From what they have been saying recently it is obvious they are trying to push us for 3 star to 4 star characters. While that is fine in theory unless they drastically change the drop rates for gold tokens that is going to be next to impossible. The 80-90% 2 star drop rates on those is just stupid at this point in the games development. Personally I think standard tokens should be left as is but gold tokens should have 2 star covers removed from them completely. Nothing is more depressing then working for gold tokens and getting a 2 star cover out of it, and since the last 30-40 of them I have had have been that way it really makes me want to just walk away from the game. What makes me want to keep coming back is when you are actually getting anything that is new for you, and constantly just seeing the same 2 star covers you don’t need over and over again is very discouraging. Heck even doing something complicated like determining where you are in game progression and weighing such that the longer you have played the more likely you are to see 3 and 4 star covers would be good since new players still can use 2 star covers so it is not so bad for them.
Yeah, if they are power creeping us from 3-4, then 3* covers need to be more common. Frankly though, I think the dismal ISO drops and increasing costs of roster slots are going to be even bigger issues.
The ISO-8 scaling for levels is one of the core issues with the focus on four star being the new frontier. It isn’t a massive issue right now but within half of a year it will be probably. However, they are in a pretty precarious position because the majority of players are still 1-2 star players who don’t need all of that ISO-8 and if they get flooded with it, it actually breaks the natural progression and pushes them even faster to the wall that every two star player hits.