In response to dansonage - actually yes I did report the bug. I tend to have 3-5 active support tickets in relation to bugs open at most times. Some of which I could actually exploit but I choose not to.

I have no issue if it is done to help other people.

But when Annie and Andaho (and others I assume) actively run 18+ to exploit it for tokens (Andaho's words), that is not acceptable for me.

And no, power fragments wouldn't drop purely because of the max fragments available per tiered mission each day. For me, the annoyance here is about exploitation of paragon tokens.

Thanks Andaho and Annie for making my speech clearer.

David,
I'm totally aware that one won't get loot bags for fights that are already finished when you enter later on. And that the loot would be only card shuffle if you just jump in for boss fight as well as that there is not an epic item in every run (although I'd wish) :D

It's just: I took part in 2 or 3 of the runs and only got lumber and gold and some white and greens which is remarkably below normal.

One gets paragon tokens just for finishing a tier run no matter if quest or not?? Really? Only bounty runs or also desert and forest?
I am absolutely not aware that you get more tokens than the listed ones. Which would be 3 tokens for a bounty or quest run.

I honestly don't understand the hostility and contention over this issue.

As I said before... It was not 'tokens for free' - You had to earn them by replaying the missions. I have already explained how long it took to 'earn' them, and how I felt it was fair, considering you are able to buy them for such little cost...

CNE place such little value on paragon tokens, that you can buy 50 of them for $5 in 'the brotherhood pack', along with a speed potion that is worth 100 shardium, a class attack potion that is worth 100 shardium, and 5 brotherhood reset tokens that are worth 400 tokens - now to analyse that further... the pack costs 525 shardium... it's advertised as "SAVE 16%!"... take the value of the pots and the brotherhood reset tokens (600), and take 16% off that, and you have 504 shardium. - so effectively the value of 50 brotherhood tokens is a humongous 25 shardium... 25-16% = 21... 504+21 = 525 shardium.

Now I STRONGLY disagree with that valuation of the paragon tokens... I am angry that it's possible to buy them at all... but since it's possible to buy 50 paragon tokens for effectively for 25 shardium, it seems fair to me that you could spend 5 hours playing, to gain the same value. - it's very similar to fishing in Bush Whacker 2 - but requires a lot more effort and concentration.

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I'm just repeating myself here, over and over, but obviously you guys that are ranting out the contention have no understanding of my side of the argument.

I feel like I am being persecuted by players that I like and respect.

I have to admit that I have taken this persecution very personally. - I'm a passionate person who wears my heart on my shoulder... I'm starting to realise, a lot more than I should be, that I'm very passionate about this game... but I'm an all-or-nothing personality... I either do something, striving to be the best at it, or I won't bother doing it at all.

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From reading responses here again, and having had a restless night thinking about it, I think I have come to the conclusion that: Although you seem to be making the argument, primarily over the paragon token gains... It seems that that's not the thing people are hurt and passionately annoyed about...

It's more the fact that I led the way in finding the 'exploit' and I led the way in sharing it with my guild mates, and I led the way in encouraging the guild to keep it a secret.

I accept full responsibility for this. I didn't realise that my actions would have other passionate players hating and persecuting me.

If the devs have the ability to see how much I had gained from exploiting this feature, then I take back my statement about being angry if the rewards were taken away... I am starting to see now how this has upset people so much, and I am happy to have my gains removed. - I certainly believe I used this to my advantage more than any other player... well, maybe not... I know one person skipped a night's sleep to continue playing... but I'm not gonna name names - and it's my personal opinion that they earned the (relatively minor) gains they made, through such dedicated playing.

Or perhaps instead of removing my paragon tokens - because some of them I have spent on skills already, I could be 'fined' in shardium for the value of the rewards I had gained? - about 100 (maybe as much as 150) paragon tokens? - based on the evaluation above, 50 tokens for 25 shardium?... lol - and yes, it's a joke - I don't even know what about... a joke I'm making against myself... or a joke that the devs value the paragon tokens so little... or both? - but not a joke about being happy to be fined shardium... If I've done something that others believe is wrong, then that's how law works, and I'm happy to pay.

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I honestly didn't realise that I was doing anything wrong... I fully and logically analysed the 'feature', and I came to the conclusion that it was something easily discoverable by any player, or by a dev when performing simple testing before applying the update, and that it was probable that it was an intentional feature.

This leads me to the other thing I'm very hurt about... If my actions were so obviously wrong... why did my closest friends in-game not try to explain that to me?

Instead, 2 of my closest in-game friends, who initially supported keeping it a guild secret, and who were also initially enthusiastic about joining games for free... They have distanced themselves from me, quit the guild, and are claiming the moral high-ground.

I feel betrayed and let down by these friends :( With most people in the guild believing it was an intentional feature, and wanting to take advantage of it ahead of other people discovering it, why did they not speak up against the crowd? - Ok, it requires a lot of bravery to go against the crowd... So why did they not PM me, to say they believed I was in the wrong?... It was, in fact, one of them that decided, after about 12 hours use of the 'feature', to swear at us in guild chat, calling us cheaters, and state proudly that they had reported it. - a complete surprise... without first expressing to us that they felt like it was cheating... I respect their opinion that they felt it was cheating, and I respect them for reporting it... but I am upset because they showed no respect towards the rest of us, by swearing at us, calling us cheaters, and generally stirring up an uncomfortable drama beyond all proportions.

I'm not going to name names, but I happen to know that both these people are religious, and I had a very strict Christian upbringing myself... How one of them quietly switched to the attacker's side, and bad-mouthed me behind my back, it reminds me of the bible story of Judas.

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So I'm confident that this is my closing statement on the issue... I am genuinely sorry that I upset so many people, and I've tried to best explain my logic (although some may still not understand)... It's time for me to put it in the past, learn from it, and move on.