FIRST EVER BASTION
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What Is Going On Summoners!
The first Realm Event has come to a close, and with it, we have our first-ever BASTION Summoner out in the Battlerealm.
A huge congratulations to Vern from GT40 for opening 183,602 Crystals... that's (checks notes)... a lot.
The first Realm Event has come to a close, and with it, we have our first-ever BASTION Summoner out in the Battlerealm.
A huge congratulations to Vern from GT40 for opening 183,602 Crystals... that's (checks notes)... a lot.
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I salute you Vern, you're both richer and crazier than I am.
Here they are:
(Brian is an honorary member, having omeleted the playerbase to one billion)
I got rank 1,257
Kabam has done a couple of crystal purges to help the game. However, it isn't the purging of the crystals themselves that helps. It is the deleting of crystal types that helps.
Consider, say, a featured crystal from 2022. That crystal had artwork. It had descriptions. It had drop tables. All kinds of resources that had to be included in every copy of the game client everywhere. This made the game client bigger. And the game servers needed those resources as well, which meant every time the devs updated the servers copies of these resources had to be pushed to the servers, which slowed down the update process (which could happen dozens of times a day during development).
And then consider that every single game account, including the millions of game accounts ever created whether they are being played or not, have to track how many of that crystal each player has. Even though that number is basically zero for almost every player. It is like a spreadsheet where most of the cells are empty. This causes the back end databases to get larger, and thus also slower.
If they can delete that crystal from the game, the game would run faster, update faster, and be easier to maintain. But to delete the crystal, they have to make sure no one owns it first. So they force open all those crystals, then delete the crystal itself from the game data. This is the part that helps in the long run.
If they do this to a crystal no one can earn anymore, they can safely delete the crystal. But they can't do that for crystals people can still earn, like gold crystals, solo crystals, PHC crystals, arena boosts. No matter how many of those players own, the game can't purge the crystal, because people are still getting them. So purging those makes no sense: it doesn't help anything.
All of the hundreds of millions of crystals we opened during the event did not help the game itself one bit. That will come later, when the devs create their crystal purge list of crystals that will get forced open and then permanently deleted from the game.
0. I've been hoarding here and there since I downloaded the game, and as I grew into larger alliances, there wasn't a need to open random crystals and I started hoarding full-time since 2019, because there wasn't a need to open them for the alliance. Since GT40 is a war-focused alliance, I opened stuff when we needed a chance to get a specific defender or attacker, and left the rest in the stash. I hoarded for my alliances basically, since I was the backup guy whenever Officers called for a rank-up and I'm more than happy to do so. Over the course of close to 7 years playing the game, I played by the Solo Event requirements, even if it meant hitting one or 2 milestones (especially when auto-play was enabled) and never missed an EQ difficulty. My screentime got significantly less when I joined Master-level alliances and I stopped grinding arenas as much because War was always our focus
1. No units were spent during he duration of this event (I presume you too, since no crystal was worth the returns - the only one that came closest was the Sunday arena crystal which was 10units a pop). Yes, I spend on the game but mainly during the 2 big events, and I partake in special events over the course of the year to help me alliance with bigger rank-ups. One thing about this event is that it was geared towards people who logged in and completed Event milestones, and of course hoarded them, rather than predominantly buying their way to crystals
2. My starting stash was as follows:
3. Solo Event crystals fuelled 1/3 of my points, and these were the crystals I opened first. This caused a huge framerate drop in my entire game as they started to expire, and I couldn't screen record anymore (loading times are still suffering right now as the stash clears up/selling unwanted items)
4. This was the order of my crystal opening strategy:
4a: Convert all 60,000,000 shards into 1k Solo Event crystals
4b: Max out every 2* champion
4c: All Signature Stone crystals
4d: Open existing fully-formed 2k Greater Solo crystals
4e: Max out every 3* and 4* champion
4f: Open existing fully-formed 10k Supreme Solo crystals
4g: Try to max out every 5* champion (they're currently not all maxed out)
4h: Gold Crystals, Max Sig crystals, 2k Battlechips and anything that didn't give out Champions next
4i: PHCs, 3*s, 4*s, 5*s, 6*s and 7*s basics only
4j: The final ones were the selectors and the Catalyst formation crystals - these were the most difficult because by this time my game was crashing repeatedly, but selectors guaranteed max sig crystals
5. Events: I calculated the score for each 22h event to get to 21-40%, and I religiously hit it in between opening crystals. For 7h events, I hit only to qualify for Ranked Rewards since that yielded the highest returns in terms of absolute number of crystals to open
6. I shielded myself from Advancement events by opening just the amount of crystals that needed to hit the 40,000 mark. I slipped up once and landed in 5 or 8th position but that at the tail-end of the event already. I'm in quite a few Line chats but I trusted my 29 other fellow GT40 alliance mates to keep my score a secret, which everyone was more than happy to
7. Arena: I simply did not have time to do it
8. Store trade-in for T4CC: yes I did that too
9. Some other strategies are fuzzy right now but I'll try to gather something more coherent in a video format
Final number of crystals opened
183,602 crystals opened
Final alliance result
1,000,183,602
Final Cleansing result
2,169,697,364
Congrats to everyone who gave it a shot.
I mean, who’d be crazy enough to do that. But still, you don’t get those odd stutters if you do.
So I’ve been told.
To @BrianGrant for opening the eggs as I predicted 😎 and a lot of summoners against this great act of fellowship for the community wrote a lot of comments before and angry words about this, after he openned.
And to the 1st Bastion @Vern
At the moment I have yet to allow any stash item to expire unsold so far, but whether I can sustain that throughout the rest of the build up, we'll see. I do have a long flight coming up with excellent internet service, and you can only grind so much arena.
🌄☀️
Technically in Brian's video we didn't see him actually open the eggs... just the objective counter increase from 1 to 2 to 3.