Indeed. If they know it is a problem for one kind of token, they know it is a problem for both. So fix it already. Picking it would work. Allowing skill respec whenever you get a character to 5 in any skill would work. Honestly, there are dozens of perfectly workable solutions that have been posted over the past year that would be just fine. And people keep posting them because we’re sick of it, and keep hurling out ideas in desperation.
This is why the devs have to go around posting “we’re listening” threads. Because, frankly, it really feels like they don’t. Now, I want to get this across respectfully, but I don’t think the devs need to be handled with kid gloves either, and I think it is important for Brigby and the dev team to understand it. This is where a fair bit of player/dev animosity comes from. It doesn’t really matter if they listen or not if problems (that they even acknowledge are problems, because CS is fixing some of them) we say need to be fixed get ignored for over a year.
I do not think they ever swapped Classic covers. Being one unlucky enough to repeatedly pull OML black, they have NEVER offered to swap it for me, even while it was in both classic and latest at the time.
I know I got denied by CS after I pulled 2 PHX Reds on my (at the time) 2/1/5 PHX. I even PM:ed HiFi about it afterwards. Being the advocate and all around great person that he was, he convinced CS to give me 25CP. I redeemed it and pulled garbage from it, but still, an effort was made by HiFi and I cannot fault him for bad luck. For the record, this exchange happened on June 30th, 2016 to give it a time stamp on when things were allowed versus disallowed.
Not to beat a dead horse any more than it deserves*, but I still think I came up with a simple and elegant solution for this problem thirteen months ago.
It removes the element of massive disappointment when you get a rare cover in the wrong color without adding a lot of UI overhead or entirely new categories of tokens/covers, and could easily be applied at multiple tier levels, since this is a problem that frustrates players pretty much as soon as they try to get into the 3* tier and only gets worse with 4* and 5*.
Yep. That would be fantastic. As would dozens of other workable solutions I’ve seen. The real problem here isn’t that there is no way to fix the issue. The real problem is that, despite countless good examples like yours and our pleading for over a year, they’ve done nothing about it.
“Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.” -Andrew Jackson
“There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.” John F. Kennedy
It was a good solution. There have been some others proposed as well that would leverage pre-existing mechanisms (shifting powers from level 5) so should require minimal new code to test and implement.
But instead of your idea, or any of the other ideas, or coming up with a new idea on their own, they’ve done nothing.
That, and the eight (!) unusable 4* covers clogging up my queue right now, have persuaded me to stop opening anything at all until this is fixed. My roster is now to the point that opening LTs carries a higher chance of giving me something I have to dump for a mere 1000
than something I’d be able to use. That is a scenario that should never exist.
There’s a reason Classic swaps generate more work. Because there was never a swap policy. It was a giant battle to even get your one-time exception.
I have an ally with a 0/5/0 OML dupe because there was never a Classic swap..
Whereas for Latest now it’s ask, confirm, sell, confirm, swapped cover. Almost automated.
If they just did the same, they wouldn’t have so many vitriolic tickets and bad CS reviews and general feel bad for the community. And you would get more sales. There are many new megawhales that would Whale Classics if you had that service for all. Or do you think they don’t want an OML?
