**WINTER OF WOE - BONUS OBJECTIVE POINT**
As previously announced, the team will be distributing an additional point toward milestones to anyone who completed the Absorbing Man fight in the first step of the Winter of Woe.
This point will be distributed at a later time as it requires the team to pull and analyze data.
The timeline has not been set, but work has started.
As previously announced, the team will be distributing an additional point toward milestones to anyone who completed the Absorbing Man fight in the first step of the Winter of Woe.
This point will be distributed at a later time as it requires the team to pull and analyze data.
The timeline has not been set, but work has started.
There is currently an issue where some Alliances are are unable to find a match in Alliance Wars, or are receiving Byes without getting the benefits of the Win. We will be adjusting the Season Points of the Alliances that are affected within the coming weeks, and will be working to compensate them for their missed Per War rewards as well.
Additionally, we are working to address an issue where new Members of an Alliance are unable to place Defenders for the next War after joining. We are working to address this, but it will require a future update.
Additionally, we are working to address an issue where new Members of an Alliance are unable to place Defenders for the next War after joining. We are working to address this, but it will require a future update.
GOLD. Is it really an issue?
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Now, the concept of 'Gold Shortage' appears to have reached the masses. And, admittedly, I am part of the crowd that has a shortage of gold.
I never sit on empty energy. Ever.
I complete all EQ, all difficulties, full explore.
I compete in every arena. 2M 4* basic, 5M 4* Featured, 10.5M 5* Featured
Takes ALOT out of me.
Alliance donations are 320K Gold, 60K Bchips Weekly.
I am perpetually poor. I've level 2x 6*, which has taken nearly 3M. I've levelled multiple 5* to 5R1. I don't dare rank them more than that. Now that I've managed to save T1A by ranking nobody, I am now at my next stoppage - gold.
So... ultimately, I think the game just doesn't want me to rank or progress. Which, ultimately, is fine. I'll be finishing this season, getting 5x 5* rolls, another 6* roll, and be closer to another R5. And have more T4C then I could ever hope to actually use.
Not sure what else I can do to get gold. But I needs it!
Probably have someone suggest "Change alliances". *Shrug*
Just thought I'd share.
Depends on how you look at it, but yeah it effects map 6 players in the greatest values.
Yes, his argument for you would be to play a lot more, unfortunately.
I never argued that 6*s are cheaper.
You sir, are in almost the exact position as I am. I'll hopefully be rank 2 (at min rank 3 master) in aw at end of season, I'll have all those resources to hoard, because I just can't add that many more hours to arena in order to spend them.
I never said you did. This post wasn't pointed at you or anyone, but was a collection of some of the arguments in the thread as a whole.
If you are running map 5 or less you should have plenty of gold if you regularly hit milestones in the 4* arenas. It may take a while but it will happen. People wanting to progress at the game should be doing those anyway.
Map 6 is an entirely different animal though. I get OP point about concerns over a map7. When it comes to AQ something has to be a limiting factor. At this point many alliances are capable of 6×5. So not only is it a prestige race it's also a donation race. Map 7 might just be a donation race...hard to say. I'd probably be more open to reducing the cost of map 6 than I would be to a sharp increase in gold.
They might me trying to destroy the game so they can stop playing it and get their lives back.
What? You know I made this thread asking for more gold right? How am I trolling?
One suggestion I put forth was to have Map 6 provide exploration rewards like map 5 does.
I see you edited this post. I'll assume there was a misunderstanding. I want to prop everyone up not hold anyone down.
It is a strange analogy, but at least we know Kabam is in here reading and deleting comments instead of responding and being transparent. Unfortunate.
I'm all for a good analogy, but it may have been a bit far. Lol.
I was being a bit metaphorical, but the gold crunch isn't specifically affecting the *top* any percent of players, it is affecting a small percentage of them that aren't necessarily compacted at the literal top. Its really primarily a problem for players ranking up multiple 5* champions, which is probably less than 20% of all players. Of them, it is only affecting players that a) don't grind arena enough or burn resources inefficiently, or b) rank more indiscriminately. I suspect that number is in fact between 1% and 5% of all players that play the game.
Anyone in the top 20% of players could be affected, but most of them are likely not.
Numerically speaking, that's unlikely. There are probably either about or over a million players in the game now (we know there were well over a million accounts when Kabam released statistics about Rocket's button) which makes the top 20% of players somewhere near or over 200k players. Even assuming many alliances are not full and many top 20% players are not in an alliance or in an alliance much lower than their own player level that still represents a number over 5000 alliances worth of players. There are fewer alliances in the expert bracket than that. Outside the expert bracket you're more likely to be out of rank up catalysts than gold.
My guess is only the top 1000 alliances or fewer are doing map 6 with any frequency and that's at most 30k players. At best, the map 6 players are less than 3% of all players.
And Kabam be like:
We understand your concern but currently we don't have any plans on bringing the gold realm, but here is one gold crystal with 2400 gold which will help you max out your champs. Stay tuned for more updates.
Something seriously needs to be done, after playing arena for 3 days straight and not getting enough gold to rank up the champion you just grinded for is ridiculous..
Anyone who says gold isn't an issue either has no life or truly isn't an end game play that has 5 and 6*s to rank up
Man you better git in dat arena and grind like a Russian stripper, you’re just lazy, what you could only score 46M one guy did 100M and even had time to use the bathroom.
According to some very knowledgeable players only about 50 people are having gold issues.
All kidding aside, 46M is impressive great job.
I'm aware gold is an issue for some people. There's different ways people are gold poor.
1. People don't grind. Either because they don't want to or don't have time. I have no sympathy for ones that don't want to. Arena is the best way to get in game currencies...thats how the game was designed. Everyone else has to. For people that are busy I'm sorry but you're going to progress slower.
2. We have people that do grind but are broke because of a growing roster. In time your gold will catch up. It takes a long time but you'll get there. You just have to be picky on your rank ups every so often.
3. Map 6. To me that's the tough one. If your constantly running map 6 you're in the top few percent. I have no clue if kabam meant for AQ to be that cost prohibitive, I suspect it was meant that way but don't know to what extent. If they did it's doubtful they'll change it anytime soon. Constantly running map 6 is meant to be difficult or everyone would do it. I can see how doing 6×5 would eat up every bit of gold and an enormous amount of time grinding for it.
I'm all for a good analogy, but it may have been a bit far. Lol.
If you're Grinding one Arena, perhaps. I do at least 3 when I'm farming for Gold. Sometimes 4 or 5. Hitting a Milestone or two in each per Round yields a fair amount of BCs.
To be honest, something is going to require effort, whether the Arena or not. The game takes work. Logging on to collect the Calendar and make a couple moves is not enough to progress very far.