**UPDATES TO ENLISTMENT GIFTING EVENT:**
To prevent exploitation, we will prevent new Accounts from being able to Gift enlistment crystals. We will also be taking action on those who are using 3rd Party Sellers, Bots and other farms to gift themselves mass amounts of Enlistment Crystals. Lastly, we will be adding an expiration timer to Enlistment Crystals. All unopened Enlistment Crystals will expire on Oct 18 @ 17:00 UTC. For more information, please see this post: https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/346104/updates-to-enlistment-gifting-event
To prevent exploitation, we will prevent new Accounts from being able to Gift enlistment crystals. We will also be taking action on those who are using 3rd Party Sellers, Bots and other farms to gift themselves mass amounts of Enlistment Crystals. Lastly, we will be adding an expiration timer to Enlistment Crystals. All unopened Enlistment Crystals will expire on Oct 18 @ 17:00 UTC. For more information, please see this post: https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/346104/updates-to-enlistment-gifting-event
**KNOWN ISSUE**
We have adjusted the node placement of the new AW maps to better allow path traversal. As a result, defender placements have been reset. Please, take a moment to re-place your defender setup. We will be pushing out a message in-game shortly.
We have adjusted the node placement of the new AW maps to better allow path traversal. As a result, defender placements have been reset. Please, take a moment to re-place your defender setup. We will be pushing out a message in-game shortly.
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The alliance treasury refund in the form of tickets. Does that wording make you happier?
@Worknprogress Is one of few with decent comments about this. A lot of other comments addresses concerns that was not targeted by the ticket change at all.
There might be some odd drawbacks with the new system. Where you can’t receive charity donations from alliance mates covering your part of AQ donations. And that might suck. But to be fair the resources needed for donations, or now, tickets, is not that much and should be obtainable for all (With as little as 2 hour of arena a week)
I see very few ppl taking about the positive effect.
1) Elimination of merc donation drops. Merc drops was used by a few top ranked alliances giving them unfair advantages. Now the 600-ticket bundles from Kabam offers the same thing for ( in most cases ) less money. And it’s now available to all players should they want to use it.
2) More resources to the ppl!!!
Donation cost has gone down - significantly.
Map 5 is now free, map 6 and 7 resources needed for AQ per player is down between 28% and 35% (depending on what donation strategy was used by your alliance)
3) you can now substitute all or part of one resource when buying tickets for another. Yes, you will need to pay a premium when doing this. (Between 10% and 20% if you double up on tickets bought with one resource) that’s not bad. At least it’s much better then not having that option at all.
I don’t know of any scenario where this change has a negative impact on resources needed for AQ. It’s long term good for everyone. (Except if you where a freeloader depending on others covering donations for you)
The only two pitfalls I seen is:
- tickets in alliances running mixed maps across bgs - and that is being addressed already in a change not to far away
- Ensuring members has tickets or resources to participate in AQ. That’s not a problem per day. Just a new situation alliances need to adopt to. And it will be significantly better then tracking donations in the treasury.
So over all I see this as a win win.
Just to make my stance clear though I like the new ticket system. As an alliance leader you had to deal with freeloaders and it really sucks. Obviously very few people have that perspective though.
I like you feel the pros vastly outweigh the cons in this though. The treasury was never a bank you could withdraw from as wanted so while I'm not surprised people are upset with the wipe, I still don't feel they have a valid reason to be. It will take a while for people to get used to it but I see it being a positive change going forward.
Also point 1 above can also be solved with no cost to maps. its an even playing field then. No real reason why this game mode has a cost associated to it. Its part of the reason why people don't enjoy it. Its taxing enough having to organize 30 people to get links etc down and the map cleared without the added pressure that if you fail you effectively just wasted resources. Just like the catalyst arena had a cost to entry which again no one enjoyed paying that. If you really want a cost for AQ it should be done through some resource independent of the other resources that is achieved via activity in the alliance maybe from the alliance events page.
You also seem to disregard the fact alliances had healthy treasuries built up over years which was completely wiped out without any adequate reimbursement to the alliance for this. Again this helped keep costs down.
Also thanks the the shambolic execution of this change and lack of communication. Mixed BG alliances have to deal with this 2 months of the high map players paying a bigger premium. They will either see their players leave to find all same map alliances or be forced to do lower maps thus slowing their progression because they can't get access to the higher map crystals as well as reducing the glory they achieve. That's at least 8 AQ cycles. For my alliance that's a loss of 56 map 7 crystals and 80 map 6 crystals.
So i am failing to see this as a postie change. In the new system my method of donating will still be split as it makes the most sense to get the best value out of my resources. Everything else is largely the same from my perspective.
Is anyone else waiting?
Are they coming before the next AQ?
AQ start tomorrow.
Still no update about temporary solution to split cost between alliance's members?
I can see the positive in this change, but the entire treasury was wiped. And I got back zero tickets even though I donated regularly and made up for others, and my ally members got back tickets. Our millions of battle chips were also gone just like that, because we haven’t been using it much since map 5 became free for BCs. We had wanted to do map 6 when we are more ready and guess what, my ally is ready. And thanks to kabam, we actually have to spend more resources to do so when our Treasury could have taken care of the BCs bit quite comfortably for weeks at least.
Seriously, more heads up would have at least given us a chance to deplete our treasury.
Why the hastiness to do this and make the large majority of the player base unhappy??
So you end up with an echo chamber of discontent when in reality the majority are just going about their business bc they're neither greatly upset or overjoyed. I know far more people outside of the forum that are happy with the change than are upset personally.
I understand map 6 guys anger because they didn't communicate that gold will no longer be refunded after completing the map. But map 5 and below I don't understand the issue at all when you have a free map. It makes our legitimate issues seem like we're just complaining just to complain.
in case someone missed that.
finally some good news