"WHAT THE [Insert suitable word] !!!"
I have just played a Battlez match which left me staring in shock at the results screen and thinking “WHAT THE [Insert suitable word] !!!! How in the hell did they do THAT??” My plants were – The...
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I have played about 20 games and so far I have lost 1 in 4 so I somehow can share your feeling.
Did you pay to keep your streak?
Did you pay to keep your streak?
I did retain my streak. I'm currently on 506, so even at 120 gems it's still worthwhile keeping it.
At that level the displayed rewards are subject to a multiplier of times 6. The last time I reached the point where I won gauntlets I received 12. As long as I retain the streak and make use of the daily free gauntlets and several free plays it costs me between very little and nothing to play.
The Pinata and Power Mint rewards do drop back temporarily when you reach each 100 game boundary point (Only EA knows why) but the general trend is upwards. My last pre-reduction Power Mint win was 50, and the last Pinata win was 55 (550 seed packets). That was with a multiplier of 5 and I am now on 6.
When you balance that against the value of the Gold League packets (240 in return for 100 gems) it's way better and makes it worth hangjng in there.
Having said all that, I'm not liking this week's tournament one bit. I feel that the Solar Tomato is like a bad joke when it comes to its suitability for Battlez as a source of sun. I'm saying that because it's rare to recoup the 100 sun cost. At best I find it like a VERY expensive stun grenade. Because of that I've decided to not play any more matches for the remainder of the week. I currently have 140 crowns and that may or may not be enough to keep me in the Gold League. If it is that's okay, but I won't worry if I find I've dropped back to Silver.
I think the idea of the Solar Tomato is that you drop it down onto a square where there the surrounding has 3 or more zombies thus you spend 100 sun and get more than 100 sun back. I have a method to gather the zombies together to use the tomato on them ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlE0xbsBegE ) but if you already have Sun Bloom, them this is not relevant.
You are right about the 120 gems, I thought it was 250 to keep high winning streaks. (this shows how far I am behind the streaks... 😳)
I too going to give my level 1 plants a break this week and have some fun with the mid level ones especially with Sun Bloom. 👿
When using Caulipower it's often difficult to find sufficient enemy Zombies close enough to each other make the Solar Tomato a good source of sun. If you add to that a wall of Explodo-Nuts that often restricts them to column 9 in the arena it reduces the opportunities still further. (Hence my expensive stun grenade reference.)
With using gems for retaining your win streak, it rises by 10 at a time until it reaches a peak level of 250. It goes 10, then 20, then 30, then 40 and so on.
Using 120 gems to retain my streak this time means a total outlay of 780 gems. Even so, comparing 780 gems to winning tens of thousands in coins, thousands of seed packets, around 3000 Power Mints, and, at a guess, 180 Gauntlets (which would have cost me 750 gems) it still makes it more than worthwhile.
I was lucky in having several thousand unused gems saved up before the Battlez started, so I have yet to purchase any. (It's surprising how quickly they built up over the past couple of years.)
As I was under the impression in the pre-Battlez days that I had all the time in the world to slowly upgrade my plants, I was usually content to get most of my seed packets from daily challenges and the Pinatta trackers rather than using gems. The main occasions when I used any gems was when we were offered Premium plants in exchange for them (I did, however, purchase several Premium plants with cash as and when I felt I would benefit while working my way through the various world maps.)
This had the benefit for me of a handy buffer against EA's exorbitant charges for purchasing gems.
While my principle aim with Battlez is to ramp up my plant levels, I do still want to enjoy the matches. The Solar Tomato Tournament, at least for me, is NOT fun, so I won't be playing again until it ends.
Thanks for the insight, I did not realized the payout is that good, I had have a long streak of just over 400 at the beginning week and thought it would reset with new battlez the following week, also because of after so many wins, I got bored thus I ended it by experimenting with entry level plants on the last day of the tournament.
In hindsight I should have kept it going....
As regarding gems, I can still remember they used to be falling from the sky....🤔
