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Wish Crystal?
Siliyo
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Is this still in development? How’s it looking? Is it truly a Wish Crystal or “I wish this was a crystal”?
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From a technical perspective, this is a massive undertaking and one that I’m not sure the game can handle. In the past, Kabam has periodically had to force open certain old crystal types because they were cluttering up the servers. It doesn’t matter how many of a crystal are in the game, but it does matter how many unique crystal types there are currently out there. So occasionally, they force open some old ones to make room for new ones.
Wish Crystals are unique, customizable crystals. I’m lowballing this guess by saying there are millions of potential permutations. That could wreak havoc on the servers. These could be game breaking crystals, and very much not in the fun metaphorical way.
Beyond that, there would have to be a new mechanic created with which you would populate the crystal. Honestly, the Battlegrounds deck selection interface would probably be ideal as it is already designed to hold 30 champions. Sticking those champions into a crystal pool, though, still requires new tools to be created.
Also, to the original question, I seem to remember them saying that it was not a fully formed plan and it would take a lot longer to be introduced. I doubt they have forgotten about it, but I would be surprised to see it any time in the next 6-8 months, if they ever actually get around to making it/them.
Probs only a handful of people that can do it right now. Only two so far?
The challenge with something like this, is that kabam would have to make such a crystal available to whales first.
That's the real challenge here. Everyone wants something like this as an ultimate challenge reward. The reality is that it will be offered to whales first and foremost.
It's a cool idea, though, so I would love to see it implemented down the line. I just hope they get the game back on its feet first, and I'm pretty sure Kabam agrees.
Before this one it was supposed to be early June 2021
Nexus and Abyss Nexus crystals are a very different animal than Wish crystals. A nexus has a definite pool from which it is pulling, just like any other crystal, to provide you with your options. A Wish crystal has an *indefinite* pool at time of reward. At the moment the game creates the data for this crystal, it is creating an entirely new, never before seen piece of architecture for itself based on player input.
This does not exist anywhere in the game currently. But now we’re talking not one player doing this, but thousands of them. Likely all at similar times, because that’s how rewards get doled out in game. I imagine that would be incredibly taxing on the game’s infrastructure.
I do not work in game design or anything remotely approximating the technical field, so take all of this with a grain of salt. I’m just drawing conclusions based on the information that we’ve been given in the past.