Mix it up. Change the required characters. Go with themes other than heroes and villains. Ban 5*. Just do SOMETHING different.
Lightning Rounds are the best source of ISO in the game but they have gotten repetitive and boring. They have been the same as long as I remember so let’s change some things!
New characters - can we do some 4* once in awhile? Avengers, XMen, Spidey family. Just not the same four or five on a rotation every week.
Change the progression - how about a 2* at 250 and a Heroic at 500?
Increase the drop rates for the 2* like they are for Heroics only all the time. Stop posting evidence this is confrontation bias and just make everyone happy with 2* drops.
Set up 8 groups of 5 three stars (sorry strange you’re out for now) and run each group for 20-48 hours and have lightning rounds running 24/7. Let people that work weekdays have some fun.
Lightning Rounds started when 3*s were few, rare, and the top of the food chain. They had high health, high-AP powers, and were occasionally limited and clunky.
In short, they were today’s 5s. When I started MPQ, most LRs were your two best 2s and a loaner 3*
I’d like to see LRs keep the 3* focus (so to be inclusive, rather than exclusive), but shuffle throughout the entire 3* roster. Have five 3* characters boosted each LR week, and work in a theme, if possible: One week, get Beast, Patch, Storm, Cyclops, and Colossus. Have another be 3* Cap, GSBW, IM40, Vision, and Scarlet Witch. Have another be Daken, Doc Ock, Deadpool, Bullseye, and Hood. But if you can’t find a theme, just throw some unused 3*s against the wall and see what sticks.
Rather than cranking up the prizes in an LR revision, just for the sake of more prizes, I’d rather see the dust get blown off some characters and more than the usual 10 suspects.
add a new variation, a fishing mode where you put up bait teams and the more you are hit the more iso you get. can make it a random choice between 10, 20, 50, 70, 100, 120, 150 per hit or set amount, and maybe a reward progression base only on points gained (cause you constantly getting hit, then climbing up to get hit some more only to climb back up, ect…) event ranking can still be based on your regular rank so there is some strategy to the mode. but like most people said any change may be worth it.
Once they have something, they seem to stick with it. I mean look at the token screen for every offseason event - they’re all the same as the heroic screen. Look at the Earth’s Mightest artwork - where are the newest characters? No where to be seen. It feels lazy to me, and that includes not updating the lightening rounds.
I think LR’s should be limited to 2’s and 3’s only
last time I played LR I had an opponents team with lvl 60 Doom, lvl 435 OML and lvl 420 Phoenix
how fast do you think I skipped with no decent 5’s?
Don’t forget: All you have to do is enter (not play) at the very start. Unless the game restarts, you can then play whenever you’ve got 10-15 min free and usually get all 10 seeds.
(I realize work is work, so this may just be off the table for you, but hopefully it helps to know there are options)
Great idea with the team affiliations! Some things that’d need to happen:
Cap and IM40 would need to be moved out of Heroes and into Avengers, which could also include Switch, Quicksilver and Falcon. Tons of chars could take their place in Heroes
An X-men category would need to be created; howbout MoStorm, Psylocke, Beast, Colossus, and … hm, Patch isn’t exactly an X-man, and Mags or Mystique would need to be moved. Take one of those and replace with Daken.
There’s a problem with the remaining categories: Guardians and FF both involve 4s (and a 2 in Bagman, which needs to happen). Still, there’s a loaner - let’s open it up!
Spider-friends category would need both created and to allow 4*s, but it should totally happen.
As has been mentioned, it’d be great to see perks like the Heroic 2* drop rate (look, you know it exists, and I know it exists) accompany this. If 4* play happens, maybe we get something bigger (more ISO, better tokens, a firm handshake). C’mon guys - Make Lightning Rounds Great Again!
What are you talking about? I used to play an alt steam account and they got SCL the same day the phone apps did. They don’t have the signal intercept things (the watch an ad for rewards) or facebook sync, but those are the only 2 systems I’m aware of them not having.
