**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
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No don’t go. You must know something we don’t about the selection process
I am entitled to my own opinion based on the information presented. That's not up for debate.
The novelty or "newness" of a champ has very little to do with why the crystal is desirable.
1) The current featured crystal is the best chance you have to awaken/dupe a 5* champ in the game right now.
2) It is your best chance to obtain a likely high damage or high utility 5* champ by using early feedback and deciding if they are the champ you need
3) It is your best chance to target a champ that you have the rank up materials or awakening gem for.
4) Re-runs are icing on the cake because it gives you the second chance to either obtain or awaken the champ you've invested in
5) Let's not forget that for higher tiers, it is possible to target high prestige and boost that prestige with an awakening
5* champs are still the most expensive to obtain and rank up. They are still the most powerful champs that we have access to in the game and duping a champ is one of the fundamental factors in deciding who we rank up in the game. Why do you think the first question out of most people is: "Is your champ awakened?"
You can also look at how people save their shards, they don't save shards for just any random featured champ, they save them for high utility champs that are going to help them in the game. Kabam even acknowledged that implictly by saying 'Yeah we know you are all saving for Blade".
We also look at featured champs based on resources we've acquired, how many of us are sitting on science awakening gems waiting for a decent science champ? Or we have catalysts waiting to expire and we want to use them on a decent 5* champ instead of just more arena fodder.
All of this goes away with the new crystal and the best I can say about it is that it gives us the opportunity at a decent number of middle of the road champs.
It seems obvious to me that their empirical data is not based on top alliances. Some might say that that is how it should be. I'm going to say that sampling bias is not necessarily bad bias. The bottom or beginning players just play the champs that they have, not necessarily the champs that are effective (this is already skewing your data). Top alliances have the chance to place proven and effective defences and to use effective attackers.
Let's say you get financial advice? Do get advice from a grad student, a mainstream consultant and a finance guru? Or do you go straight to the finance guru?
Anyway, I would like to hear from Kabam, and try to ask some constructive questions:
1) What population do you draw your empirical data from? All players/alliances? Top 10%?
2) What is/are the definition(s) of effective? Kills? Damage output?
If you're getting me to pay a 50% premium on the most expensive crystal, make it worth it. I don't necessarily get an increased chance at the champs I want or need, if I can't target high utility or class of the resources that I have.
You're just giving me a better shot at something "new".
I've got some empirical data for you. I just surveyed 36 pages of people complaining about this new step forward for the game, and the future of these crystals look pretty grim. Clock is ticking to do some damage control.
In some sense this change actually addresses your experience -- because it removes the illusion that you have a good chance to get the featured champ on any given roll. (Granted, you could still go 0/15 out of the new champs, but if the other 18 champs included some decent rolls this could be OK.)
EDIT: it would only actually make things better if at some point the pool of 18 champs also includes a fair number you'd be happy to get. The first pool looks like a bust to me. But if a better percentage of the 24 champs were good pulls (compared with the basic crystal) it could conceivably make sense.
Oh my god, why do you keep saying this? Nobody believes most of these champions on the list are being used by players "to great success." Unless by this you mean these players used some of these champs to great success, given that they were forced to use a garbage champ like cyclops, Antman, Loki, Phoenix , venompool, civil warrior. If there were one time Cyclops managed to take down a Dorm miniboss in AW, without reviving, the "great success" was that it actually happened given that they were using cyclops.
Thanks. Now it's in my head. Haha. Next it'll be Rick Astley. XD
Who the hell uses Ant Man or Venompool for anything other than arena fodder?
"Among the most effective".
Among implies compared to other champs.
Who are these other champs?
Cyclops might be very effective COMPARED TO Hulk Buster and Luke Cage, but he's not an effective tool.
If a car that has a top speed of 20mph is compared to others who can only go a max of 15mph, you can claim that it's "among the most effective", but it's not an effective car.
People can use all the mental gymnastic they want to justify these decisions, but reality says most of these champs aren't "among the most effective" at all.