MPQ Developer Q&A August 2024 (QUESTIONS)

Pylgrim

Have you considered at all revisiting the sweet Taco vault in light of the new seasonal vaults? The SVs give three 5s, a whole bunch of of 4s and many other neat prizes for a sustained but focused effort over one month.

The sweet taco vault only has three 4*s and takes months to empty, and is chock-full of chaff. Sometimes it almost feel as though the prizes are not even worthy the absurd amount of tapping you need to do.

Bzhai

Why aren't the latest 3-stars getting featured in events as often as their 5-star counterparts?

Dilution among 3-stars is becoming a problem and the low bonus rate for heroic and standard tokens are not helping either.

bluewolf

@Bzhai said:
Why aren't the latest 3-stars getting featured in events as often as their 5-star counterparts?

Dilution among 3-stars is becoming a problem and the low bonus rate for heroic and standard tokens are not helping either.

Well. Because the game’s approach to lower tiers is “you need to roster all of them” and featuring newer ones more often makes that a less compelling argument.

In the 5 tier they are still supposed to be rarer and relatively harder to get so letting someone access more nodes by rostering the newest ones is a nice trade off for chasing them, and creates a compelling case for rostering new ones (can’t just coast on existing meta and compete as well, you need bigger new ones). While each older, harder to get 5 is only required about once every 135ish weeks.

Whereas for 3s they are trying to make a strong case to absolutely roster every one by maximizing the frequency each one is required in pve.

That said the number of 3s is getting quite large and so if you didn’t roster one of them you’d miss pve nodes once every 40 weeks and one DDQ cover every 70 days.

They really should create more access to 3* covers.

_TrashPanda

Can you please add:
(1) Ability to move saved team order "higher/ lower" without having to delete all saved teams and resale them if want to change team order.
(2) Ability to save specific supports to saved teams.
(3) If saved team is a pick 3 but node is a pick 2, should still be able to click the pick 3 team and it have the featured character overwrite the middle character of the pick 3 saved team.

slidecage

Will you ever make a way to make up tokens you may of missed for the monthly store

say if your sick for a day or can log in or dont get the mission done.

im going to have like 68 tokens this month due to missing 2 i couldnt do

LavaManLee

@slidecage said:
Will you ever make a way to make up tokens you may of missed for the monthly store

say if your sick for a day or can log in or dont get the mission done.

im going to have like 68 tokens this month due to missing 2 i couldnt do

FYI, they already do. You have to pay for them but they do offer a way to make up tokens.

Zifnab0

Will there ever be any changes or updates to Lightning Rounds? Like changing the required characters, a different buff list, or adjusting the current buff? The featured 3's receive a 50% buff, ascended those 3.5's at level 550 are buffed to 825.

will7612

@tesmlion said:
There are a lot of dead alliances in this game. Could you create a way to kill dead alliances when the founder has left the game? Alternatively, could another player take control of an alliance once a founder has left the game for a given length of time?

How many alliances are currently "live"?; how many new players happen monthly?

bluewolf

The just-finished season had 10,403 alliances in the rankings. I didn't record July's but this one was more than May or June had, but all had over 10,000. (however, a lot of those aren't full with 20 members.)

So presumably that is close to the total current number, or approaches it....hard to know for sure but I think most alliances that are active have at least one player who does some PVP at some point during a season. Maybe there are some very small ones that have people who only play PVE in them.

Note that I estimate about 45-50K people play any given PVE based on comments in the past about where people play (which SCL) and the players recording flips in SCL10.

Pwuz_

I’m enjoying the addition of Supports in PvP, but it sure would be nice to know which of my teams retaliations were coming from. Is there anyway to also show what my team was the opponent defeated to get into my retaliation queue?

Could be a separate pop-up, or perhaps a cool shadow effect behind the currently selected team with a sparkle or something to indicate they match my old team the opposing team defeated. I also think it’d be nice to know what boosts they may have used too.

MgoBlue51

Similar to a previous question... Every boss event is the same, just with different enemies. The only one that was different (besides the awful quandary event) was the sinister 6, and even that was small. I admit, I have no ideas yet for a better event. But something different besides "fight side node, fight boss, fight different side node... Repeat, then wait hours" would be nice

Cam30

Will Boss Rush ever return to the game? Now that we have an abundance of 5 stars in the game and ascended champs, a lot more players should be able to participate.

Zalasta

Day 3254 and my biggest issue is lack of ISO. With new 3/5, 4, 2 stars being released, plus ascension, the need for ISO has increased significantly without a corresponding increase in supply. Are there any plans to address this outside of store offerings for cash?

tesmlion

There was the point in the game where I had ISO but I didn't know what to do with so I bought resources everyday and used booze all the time and then all of a sudden I needed ISO. I think they raised how much it cost two champ these characters. I have three five stars waiting to be jammed but I have less than 100,000 ISO. 1.5 million is what I need just for those three

ThisisClemFandango

Booze...?

tesmlion

Yes I saw my typo and I thought it was funny so I left it. I think you know I meant boost.

turtlerad17

Can you put the number of completed clears visibly on the PVE nodes while on the current PVE round map? This way we don’t have to click on each individual node to check how many clears we have done and potentially miss some of the clears

Waddles_Pines

Can you please stop doing daily quests with two affiliations required? Take for example today: enhanced villains. Filter only lets you use one term, so then you have to scroll through the list and either know a character is the other tag, or you have to click on each....

DashBC

Is it possible to improve game load times? I've been using the same Android tablet for a few years, and the game is getting progressively longer to load, to the point where the screen is nearly timing out on the load sequence.

And it's unlikely it's the tablet, haven't noticed any other app slowdowns. Thanks!

slidecage

@LavaManLee said:

@slidecage said:
Will you ever make a way to make up tokens you may of missed for the monthly store

say if your sick for a day or can log in or dont get the mission done.

im going to have like 68 tokens this month due to missing 2 i couldnt do

FYI, they already do. You have to pay for them but they do offer a way to make up tokens.

Sorry but won't pay for something that should been free if the system was set up right so if something comes up and can't play for x days. If you now want item pay for it... Pass and just keeps me from giving this game anymore cash

If they want make weekly longer but if you ask me daily should only be

Make 20 color matched
Win 15 missions

None of this make 50 matches of strongest color and it's worse if you have to use someone

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