Crystal Cleanse: A personal tragedy^H^H^H^H^H^H^H journey in pictures
DNA3000
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Prologue:
Infinity War
Endgame
Epilogue:
44
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The most hilarious part about fact they had to monkey with the leaderboard a bit:
Look: if 2.1 billion crystals isn't enough, you can keep the title.
Fourth is painful. Second would be more painful. Second place to someone who scored 122k would be right up there with what Cassandra Nova did to Johnny.
As there are no rewards for second, third, or any other place except for the percentage bracket rewards, this does not directly impact anyone's rewards it just puts the right person in first place. This is also why our current realm score looks like 2.1 billion points. There are 1.5 billion extra points in there.
It would be a bit optimistic to think the game had grown to six million players. And my current best estimate for number of active players is in the neighborhood of 750k or so. Definitely between 700k and 1M.
Abdo had 71k score and he is 18th.
A lot of heros without the cape up at the top.
I opened what I could, I didn't go over the board but I saved catalysts, champions (just 120 4* for iso) and free 4 hour crystals.
But also Brian fooled them. The crystals are safe with the new keeper. Otherwise the universe would have been ended and we wouldn't be having this conversation.
Vern was manually awarded an extra one billion points to ensure he was number one above Brian. That's where the extra points come from.
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh........... Eyes everywhere, man.
As while he was not the highest crystals opener, he did do something person that the whole community benefit from.
Here was ultimately how I decided which crystals to open.
1. If I open does anything go into temporary stash? If no, open. Gold crystals, for example. For the most part, arena crystals.
2. Does the crystal contain something I might lose to the stash, but don't actually need? If so, open. I opened thousands of T3CC crystals under this rationale. Yes, they are all going to go into stash, and there's no way I can use thousands of T3C. But that's the point: I'm *never* going to be able to use them. They will either sit there forever, or I can open them now and score points. So they all go.
3. Can I replace them if I open them? This one was a bit tricky. We know the Super Event is coming back, and when it does there's 100k solo shards in there. I never open those anyway under normal circumstances, which means in a year I'm bound to have 36 million+ shards again. So saving 45 million seems unnecessary. So they all went.
4hr crystals. That was the painful one. I had almost 10k of them. But once again, I never open them to use them. I *could* one day need them, so I didn't want to open all of them. So I decided to keep about 2500, and open the rest. Yes, a lot of those resources will go to waste, because I'm unlikely to need all those potions. But once again: that's the point. They are doomed to go to waste anyway, today, tomorrow, or sitting unopened for years until the game shuts down or the Sun burns out.
At this point I was well above 100k.
Some other things I did:
Open solo crystals first. The goal was to get all lower rarity champs max sig, so every champion pull after that generated a max sig crystal. Then I opened champion crystals like PHCs and GMCs. I ended up opening about 6000 max sig crystals.
And yes, I did the T4CC dance. All the way to the bottom.