I love playing this game; however, I had some thoughts on ways to improve it, and would like to float them by the Dev team, and maybe get the community’s input on them.

The first thing I want to ask is that I would like a better overview of each of my crusaders. Currently, when you hover your mouse over the character portraits, it just displays the special ability of the character. We also get the exact same readout if we hover over the special ability immediately under the portrait. I would recommend creating an overview box that appears when hovering over the portraits. It could include character name, HP, base DPS including enchantments and idols, current in-formation DPS (if active), total formation DPS/gold boost provided by character, and special ability. For an example:

Dark Gryphon 1.97K HP
Base DPS: 23.3 Sd
Formation DPS : 1.98O
Total Boosts: 30%DPS 0%Gold
Crusaders in the column in from of Dark Gryphon take 65% less damage

A second idea I had was “chest upgrade machine.” It would allow you to upgrade regular chests to jeweled chests, for a cost. Instead of only being able to buy a jeweled chest for 100 rubies, allow us to spend, for example, five silver chests, 25 rubies, and two idols to get one jeweled chest. In order to prevent abuse, I would increase the idol count by one each time the machine is used, and decrease it by one for every continuous 48 hours it is not used to a minimum of two.

My third (and longest) thought is to make rubies more useful. Make it so they can do other things than just purchase chests.
-The first way you could do this is to use them to upgrade boosts. If you open a chest and it drops a common boost, you could use one ruby to upgrade it to an uncommon, if it drops an uncommon, you could use three rubies to upgrade to a rare, or five rubies to upgrade a dropped rare to an epic.
-A second idea is equipment redraw. If you open a chest, and you get a duplicate piece of equipment, the enchant button still appears; however, under it is a second button, it allows you to spend five rubies to redraw the card. It will always provide a different piece of equipment of the same rarity. It will allow us to concentrate slightly better on crusaders that we actually use.
-A third possibility would be “swap splitting.” While having the event characters swappable with normal characters is a mechanic I like, you could make an option where we could spend 25 rubies to separate one pair for the current run. That way, if we are going for, say, the level 2000 event, we could have both Kaine and The Monkey in our formation, allowing us to get gold slightly faster. As soon as we choose to reset, the split is repaired, and they go back to being swappable.

Now, if they do decide to go with this idea, rubies would need to be slightly more achievable; for example, after reaching level 150 on free play, bosses have a 25% chance of dropping 1 ruby the first time they are defeated in addition to the chests they drop. This would have the added benefit of encouraging deeper free plays, and help keep players interested longer. Furthermore, I would recommend not selling normal jeweled chests for cash, and instead selling rubies. Normal jeweled chests would then be purchased for rubies. Event chests would still be for cash/tickets. If they do decide to go with this, it would make the game easier to monetize, without much of a negative impact on the player base. People who want to spend cash can keep upgrading, redrawing, and splitting all day long, while those of us who want a free game can make small ruby transactions occasionally while saving up for jeweled chests.

Thank you for your time, and I would love to hear what everyone thinks of my ideas. If Codename Entertainment decides to use any of my ideas, they are free to do so with no claim by me.

Make rubies more useful is great but your suggestion are bad... need to find more way to earn rubies, its pretty long when you have completed all objectives...

All orthers ideas are bad... Sorry...

Swap splitting = 25 rubies (not permanent)
and
Upgrade rare into an epic (permanent) = 5 rubies

Please let me know WHAT is your logic dude??????

If u looking at how often you get epic in jewled chest, and how often u get jewled chest by upgrade, and how much rubies u get a day, you problem looking at atleast over 5k-10k rubis for rare to epic.
Why?
The reason is down below:

Since 1/10 jeweled chest got epic trinekt or gear. And there is only really 4 you wanna aim for dubble solo dps on hermit or emo, and both gold items.
so it 4/64 possible outcoms, so 1/16.
With the epic chance it's 160 jewled chests. Or equal to 200 USD.

Luukkaah, saying something is bad is easy. I would love to hear any ideas you have.

To both you and KeySer, if you can go back and read my post, you will notice that the upgrade option is specifically stated as only affecting boosts, not equipment. Hence the reason it is not nearly as expensive as swap splitting. It is not permanent; it lasts an absolute maximum of 30 minutes.

Anamatron; I don't think the first two ruby uses I described would take that much time to implement, there is already a pause and a button when you get a duplicate item, all they would need to do is put in a second button that tells it to draw another item. The bosses at higher levels could be dropping rubies by tomorrow if the decided to go with that. The only really complicated part would be the swap splitting and the complete overhaul of the monetization system of the game, and they really don't need those just to test out the concept.

1) Unless I am seriously misremembering, the enchant button is below the card already. no need to change any sizes, just put a new button below the old. (I am currently on free play, and am not wasting a chest just to check on that.)

2) If I was designing it; the card flips back to face down, then back to face up with the new equipment on it. At this point, it would only have one button under it, either equip if it is new, or enchant if it is a duplicate.

I would be interested in knowing how the cards are drawn now. It could be every card is selected from every single possible result, with some probability weights. Or it could be that the cards are first selected as type (trinket, boost, equipment, gold) then rarity, and then it selects from the table of that type. Or it could be some combination or order alteration. Of the two I listed, if it uses the second method, it would be relatively simple to get it to pick from the same table again. Simply doing that, however, could lead to the incredibly annoying chance of doing a redraw and winding up with what you just sent away.

I do fully expect anything that they do to take time, and don't expect to see any motion on any of these ideas to happen next month, or even the next six months. All I wanted to do was put the ideas in the back of the Devs' minds so that they could draw inspiration from it when they go forward with the game.

I really do feel that, even if everything else is ignored, the boost upgrade, the equipment redraw, and bosses that drop the occasional ruby would make the game a good deal more interesting.

i'd pay rubies to swap split. heck that would make guys' night out and beauty and the beasts much easier than it is now. would give us a coupe more crusaders to work with ;)

I'm not exactly sure what you are getting at Raymond. I think you are saying something against the equipment redraw? There are 60 pieces of equipment at any given level. With the redraw, it would still be a (nearly) random selection from the remaining 59 pieces. You are still not guaranteed anything.