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Also, food for thought. We’re now entering the realm of milestones higher than what we scored last year. Of course, Kabam would probably hope the banquet this year would be more engaging, and thus score more points, but when these rewards were sketched out there was no way to know if, and how much, higher we would go. There’s a lot of good rewards between 4.2 and 5.2 billion, the high end of where we ended up in 2024. Kabam could have swapped up some of those rewards, put some of those rewards in milestones 34 through 37 and swapped the Titan shards down into the lower rewards, so there wasn’t this “lull” in the rewards above milestone 33 and 5.2 billion points.

But that would mean taking some of those juicy rewards and moving them to positions higher than we reached in 2024, which means there would be a possibility we would never reach them. By placing them lower and keeping the stretch of Titan shards higher, it was far more likely we would reach them, and also a significantly larger number of players would qualify for them. Milestone 33 requires 31200 points and milestone 37 requires 33120 points. Using 2024 as a guide, my guess is the difference between those two is about 2-3 thousand players in rank. In other words, there are a few thousand players out there that would be much happier with the current reward configuration compared to the one that paced these rewards out differently.

We’re going to hit all of these rewards either way. Given the current data, it’s all but guaranteed. So for those of us that have enough points to qualify for them, the order doesn’t really matter. For those of us that don’t have enough points to even reach these milestones, it also doesn’t matter. And for the players who are landing right in the middle of these milestones and for whom the order does matter a great deal, they are coming out ahead.

Nobody loses, some people win. I’d say we should try to keep some perspective here before getting too down on these milestones. Sometimes front loading can look disappointing when we pass the front loaded area. But we should keep in mind that front loading that looks boring to us is helping thousands of our fellow players, and hurting us not at all. Let a few more of them snag those rewards: we can take a short stretch of Titan shards while we wait for higher milestones. To me, the small price to some of us is worth it.

Yeah anyone acting like a 2025 selector with the Hearts of Fire champs in it isn’t going to be motivating for like 90% of the player base is just not in touch with reality. The Titan shards are just filler yes but I’m not turning down 10000 Titan shards. As a suggestion though, tossing in some tier 4 alpha as filler at some point would be appreciated. I currently have enough tier 7 to rank 4 multiple champs but am short tier 4 alpha. There’s always the radiance store and other stores, but I think the same way tier 6 and tier 3 was an issue last year, tier 4 is an issue this year

I can understand why Kabam is putting those Titan shards in there so as to not just blow there resource budget on this one event and have to accelerate progression earlier than they wanted to, but, if I’m honest, I’m a bit disappointed. It’s been really fun just watching how hard people are willing to go on this event and those milestones definitely feel like they’re going to take the wind out of the sails. We’ll see though, I have 46k points and I’d go deeper for sure if the rewards matched, but of course not for Titan shards. My hope is a 7 star trophy champ selector. I personally was really hoping for Weapon X this year.

@Seatin thank you for the Endorsement

Every game mode, and every node combination something always just works differently. Intercepts, parries, dex etc.

It is infuriating to try and keep up with you are absolutely correct.

In my pure honesty i would like to see 7 star limited edition selector atleast once so the unlucky people can get one chance to get a Selector which they weren't able to get during jubilant Crystals opening

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.

14k. Saving for next year