It seems to me that it's too hard to get to the Purple chest in Multiplayer. I'm sure other people have complained about this too but you have to play for something like 9+ hours in 1 day to get there; especially with the longer and longer waits for matches as you move up. I just don't have this kind of time at once. I wish there was some other timer system that could be used so I could slowly work up to the Purple chest over a few days. Maybe you could have a week to get to Purple or something? What other suggestions do people have or does everyone like the current system? I realize there is a nice incentive to play every day for your first yellow chest. Maybe there could be a way to balance that too? --------------------------------------------- PS: For this discussion I'm assuming everyone is playing fairly and trying to win/not tanking their ELO. If you want to talk about that problem here is the thread for that. PPS: The one time I did get to a Purple I got treasure as my epic. It was worth 50 gold. So not worth the time! (Edit: the gold rates have since been bumped up).
We've been around that particular thought a few times, e.g. HERE There are lots of people who can grind the MP 20 wins to get the Chest and there are some others who want to get to the chest, but don't have the time. Jon said back in the day that he thought that the 20 wins a day was unattainable. He was sadly mistaken. Even if the target was 30 wins, there would still be people who would grimly hack their way to that target too, I think. Sir Knight has said that the optimum strategy is to go for 1-3 wins and the resultant loot gives a better return, but there are still those who's itch will not get scratched until they open that chest.
Thanks for the background. I did a quick search and didn't come up with any threads but I was sure someone had probably mentioned/complained about this before. My current strategy is 1-3 wins per day too.
It would be nice if there wasn't a reset timer, but instead a lock-out timer on the epic chest only. So if you play 3 wins a day, then in 7 days you'll get an epic chest. Play 20 wins a day, you get an epic chest every day. Play 40 wins in a day, you still only get 1 epic chest for that day. Fairly happy with my little 3 wins most days 1 win some others. I am getting gear that makes me happy. But I would have liked to have a chance to open the purple someday, and I will absolutely never have enough time to do so (ie - would have agreed with Jon that it is unattainable)
I'm happy with the current system, in full knowledge that I'll probably never get the pink chest because I won't play that many matches in one day. (I've got to 2-rares chest a couple of times, but even that is a damn of matches for one day.) For me, I don't think of the pink chest as a goal that I should aim for, but rather just the thing that happens after 20 wins. In fact, I reckon it's pretty poor value to aim for that chest, because there's such a long string of dud chests leading up to it. If someone gets 20 wins in one day, hopefully it's because they really love the game rather than because they're mad-keen for that pink chest. I'm not entirely sure what you're suggesting. In your suggested system, if you get 3 wins for day, then do you still get your 2 gold chests per day in addition to the pink chest on the seventh day? Or do you you get fewer golds chests because your progress on the chest track is continuing on each consecutive day? One think you should keep in mind about the gold chests is that they can (and often do) give epic and legendary items. If you're getting those 2 gold chests every day from 3 wins, then you probably will get a couple of epic items each week anyway even without being given a special pink chest.
I'm reminded of this older thread: http://forums.cardhunter.com/threads/suggestion-reset-time-in-multiplayer-should-be-settable.1849 With that older suggestion, of course, literally all gamers everywhere would choose a reset time of "infinity," which matches xienwolf's suggestion. It's just that people in the other thread didn't come out and say it. If the devs wanted to change the system, I wouldn't argue against it. But as of now I'm not too concerned (and my thinking is the second post in that thread--it's nothing you haven't read before).
Then i take back my previous statement, it's not a good idea. Gold is just as good, and often better than Amethyst (purple) chest. I thought you proposed that every 20th chest you get gets 'morphed' into Amethyst and that the progression would otherwise be the same.
Yes, in that 7 days you would receive 8 fewer gold chests. I don't know exactly what the odds are, but I would venture between chance of epic and selling duplicate rares... getting the 2 gold for 3 wins is far better.
