So, I know JEWELED chests are meant to be rare in order to make sure that they have novelty. That makes sense. However, event jeweled chests are slightly different from normal jeweled chests in that they only appear during a short time frame, and they are typically the only "decent" way of getting gear for event crusaders. Normal chests, silver or jeweled, only give gear for non-event crusaders, but they can be earned at any time. Since event jeweled chests are the primary way of gearing up event crusaders, AND they only appear during short, select timeframes, it is rather upsetting to do an area-900+ run and be repeatedly rewarded silver event chests, which are close to worthless outside of filling gear slots (not necessarily with good gear). So far in this event, my rewards from free play have been 8 silver chests and 1 jeweled chest. With the jeweled chests from the tier 1 and tier 2 objectives, event crusaders are typically already fully geared, or very, very close. After one or two normals to potentially fill an empty slot, they lose all value, and when the event ends, an entire year must pass in order to get decent gear-giving chests for those event crusaders again.

I suggest that jeweled event chest drop rates should be affected by the area you reach in that run. Not enough to make a 900+ run a near-guaranteed drop, not enough to feel like there is an actual reason to do event maps as opposed to the usual "act 1" map. The different formations make for more interesting setups, for sure, but it is a small novelty, and the different formations do not tend to make major differences in red gem gain. Giving a modest buff to event jeweled chest drop rates based on area reached would make the point of event runs (red gems AND event chests, as opposed to just red gems in non-event free play) actually rewarding. I don't think anyone likes that feeling of "Just spent 7 hours reaching a far area, time to reset and geeeeeeeeetttt-!! .......A useless chest. Sigh."

Final note: I get that normals have to drop in order for jeweled chests to retain novelty. Just making that clear. Not saying normals should not drop. Just that getting nearly 10 normals to a single jeweled on a time-limited event is kind of...depressing.

If I haven't specifically burned up a bunch of warps to have multiple runs worth of tokens on hand (and assuming that I'm playing regularly since you could have a bunch of tokens stockpiled after a few days away from the game) I will just go ahead and push for as high an area as I can in event free play for idol farming purposes just the same as a regular free play, because without using warps it can take an event free play to 800+ and 1-2 regular free plays to 700+ before I've got enough tokens to start another event free play. It would do me absolutely no good to reset out of the event run as soon as the reset is available if I'm just going to be doing 2-3 deep free play runs until I have enough tokens for the next one anyway.

Although... Random thought here... What if the reset screen coming out of an event free play was modified to offer an option to sacrifice some of your idol earnings from that run for an additional event chest roll? They'd set a price point (or a starting price point and a rate that the cost increases for each extra) for whatever they'd decide to be a fair rate, and then we could choose to earn less idols and more event chests from that run. With each chest subject to its own roll to determine if it will upgrade to an event jeweled chest.

Animenut: You can play an event enough times to qualify for the tier 2 achievement without time warps.

I know you can make it to tier 2 objectives without warps. I do it all the time. We were talking about spamming "free play" runs, which cost 2500 currency a pop.

As for the rng statement from the other post, that was about non-event chests, which have different rates. Non-event jeweled chests from previously-beaten bosses only have a 1% chance, and have no time limit. Event jeweled chest drops are not 1% and are under a time limit AND a price wall. Ergo, differences.

I like the idea of using emeralds as new currency. The way I would say to apply it would be to award a percentage of your ruby earnings as emeralds, but only when resetting from an event area. For example, if you reset for 1500 idols, you would get 15 emeralds as well. If the amounts are 100, 250, and 500 like you suggest, the percentage would need to be more than 10%. Maybe 30%. So 1500 idols would yield 45 emeralds. But that would still take 12 resets to get 500 for a jeweled chest, which is a bit much. Maybe reduce the numbers to 100 for a silver, 200 for a random with slightly higher chance than normal to get a jeweled chest, and 300 for a jeweled chest, assuming the 30% stays in place. The devs would work out the numbers better than I would. This system simply wouldn't work exactly as I mentioned it, because that would mean that I would be getting about 93 emeralds per reset. That doesn't seem balanced.