a f2p looking to spend some money later down the road, but already being forced to purchase gold coins for roster spots. This 'Heroes For Hire' $20 deal is better than the stores $20 for 2900 'Logan's Loonies' deal for gold coins. Is this my big ticket. Don't want all these 2*, 3*, and even some 4* that I mistakenly have ticking on me to go to waste. I'm actually quite stressed into how much money this game might require. I'm down to make a monetary commitment every month for the VIP and get cool stuff. Already sucked in by that. But holy hell. This game is a money sucker from the looks of it. On a positive community note, love all the action on the forums and Reddit. Lastly, 2 week roster after hours and joining a top 2000 okay alliance. https://mpq.gamependium.com/rosters/Hyzen/ You unfortunately can't see all the dm covers I am holding onto in the back ready to be recruited.

helix72

Interesting that this offer hasn’t shown up for me. Did you buy an earlier offer to trigger this one?

HoundofShadow

If you've been to Reddit, I'm sure that they will point you to the beginner's guide. Anyway, the guideline is:

Don't open tokens if you don't have roster slots for them.

The roster gold or hero points needed will reach 1000HP per slot until the 299th or 300th slot?

Given that Hero Points are their main source of income, this is where you see the gap or pain that you are experiencing. That's why the rule above is a counter to the pain that you are facing.

When your 2* teams are good, you can ditch all your 1* except 1* Juggernaut or Spidey.

As for that deal, it is decent. The "best value for money" bundles are usually those tied to your Shield Ranking.

bluewolf

helix72 said:

Interesting that this offer hasn’t shown up for me. Did you buy an earlier offer to trigger this one?

That bundle is one that was offered to players about a year ago as part of the chain bundle (it triggered the rest of the chain).

As best as I can tell, there is a trigger at some point that shows that offer to new players.  If they buy it the rest of the chain will appear to them.

That bundle and the other SCL bundles are - if you are interested in spending money and can afford it - a good way to add HP and covers.  I bought that Deadpool bundle when it was offered, partly for the Chimi which is still useful (on Rocket for fortification).

The roster slot cost hits 1000 at 77 slots, at 300 it goes up to 2000.  There's a chart on the link below (as well as lots of other information).

https://marvelpuzzlequest.fandom.com/wiki/Recruiting_Heroes

I'm not sure if the game qualifies as a "money sucker" although it'll toss you a lot of bundles in the chain that will add up quickly if you keep buying them.  If you keep opening tokens (as the game really wants you to do) you will be facing a nearly constant need for roster slots.  As suggested, you need to either open less tokens or feel the pressure to roster or sell them.  

There are 193 characters in the game.

8 1's (only one needed once you're established in 2 land)
14 2's (but Bagman is limited and skippable)
47 3's
87 4's (4 Limited)
37 5's

On the other hand, not opening tokens means you won't advance your roster.  Anyway, this is the way the game tries to convince you to spend money, and is part of the implicit agreement when playing a FTP game....that you will be able to play without spending up front but the game will look for you to fund it.  People say this game is gentler in that regard than a lot of others, but there certainly are many games you can pick up and play the whole thing for the cost of one month of VIP (or less).

I do think things are harder on new players now vs before, since there are so many more characters to roster - the mountain is large and it goes up every 2 weeks - and the fact that there is no dilution reduction mechanic in place any more (there used to be a weighting of which 4's you get until about 14 months ago).

Only you can decide whether it's worth it to join a 6 year old game and try to sort-of catch up by rostering everyone, or mostly everyone, eventually.  The core mechanics are still solid and the game is fun, but there could be a lot of frustration ahead.