The Daily Challenge Is a Welcome Addition to Event Ticket Accumulation
In the lengthy post Countdown Timers: A Discussion, I pilloried the event ticket boost countdown timer because earning all four copies of an event card without spending any gems is untenable for individuals who are unable to play for an 8-9 hour stretch (e.g. school, work). While I still believe that incorporating my suggestions would enhance players’ abilities to earn tickets, the daily challenge, our new font of tickets, behooves a revision to that analysis.
Though the price has fluctuated since inception, the cost of each event card copy appears to have stabilized to 1200 tickets. For an avid player, I’ll further presume that one has the requisite 10x boost hero and can readily win three multiplayer games a day (one before work/school, one after, and one four hours after that – followed by bedtime). At seven days of playing, that’s 3150 tickets, just 450 shy of picking up that third copy. Our intrepid player just needs to win three more boosted matches to finish off at 3600, although completing quests and playing random matches could drop that down to two boosted matches. (Farming is also a possibility. But, though grinding for fun is acceptable, grinding just to earn a few tickets is work when this should be a fun pastime.)
Picking up card #4 through boosted ticket matches means playing eight more of those multiplayer matches, sleep, social and familial obligations notwithstanding. However, the daily challenge offers 1200 tickets for the week, 100 tickets for completing a challenge plus 200 bonus tickets for three completions and then 300 tickets for five completions. And this countdown timer is a full 24 hours!
Caveat: Since some challenges are more difficult than others or may necessitate a bit of luck to abut your skills, play early and play often as each failure incurs a one-hour wait (i.e. countdown timer) before another attempt. If you can watch ads, you should be able to refresh the challenge through ad-viewing. A number of forumites also said that the AI basically gave them an auto-win on their 7th or 8th retry. Of course, if it’s a puzzle challenge, come here to the forums and ask for help; both the helpful and the boastful are here to share the answer.
