Shorty-er

I wanted Taria (obviously) and already had Kimmie. So a couple of 6 game orbs should take care of that, right? Somewhere between 4 and 8. Orbs 1-3: Cunegonde Orbs: 4-6: Taria (6 orbs down and neither girl completed) Orb 7: Cunegonde (giving me 100 shards) Orb 8: Taria (giving me 100 shards). I know, RNGesus and all that, but I'm having a hard time accepting that this worst possible way this could go was not the result of some scripting/"weighted RNG" somewhere. Aside from that, all's well that ends well? Thanks for the L5 heads up!!

I noticed there are now also orgy girls with the champions. 35 shards at a time, so I'd need to complete at least 3 stages. But I get shards or a piece of that truly fantastic gear. What are the odds on getting shards? Is this a serious option to get a girl or will I end up with yet another incomplete girl?

With the random next task we simply don't have enough information to make decisions on. It's like a lottery ticket vendor, who suddenly says "OK, everyone with either a 9 as first or a 5 as last digit have to pay another 10%." Wait what? So do the rewards go up? No, but if you don't pay the extra your ticket will be invalid. So you pay, and next day the vendor says: everyone with a 7 as second or a 1 as second to last now has to pay extra. I still think not spending koban is the only sound decision, but that's easy for me to say: I finally finished it earlier today (with only the left mission still available) without spending any koban.

Well, I ended day 2 at 895 points. The right mission is blocked with refilling the market twice, so I'm hoping to limp home on the left-side missions alone. Currently that requires 80 energy, and as that's the 3rd time and I've already used up all claimable energy that's me done for the day. We'll see what tomorrow brings. There's some unexpected excitement, so close to the finish line!

I collected the girl late last night fairly easily, if time-consumingly. No kobans were spent. I got really lucky in that I looked at this event first as it was new, and quickly realized I should stop all collecting and spending until I understood what was coming. So I had energy, PoPs etc ready to go. The silver monthly card helped too. Slowly working my way through the rest of it. I'd like to get to some of the final rewards, but I've already decided no to use kobans. If I get stuck, meh. I did have to spend some gems on common girls. More than I would have done normally. Not that bad, as they'll help get to enough girls to unlock level 450, but as a returning playing gems are incredibly important atm and in short supply. If I need to do an awakening for dailies tomorrow, I might be in trouble. As for next time... it's sort of fun, for a friday evening? Occasionally? So if next time is in 2 months as I read, and on a friday, I might spend some time on it again. On any other day, or when I get stuck on spending kobans I'll happily join Antimon and only pick what freebies popped up.

Thanks, but Urgh. So at any moment, and for random number of times, I might only be able to progress by spending Koban? My dislike for the event has sharply increased. L5 girls are rare enough. I don't like the way this carrot is dangled to lure me into an event with entirely unpredictable expenditure. And by then I've invested time, so hoping it'll be the only occasion I start with the Koban. And once I've crossed that, I've now invested time and koban. With something like a mythical girl the number of repeats is so large that within a margin of error I will know what I need when I decide to go for her or not. This is RNG raised to new levels of uncertainty. I am liking what I've found coming back less and less . I've completely ignored some events in the past, I guess this one goes on the ignore list as well.

Is that only: restock with Kobans? Or can you also pass it with having the market restock on the normal 6 hour (I think?) timer?

Well argumented, as usual. I just don't agree. It is both a massive hit on "normal" game play, and more importantly: on my time. This is my first time with this event, and wasn't paying enough attention, just happy I was mooching along nicely. Until I realized I had spent a couple of hours doing stuff for this event. KK is clearly trying to take more of my $ (and partly succesful, as I've taken a monthly card for the first time ever ), ok fair enough. But if this is the future where they want my $ and my time I'll drop off for good. I can not, and more importantly don't want to spend this much time on a silly side-game like this. As for the koban side: this poll should have a "Hell no" option. 6600 koban for 1 girl, and a lot of stuff I'd get anyway with time. Might be worth it on paper, or if you're in a hurry. For anyone having to balance where their kobans go I can't imagine they'd choose this.

If I get an event card later in the event, will I retro-actively get all the ladybugs I would have gotten as daily reward in one big load? Or will I only get them each day from that point on?

That is a proper philosophical and stress-reducing way of looking at it, and a message like that is a welcome counter in times like this. Breath in, hold, breath out. But the sad fact remains (speaking from 40 years experience in software development): these are not natural disasters, but preventable man-made disasters caused by cutting corners and improper procedures around testing and release. Given this is hardly the first time, that basically makes KK the software development equivalent of tornado ally or the ring of fire.

Hmm, my ego in Season is 352,327, in leagues it is 353k (rounded up). A 3.6% difference would be visible. So, maybe it's just a display bug? OTOH, it could just display the correct values in league but still work with the incorrect values. Who knows.

Hi, sure! When I go to leagues and check my team: In season -> find opponent when I check my team: I've changed the team to try to force a "reload" of sorts, but I can't get the game to display the same numbers here.

Hi all, more noobish questions from me. In the (otherwise excellent) "Your Performance Handbook" it shows a screen capture to explain how girls in the harem passively contribute to small bonuses. It goes on to say: "The more girls you have recruited to your harem, the bigger your passive bonuses will be, up to 100 girls of each element. These bonuses may be further increased by the girls currently in your battle team." I just checked up on my own team and only about 170 girls are included in total for the 8 different elements. Where are the rest of my girls? I have over 400 in my harem atm. Are these not part of an element somehow? Is there a minimum level or affinity requirement before they are included for the passive bonuses? TIA Edit: I created a new account to play around a bit with some of the new features. It correctly displayed 5/5 girls as in the team and adding to passive bonuses. When I gained another girl, instead of going to 6/6, the display went to 4/4 girls. Sigh. So, the usual buggy KK bovine waste?

Thanks for clearing that up. Taken away because it's too nice... yeah... Would have been nice if they simply stopped handing them out instead of taking them away. Then I could at least spend what I had saved up. I have to say, I haven't played for like a year and half or so, and the changes I find are not improvements. I feel a bit like that frog suddenly dumped into hot water looking at you all, used to the slowly heating water, and wondering WTF y'all are still here? But I'll give it some more time, see the new events. Maybe I can get used to the hot water too :P.

Thanks! Sadly, liberator Sifra will have to wait .

Hi all, Noob question for sure, but Ive forgotten too much about the game :D. What's a "safe" amount of koban to have at hand to be (reasonably) sure I'll manage to get the attention of a mythical girl. Wasn't it like 8k-9k or so? I did try to search but didn't find an answer. TIA! PS Sorry, unrelated question but wasn't there some way to 'buy' the last missing shards of a girl I had almost completed?

True. The rest: interesting feedback! Things to think about, thanks.

Ah! I had not realized that. Interesting development, and that explains why I'm nowhere near competitive with players around and below my level. And yes, that will help, a bit, for players to catch up if they're willing to pay. However, the gems system does not help in that. In fact, it makes it harder to catch up. Everything a new player can do, an established player can do to. And better. And the new player will still have to work himself through the leveling requirements (in gems and number of girls at appropriate levels) where the established player did not have to do that. Then there's the fact that the level of all the girls in the harem combined adds to Endurance and it is now harder to get a lot of girls up to higher levels. Look at the top players, who had over a 1000 girls leveled to 500 (I guess?) when this was introduced. It will take a new player years and years to get to that position and with gems it will take them longer, not less. Those 2 combined (girl level not bound to player level and gems to level girls) just boost the level of pay-to-win to new highs. At least the league doesn't award gems, but as long as it still award such large amount of kobans, it kinda does. Which means the low level whale is still paying through the nose for something older players get for free in a game where they still can not catch up.

Wow. Thanks for the reply, and the chart. But wow. So there is now an extra hurdle where there was not before, an extra "currency" to earn and manage (or ofc simply buy), and it adds nothing new or positive for the player? At least I know why most people in my club seem to have stopped playing. Cheers!

Hi, I thought I'd have a look at HH after not playing for some time. Lots of new things to work out, but what's with this gems? I need to sort of "unlock" ranges of levels on girls before I can level them up, is that correct? A level 300 girls needs to be unlocked with gems so I can level to 350, and then again, again, again every 50 levels? Is that all or am I missing something?

@JustVisitingPretty sure KK will point to mythic boosters as the solution to your problems. Yes, we nerfed things but it's OK because you can now spend kobans to get boosters...

ToF got rid of them as well, I think? So this nerf was only supposed to happen next week, not this week?? .

I really appreciate you posting this all the time, with links and all (and appreciated when people took over for you), but don't you get bored posting about all these girls when there's nothing available for you? Edit: oh, and I pulled Val Norou with 8 orbs!

Oh, that *is* amusing! Thanks for that.

I've tried CxH for a bit, then ran into the same problem as @TIG_GER. And now I got a message it is solved and I got some kisses and combativity to compensate. Apart from the fact that is nowhere near enough to compensate, I didn't get the kisses and combativity. If that's how CxH rolls, it can roll on without me. Not that it was likely that I would continue anyway, because of the "art". If I was looking for any other kind of comic, I might (maybe) enjoy it. Or at least read it. But no way in hell can I see this as arousing or even just pleasing. I'm with @DvDivXXX on this one. To me it looks as if the artists go out of their way to make people look butt-ugly.