Thoughts: Scarcity of T1 Alphas from non-store sources must be addressed urgently and swiftly?

Dear Kabam Team / MCOC Community,

I understand if the following resources are to be kept rare and gain minimal increase in the hastiness of their acquisition:
1. T4 Basic Catalyst
2. T4 Class Catalyst
3. T2 Alpha
4. 4* / 5* Awakening Gems

And those beyond.

But please, T1 Alphas should already become a lot more attainable in non-store content.

I would like to propose the following way to address this scarcity:

1. Include one fully formed T1 Alpha or shards as reward in AQ Weekly Reward based on alliance rank.
2. Run the T1 Alpha Arena 2x/week.
3. Include T1 Alpha shards in 22-Hour Event Quests either Milestone or Rank Rewards.
4. Include T1 Alpha shards in SA completion (based on Alliance Tier and Ranking). Remove the healing potion, revive potion / gold rewards.
5. For those L60, remove all XP Boosts and increase chance to receive T1 Alpha (fully formed) from Greater Solo Crystal
6. For those L60, remove all XP Boosts and increase chance to receive T1 Alpha (shards) from Lesser Solo Crystal
7. Make T1 Alpha fragments be purchasable with UNITS from the Crystals tab in the Crystals Selection

If anyone else would have any recommendation please include your ideas here.

Thanks and regards.

Comments

Jaded

They need to add them into aq milestones. 5 minimum a week in the milestones.

nh4cl

Either make them more accessible or reduce the amount required to rank a 5* to r2&3. Before AQ season 4, we we're getting so many that we were selling them from overflow because they were expiring. Now we can't get enough to rank a 5* one level once a week. Having to save them up over such a long time, there is no ranking of 4*s. It is getting ridiculous.

Tempest

I think the best way is to most reduce the requirement for 5* to what it costs the 4* plus one.. So 2, 3, 4 instead of 5, 5, 6

OhGodYes

I just wish a moderator would chime in here and say we are looking at ways to increase or you are SOL.... either way would help me sleep better at night.

CoatHang3r

5 from monthly eq
3 from arenas
10 from 3 day events
3 from glory

That’s 21 a month or 5 a week with the option to get more from glory, special events and unit offers. I wouldn’t say that’s scarce, just something you need to manage and plan around.

Would I like to rank champions at will? Yes, but that is not how the game is played and doesn’t fit modern games retention models.

Fingfangfoomfanes

To be realistic on my side, when i have the time, i can grind in the t1a arena. But if im busy, cannot. Aside from that, im the only one of the few who play arena. So, arena combat and perfect series events milestones are not met up to the t1a lvl.

So, it would be nice to have other means to get it.

Crouching_tigers77

Why in the heck did you change the way t1a was rewarded. We urgently encourage you to make t1a more available NOW!!!! WHY did you not include t1a in any of the Cyber Monday offers? Did you forget that t1a are needed to rank up? You are incredibly short sighted or incompetent or both. I have spent too much money on this game. You need to LISTEN and RESPOND to the needs of your paying customers. Thank you

K1lltastic

Crouching_tigers77 wrote: »

Why in the heck did you change the way t1a was rewarded. We urgently encourage you to make t1a more available NOW!!!! WHY did you not include t1a in any of the Cyber Monday offers? Did you forget that t1a are needed to rank up? You are incredibly short sighted or incompetent or both. I have spent too much money on this game. You need to LISTEN and RESPOND to the needs of your paying customers. Thank you

Don't worry, I'm sure they'll have a deal for $27.99 for one t1a and a level 1 health potion, to compensate, shortly.

lol

Crouching_tigers77

I wish they would at least acknowledge our concerns here.

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Tempest

Crouching_tigers77 wrote: »

I wish they would at least acknowledge our concerns here.

I have commented on this topic several times hoping for an acknowledgement, but no word... then the T1A arena pops up today and for the first time ever, I am doing it... and then it struck me... this is what Kabam wants... it wants more people to grind for yet another resource. Before the shortage, no one bothered to do the T1A arena.

Ok, I get it, but even if so, we do feel like you, Kabam, pulled a rug out from under us by doing this on the sly. It was just removed from milestones and we didn't even realize it would hurt us so much until much later. Kabam should have been upfront and told us, "we will be removing T1A from the milestones, which means it is now a far more scarce and valuable resource, please plan accordingly". But no, like the frog in the pot, we sat around and now the water is hot and we don't like it.

I get that this game is about resource management, but we would have appreciated more transparency. You changed a resource that was in abundance to painfully scarce overnight and that's just NOT okay. Maybe they were too plentiful before, but the solution is to cut it down a little, not just cut it down to next to nothing, and then not warn us about it. That's just disingenuous.

Add to that the announcement that you are introducing 6 stars, so shards and resources for 5 stars will be MORE AVAILABLE you said... well, you know that ranking a 5 star to any rank requires 5-6 T1A as opposed to 0-2 for 4 stars? If so, why is this resource more scarce instead of more plentiful as you promised us that it would be?

raffster

Tempest wrote: »

Crouching_tigers77 wrote: »

I wish they would at least acknowledge our concerns here.

I have commented on this topic several times hoping for an acknowledgement, but no word... then the T1A arena pops up today and for the first time ever, I am doing it... and then it struck me... this is what Kabam wants... it wants more people to grind for yet another resource. Before the shortage, no one bothered to do the T1A arena.

Ok, I get it, but even if so, we do feel like you, Kabam, pulled a rug out from under us by doing this on the sly. It was just removed from milestones and we didn't even realize it would hurt us so much until much later. Kabam should have been upfront and told us, "we will be removing T1A from the milestones, which means it is now a far more scarce and valuable resource, please plan accordingly". But no, like the frog in the pot, we sat around and now the water is hot and we don't like it.

I get that this game is about resource management, but we would have appreciated more transparency. You changed a resource that was in abundance to painfully scarce overnight and that's just NOT okay. Maybe they were too plentiful before, but the solution is to cut it down a little, not just cut it down to next to nothing, and then not warn us about it. That's just disingenuous.

Add to that the announcement that you are introducing 6 stars, so shards and resources for 5 stars will be MORE AVAILABLE you said... well, you know that ranking a 5 star to any rank requires 5-6 T1A as opposed to 0-2 for 4 stars? If so, why is this resource more scarce instead of more plentiful as you promised us that it would be?

They (Kabam) is probably planning on making T1 Alphas as hard to get as T2 Alphas very soon. Then they can charge $100 for 1 T1 Alpha and $500 for 1 T2 Alpha. There are clearly economists with PhDs in the Kabam corporate executive team. I'm so happy for them.

Cujo999

Haji_Saab wrote: »

CoatHang3r wrote: »

5 from monthly eq
3 from arenas
10 from 3 day events
3 from glory

That’s 21 a month or 5 a week with the option to get more from glory, special events and unit offers. I wouldn’t say that’s scarce, just something you need to manage and plan around.

Would I like to rank champions at will? Yes, but that is not how the game is played and doesn’t fit modern games retention models.

The bottle neck should be at the top. That's where the actual bottle's neck normally is i.e. at the top. Not for a mid tier resource.

Well, the bottleneck is at the top. It's not hard to get enough T1A's to rank 4*'s, but it is more difficult to get enough to rank 5*'s. Even then, as Coathanger said, they aren't as scarce as they are made out to be. People just don't want to spend their game time doing the things necessary to get them.

As for a solution, I would suggest Kabam replace the T3 basics in the Sunday Daily Special with a couple of T1A's.

Rednick69

Or you could just be patient. You have opportunities to get at least 3 a week from rewards. If you use glory you can get many more.

Crouching_tigers77

Patient???? What game are you playing? You a Kabam employee? Don’t preach to us about patience. I have a high 800k account. I need much more resources to rank up. Glory store? I am laughing. T1a availability was fine. Instead of fixing other glitches in the game stupid Kabam decided to make t1a more scarce. Patient. Get outta here.

Crouching_tigers77

Or you could be dumb

CoatHang3r

People just be making things up and talking outta their rear at this point. Troll on player, troll on.

Lightvayne

I’m sitting on like 18 T1A and dont really have much to spend it on. Not sure what game you are playing, but past a certain level, there is an over abundance of it.

Crouching_tigers77

That’s because you just passed level 2. Noob