Card Clash and Hard Cash - Idle Heroes 2024-08-02

[@Alsadius]

As promised, a follow-up comment now that the event is live. I did the first three fights with 62 total cards used, and could have been slightly more efficient if I realized strategy cards would be taken away after each fight, so call it 20 per fight as a decent average. They get a bit harder over time, so it might be a bit higher than this, but we'll say 20 per fight for simple math. You get 49 cards from dailies, plus 60 more with gems, is 109. That gets you 5 stages done, for 5 gold coins. If you use the 600 CSG as well, that's good for about stage 8 or so, which is 10 gold coins. Moonlight is another 100 cards if you spent $200+, so call it stage 13, for 35 gold coins. After that, you're into value packs, so let's say you go hard into it, get all the CSG value packs possible, which is 152 more cards for 9500 CSG(or $380, or any combination thereof). That should just about get you to level 20, which is where you hit 80 gold coins (the max). That's also 421 cards, which is 842 points in the melody. Do a full 600 point session on top of that, and you'll actually be pretty close to 1500 base points in the melody. Overall, it's roughly what I expected. I think F2P getting 1.25M stellar or 500 MTB for spending 6000 gems is a very worthwhile weekly event, and then spending ~400 CSG more to get a second one of those prizes is also pretty good. For P2W, I think stage 11 is a good "sweet spot" to stop at, which you can do with a $100 spend and 600 CSG, plus maybe a few extra CSG if you fall a few cards short. (And that's moonlight spending, so you can choose where to spend it). For two core/subs and three buys from store #1, that's alright. I'd say this is a better basic event than any of the existing ones (Imp's/FF/Skylab), but not by a massive margin. Still, happy to see it. It's also more fun to play, IMO, which is nice.

[@Wraec]

I reckon they are gonna make every core below A- like the one from this event. Probably gonna be a sh*t storm next gala 😂 For whales the event seems kinda bad. Only 2 Lifestar mat rewards

[@Alsadius]

Honestly, I'd wager most players would rather get a locked B stone than an unlocked B- stone, and I'd wager that's what we'll see at the next awakening session. (But yeah, they'll probably still be cranky, because they'll compare it to the unlocked B stones we used to get.)

[@Wraec]

@@Alsadius yeah true. If they use this mechanic to make them more available to f2p and low spenders I am all for it