pulli23

Well then you're just not good at these contests. Just like I won't win the olympics - not everyone can be good at everything and it's perfectly acceptable to sometimes not win?

You can also wake up? I've played dozens of international games, and "sniping" here is child's play compared to games like tribalwars. And I'm not even sure how to call it compared to ogame and neptune's pride. Non existant? Really what's the difficulty to put up an alarm, quickly make some adjustments and going to sleep again 30 seconds later? Just make sure your rhythm of 3 hours sleep cycles aligns.

No I wake up early by creating an alarm and making sure I snipe at the very very last second. I'm trying to device a way to calculate latency and lag based on arena timings (you sometimes notice the timer goes to 0 but it jumps back up to 1-2 seconds). I most certainly see this as a skill, being able to consistently do well and plan correctly - without failure. Skill isn't always in league of legends like fast reaction that those asians will always win over europeans because their physical supresse there. It's also in thinking and planning, games like tribal wars were quite skillfull back in the day.

The problem with PPOA I had wasn't even the amount of things you spent, it was that "doing bad" meant you had easier time and actually were doing "better" (It was better to lower your ranking in league on purpose, cause it didn't meant if you would win 1 game in dicktator or wanker rankings - it all counted the same; or how it was better to try to "not win" champion fights just so you do not get in the 24 hour wait).

Well even 50% I consider way way too generous. It doesn't make the girl feel any "special" or "I have worked for her". It should be an amazing feat if you manage to get the girl.

Ok then we disagree on the basic point. I feel it should be, and should even be more rewarding as a contest/competition. There are enough events that aren't aimed at competition already, there ought to be more like these. Finally something that isn't utter luck, and finally something where I don't have to literary draw a lottery ticket.

Well I analyze the whole day who lives where and when people are online, so you can get a ballpark knowledge who will be online at the "day switch". Aren't you doing that, it's a *competition* right? And you need to do everything to win, part of that is knowing your opponents. It's not for nothing that the countries are shown! USE that.

btw you get on average 21.5 points per day. (4*100 + 6*50 + 15*25)/50. And consider that the "biggest whales" will have spent their kobans early, and they get removed from the pool. That means around 86% of the people playing will get the girl. So you only have to be better than 14% *on average*.. Considering it gets easier over time. Not accounting for "wasted" devotion like peopel ending at 75 points or people getting number 1 after already having some devotion....

Something something epic pachinko collection.. In that note: does it make any sense to spend another 20 to get to a top 4 position? - When I already have 50 points?

I'm wondering: how can anyone say this is a "whales" event? It's trivially easy to get into the top 10 (800 points right now). And you only need to get there twice. But on top of that a "whale" is when unlimited money needs to be spend to get a chance. The current event is easily finished with 1-2k coban, which takes like what, 10 days of just playing quests? And even a top 25 position is "enough" to get the main reward. I feel people are staring blindly at the number 1 spot, even though it hardly gives a benefit.

Which makes a real "competition" impossible

So I was trying to snipe a top 4 spot this morning: and suddenly the servers lagged out 5 minutes before the timer ended? Just random timeout preventing me from sending or clicking anything.

Wouldn't take the pvp fights more time if you are "unluckY" and already beaten all opponents in league that week?

84 on last girl... Probably going to spend 2-3 refreshes sadly.

Well when fighting villains I always wonder which tier I should fight them. Especially for the current event I wish to maximize the chance to get the girl before it ends. Is this best to do in an "empty" tier, where you already got the girls. So that if there is a girl drop it's always the event girl (do they share the chances). Or is the chance for an event girl "fixed" and hence might as well go to a tier where I still have another girl to unlock?

Real stroke of bad luck for me, in last 2 days only 20ish points for the third girl. Now at 36 points.

It's also probably a form of survival bias - One tends to "remember" the good or wrong streaks, and thus those are much more often reported back on fora etc. While the average runs aren't reported and thus it looks as if the chance isn't normally (poison?) distributed. I'm currently at 15 pts for the last girl, so off by a bit. And probably have to do 1-2 refreshes.

I'm not saying to put all 4 behind it? Maybe first two behind 'beat 1 champion' and another behind beating another 2. Right now I don't see how it is fun, there's no reward for doing well or anything, nothing really matter apart from clicking in time during the event. There is no choice, no chance to get better or worse than others, just the same linear approach everyone has to walk.

Well yes but "why would I"?

How is that horrible, it actually rewards you for playing well, and beating the game. I've just started but I already *had* to beat 3 champions, actually a 4th time. As in one round.

Maybe show the results of the network tab? - main page, open developer tools (f12) go, in the new window to "network". There you'll see 2 bars, one with a "record" button and some other things. Make sure "disable cache" in that bar is checked (should be second checkbox). Then on the bar below you see something that starts with a textbox "Filter", then a checkbox "hide data URLS" and tehn a few words, click on "Img", that should mark it. Now press "f5" to reload the page and check what happens. If everything is ok you'll see bunch of image links in the bottom most window, and when you click on one the header should show "200 ok". What do you see, what error?

Something as "simple" as "beat 3 champions" might be miles better. Sure new people like me won't be able to do it, but at least we'll directly see why. ("and hey next time we can finish it"). But it's actually rewarding doing good instead of just wasting time.

Hmm at 150 it's most certainly still not the case :P. About when can you expect that?

Well I often hear people say "use arena to level girls, swap out your main team for a weaker team". But I'm actually constantly levelling my main team, and I grow in levels much faster myself than the team grows. Is that normal? And if so, how/when are you levelling the other characters?

I've just now already gotten used to just refreshing the page each time I take an action. Since that's faster than waiting on the header to appear/disappear.