Moonlynx

This is absolutely possible. I've got a new player in my club who went up from W1 to S2 in four weeks without a problem. If league girls would have been already a thing a month ago, he would have collected 73 shards until now (with no first places). Two Top45s in S2 would then be enough to get the girl. Sounds okay to me. Sure, we gotta see if the competition will be harder now that there's an additional incentive even in the lower leagues. But I don't think this will be much of an issue for serious players.

Looks like Dolly is available for everyone now. Even in the lowest league. That's a surprise, but I definitely like it! Still have some problems with the announced ''exclusivity'' of league reward girls, but I don't think that they will be as exclusive as KK is claiming (that's probably just the usual marketing trick). So - great last minute change. Thumbs up.

Same here. And yes, there was a chance that it's just a rough approximation. With the elements and other attributes not being evenly distributed. But that the idealized calculation is more than 10% away from the real probability? Huh... gotta contemplate that for a while.

I'd think so. I am level 429 now, lose ~150 points every week due to club bonuses that are not maxed out, only use free boosters, don't optimize (no obsessive checking of every snapshot and I don't use the script)... I'm way behind the competitiveness of players like Tom, Pelinor or DvDivXXX. I'm definitely no PvP guy. And every season I still have 400-1000 points more than I would need for the top 30. I would be amazed if you wouldn't do well in D3. Even as a f2p player who doesn't use (many) boosters. And with the new element system in play you even have an additional advantage over quite a few of the players that never bothered collecting many girls.

Aaaa~nd... after the 6 weeks? Never again? Or much later maybe in Legendary Days or something? Or will we have to use dating t... oh, nevermind. Apart from this it certainly looks like a change for the better. I've never understood the 14400 koban for the first place anyway. My only remaining wish** for the leagues would now be, that those who've won in D3 a certain number of times (or the top 200 or whatever) get thrown in their own e-peen elite leagues where they can compete with one another without harassing everyone else. EDIT: ** This is in fact a lie. My wishlist also includes being able to see the standings after the end of a league season (just like the daily contests), very small extra prizes for certain achievements (best newcomer, most improbable victory and other silly stuff), and some other things that are definitely offtopic here.

Yep, I also get 37%. Not that there was any confirmation needed anymore after Number's post.

Of course not. I don't expect a very well thought out anything with KK anymore. But despite the expected equal distribution of the elements, and I don't mind turning a blind eye to some decisions regarding this, they could at least have gotten the most iconic girls of the game right. Including the three starter girls. Even with all the nutty things we had to put up with recently, I genuinely thought that they would get something simple as this right. Ah, well. No real harm done, I guess (and to be fair - most of the element attributions I've noticed so far seem to make sense). But I'm a little bit baffled nevertheless.

My first thoughts went into the same direction and I've already feared I'm just a little bit dim. Okay, that's still possible. But good to know that I'm not the only one who can't picture himself using anything else than a balanced team most of the time. As much as I like the elements idea**. Btw - the battle results are completely bananas. Losing one fight with less than 10 points and winning another one with over 20 against the same opponent happens quite regularly now. It has a strange appeal and I like those knee-slappers somewhat. But I'm not sure if this all works as planned. The one positive thing about the battles after the update: the RNG isn't favoring the defender anymore... I think. Hard to say with this bonkers crit-festival. I mean, I still get my 0:3/0:4 critical hits per fight against opponents with <20k harmony. But I also had my fair share of improbable victories against stronger opponents. Or even 25 point victories against someone who wasn't much weaker than me. I guess there will be some tweaks coming in the near future. Until then I'll try to have my fun with... whatever this is. **(that said... can someone explain to me why Red Battler is an ''exhibitionist'' and not ''physical''? she's Red Battler for heaven's sake, not Red Flasher! Val Red Battler? okay, that's a matter of argument... but her basic form? wtf? )

Yeah, I know. But, mmh... it seems likely to me that they really adjusted the Orb drops again. The sample size might be tiny, but even if there was some luck involved, I don't think I would ever have seen such a drop rate (6 out of 27) with the ugly nerf still in play. This would be way more unlikely than a bad week with very few drops despite a relatively high drop rate. This, and... eh, I probably just hope it is true. I guess it won't be long until we know it for sure.

Yeah, but the whole point of the game is to catch them all. So no revivals at all wouldn't make sense either. I'd appreciate an approach that keeps the ''exclusivity'' by making the Mythic Girls hard to obtain while not making them completely unobtainable. Apart from this - thanks for collecting all those notes and sharing them here!

Another stealth patch seems to affect the Mythic Orb chances in PoP. I got 6x3 Orbs since wednesday. After getting no more than 1x3 Orbs per week recently this is probably not just due to luck.

Same here. I got very lucky and started these Orgy Days with 24 shards in 10 fights. But then I had 50 fights without a single shard. This happens and is absolutely within the range of normal RNG behavior. Sure, I have the growing feeling that the RNG is slightly meaner than several months ago. But I couldn't validate that yet and I refuse to base that on single occurrences like this. Having bad luck sometimes is just normal. Although some kind of ''bad luck protection'' that detects very unlucky players and helps them out a little bit would be nice. Maybe someone should suggest this to the Devs. Anyhow, I'll cross my fingers that your streak of bad luck is over soon.

With the skewed luck distribution since the introduction of the new PvP mechanics I'd guess it was way more than 14 points. Doesn't matter much when it comes to league results, but of course it's another meaningless obstacle for lower level players. I hope they fix this soon. Shouldn't be hard to do. At least in my imagination. It gets a little bit tiresome when half of your losses are due to this... bug?

Very relaxed league season for me this time. I mainly used a weak setup of 2 Ginsengs / 1 Chlorella which resulted in my worst D3 performance ever - 38 losses (103 players). Average was slightly over 18. Thanks to Quistis (level 498) who let me win 3x25 points. Otherwise I would've had an average of ~17.9. Surprisingly this was still good enough for a 19th place. But far far away from 15th or 30th. Tom, at whose performance I could marvel at daily this time, also placed beyond good and evil and became 10th if I got it right. Congratulations!

I collected 22 shards in 4 days for Trixie. I guess she doesn't really like me. 😢 But that's what my shard drops (and my pachinko luck btw) look like for over two months now**. I can only hope that this gets better soon. Congratulations to everyone who managed to get her. EDIT: **(with the exception of the last Mythic Days where I got very lucky)

The KK guys definitely have a cruel sense of humor. But who knows. Maybe Trixie has the superpower of un-nerfing things, making the game winnable again.

After a few hard-fought Top15s I was without any real chance and only got 18th this time in a low-scoring league. An average of 18.86 (my last average that bad was in April), 297 fights and 30 losses. 30! And this seems to get worse every week. I can't even beat quite a few 470+ players even when they are unboosted, thus losing out on some XP, too. That's a little bit annoying after I've already been close to a 100% victory rate with the old battle system... at a way lower (relative) level. And since next week's blessings aren't really beneficial for me - the top girls will be 5-star legendaries I can't afford to level up at the moment - and my new league looks even more terrifying than the last one, I think I'll sit out for two weeks. Meaning that I'll just try to secure a Top30 with cheap boosters, saving my last Cordycepses* for better opportunities. Congratulations to Tom208 for his fourth place! Even with mythic boosters and full club bonuses I guess I wouldn't come close to your achievements. I wish I could look over your shoulder from time to time. *(or whatever the plural of Cordyceps is)

I would guess he means the rarity classification. And, yes, I also recommend using the Dating Tokens now. It is possible that they will be enabled again somewhere in the future. But I wouldn't bet on it. And ''wasting'' them on non-mythic or even non-legendary girls now sounds better to me than hoping for a re-enabling that might never happen. The only situation I can think of, where it could be worthwile to keep the tokens, is when you don't care much about low rarity girls and strictly play for PvP, trying to get your hands on as many Mythic Girls for a price that is as low as possible. This could be worth the gamble. Otherwise... nah. Better not risk it, I'd say.

Seems like I pleased the RNG gods in the right manner. Thanks to a very lucky first 200 fights I was able to do 32 hits for 64 shards in just 335 fights and then get the Royal Housemaid with my piled up Dating Tokens. That's close to a 10% hit rate. Of course I'm afraid of the usual rubber band effect... but for now I'm quite happy. But the timing for the update was really mean today. In the exact moment that I clicked the date button, the update hit. For a few minutes I was slightly concerned about the patch pandemonium JustVisiting mentioned and envisioned a funny patch that prohibits the use of Dating Tokens for Mythic Girls. ^^ Anyhow, I've spent only ~5000 koban for a surprisingly great looking Mythic Girl that I really like (including refills, 3 boosters and 1 shop refresh) and even have some koban left in case I need them for the Dirty Fantasies Event. I've had worse days in this game. The only thing I could complain about is the meager Mythic Orbs gain (only 24) and my bad luck in the Pachinko. But I won't. :0)

Wouldn't a conservative calculation be one where I have less than average luck? Like jelom with his 5%. I'd be in real trouble with his drop rate. Anyhow, I think I'll try it. What's the worst that could happen? That I end up with a 60-shard Mythic Girl that never appears again because KK wants them to be super exclusive? And that Dating Tokens will never come back again, too, depriving me of my only other method to get her? They wouldn't piss off their players that much, would they?

Meh... I really want to get the Royal Housemaid. But I still don't know if I should go for her. With almost 7000 koban and ~2300 Dating Tokens left I could theoretically get her. And if KK nerfs the Sandalwood booster (which they probably will do because... did they really know what they were doing there? this is a change that actually helps the players), this could be the last chance to get a Mythic Girl at a discount. But if my absurd bad luck streak of the past two months raises its ugly head again, I could come away empty-handed from my chase and with completely depleted resources that I could have utilized in better ways. Then again - the chase is where the fun lies, as I've learned just recently! And I really, really want to follow the new Kinkoid doctrine. Maybe it pleases the RNG gods...

Wow, the next punishment for all but the veteran players who are able to win the D3 leagues regularly and don't know what to do with all their koban. What I've learned today is: Dating Tokens are evil because they actually make girls obtainable. Eww, no. We don't want that. It's so much more fun to chase the girls without getting them! Looks like I've misunderstood the game all the time. But other ''grand features'' are coming soon. Well, if not letting players get the girls is the basic policy now, my hopes for the next changes to the game are pretty low at the moment. If it turns out that I can't catch them all, even when I'm paying for the game, I'm out. I won't pay for my monthly card anymore. Collecting is fun for me. Chasing... no. Definitely not. KK has developed a strange fetish of shooting themselves in the foot and I find it harder and harder to keep a positive outlook on this game.

Thanks a lot. I can not not see this anymore... Ah, well. I guess I'll call her Michael, try to forget that she's in my harem and hope that there won't be any purple blessings in the future. Ever.

Thanks, 430i, for the data. I keep track of many things in the game, but never did it for something mundane like PoP drops. Did KK think we wouldn't notice when they don't mention it in the patch notes? Having only a small fraction of the Mythic Orbs we had before changes the game pretty much. Not only because of the girls in Mythic Pachinko we almost can't get anymore but also because it was the main source for legendary boosters. I mean... yes, this was probably the intention. But this sudden, radical shift and not even mentioning it? Slightly unsettling. My hopes for a betterment of this situation are still on the new feature that was mentioned somewhere. Btw - I'd love it if ''Faster, Harder, Repeat'' would give a random girl shard on rare occasions. Would fit the theme of this temporary PoP and could be a fun way to get a girl (with a bunch of additional dating tokens) that you've missed again and again. Why would I get a Chlorella booster or even money when I send my girls out on a speed dating mission? Gimme shards!

Meh, only 1 girl for my last ~400 Orbs. My reserves, including the x6 Orbs, depleted rapidly and I'm back to zero again. ;( Btw - did anyone else notice that the drop rate for Mythic Orbs in the Places of Power got horrendously low after they introduced the x1 Great Pachinko Orbs for a short while? I only got 2x3 Mythic Orbs in the last five days. I sincerely hope that this is just an ugly streak of bad luck on all fronts. Thanks, that's really good to know. Then it's obviously just me.