**Mastery Loadouts**
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
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@Kabam Miike I think you missed this post.
Is your intent with this description of “gathering data” inclusive of *piloting* accounts? At the top end of the Contest the actual Wars come down to the battle of two highly skilled assassins, much like Hector vs Achilles and Achilles vs Boagrius in Troy and Homer’s Illiad.
Give these much titans of MCoC their own much deserved title, too. They’ve earned it. 😂
Why don't you be more specific? What is it you think these top alliance do when they account share? I mean this is an accusation. So what are they exactly doing that you think is not fair?
It’s not an accusation. It happens. So in the interests of fairness and the fact that these rewards are huge, they need to be fairly distributed.
I’m not going to name alliances or people. That’s against the ToS. I’m bringing the point up to Kabam to get acknowledgement that they will punish those that do because quite clearly, they don’t now.
Now if you’re unaware of this happening, great. You’re none the wiser but if Kabam do take action then you may just benefit. What is happening is less skilled, high prestige people get piloted in war (account share) to reduce deaths and get a win for the team. It’s not new. Doesn’t happen as much in aq as deaths don’t detriment the alliance and big items can be used but it’s a disease in war.
You are totally missing Qwerty's point.
No.
Not really. Pretty sure he missed the most important point about alliances not wanting to miss out on 3 wars per week. You probably just are not privy to that caliber of chats in line.
The fact it takes 2 months to actually get these rewards is pretty hilarious. Why do you care so much? Are you being directly effected by this? Let the rich cheat the rich, because an average guy like me will never see top tier rewards.
Instead, given that they introduced shards a long time ago, every tier should get some amount of all of the different rewards, scaling down as you drop in tier.
If I counted correctly, then from Master to Participation, including the top 3 special ranks, there are 20 reward brackets. So, scale the top prize down by ~5% for each bracket, scaling down until the bottom bracket doesn't get much, but it gets something. (i.e. Master Rank 1 gets 10k 6* shards, Participation gets 500 6*, or 5%.)
And while I know some people are going to say the bottom bracket doesn't deserve anything, it isn't just the extreme ends where this would make a significant difference, as the middle is also affected by the sharp drop off in reward quality.
As others point out, 301st get NO t5b shards? That's absurd! But by simply scaling it down by 5% each bracket, at the 8th possible bracket down they would get 40500, compared to the 67500 of Rank 1, and continue to drop by 5% until the bottom bracket gets only 3375.
Further more, for those that still think that 5% is giving the bottom more tier too much, it will take 20 seasons, or roughly 2 years, for the bottom rank to get what rank 1 got in a single season, so the top rank is still clearly rewarded more, but the bottom would get more than a SINGLE PREMIUM HERO CRYSTAL.
Kabam, seriously, 1 PHC? You give a full PHC away once a week simply for logging in every day!
Very possible!
Do you know the Chinese new year holiday is begin from Feb 15th and the holiday will last at least 7 days. It's the most important holiday to gather with families, so most Chinese won't be able to play Alliance War. In the meantime, all Chinese alliances will lost lots of points for sure. The new alliance war season calendar is sucks for every Chinese player.
Do you expect Chinese to spend money to buy red envelops as gift for alliance members and friends during new year holiday? I don't think so.
This is no different to the western Christmas/New Year period which was through the gifting event.
Two things:
My wife is Chinese and the holiday has no effect on her or many of her friends. They travel, but it does not limit the access they have to their phones.
And last year the red pockets were free so no purchases was necessary.
@Kabam Miike You said that you bumped up the Alliance Wars Rewards not that much, is it possible to see the changes to the rewards before the 17.0 update on Wednesday ? or can you tell us the changes to the rewards ?
If you are a top 1000 AW alliance you'd be getting Gold 1, which according to the chart includes 2000 6* shards and 6k 5* crystals. I wouldn't call those rewards insignificant for any alliance tier. Since all the way down to Gold 3 - top 4500 - get at least a significant amount of 5* shards, the rewards look decent at pretty much every tier relative to the average strength of the alliances in that tier.
The rich get richer is a massive oversimplification of a fundamental principle of all progressional games. The whole point of making progress in a game that is based on progress is that the reward for progress is greater strength to make even more progress. Any definition of "fairness" that seeks to neutralize the advantage of players that have made more progress is wholly inconsistent with the fundamental premise of the game.
Anyone who thinks that a player with a larger or stronger roster than them shouldn't have an advantage in combat strength or reward opportunity is explicitly stating that this game is not a game they want to play. Because that won't change, ever, regardless of any complaints or suggestions to the contrary. There simply exist far too many players that explicitly agree with that principle and play the game accepting that idea as the central point of making progress. Progressional games are fully prepared to lose every player that disagrees with that principle in order to retain as many players that agree. And historically speaking games that try to reverse this die quick deaths. Asking a development team to break this principle in a game that already exists is essentially asking them to commit professional suicide.
The dropoff is not as exaggerated as you think. Alliance war is not the only source of T5B. You get 9000 every month from the Uncollected event quest already. The biggest difference between Gold 1 and Platinum 3 is 4500 T5B shards, which would take 20 months to even form 2 T5Bs (assuming 1 season lasts 1 month, which is being generous). There of plenty of T2A in the game right now and there is more than enough going around from Act V, Uncollected event quest, and Alliance Quest to get T2A. I think the reward structure is actually as fair as they could have implemented and much better than previous systems (like old AQ rankings where you either got a T4CC or you didn't and current AW where winning in the top 10 means exactly the same as top 200). People have been asking for more competitveness in this game for a while and this is a great solution.
What makes you think you need to hang with the big spenders?
Yeah 3 battlegroups will give you the most points
Why aren’t ratings being reset? Keep the tiers, reset the ratings.