Ben9

Now that there are so many more Ymens and Girls being pumped into the game than before, would be great to increase the market size to 12 slots

Is that Tano without her wig on?

I'm just glad that all the talk of ppl cancelling their silver card in the french forum bought the flying money back. I missed those little flying moneys. Why wasn't it in the patch notes though?

New features that give out freebies are always welcome but imo the koban value of mythic/gp orbs and champion tickets is approximately 0, so I find the idea of levelling it up rather pointless at this time. Hopefully at a later date the feature offers something more interesting.

Some awesome luck for me today! Both from 1x orbs

Event looks nice other than that one girl who looks like some sort of weird frog hybrid

I noticed today that if you click the "free game" the button doesn't immediately reset and still says 1 free game afterwards. If you click it again, it plays mythic pachinko again. And then takes 150 kobans without any warning (yes I have warnings enabled). I did it once by accident on one of my accounts (thought I had an orb and a free game) and wasn't 100% sure so I tested it again on my main account and reproduced it there too. Edited to add some further info. Now I went back to Mythic Pachinko screen and I do have 1 orb on both those accounts which wasn't visible previously. It remains unused, despite paying kobans for a game. So its possible this bug only appears if you have an orb and a free game, needs further testing.

I think a good QOL improvement would be to show your shard progress on a couple of extra screens when you hover the mouse over them. To stop having to go back and forth to the harem or event page and check. The two places where it would be most useful: Boss fight intro page. Mouseover the girl spinner on the rewards section already shows a popup of the girls on offer. Ideal place to also show your progress towards these girls. Mythic Pachinko page. Mouseover the bunny icon and the girls currently on offer appear. Seeing your shard progress here makes it easy to quickly see the value of playing 3 or 6 games. The circular images of the girls faces are already quite small so for the sake of simplicity the display could just be your total shards (rather than /100) inside the bottom of the circle. And if you have 0, it could just be hidden as no need to show it.

Daily gift didn't show up for me ☹️ hopefully its just late

There is a 4th way thats faster than both the first two. Use the full link for the boss fight eg www.hentaiheroes.com/battle.html?id_troll=1 and ctrl+r immediately after clicking perform, reloads the screen straight away. Rinse and repeat. As far as your data goes, surely its just RNG. Taking the time to code different probabilities depending on the sequence of buttons pressed just doesn't seem very likely.

I think that the servers just aren't equipped for an event that encourages so much activity in such a short window of time. They already struggle with normal reset times. Staggering end times with the other contest helped a bit I'm sure but the lag near the end was still terrible.

Ok my bad. I thought it was sufficiently cropped to not reveal any story details.

Yep. The announcement definitely said the event ended on the hour, not 30 minutes early. Poor communication as usual.

I guess I should really pay attention to the early end time. Figured it was same as normal. I was at work yesterday and then missed it today by 5 minutes 🙄

Yep you can pay straight away and avoid it assuming you have the available ymens. I just did it to test the bug. And it only drops once, afterwards the rewards go back to normal. So just a waste of 1 combativity.

Ok after checking again, its definitely bugged

Hmm ok well so far on my alt acc I noticed a dildo and a t-shirt dropped in Gems Kingdom. Both of them aren't supposed to be villain drops. I still had to pay ymens for them as well. I'll see if it does it again on the next item.

Since this new change "When quest items are required, drop rate from villains will be 100% chance" I notice that this applies to all quest items -- even ones that cost ymens. Winning the item does not change anything in the quest. You still need to pay the ymens. It just wastes 1 combativity.

One idea for a level rebalance that seems fairly easy to implement is to have seasons. At the end of the season, everyone gets dropped to a set level. For example, at the end of June they could drop everyone above it to 250, we gain levels till the end of September, then the season ends and we all drop again. This also opens up the possibility of a third leaderboard - weekly, seasonal, all time - with some new prizes.

Better reward distribution is really necessary imo. I suspect that some of the things that players currently dislike about the game -- quantity vs quality of new girls added and features that seem p2w because they're priced higher than many can afford -- are in part a consequence of the koban glut at the very top end of the game. There is a necessity for Kinkoid to continually create more ways to spend kobans to try and outpace the rate at which they're giving out free kobans, or the players who are top of D3 just accumulate everything for free. And a lot of these players were previously big cash spenders on the game, so it's a crucial economic demographic that Kinkoid have self-sabotaged with their reward structure. Rebalancing the rewards so that players lower in the ranks get a bigger share, combined with rebalancing the level system so that it isn't just a measure of who has been active the longest, would go a long way toward fixing the problem.

Comparisons to leagues in terms of competing against other players for limited prizes is a bit disingenuous. Each league has a finite amount of opponents and a finite amount of ways to spend kobans on increasing your performance. Yes you can spend money to do better, but there is a limit to how much better. Contests though are just a straight up spending contest, and there is no limit to how big an advantage you can get by spending. Sure there is also strategy in sniping and stockpiling resources, but both of these can easily be overcome if you're prepared to spend way more than everyone else. So far the only reason this hasn't been a big problem is the value of the prizes creates a soft limit on the amount its worth spending on them. Imagine if leagues had a feature added where you could pay kobans to fight bots to increase your score. Thats closer to what a real comparison with contests would look like and I suspect everyone would agree how terrible an idea that is.

The x25 award for more ranks is an improvement over the version on the test server, but there is also a prerequisite for entry of being active in the 72h leading up to the contest so I assume it will be slightly more competitive than the usual contests. In general I think trying to make us outspend each other to try and win an exclusive girl is a poorly conceived idea.

On the face of it I think the contest is a pretty terrible idea. P2w and the geographical lottery that is the sniping time I won't comment on as I see other people did already. What I really dislike is that you can potentially spend lots of kobans and not even get shards, let alone the girl. I expect we'll see a lot of unhappy players who feel cheated somehow, and that is a sign of a badly designed feature. Wanting players to spend money on the game is fine but players should be happy with the value of what they receive in return.

A contest that only gives girl to biggest spenders. I can already taste the salty tears of the playerbase.

Are they epic orbs? Nothings guaranteed obv, but if they are you should get a few girls with 72 orbs. Like 4-5 would be average.