IceIX said: DeNappa said: All those fancy calculations here, but those still don't address the issue that essentially your shards are wasted once you pull the 13nd cover for a character. Yes, once you fill up the shards bar for the character they can still be used for a champion level, but I don't think anybody is going to leave their 'finished' characters set as bonus hero unless they have finished them all. Making them essentially going to waste.I liked the idea that somebody mentioned in this thread (sorry cba to look for the specific post): shards should go into a general pool so you can spend them on any character of that tier, but limit the application of Shard rank ups by 1 or 2 per week.@IceIX any feedback on wasted shards in the new system? Actually, a *ton* of players keep characters fav'd past Championing them to gain additional Champion levels specifically to farm rewards. Another batch keep Champed characters up there to get them max champed. For example, the number of players with Thanos and Dr. Strange favorited at the 3-star tier after Championing them is huge, despite "needing" covers for another character. This scales up to players Champing Grocket, C4rol, Juggs, Chavez, etc. at the 4-star tier. So, yes, given that people are using the Bonus Hero system for exactly that, it's very likely that they'll continue to use Shards for exactly the same thing.The idea of some kind of Wildcard Shard isn't a bad one. As pointed out in the thread elsewhere though, it also comes with some balancing downsides, some of which could be alleviated with usage restrictions, sure. It's something to keep in mind, and an example of valuable feedback that's come from this thread.As for the above "wasted" Shards thought, as stated above, this doesn't match with player play experience in the majority of situations. Players want to keep building characters past Champion for a number of reasons. And for those players that like keeping their characters evenly leveled, those Shards never go away, so they're never really wasted.
DeNappa said:
All those fancy calculations here, but those still don't address the issue that essentially your shards are wasted once you pull the 13nd cover for a character. Yes, once you fill up the shards bar for the character they can still be used for a champion level, but I don't think anybody is going to leave their 'finished' characters set as bonus hero unless they have finished them all. Making them essentially going to waste.I liked the idea that somebody mentioned in this thread (sorry cba to look for the specific post): shards should go into a general pool so you can spend them on any character of that tier, but limit the application of Shard rank ups by 1 or 2 per week.@IceIX any feedback on wasted shards in the new system?
Chrynos1989 said: @IceIX This might have been asked before, but I’m too lazy to read through 11 pages of comments, it’s 11pm where I live and I’m a jerk, but could you please tell me (and all the other guys), will shards only come from classic and latest legendary stores or also from special 5* stores and release stores?
IceIX said:JHawkInc said:My question to add to the pile would be about special LT stores, release stores, these special ones that come around for costumes, Fan Favorites, etc. Presumably they'd have Shards the same way Latest and Classic Legends tokens?No reason those bundles or stores couldn't have Shards, no.
JHawkInc said:My question to add to the pile would be about special LT stores, release stores, these special ones that come around for costumes, Fan Favorites, etc. Presumably they'd have Shards the same way Latest and Classic Legends tokens?
Projectus2501 said: No one was complaining about bh. Again a missed chance to add good game content..
While I can understand that there are players that use the bonus mechanics to actively chase levels for characters they already completed, I think there are also a lot of players (myself included) who use these systems to finish their roster/characters _in the first place_. Of course I have no numbers to back it up, but my feeling says the number of people who use it for the latter purpose may even be bigger, given the pace at which new characters are released and the amount of effort that is required to 'keep up'.
Therealsmkspy said: For all the posts, the summary is the fact that this new system would have been so much more better received if it wasn't replacing BHs rather than supplementing them.As it stands, meet the new boss, slightly worse than the old boss.Also the continued gaslighting of no feeders has become comical at this point. Like press secretary funny.
Vins2 said: Therealsmkspy said: For all the posts, the summary is the fact that this new system would have been so much more better received if it wasn't replacing BHs rather than supplementing them.As it stands, meet the new boss, slightly worse than the old boss.Also the continued gaslighting of no feeders has become comical at this point. Like press secretary funny. I'm holding onto my butt, I just know it'll be 5* feeder shards going forward. Getting a WHOLE cover at 280, 300, etc now seems like asking a lot.
HoundofShadow said: This reminds me of black-iso market in MCOC, where players can trade resources for other things. Unfortunately, players have to subscribe to VIP plan to access this. Are the players here fine with it?
Akroma said: Hello guys, sorry to ask, but its 12 pages i want to ask about feeders. as i dont understand (maybe is lost in translation plus using not so common words on the official icex posts haha)he said new feeders will have to wait? or that all champ rewards on 4* that grant 5* covers are gone?thanks
spidyjedi84 said: Akroma said: Hello guys, sorry to ask, but its 12 pages i want to ask about feeders. as i dont understand (maybe is lost in translation plus using not so common words on the official icex posts haha)he said new feeders will have to wait? or that all champ rewards on 4* that grant 5* covers are gone?thanks New feeders are on hold until this new feature has rolled out. No current feeders are impacted. Just don't expect announcements of new feeders until after Christmas holiday at the soonest would be my guess.