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My favorite thing about DNA is that he does all of this for fun, dude’s a legend

Update:

Well here we are. As I write this we're at 5.144 billion points, just under the final tally for 2024 banquet which was 5,211,458,750 points. There's no question we're going to blow past that, the question now is where we will end up. We've uncovered the milestones up to 33, and we'll probably unlock the next set later today. The milestones were paced every 82 million points, but higher up they are now popping out every 81 million points, except for milestone 33 which is only 16 million points higher than milestone 32. There is a general trend where milestones are coming out very very very slightly quicker over time, but there are occasional milestones that seem to be the exception for whatever reason, making exact predictions difficult (this is probably by design, as the devs spare no expense to make it as difficult as possible for me to analyze anything: cf: Adaptive EQ).

But let's set aside the exceptions for the moment. We see that no matter how much higher the milestones are, they still seem to be requiring 480 more solo points to qualify for them. So let's assume future milestones are going to be paced about 80 million points apart, and require 480 points more to qualify for them. How much higher are we likely to go?

We scored about 285 million on December 25th. Last year December 25th was higher than it was for the rest of the days, but not wildly so. The Christmas bump was about 15% over what the next several days averaged, and the last week was relatively steady in sustained points. So let's assume that the second week of 2025 follows a similar pattern, and we average about 250 million points per day for the last seven days. That would generate 1.75 billion points and land us at about 6.9 billion points.

6.9 billion points would roughly correspond to milestone 54. The solo qualifying points required to unlock that milestone would be 41280 points.

If we now look at those exceptional milestones, we've seen these exceptional milestones (milestones that appear in between the predictable milestones spaced about 80 million apart) at milestone 19, 26, and 33. If we assume these "extra" milestones pop up every 7 milestones or so, we'd expect between milestone 33 and 54 to see about three more, which means 6.9 billion will actually reach milestone 57 or 58. That would correspond to a solo qualifying score of 42720 or 43200.

Whether we follow the 2024 trend or not is anyone's guess, but I'd say we're essentially a lock at this point for 6 billion and still well on our way to reach my original prediction of 6.2 to 6.3 billion. The current trend implies just under 7 billion, but we'll need to see how the next week of scoring goes. The stretch milestones seem to be a lot more enticing than last year, but the degree to which they can encourage players to push for more crystals or spend more money is an open question. My suspicion is this is less players blowing open their credit cards and more players deciding to leave less units in their pockets and go all out now, whereas last year I believe they held on to more of their unit stashes last year. But of course there is likely also more spending going on than last year as well, because as sentiment goes and as willingness to spend unit stashes goes, so does the motivation to spend real money.

I still don’t have a Kate.

Yes I did. Funny enough I wrote this year the first time, but this **** forum captured one of the letters I wrote only, and I wrote that when I had to edit lol

She was "honorary wakanandan"..she was married to T'Challa and was the Queen of Wakanda

She is/was legally wakandan having married T'Challa and thus being the queen of the country for a bit.

Dear Kabam -

Please retrieve the OP’s gift, send it to me (I will be more grateful), and send him a lump of coal.

Tx

No, they don't lower drop rates for Banquet.