"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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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....🤔
Damned, if I had knew, I would not have stop playing the game for months ☹️
How many gems did you get before Battlez ? Would it be interesting to stop using gems and saving them for few weeks (but then missing some new power mint plants) and use them to get a big streak so lot of rewards ? @Humplemann
Else, likely you will go back to Silver, 13rd player in my Gold league is already at 90 points.
And also, looks like nobody is really enjoying this week tournament x)As I recall it was around 8,000 gems. I spent a fair few during the first weeks of Battlez while moving up from Soil League to Silver in consecutive weeks, but not retaining my reward streak each time I lost a match. (BIG mistake in hindsight)
Unfortunately I didn't claim all the gems made available over the couple of years. If I'd known about Battlez coming on the scene I'd have done it every day and could have had twice as many. I could also have had still more if I hadn't spent some on Premium plants for gems offers and a few purchases when they were cycling the double value seed packet offers between the various worlds.
Regarding dropping a league. I'm not bothered if I do drop back to Silver. I wouldn't even worry over dropping to Bronze. I don't purchase seed packets for gems, so the league I'm in is of little importance to me. (Other than not wanting to end up in Jade because of the 'suspect' opponents/bots I've heard are, or were infesting it.
What IS important to me now is maintaining my reward streak because of the escalating value of the rewards, and it enabling me to upgrade my plants far quicker.
The reason nobody seems to like this week's tournament is down to the stupid plant of the week. EA have made a few poor choices over the weeks, but this has to be the worst yet.
If I didn't know better I might almost think that EA are trying to discourage people from playing by making it as unenjoyable as possible for the vast majority of players. As I see it, it's only the players with maxed out plants, or those using questionable methods who ARE doing well.
I remember those falling gems days too. That was back before the executive team at EA graduated with honors on a course run by the Ebeneezer Scrooge College and did away with such benefits. I believe the course may have been named, "Advanced techniques for robbing your client base blind without resorting to using a gun." I also believe it's possible that the principal course lecturer was a direct bloodline descendent of Frank and Jesse James. 👿
Ok so it would be like a year doing quests and ads and not using a single gem 😞
I guess I'll try to get to Jade league just to purchase seed packets for my favourite plants (anyone know how many seeds there are in Jade Pinata btw?) then I will try to find a way to get mints while not using gems for gauntlets on lower leagues.
Edit: Well actually I checked and it's 260 seeds in Jade, 240 in Gold so I guess I will probably use gems on Gold, it would not be wise to waste 150 gauntlets to get to Jade league just for 20 more seeds/Pinata.
It is kinda ridiculous that the 1st of Soil League win more than someone in the last spot in Jade or Gold, that is kinda stupid. Same, top Wood League gets 30 mints, 5st of Jade League gets 24,, that's rificulous.
I guess the best strategy is to go first on a "medium league" where you don't have to use lot of gauntlets to get 1st and win a nice amount of mints, then drop back, saving some gauntlets, then get 1st again etc.- My gaming background goes way back to when my first computer was a zx spectrum with a rubber keyboard and i had to buy magazines to copy programs from unless you were fancy and could afford a cassette tape deck.
Through the ages i became a consumer and bought better stuff like the commodore 64 (with 5 1/2" floppy drive),various ataris and my first real pc, a 486dx2 66.
Back then DOOM came on 6 floppy discs and i beheld the future in the guise of the cd rom drive (single speed) and soundcards.
I have bought and played many games over the decades and this is my first foray into online gaming and also my first experience of a freemium game.
It will also be my last.
I like talking to other players through the forums but the constant farming of ads is driving me insane.
Battlez is great but the cost in time, real money, gems and coins is just too much for me.
It's taken me nearly 2 weeks to get lightning reed (underrated) to level 5
and thats just 1 plant!
Most of my plants are between 3-4 and i do the daily quests and the pinata parties and they stopped being fun a long while back.
For a newbie i think I've done pretty well so far and i just don't see myself spending most of my freetime farming ads.
In real money I've spent around £50, a few useful items and premium plants and a couple of gem purchases to buy gauntlets.
The whole thing is designed by very clever people to suck you in, get you hooked and bleed you dry.
This is only my opinion and you may think differently but i still have fun playing the original PVZ.
Fun has gone.
Bye Bye fun.
