Thread: New Upcoming Game: Crystal Maidens

Is it even possible to get two of the event girls without spending real money?

Honestly - if you had a decent stamina pool to recharge, a little lucky on the level ups and drops AND could get on at least every 4 hours only missing one over night, I think it MAY be doable and THAT's bad design - realy bad

The amount needed for each thing needs dropping by about a 1/3rd at least....probably a shade more

The 1st event was pretty much Ok the 2nd a cluster fuck of bugs and stupidity with insane cost/rewards this is at least....60/70% right

FYI this is the 2nd maiden event.

The first one, (x-mas) was way too easy. I was able to get all 3 maidens even though I was only able to play for like the 2nd half of the event, due to travelling to visit relatives for x-mas. I expect people able to play the entire event (not even no-lifing) got all the maidens and all the equipment.

The second one was way too hard, and not really worth even trying. (I think I stopped after the first day when I tried 2 times on a map and failed w/ my best guys, not sure what level, IIRC 2 of 'em were 60, other 2 in the 40's?) Thankfuly, the rewards also seemed pretty bad, so I didn't particularly care.

This one is *maybe* just a smidge towards too difficult. I think (after the changes) I'm on track to pick up Ophelia with almost 2 days to spare (I'm at 450 arrows), particularly now that you can play on your phone. Though I'll admit the nudity on the splash screen makes starting it up at work problematic. (tons of pointless meetings and such where most of the team is on their phone doing games waiting for it to start, so no issues for me in THAT regard anyways)

I'd argue it should be designed such that pretty much everybody should be able to get the event maiden. "No-lifers" should be able to additionally pick up some of the ancilliary rewards (perhaps non-event maiden). Whales should be able to pick up everything.

And this event doesn't seem to be too far off that target. (perhaps a bit TOO difficult to get the event maiden for the newest players who simply can't finish the maps... grind point for event maiden should have been halfway point, grind point for other maiden at the end.)

(I will say, the whole "1 purchase per day" of the random event mats, matched with the random nature and the phased roll out of maps is entirely stupid. You have no way to gauge whether you're likely to fall short until the event is halfway over, and even then you have no idea if what you get even if you do start buying will be enough to get you there. It's practically asking you not to risk it) It should either be random *or* limited, limited *or* phased roll out of the maps.

I just switched to grinding sushi and got 10 in one mission from stage 9. Better than I ever got for arrows from 12.

Did they update that too? God I wished this game had patch note pages or something.

Originally Posted by DrunkMonkGar

I just switched to grinding sushi and got 10 in one mission from stage 9. Better than I ever got for arrows from 12.

Any idea what the average is? If 10 is the average, that's only 60 runs, or 360 energy, or 30 hours. It may be fairly possible for free players to pick up Ophelia and Asuka, assuming they don't mind spending the 500 rubies from the event on +200 energy.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Any idea what the average is? If 10 is the average, that's only 60 runs, or 360 energy, or 30 hours. It may be fairly possible for free players to pick up Ophelia and Asuka, assuming they don't mind spending the 500 rubies from the event on +200 energy.

I've gotten 1-10, so seems like the same drop rate as a normal low quantity ingredient.

Honestly it would just be enough for this event if all stages were available from day 1... You were blocked on low amount stages for half the event for absolutely no reason other then create preasure and promote spending gems...