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The big problem I have with the AI analysis is that it compares Essentia to Radiance, but you can't do that using the price of anything. The problem is that the other currencies - Glory, Artifacts, Loyalty, and Tokens - are directly convertible into Essentia. Whether you use Glory or convert the Glory into Essentia and then spend that, the player earns the same amount of Glory either way (or rather, earned). However, there is no conversion between Essentia and Radiance. Radiance can be just as easy for a player to earn, or it can be incredibly difficult for them to earn. I would never, in general, recommend to a player to buy anything in the Radiance store they could also buy in the Essentia store, unless they were a player with a huge influx of Radiance. And that's not most players.

The AI (probably) gets the math correct, but it makes a mistake I've seen players also make: thinking economic equivalences are transitive. In fact, without a normalized source for both currencies, it is not legitimate to compare them. More simply: the AI says if a T7 cost this much Essentia and that much Radiance, then those two amounts of currency can be considered equally valuable. But that's not true because the trades are only one way. You can convert Essentia into T7 and Radiance into T7, but you cannot convert T7 into either currency.

I think it would be more obvious to players by way of example. Remember that 2000 unit 4* crystal the game used to sell to players? I don't know if that pop up offer still comes up these days, but suppose it does. You can also get 4* crystals from the Mysterium store for 120 Mysterium. Therefore, 120 Mysterium = 2000 units. A 5* Nexus costs 200 Mysterium. 200 Mysterium = 2000 / 120 * 200 = 3333 units. So if you see an offer for 5* crystal that costs only 1000 units, that's the better deal, right?

Clearly not. One-way deals are not necessarily, or even intended to be, symmetric. The Radiance cost of a T7 depends on how hard Radiance is to get, and what the relative value of a T7 is within that context. The Essentia cost of a T7 depends on completely different Essentia economy factors that completely ignore the Radiance economy, because there's no equivalence between the Essentia economy and the Radiance one. In fact, that's the reason Essentia and Radiance exist - specifically to allow those two economies to be independently balanced with no regard for what things cost between them.

I looked at three comparison points between Glory and Essentia previously: that analysis is here:

That analysis seems to agree with the AI analysis when it comes to T2 Alpha. For T6B, kinda. Looking at the price curves (see the analysis) the Glory store is cheaper initially, and the break even point sits at about 2 full catalysts. The Glory store discount is small, and some players might say it is negligible, but it does exist and the AI should have recommended buying low quantities from the Glory store first, or at least acknowledged the edge was small but existent. The last thing I looked at was T4CC, which the AI did not analyze.

Always be careful when trusting AI, because AI often doesn't apply the right context to math. This is a problem humans have as well, so it is no surprise that humans do not always prompt AI precisely with quantitative questions, and the AI itself sometimes makes the same mistakes that people make in its training data.

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What’s concerning here isn’t just the “not listening to feedback” comments, it’s the fact that you guys keep making decisions that simply scream “we don’t know our playerbase” which at this point is starting to become incredibly annoying and tiring. Whoever thought paywalling ascensions for new champs was a good idea definitely takes the cake when it comes to those horrible decisions, and setting a cap on essentia would absolutely be another one just off the top of my head.

With all due respect, there have been about 5 CCP members who left saying the same thing. If it was 1 or 2 guys, sure I'd believe that. But this appears to be a pattern of Kabam not valuing the opinion of people they put in the position to help the game grow and be better.

Yes please kabam ruin the new fun thing by making it a longer slog

What part of you dont meet the criteria do you not understand? It doesnt matter if your an hour short or 3 days short. You missed out. Get over it.

If miike or Jax were still here there'd be a few bans going out.

As Elsa once said, Let it go

Youre so lucky Miike doesnt work here anymore. That's all I'll say