Best Of

You have a write up for your score, play style, etc? 😏

DNA is very good at statistics/probability, and has a lot of time on his hands: this side quest was basically made for him.

He's probably also collating data on the side quest and/or Realm Event.

Less time than normal; I’ve been traveling for the past week and had less time than I expected.

It took me about 280 rounds to get to 317210. I spent 900 units on energy refills, but I also had a ton of energy piled up (as I usually do). I didn’t track refills I didn’t spend units on, but it was probably another 50 or 60 of them between inventory, stash, and other refills I earned/claimed through the week.

My average points per round (using 30 energy) seems to be hovering around 1135, which is about 375 base points. This is roughly in between double trouble (325) and triple threat (425).

My basic strategy has been fairly simple. In round one I keep the best scoring hand (of course) except one pair. If I have one pair I will generally toss them in favor of whichever suit I have two of. However, in round two and higher I will keep one pair over non-scoring hands. Where I have a choice between keeping three cards to the straight or three to the flush I keep the flush.

Where I have multiple options for keeping partial straights/flushes I will keep alive straight flushes and royal flushes. In other words, if I have twelve/eleven blue and eight/six/three red, I will keep the blue even though statistically speaking that’s probably not points-optimal. But that’s mostly because I’m still trying to get the top two hands. Best I’ve gotten so far is four of a kind a few times.

Because I’m not sitting in front of a computer all day I also don’t have as much data on the Realm event, but I can say that as I write this the pace to reach the top realm milestone would have us at almost 10 billion points and we’re currently above 14 billion, but the hourly pace to reach the top is significantly higher than where we are now, so we’ll have to see how this all shakes out in the coming weeks.

Was there a reason you pushed so high or did you enjoy the mode that much?

I wanted to see how far I could go. Also, the knew people would want to know how much effort it took.

I also have two alts that I did much less effort to see where they landed. In one, I did 78105 and landed in the 2-5% bracket, and in the other I did 61300 and landed in the 6-10% bracket, which suggests the 5% cutoff was somewhere in the general vicinity of 70k or so.

My commendations to the most terrible MCOC content creator - RichTheMan - for creating another pointless, misinformative video about the points gained in the Squad Builder event! In his video, he gives an example where he claims the huge gap in investment (in some cases) has only resulted to 500 titan shards.

Just an FYI: Apart from the weekly reset of milestones, is this guy forgetting that the real rewards are in the ranked rewards of the event? So folks, beware of the "stinky" (the word he used to describe this event) misinformation he's spreading around about this event!

Ok i hate to break it to u but only 200 ppl are getting high evo rich is not wrong not even one percent of the community will be getting him. Maybe fully listen to what rich is saying and don’t just listen to half of it some food for thought.

I wish there was a clearer outline of what the strengths and weaknesses of the four champs were. I know what the strengths and weaknesses of their regular MCOC counterparts are but I don't know how that translates into the new game mode, if at all. It seems like they will diverge in various ways as you spec into their respective masteries, but on Day 1 they all felt very samey. Especially if you, like me, initially decided to start speccing into their shared skills until I'd figured out which of them I wanted to focus on.

If I had given any feedback prior to this launching, it would have been to make the introductory story levels free of that energy requirement. I don't have any particular problem with the energy system in and of itself, but it seems like something that suits the latter mode better. I think that it might have been a good idea to let people play through the story mode unobstructed in order to give them a proper feel for and understanding of the new game mode, and then introduce the energy system after that. As it stands, it felt as if I ran into a roadblock during the prologue, which I found rather off-putting.

On the plus side, I do like the RPG opportunities when it comes to the mastery setup. I've always enjoyed tinkering with stuff like that in games, and it was something that I enjoyed tinkering with in MCOC proper back in the day before I settled on my current setup. It's fun to be able to do that again. I do wish there was a way to see how masteries progressed, though. Let's say the first points give you 2% extra crit chance. What do point 2 and 3 do? Do they each also just add 2% extra crit or are the numbers different in future tiers?

The mode also feels a bit impatient at times. The dialogue ticks along whether you've read through it or not and I think there was a timer somewhere after the fight that auto-chose one of those post-fight buffs for me when I had to put the phone away for something. I don't really understand the need for these small stressers in a solo game mode.

All in all, I'm...curious...about how this will turn out. I can see this becoming more fun once you really start building out your masteries, but the Day 1 experience was rather lacklustre.