agreed this has been the worst drop event rate yet. still a matter of RNG, but its never been this bad

gz to you Teschio, then the games just hates me (and some others)

"5 free plays so far, 3 jeweled and 2 silver. Seems like yours it's bad luck, not reduced drop rate."

The dev said the drop rate was *slightly* increased. Let's assume it's still 20% as before.
The standard deviation of the sample distribution of sample mean is 0.126. Your 60% drop rate is outside 3 standard deviations. In other words, your sample is at the far end of a normal distribution.
95% of us should have a drop rate between 0% and 45.2%.

Sorry to hear about your bad luck Yukonus.

The rate was increased, but each reset of Free Play is unique. We don't do anything behind the scenes to guarantee a Jeweled out of x Free Plays.

The designers are aware that players feel disappointed by the rates, and in their solutions for gearing up past event Crusaders will also consider changes to other things, but nothing public to announce at this time.

Same here, 0 Jeweled out of 11 free plays ... I know it's not guaranted, but compared to the Christmas event or the Pool Party where i got a shit ton of it (Blood Bowl not so much), it feels like there's been a mistake somewhere ...

I started playing 2 days before this event. Here are my thoughts, now that it's over.

* I enjoyed the writing, and learning the game while going through it. I'll miss the heart formation. All in all, I had fun.

* As a new player, I had to grind daily to get enough idols in order to play the last few event objectives. I was able to beat all of them, but it took constant daily play, and a lot of effort. I beat the last objective a few hours before the event ended. I'm not saying it's impossible, obviously, but it was pretty tough for me to do. Since I didn't have any past event crusaders, some of the restricted objectives were difficult. I'm ok with all of that, but the short length of the event might make it a smidge too difficult for newer players that can't idol grind. Just my opinion.

* After opening 7 jeweled chests and a few silver ones, I still didn't have 3 pieces of gear for Sally. I'm ok with RNG, but I dislike RNG tails that can give you 8 pieces of gear for Rocky and 2 for Sally. I like achievements, and I like working for them. It may just be me, but I would rather go through the entire event and be rewarded with 3 pieces of common gear for both crusaders for the achievements, rather than having it skewed and miss one because of a bad RNG tail.

* In total, I got 9 jeweled chests from objectives, 1 from a promo code, and I bought 7 more. I also had a handful of silvers. I didn't get a single piece of epic gear from the chests, and I'M OK WITH THAT. Seriously, that's RNG that I'm ok with. If other people get lucky with their drops, awesome. I'm happy with what I got (I did end up getting both gear achievements). By the way, my jeweled chest rate was about 20% for my event free plays, so I can't say that it felt low for me.

Again, all in all, I had fun playing. I thought my donations were worth supporting the game, and getting a few gold epics was a nice reward for that as well. I know you already have it on your to-do list to re-introduce past event crusaders back into the game, and I look forward to that for a very specific reason: I'm really tired of hearing "just use Siri!" when asking about formations, as if it's a given that everyone already has Siri :)

1 suggestion:

I really really liked playing the heart formation, seeing the writing, and fighting the enemies. If there was an unrestricted (no ticket) free play that didn't offer any rewards, like the way other campaign free plays don't give rewards, that would've been perfect. Again, just my opinion.

Thank you kindly for listening.
~Erich

Thank you for the detailed feedback, Erich, and for supporting the game. Very impressed that you got enough Idols to tackle all the event objectives before it ended.

You didn't need to finish your last objective before time ran out. You could have just started it and played it until you finished it.

The event timer is there to indicate when you can no longer start and objective, and when the chests for event currency go off-sale.

I will add your suggestions to the list to consider. :)
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@ kjbds: Thank you for the feedback. We hope to have ways to get gear for past event Crusaders but nothing to announce yet.

When a reset occurs, then and there a random number generator generates a number, if that random number is between 2 certain values, programmed half a year ago when the game was programmed and chosen based on some value of odds for something to happen which has never been changed, then the chest dropped is an upgraded jeweled one, if not between those 2 values then it's just a regular silver one. Simplest programming ever, and of course no memory of what some other chest drop was. DEfinition of random number generator.

As to what's in a chest, that's also a random number generator value to have something chosen from among several categories. Gold if a silver chest, buffs if silver, warps if jeweled, gear for 20 crusaders if silver, 2 crusaders if event, the gear being of several kinds, lets say slot one, slot 2, slot 3, and those being among common if silver, uncommon, rare, or epic if jeweled. Their being ssssooooooo many things that you already have, it's very uncommon to get something new that you don't have and is better then something that you do have. Also the simplest programming ever and a perfect example of the coupon collector math problem but with a whole lot more degrees of freedom. Also experienced by millions of kids collecting baseball playing cards...
http://www.math.uah.edu/stat/apps/CouponCollectorExperiment.html