Although we were able to get all 19 chests in the live server, the joy is more for having achieved them all than for the rewards received. With over 50% of the enemies being Heavy Melee, the marble one should be one of the easiest tournaments in the new cycle, so players can afford to go deeper even if the rewards are not worth it.
The problem is going to be when the hard tournaments arrive, especially the one based around the Mistwalker, where the rewards you can win in the chests will in no way exceed the amount of losses you will face. In those weeks there will be no motivation to risk so much just for 10 AW KP and 1 RS for each additional chest.
I just hope that in the same way that you did with the Spire, you will improve the quality of rewards that can be obtained in the 11-19 chests. This way many players, especially veterans, will stop feeling the shared frustration they have now in having to work harder to earn less than before.
The rate of increase in difficulty is too high and the penalty for upgrading AW and expansions in combination with the tech tree is too high. I noticed one long time, big spender, without a fellowship and he's decided that he is not participating in this new tournament. I thought someone in my FS said it very well,
"they kinda screwed the ones that spent most money which seems stupid. Why would you screw over your longest and best players for people who just started and might not play for long?"
So, I reconstructed numbers from my tournament. I made other suggestions for fixing the difficulty, but not based on the structure they are intent on using, so I have made another proposal based on the structure they are using.
I mildly reduced the starting increases. Keep in mind here that level six of a province has the same difficulty as 5 provinces later. So, province 10 starts with 110.4% difficulty, but by level 6 has a difficulty of 133.1%. With my proposal those would be 108.5% for level 1 and and 128.5% for level 6. So they have us hitting so everything is more difficult than the old tournament after province 22, and my proposal puts it at province 25, and instead of the difficulty increase being around 3.6% per province/level, my proposal suggests 3%.
I would actually even go to 2% increase from province 38, which in my proposal is at around 200% difficulty. And I didn't gather data far enough, so 1% after 200%, so I'm changing this. So, I changed the color where I didn't gather the data, but was told the increase was 1% from there. I actually think 2% from 180% and 1% from 190% would be better. I don't think we should be hitting the 200% difficulty until province 50.
| Prov/level1 | Difficulty | Difficulty increase | Proposed difficulty | Proposed difficulty increase |
| 1 | 12.76% | | 12.50% | |
| 2 | 25.35% | 12.59% | 25% | 12.50% |
| 3 | 37.83% | 12.48% | 37.50% | 12.50% |
| 4 | 50.45% | 12.62% | 50.00% | 12.50% |
| 5 | 63.06% | 12.61% | 63% | 12.50% |
| 6 | 75.66% | 12.60% | 75.00% | 12.50% |
| 7 | 88.26% | 12.60% | 87.50% | 12.50% |
| 8 | 97.06% | 8.80% | 96.00% | 8.50% |
| 9 | 105.82% | 8.76% | 104.50% | 8.50% |
| 10 | 110.35% | 4.53% | 108.50% | 4% |
| 11 | 114.90% | 4.55% | 112.50% | 4% |
| 12 | 119.44% | 4.54% | 116.50% | 4% |
| 13 | 124.00% | 4.56% | 120.50% | 4% |
| 14 | 128.52% | 4.52% | 124.50% | 4% |
| 15 | 133.06% | 4.54% | 128.50% | 4% |
| 16 | 137.61% | 4.55% | 132.50% | 4% |
| 17 | 141.20% | 3.59% | 135.50% | 3% |
| 18 | 144.78% | 3.58% | 138.50% | 3% |
| 19 | 148.38% | 3.60% | 141.50% | 3% |
| 20 | 151.98% | 3.60% | 144.50% | 3% |
| 21 | 155.59% | 3.60% | 147.50% | 3% |
| 22 | 159.19% | 3.61% | 150.50% | 3% |
| 23 | 162.80% | 3.61% | 153.50% | 3% |
| 24 | 166.39% | 3.59% | 156.50% | 3% |
| 25 | 170.00% | 3.61% | 159.50% | 3% |
| 26 | 173.57% | 3.57% | 162.50% | 3% |
| 27 | 177.17% | 3.60% | 165.50% | 3% |
| 28 | 180.78% | 3.60% | 168.50% | 3% |
| 29 | 184.38% | 3.60% | 171.50% | 3% |
| 30 | 187.98% | 3.60% | 174.50% | 3% |
| 31 | 191.59% | 3.61% | 177.50% | 3% |
| 32 | 195.19% | 3.60% | 180.50% | 3% |
| 33 | 198.79% | 3.61% | 183.50% | 3% |
| 34 | 202.40% | 1% | 186.50% | 3% |
| 35 | 203.40% | 1% | 189.50% | 2% |
| 36 | 204.40% | 1% | 191.50% | 2% |
| 37 | 205.40% | 1% | 193.50% | 2% |
| 38 | 206.40% | 1% | 195.50% | 2% |
| 39 | 207.40% | 1% | 197.50% | 2% |
| 40 | 208.40% | 1% | 199.50% | 1% |
| 41 | 209.40% | 1% | 200.50% | 1% |
| 42 | 210.40% | 1% | 201.50% | 1% |
| 43 | 211.40% | 1% | 202.50% | 1% |
| 44 | 212.40% | 1% | 203.50% | 1% |
| 45 | 213.40% | 1% | 204.50% | 1% |
The penalty for the AW levels is too high, making the spread between the number of starting troops too big of a range. The coefficient needs to be reduced, or a strategy like only counting the higher of the two AW from a chapter, or not counting 1 level for each chapter you've done.
Paid expansions shouldn't be counted at all.
Maybe you are right, but before the rewards were even worse: nothing ;-)
Not true. Before I was able to get about 200 more kp and not slaughter my troops and goods for it. There were no extra chests before, but you could far more than what is in the chests.
