Economy Changes - March 13

In our latest title update, we released the Cloning Lab, a new economy and progression feature that lets you earn cards for the units of your choice, simply by playing battles.  Alongside earning Crates and completing Bounties, the Cloning Lab forms the backbone of the game’s progression. After watching how the Cloning Lab is interacting with these other two features, we realize we need to make some changes so they are more balanced for the long term health of the game.  

Crates and the Convoy Cycle

Since the launch of Rivals, summoning and rushing Crates with Fuel and Diamonds has been one of the most efficient ways to play.  Unfortunately, it has proved so efficient, that it provides tuning challenges when trying to add fun, new progression systems to the game.  Thus, we are making a few changes to the Crates System and the Convoy Cycle:

• Crates now double in value once, when you unlock Nod (Player Level 9), but will not increase in value thereafter.
• Common Crates drop 6 Cards and an average of 75 Credits before Nod, and 12 Cards and 150 Credits after.
• Uncommon Crates drop 7 Cards and an average of 75 Credits before Nod, and 15 Cards and 150 Credits after.
• Rare Crates drop 35 Cards and an average of 250 Credits before Nod, and 70 Cards and 500 Credits after.
• Epic Crates drop 50 Cards and an average of 1000 Credits before Nod, and 100 Cards and 2000 Credits after.
• Colossal Crates drop 225 Cards and an average of 4500 Credits before Nod, and 450 Cards and 9000 Credits after.
• GDI and Nod Crates mimic Epic Crates in their values, but only grant cards of the respective Faction.
• The amount of Diamonds required to rush a Crate is now 50 Diamonds, up from 24 Diamonds.
• The number of Epic Crates in the Convoy Cycle is now 12, up from 6.  Those Epic Crates replace Common Crates in the cycle.

Bounties and Victory Credits

To keep in line with the value of Crates, the amount of Credits earned per bounty and battle (up to 10, daily) now increase only once, when you unlock Nod.

• Each bounty rewards 120 Credits before Nod, and 250 Credits after.
• Each battle rewards 50 Credits before Nod, and 100 Credits after.

Cloning Lab

We were excited to deliver the Cloning lab a few weeks ago.  After launching the feature, we realize it does not reward enough cards.

• The Cloning Lab now becomes available at Player Level 13 (was 15).
• Standard Chambers now cost 150 Diamonds each (down from 200).
• A bundle of 5 Standard Chambers can now be purchased in the Resources tab for 625 Diamonds
• The Free Chamber now grants double the cards (60 Commons, 20 Rares, or 2 Epics).
• Standard Chambers now grant triple the cards (90 Commons, 30 Rares, or 3 Epics).