Introducing: The Calculator

It’s been a long sore: players get a new champion and wonder how much xp and cash it would cost to upgrade it, what the attributes would be and how this new champion would fare in a battle.

That’s why I suggest to add a new aspect to the game: The Calculator. The Calculator is an Einstein-like in-game only character. He has a Phd in Championology and advises The Collector about champions. He can be accessed in the Champions tab, somewhere in the bottom-right corner. Clicking on him opens a new interface.

In this interface, you can put up to three of your champions side-by-side, either showing attributes or abilities. However, you can also ask The Calculator to calculate. The calculation can show you the attributes of a champion based upon the tier, rank, level or signature level of your choosing (provided you have that champion in some way). What is the hero rating, attack, health or critical hit score of a maxed out 4* sig 99 Gamora? With one push of the button The Calculator gives you that.

The Calculator can do so much more. He also can simulate an entire fight. Go to simulation mode. In there, you can put one of your champions against a simulated one. You can choose the stats of the champion, the difficulty of the AI and which node boosts it has. This fight is entirely free, it is purely meant for you to train without any cost. Having difficulties with a boss? Train in the simulation different strategies before you try it for real.

It is up to Kabam to decide if such fights should be rewarded: cash or a new type of tokens. Maybe a community aspect could be added, so players can have an accessible in-game platform to share hints & tips.

I think this would be a great addition to the game: it gives players more know-how to base their decisions on and give them to opportunity to learn tremendous amount of game play. New or old players, everyone could use The Calculator.

What do you think?

Comments

Cats73

Great idea.

...how does this give Kabam money again?

charaderdude2

Cats73 wrote: »

Great idea.

...how does this give Kabam money again?

By making it cost units or money to unlock?

Championcritic

charaderdude2 wrote: »

Cats73 wrote: »

Great idea.

...how does this give Kabam money again?

By making it cost units or money to unlock?

NOOO, don't encourage them. This is a great idea.

charaderdude2

Championcritic wrote: »

charaderdude2 wrote: »

Cats73 wrote: »

Great idea.

...how does this give Kabam money again?

By making it cost units or money to unlock?

NOOO, don't encourage them. This is a great idea.

Units,Then.Great Idea,it is,lol

2nd_slingshot

Won't happen. If a practice mode is put in game, people will die less to specific champions. Which reduced amount of revives and potions spent.

charaderdude2

2nd_slingshot wrote: »

Won't happen. If a practice mode is put in game, people will die less to specific champions. Which reduced amount of revives and potions spent.

Their main source of income is crystals,
Also,I don't think anyone would spend real money to get units for revives and potions anyway.

Colonaut123

charaderdude2 wrote: »

Cats73 wrote: »

Great idea.

...how does this give Kabam money again?

By making it cost units or money to unlock?

It are the new and inexperienced players that benefit most of The Calculator. Putting barriers would defeat its purpose.

Colonaut123

2nd_slingshot wrote: »

Won't happen. If a practice mode is put in game, people will die less to specific champions. Which reduced amount of revives and potions spent.

You can literally get a free healing potion every 4 hours. Clearly, Kabam knows people don't spend RL money on potions.

Colonaut123

Cats73 wrote: »

Great idea.

...how does this give Kabam money again?

Customer satisfaction.

charaderdude2

Colonaut123 wrote: »

charaderdude2 wrote: »

Cats73 wrote: »

Great idea.

...how does this give Kabam money again?

By making it cost units or money to unlock?

It are the new and inexperienced players that benefit most of The Calculator. Putting barriers would defeat its purpose.

Ya gotta look at at some ways in which it's reasonable for kabam and the players,
So...A 7 day free trial,and THEN units or money to unlock permanently?

Colonaut123

charaderdude2 wrote: »

Colonaut123 wrote: »

charaderdude2 wrote: »

Cats73 wrote: »

Great idea.

...how does this give Kabam money again?

By making it cost units or money to unlock?

It are the new and inexperienced players that benefit most of The Calculator. Putting barriers would defeat its purpose.

Ya gotta look at at some ways in which it's reasonable for kabam and the players,
So...A 7 day free trial,and THEN units or money to unlock permanently?

How about that the simulation room is free, but the calculation of the stats requires payment to unlock? Like you need to pay to unlock 1*, then you can unlock 2*, then 3* etc.

charaderdude2

Colonaut123 wrote: »

charaderdude2 wrote: »

Colonaut123 wrote: »

charaderdude2 wrote: »

Cats73 wrote: »

Great idea.

...how does this give Kabam money again?

By making it cost units or money to unlock?

It are the new and inexperienced players that benefit most of The Calculator. Putting barriers would defeat its purpose.

Ya gotta look at at some ways in which it's reasonable for kabam and the players,
So...A 7 day free trial,and THEN units or money to unlock permanently?

How about that the simulation room is free, but the calculation of the stats requires payment to unlock?

Seems good too...(They could do it the other way around too)
Also,How about adding an ability to create new nodes in there?

SpiritOfVengeance

One of the above comments is correct why would there be a practise training mode (which I love the idea of by the way) that will allow us to train and know exactly what to with our champions so easily for free. It does not benefit them at all. I can see so many cost requirements put in place just to test out our champions.

Colonaut123

charaderdude2 wrote: »

Colonaut123 wrote: »

charaderdude2 wrote: »

Colonaut123 wrote: »

charaderdude2 wrote: »

Cats73 wrote: »

Great idea.

...how does this give Kabam money again?

By making it cost units or money to unlock?

It are the new and inexperienced players that benefit most of The Calculator. Putting barriers would defeat its purpose.

Ya gotta look at at some ways in which it's reasonable for kabam and the players,
So...A 7 day free trial,and THEN units or money to unlock permanently?

How about that the simulation room is free, but the calculation of the stats requires payment to unlock?

Seems good too...(They could do it the other way around too)
Also,How about adding an ability to create new nodes in there?

I think that would take too much development time (the potential combinations are near infinite).

charaderdude2

Colonaut123 wrote: »

charaderdude2 wrote: »

Colonaut123 wrote: »

charaderdude2 wrote: »

Colonaut123 wrote: »

charaderdude2 wrote: »

Cats73 wrote: »

Great idea.

...how does this give Kabam money again?

By making it cost units or money to unlock?

It are the new and inexperienced players that benefit most of The Calculator. Putting barriers would defeat its purpose.

Ya gotta look at at some ways in which it's reasonable for kabam and the players,
So...A 7 day free trial,and THEN units or money to unlock permanently?

How about that the simulation room is free, but the calculation of the stats requires payment to unlock?

Seems good too...(They could do it the other way around too)
Also,How about adding an ability to create new nodes in there?

I think that would take too much development time (the potential combinations are near infinite).

It can be limited to be
Basic concepts of the game,Not new nodes doing new things,
Just a way to mix em up.(And create champ specific nodes)

Colonaut123

SpiritOfVengeance wrote: »

One of the above comments is correct why would there be a practise training mode (which I love the idea of by the way) that will allow us to train and know exactly what to with our champions so easily for free. It does not benefit them at all. I can see so many cost requirements put in place just to test out our champions.

I can't honestly don't think they should not. It is not intended to give any reward, so why shouldn't it be free? I guess you should pay to unlock certain tiers and maybe some specific bosses (Maestro is a likely candidate), but that's it.

Hammerbro_64

I like the simulation idea but I doubt it would happen before bases with all of this content they’re pushing...oh well. Beggars can’t be choosers amirite 😆

Colonaut123

Hammerbro_64 wrote: »

I like the simulation idea but I doubt it would happen before bases with all of this content they’re pushing...oh well. Beggars can’t be choosers amirite 😆

IMO I'd rather have Kabam fixate on long-term content than nice monthly events.

EnderDraco58

Like the idea, but realistically, it wouldn't be called the Calculator. All playable and non-playable characters are based on marvel characters (please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong), and since the Calculator isn't a marvel character, it'll probably not be named that. Might just be called Training Mode or something.

Love the idea though

Colonaut123

EnderDraco58 wrote: »

Like the idea, but realistically, it wouldn't be called the Calculator. All playable and non-playable characters are based on marvel characters (please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong), and since the Calculator isn't a marvel character, it'll probably not be named that. Might just be called Training Mode or something.

Love the idea though

Probably, but it seems consistent with the game. Sometimes rules need to be broken.

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Colonaut123

ArmandStar wrote: »

no need to break that rule. just let an already existing marvel character be in charge of the room.

Professor X is a good candidate. after all, not only is he literally a teacher, he also literally owns a training room

Now I feel so dumb.

EnderDraco58

No need to feel bad. You came up with the whole idea after all.

Araevin

Uh, have you heard of duels? Free fights against champions you struggle against. Doesn’t have nodes cause that’s what adds challenge to the game. If you can practise as many times as you’d like before you take on a quest, there’s no challenge/risk in the quest anymore. How is that fun?

EnderDraco58

Araevin wrote: »

Uh, have you heard of duels? Free fights against champions you struggle against. Doesn’t have nodes cause that’s what adds challenge to the game. If you can practise as many times as you’d like before you take on a quest, there’s no challenge/risk in the quest anymore. How is that fun?

I do agree that this is a similar thing to the idea this whole string is about, but the new mode was supposed to let you choose the difficulty of the champ you go up against, something that is not easily possible in duels. Also, there would still be challenge in quests, as a strong enemy will still put up a fight no matter how prepared you may or may not be.

Araevin

EnderDraco58 wrote: »

Araevin wrote: »

Uh, have you heard of duels? Free fights against champions you struggle against. Doesn’t have nodes cause that’s what adds challenge to the game. If you can practise as many times as you’d like before you take on a quest, there’s no challenge/risk in the quest anymore. How is that fun?

I do agree that this is a similar thing to the idea this whole string is about, but the new mode was supposed to let you choose the difficulty of the champ you go up against, something that is not easily possible in duels. Also, there would still be challenge in quests, as a strong enemy will still put up a fight no matter how prepared you may or may not be.

Plenty of ways to find champs around the difficulty you’re looking for. Alliance mates, general chat, friends, leaderboards - all allow you to find the champ you're looking to practice against plus I think if you search, you’ll probably find a list of champs with easy and hard duels on reddit/ClanHQ. I agree setting the difficulty would be a lot easier but do you really need the precision for an exact level or sig level of a champ?

As far as the challenge in quests is concerned, it would definitely make questing a lot easier if you can practice several times before you enter them — you’re saving energy and potions because you’ll die less often on challenging nodes. Takes away the resource management aspect of the game.

I do like the idea of checking prestige/atk/health before ranking/leveling up.

Colonaut123

Araevin wrote: »

Uh, have you heard of duels? Free fights against champions you struggle against. Doesn’t have nodes cause that’s what adds challenge to the game. If you can practise as many times as you’d like before you take on a quest, there’s no challenge/risk in the quest anymore. How is that fun?

Yeah, let the RNG God choose your fight... Nope, the whole point of this is the ability to choose your fight, not to wait for the right champion with the right difficulty to come by.

Colonaut123

Araevin wrote: »

EnderDraco58 wrote: »

Araevin wrote: »

Uh, have you heard of duels? Free fights against champions you struggle against. Doesn’t have nodes cause that’s what adds challenge to the game. If you can practise as many times as you’d like before you take on a quest, there’s no challenge/risk in the quest anymore. How is that fun?

I do agree that this is a similar thing to the idea this whole string is about, but the new mode was supposed to let you choose the difficulty of the champ you go up against, something that is not easily possible in duels. Also, there would still be challenge in quests, as a strong enemy will still put up a fight no matter how prepared you may or may not be.

Plenty of ways to find champs around the difficulty you’re looking for. Alliance mates, general chat, friends, leaderboards - all allow you to find the champ you're looking to practice against plus I think if you search, you’ll probably find a list of champs with easy and hard duels on reddit/ClanHQ. I agree setting the difficulty would be a lot easier but do you really need the precision for an exact level or sig level of a champ?

As far as the challenge in quests is concerned, it would definitely make questing a lot easier if you can practice several times before you enter them — you’re saving energy and potions because you’ll die less often on challenging nodes. Takes away the resource management aspect of the game.

I do like the idea of checking prestige/atk/health before ranking/leveling up.

Sorry, that is just a stupid suggestion. You shouldn't beg half the world just so you can train. That's plain ridiculous.

This game is so you can win, why would it be bad if you can train? If it really hurts Kabam, they can make some bosses requiring a fee (so you burn resources a different way).

Thanks for supporting half of my suggestion.