Supply Drop system announced!

Errr, is this supposed to deter Tanking or something?
It’s a bit generous (so looking for the catch) and removes any incentive to just do the dailies.

Thanks for posting... will take a look at the release.

It's a step in the right direction. And quite generous .. so I wonder if they prepare for the next round of OP bots that will set you back in excess of $1000 per piece .. you get a $5 per day free .. yeaih .. but you still need 200 days to finish .. yikes .. but let's try to stay positive here ..

One thing I don't like is that the components are fixed, and Pixonic gets to choose. So in the first month, everyone gets a (part of) Kumiho. Then Scourge. Then Storm. Then Hover. You get the picture.

Also, the black market isn't going anywhere, but it may be a lot easier to make significant progress there. With the free bronze chests and the extra keys from the crates it seems every somewhat active player should be able to get to the superchest each month and get their fourth Galahad.

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I LOL’d at that last part.

6 months to get hangar full of Kumihos? That's about same time as getting just 2 Ancilots.

Not going to happen. There is going to be a catch.

This makes me think the last few months may have just been about milking the whales and now they are putting the game back on track.

It all comes down to bot and weapon releases. As long as all releases are now niche releases like the Storm and hover and not OP rubbish like ST and Haechi the game can settle down and we can all get on with it.

Fingers crossed.

I'd rather skip the extra silver and retain the extra daily task. 30 gold is better than a mediocre silver increase.

Keys, is pretty good, however, with the junk dropping...more keys / silver / random dross, not overly worth jumping for joy about.

Kumiho. It's the least OP bot from the OP bots. I doubt they'll be as generous with the time / drops with the better ones.

Going back to the Daily tasks, this is just going to really hit the newbie players. Getting gold for their 4th / 5th slot is going to take them way way longer.

Isn't that exactly what they said last time too?

Hoping for the best, expecting the Pix effect.

What they said last time was they would  introduce a rewards system that rewards you more the higher your league and that is exactly what is being delivered.

Now they are saying battle rewards will be buffed which irons out the only problem of 30 less gold per day.

I like it!

My take away from this whitepaper. In a specific order so the evaluation is more coherent.

Neutral
- The communication has been seemingly improved.
- Silver reward is not significant

TBD
- The components. Hard to decipher exactly what they mean. There are two possibilities but the way I understand it is that they will be dropping one particular component per month. That means you have to be in expert or above to assemble a particular item. Also means that in about 1 years time you will assemble one of each component item. Longer if they keep on introducing new stuff. Helps to level the playing field but not sure if its enough. One of certain item is not enough. But probably was never designed/intended to create a fully leveled playing field.
- Will the same components for the champs keep dropping after 19 days or they stop at 19
- This could be an indication of a yearly meta turn over. If so the value of this mechanism decreases.
- BM key reward is neither here or there and it is totally up to Pix what on average players will walk away with after spinning. Any keys given away can be offset by the alteration of prizes on the wheel (dilution of items being paid out). Good not knowing the actual odds.



The bad
- Gold will be harder to get. Cannot ascertain the implications of this at this stage.
- Loss of 30 gold/per day is not insignificant and should not be underestimated (this bugs me – 11K au per year and the other 11K is likely to go as well. That’s 22K Au per year)
- It will be harder to break into higher leagues for noobs if the distribution is effective
- Too late for many


Tanking
- This mechanism will not move a clubber who likes clubbing for the pleasure. Those with maxed out component gear in bronze will not move.
- It could persuade a proportion of resource clubbers to move up should the mechanism be reasonable. I think many would move up but not sure if they would go to champs or pretend to be a hover bot ans stay around expert.

The good
- Seems like a positive move perhaps in response to the public pressure. Fingers crossed.

this thing needs to be seen and felt to be understood. could have catches.

No mention of it. Silver has to be kept for end of battle, else no one will be able to upgrade. As to if they phase gold out...who knows.

Based on the text towards the end of the Pixo note it sounds like the plan is to get rid of gold daily task rewards completely:

“There’s only one drawback: with Supply Drops ONE daily task with gold bonus is going away. This is the part of a bigger plan: we’re moving all direct gold income towards Battle Rewards and Supply Drops (in the form of Black Market keys)”

one goes when supply crates come, next goes when battle rewards come in the following release. At least that is how I read it.

I have done the same. Once they added the permanent black market I deleted the game from my 9 year old's tablet.

these are not "loot crates" as you do not buy them and the rewards are not random