Mind Gem Season Updates (1/9/18)

Dogface said:

udonomefoo said:

mr_X said:

No buff to Doc Ock and Banner? They really need some help. No reworked 5s for a long time. 

Edit.Buffed probably means more boosted now. 

Doc Ock is a 5* Bag-man.  I don't even know if he is salvageable without them completely abandoning the entire concept of his green and I don't think they will do that.  

The only way to keep the concept and make him playable is to either lower the cost of his green or make his green countdown go faster

That gives me an idea. Two ideas. Somehow (in that I realize my idea doesn't have a lot to do with what you said, but still).

1) What if the countdown had a gradient of damage on the final phase, and did more damage the lower the countdown read? There would be benefit to trying to let it get as low as possible, but you wouldn't feel like it was a complete loss if it got matched at 3 or something.

2) What if it made multiple countdowns? Like, three or four of them, with a third or a fourth the stats (less damage and healing and green AP generated when matched, but added together about what he can down now). Might make it easier to have it survive to let you get them to the final phase. And you can match one or two of them to get the green AP, so you can use it to upgrade the remaining reactor, but in turn their on-board effects (the damage and healing) would be lessened. So you can speed it up, but there's some strategy involved. Match a few now to get some green AP to upgrade faster? Or try to upgrade first so they give more green AP when matched?

For an extra crazy idea, add a line of text to the phases on the reactor tiles, where matching one reduces friendly reactor tiles by 1. So each time you match a reactor it *actually* speeds up the process. But then you might want to combine it with my first idea, take away the instant win, and make it just deal a bunch of damage when the countdown reads 1 (because I think being able to start with several tiles, match the ones you can't protect on the board, and get green AP from them to speed up the process, might make the Final Phase way too easy to pull off, you know?)

JHawkInc said:

Dogface said:

udonomefoo said:

mr_X said:

No buff to Doc Ock and Banner? They really need some help. No reworked 5s for a long time. 

Edit.Buffed probably means more boosted now. 

Doc Ock is a 5* Bag-man.  I don't even know if he is salvageable without them completely abandoning the entire concept of his green and I don't think they will do that.  

The only way to keep the concept and make him playable is to either lower the cost of his green or make his green countdown go faster

That gives me an idea. Two ideas. Somehow (in that I realize my idea doesn't have a lot to do with what you said, but still).

1) What if the countdown had a gradient of damage on the final phase, and did more damage the lower the countdown read? There would be benefit to trying to let it get as low as possible, but you wouldn't feel like it was a complete loss if it got matched at 3 or something.

2) What if it made multiple countdowns? Like, three or four of them, with a third or a fourth the stats (less damage and healing and green AP generated when matched, but added together about what he can down now). Might make it easier to have it survive to let you get them to the final phase. And you can match one or two of them to get the green AP, so you can use it to upgrade the remaining reactor, but in turn their on-board effects (the damage and healing) would be lessened. So you can speed it up, but there's some strategy involved. Match a few now to get some green AP to upgrade faster? Or try to upgrade first so they give more green AP when matched?

For an extra crazy idea, add a line of text to the phases on the reactor tiles, where matching one reduces friendly reactor tiles by 1. So each time you match a reactor it *actually* speeds up the process. But then you might want to combine it with my first idea, take away the instant win, and make it just deal a bunch of damage when the countdown reads 1 (because I think being able to start with several tiles, match the ones you can't protect on the board, and get green AP from them to speed up the process, might make the Final Phase way too easy to pull off, you know?)

At least make the reactor tile one of those super-special tiles (Black Hole, Eye of Agamoto, etc) so it wouldn't just get overwritten by Gambit. It's still unlikely enough he'd survive for ten turns if there's an enemy Gambit around.

tiomono said:

Nick441234 said:

tiomono said:

Nick441234 said:

udonomefoo said:I

Jonny1Punch said:

What a monster slap in the face. No rebalances/buffs/5* champion feeders with the upcoming season ...... no nerf to god-mode gambit (rendering another season of unplayable staleness as mentioned above).  

Looks we have yet another lazy season where we all fight like crazy for weeks on end for a measly heroic pack that usually yields mostly 2*. We give this game gold and we get peanuts in return.

I have never seen such an expensive, time consuming game give back so little in return. Not to mention all the bugs & glitches left untouched too. Woof.

#NerfGambitAlready

The people who flagged this for "abuse" need to have their flagging privileges revoked.

The flagging feature on this site is a joke. People flag just because they dont agree with someones opinion. 

Or they flag because someone blows something massively out of proportion by calling a free to play game expensive, and saying the developers have monster slapped the players because they dared to not change some characters this season.

Why is it the forums require us to respect other forum users but it's apparently ok to disrespect the devs all you want?

But they are still entitled to express that opinion. Just cause others disagree with it, does not make it worthy of flagging. 

They could choose to flag peoples posts who defend the developers, is that acceptable too? No, because the people who defend them are entitled to that opinion also. 

Yes people are entitled to their opinions. But that does not automatically give people the right to overreact, exaggerate, or just flat out lie, while disrespecting someone. Devs included.

Am I disappointed there are no reworks this season? Yes. Does Gambit not getting changed make the game "unplayable"? Nope. Do I have to shovel money into this game to play it? Nope.

There are reasonable ways to express an opinion without dropping to the floor like an upset toddler and screaming.

But again, this is your opinion. They may not feel their reaction is an overreaction. They may not feel its exaggerated. They may feel how they are reacting is perfectly fine. They are still entitled to express that opinion. 

People could argue that the folk flagging posts just because they think they are wrong are dropping to the floor like an upset toddler and screaming. 

No, because, as I said, you are entitled to express your opinion just as they are. 

What isn't acceptable is flagging posts as spam and abuse just because people disagree with them. Thats childish.