Excess Tome Point Disaster and Solutions

whitecrow · April 30

Yes, there are way too many tome points and not enough to buy. I've got 6000-something points and still haven't unlocked the bonus pages. There is certainly not enough there to bring me under 2000 at the end.

ectoplasmicninja · April 30

I have like 8000 points, 8 pages unlocked (free tome version), and only want a couple of things remaining. I will have SO many points left over at the end of the season that I will feel compelled to buy other random things I don't want or need just to get down to the 2000 points that can be carried over, and I also have a full 12 caches just sitting there. The point balancing seems a bit weird - understandable to allow people to be able to buy everything in the premium tier, but then it just gets weird for the free tier players.

So I'm sitting here waiting for more challenges to arrive to grind them to earn 2000 more points to unlock the next page where I will then spend 250 points to sit and wait some more, only to end up with 12,000 extra points at the end of page 12 and nothing to spend them on. Converting them to gold at the end is meaningless, I have 50 mil in my bank and nothing to do with that either.

JemadarofCaerSalis · April 30

PeacefulAnarchy wrote: »

Umbracat449 wrote: »

I think one problem is they're using tome points to do two things. Open pages, for which you need a lot, and buy things, for which you may not, depending on taste.

Perhaps finding another way to open pages?

For every week of challenges you do one challenge, a page opens? Too simple there's a flaw i haven't seen? Too fomo? Probably less fomo than having to earn 15k ish points? You neednt log in every week, just do a challenge from that week- seeing they accumulate.

Better anyway than having to earn large points that you then lose AND plus get stuff you don't want, just to see them spent.

So every challenge unlocks a page, but no more than the number of weeks since the start of the tome? Challenges aren't tied to weeks and they accumulate only up to 12, so anything that tries to track challenges tied to weeks seems like it'd have a lot of issues.

They could just have a page unlock every week regardless of tome points, but keep the current unlock method as well so you can unlock early by earning tome points. This gives those who like grinding and unlocking a benefit still, but allows everyone to get what they'd like by the end of the season as long as they earn enough tome points to unlock it. It also makes the premium pass more appealing to those willing to spend but who don't want to so many challenges.

They could also do it like most other battlepass systems:

Each challenge gives X XP, and each page requires Y XP.

So, collect resources gives 10XP, defeat a boss in IC gives 50XP, and you need 100 XP to open the first page. XP is NOT a currency, so no need to have a cap or worry about having too much and so on. Tome points can still act as they do now, but now people won't need to have a ton of tome points if they don't want anything on the higher tier pages.

Psyphiman · April 30

Just got to say, I received incredible customer service getting my tome points converted into tome caches.

whitecrow · May 1

I've now purchased everything in the normal tier, and have 4000+ points. I shouldn't have opened all my caches, but I was impatient/wasn't sure I'd reach the last page by playing. Oh well, now I know for nextime.

Aydh · May 1

+1 to OP. We need a repeatable point sink in the bonus pages, the crates for example would be a good choice.