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Probably More to do with the t5a being in jubilant crystals instead of sbcs. You'd need rng to get more jubilants AND then more rng for the t5a.

This is how good 2025's banquet has been received generally: I see players of all types all over the place saying they hope there are a couple rewards like that in higher milestones just to watch the whiners cry about it.

When the players actually say, hey, I got plenty of rewards, I can afford to lose some just to watch people get all huffy about it, now that's a lot of rewards.

They don't know that's how they are viewed outside of their bubble, mores the pity, but I find it fascinating nonetheless. That's the problem with leading the mob. Sometimes they are following you, and sometimes they are just pointing at you and laughing behind your back.

Two billion+ points above last year is an awful lot of giggling.

Now, so there is no confusion. If someone doesn't like the banquet, that's their prerogative. If someone doesn't like some aspect of it, it is their right to provide that feedback. Personally not liking things is a personal thing. Different people like different things. It is only when you think you represent some giant contingent of the silent majority who are all equally dissatisfied as you are and try to sell that narrative that it ceases to be honest feedback and becomes performance art.

A Q&A with Crashed sounds interesting, but honestly if he has questions for me he can ask me any time.

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Hello @DNA3000 you sound like a swell (rich) guy and the community needs more like you. You're the best of us. I'd love to hear more about you - perhaps a Q&A with @Kabam Crashed post-Banquet? Pending that, and a propos nothing, what's your mother's maiden name, the name of your first pet, and the name of the first school you attended? 👼

Meanwhile heroin users can say: "At least it's not MCOC."

I think the numbers are speaking for themselves. Kudos team and a huge shout out to @Kabam Crashed for listening and making it enjoyable to do banquet again. Appreciate it man.

they let the community miss last years. Everything now is up to the community, Kabam won’t save us.

Update for Janu- woo hoo!

The DNA network can now project the banquet will reach milestone 63. The worst case estimate is now 7.23 billion, with the best case scenario now 7.43 billion. Points today have been fluctuating between 17 and 20 million points per hour, which is plenty enough to get us there.

This may make things more obvious. This is our scoring rate over the past week, compared to the necessary rate required to reach milestone 63, assuming we were to hold that rate constantly. You can see the rate slowly rise for the first four days because our pace was not high enough to reach that milestone - back when I was estimating 6.9 - 7.0 billion points. But the last three days scoring jumped substantially, and the necessary rate began to drop as our scoring caught up to, and then overtook the rate required. You can see the necessary rate begin to dive downward today - that's because there's only one day left, and we are rapidly approaching milestone 63. When we hit it, the necessary rate will (of course) drop to zero. Even though we are scoring slightly less than yesterday, what's important is we're ahead of the curve, so it becomes easier and easier to finish off what's left. I think the chart shows clearly we're way ahead of what's necessary and widening the gap.

Odds of reaching milestone 63: essentially 100%

The optimistic projection has us getting to about 7.43 billion, which would get us to milestone 65 (extrapolating from the current milestones) and just short of milestone 66. Assuming they exist, which either they do exist or Kabam will likely lay track in front of us if the train keeps blowing past more stations.

So when do we reach milestone 63? My best guess right now is about 11pm Pacific time. But the player base enthusiasm for opening crystals has surprised me several times already in the final week, and if the players start opening crystals like crazy in the last ~19 hours of the banquet, we could hit it much earlier.

I could consider taking on a dependent. Or I could just get Bastion in the banquet at the same cost.

Decisions, decisions.

these projections are sooo much more enjoyable than political election projections