This was asked multiple times in the latest Q and A with no answer. I’m totally fine if the answer is NO. But, if it is NO, could we please know that so we can make an informed decision about what to do with our shards on 550 characters?
Exchangeable shards was dangled like a carrot when the current cover exchange was introduced last year. It was supposed to happen soon after. Then it was supposed to happen after Unity. Then we all know what happened after that.
Basically would be really nice to know if that is even on the radar or not. It would be great if it was actually going to happen but, if it isn’t, that’s fine also. Just would be great to know. Thanks!
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How hard would it be to convert shards into covers, and then use those covers in the already existing exchange system?
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Thank you for bringing this up again. I agree that getting an answer would be great, but I would also lobby for this being introduced in some capacity. I know I would be fine if they put some restriction on it, such as you can only get shards for your lowest level character at that level, or even if it was random if you have a bunch of toons tied for lowest. I also would not be angry if there was some cost for doing so, in terms of “losing” some of the shards in the conversion process, or some cost in an alternate currency. I could sarcastically suggest that I would happily pay ISO for the privilege, but considering how long we have been asking for something we could do with ISO, I know it is unlikely.
TLDR - agree that an answer would be appreciated, but I really would appreciate being able to convert the shards for 550s, in order to try to get more characters to that level.
Thanks!
It’s likely to have a hp tax so it should be chosen shards
Agreed. The simplest dev implementation would be to convert shards to covers and then leverage the existing cover exchange process. The cover exchange already has a cost, so the shards to covers should have a minimal cost. An alternate cost could be in shards instead of HP, maybe 600 shards for a 5-star cover, 500 for a 4-star cover, etc.
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I’m against there being a cost to convert shards to covers, but the bean counters would be happy to tax us for this. It would also be great if we could deconstruct a rostered character into covers/shards.
There’s a non zero chance that you’ll one day, maybe next decade, be able to use your duplicates to ascend to 6 star. Why aren’t you just building duplicates?
Probably because they’d rather build up another 550 they can use right now than build a dupe on the idea that someday they might, maybe make 5 stars ascendable after they flesh out what they want 6 stars to be and make them attainable somehow, which might be years from now and could be never.
Not to mention they did address this already and stated that they do not have any plans to make 5 stars ascendable. They could change their minds, but that may never happen and getting another 5 to 550 is something I can definitely make happen and make use of immediately.
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OK, fair point.
I don’t have any 550s so I have yet to have this problem.