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I have a lot of gold
and I don't know how to spend it, why don't you hace an event or dome offers to buy with gold? I remember that a couple of years they had some Pool offers.

Why they don’t do this anymore is because gold offers (offering resources for gold) had significant negative side effects. Key among them was the fact that it encouraged players to hoard gold. And not in the sense of collecting big piles of gold, but rather in the sense of players complaining they did not have enough gold *because* they had to save for the next gold sale. Or spent all their gold and complained it wasn’t fair they couldn’t participate in those sales because there’s not enough gold to do both.

You’re supposed to use gold to do rank ups and level ups, and if you have extra that’s great. But that’s unfortunately not the psychology of a loud contingent of the playerbase. They have since graduated to applying that perspective to units.

Those were nice to have offers for players with a ton of gold, but speaking as one of the players with tons of gold, those offers were not worth all the static they generated.

So I’m about to cash in 365 days or since January 1 every single arena battlechip I have earned for the whole year 8.5millon collected throughout the year… all my time all my sweat all my Monday through Friday holidays free time in between time
Every chance I had to myself I’d login and put in a few hours of Arena Collected a whole bunch of units collected a whole bunch of champions 3 & 4*🤣😜…got them all … But my question is, which arena do I use to get the most units from? I know there’s videos every videos different. what do you guys recommend to capitalize or yield the most units out of which crystal

If all you care about is units, all arena crystals have the same average unit return per million battlechips: 1875 per million BC.

There are two main differences between the three crystals. The first is statistical. You obviously get more arena crystals with less rewards per crystal if you buy the standard ones instead of the TB ones. The TB ones cost 25x more and have 25x the rewards (almost: see below). However, whether you roll dice 4300 times or 170 times will make a difference in the sense that 4300 standard crystals have a high likelihood of generating something very near the statistical average, while 170 TB crystals have a greater chance of getting lucky or unlucky. You expect about 15% of all drops to be units, so 4300 standard crystals will be, on average, about 645 unit drops, while 170 TB crystals will be about 26 unit drops on average. You can see how just a couple good or bad rolls won’t make much difference if you’re expecting 645, but can make a big difference if you’re expecting 26. So if you’re concerned about getting unlucky, open the smaller crystals.

The other is value besides units. Besides units the crystals contain gold and the possibility of things like different rarity Punishers and energy refills. The Punisher has higher rarity in the bigger crystals, so all other things being equal the Punisher drops will be more valuable in the larger crystals. If that matters to you. The energy refills create a separate odd problem. The standard crystals have chance to get one. The UC crystals have a chance to get five, as they are five times more expensive and all the rewards are scaled up by a factor of five. If we continued the pattern, the TB crystals would have a chance to drop 25. But dropping 25 energy refills on a player was seen as a bit weird: it might be difficult to properly use them all. So the TB crystal has a higher chance to drop 10, rather than the same chance to drop 25. That forced the chance to drop gold to drop, and to make sure players were not short changed on gold the gold drops were increased by more than 5x to compensate. The net effect is the TB crystal generates slightly more gold than the UC or standard crystals.

So the absolute best value is the TB crystal, It has the same return of units, the better Punisher, the better energy refills odds, and slightly more gold return. However, it is more bursts when it comes to units: it is very likely to drop a lot more than average or a lot less than average. In the long run this is the best crystal to open.

But if you don’t care about any of that and only care about units, and you hate the thought of getting less than average if you’re unlucky, open standard crystals. You’re almost certainly going to land near the average opening 4000+ crystals.

Strange that they would put that question mark simply as a placeholder for the rewards that follow. I can totally see how it would set expectations that there was actually something there vs. just telling us there are more rewards after. Probably would have been better to just leave it off since we already knew there were additional rewards?

Also this throwaway line on the banquet info page:

Haha, since when did spending massive cash/units for an ios game make someone "savvy"? I love the game but that's even too rich of an adjective for me...

The word "savvy" just means someone has practical knowledge or experience about something. A savvy summoner would in fact be a summoner who understood that if the players reached the top milestone in the event the devs are very likely to have designed extra ones to add to the top so we don't run out of them. A particularly savvy summoner might even understand why it was done that way, rather than just putting them all in from the start.