Originally Posted by
Shadowfae
"Which brings us back to the original point: How to reach those 50k. Of course if you make numbers and realize you won't ever reach 50k it's useless to throw away radars for 15 SR levels and two namins. What I was trying to point is that those radars won't give you any more advantage next event..."
This is absolutely and blatantly false, though. Slayer cards give radars a significant boost. If you don't have any slayer cards this event (or just the N ones), and think that you can get a slayer card or two in the next via whatever means (even the free e-gacha tickets), then they sure will give you more advantage in the next event. Plus, those stacked with the ones you get through that event means 2x the bouquets anyways. Stockpiling them for the next event is far, far better than throwing them away for no gain whatsoever (and not just no gain, but you are actually taking a loss since you lose a lot of other actually useful items in the process). If you have a chance of reaching 50k with them via momentum? Sure, you're definitely better off using them. If there's no way in heck you are getting 50k this event no matter what you do? You're better off pushing for level 200, collecting the extra keys / prizes / bonus rolls, and save the radars for when they can actually provide a valid edge.
It comes down to one very simple fact. If, within the first day or two of an event, you realize that you have no chance of pushing for a reward no matter how hard you try, then it's not worth wasting your resources to fail at it. That means that you not only fall behind / lose momentum, but you are more poorly placed for the next event because you squandered your stockpile for no gain whatsoever. The advice is good at its core, but then you push it to illogical extremes that make good advice become terrible.
PS: My hoarding my peroanamin stockpiles for the last two events has paid off marvelously for this one. An actual example of why your advice taken to the extreme you are doing is just not good. Free-to-play means that you have to be incredibly wise about your resource usage. That does not mean "frugal". You need to be willing to burn them when doing so will benefit you. You just need to make sure that it is actually going to benefit you.
Which is pretty much the exact point I'm trying to make: That you need to learn to balance between frugal and overspender.
Also, the moment you start talking about slayers you invalidate the whole point: F2Pers, where the only ay to not have only N-slayers is to hoard e-gacha for half a dozen events.
Also, the slayers do diddly-quat for radars. They boost BOUQUET rewards. The distinction might be slight, but it's there. The point of the radars is to give more chances of getting those bouquets rewards, that's all.
And hoarding namins is completely different here. We have had pretty much no event where burning through namins would have helped you before. Guards only need namis as long as you're trying to get like another dozen guards or so. One single full namin can easily give you up to two or three dozen guards in that event, so there's not real reason to burn through them.
Also, namins are a resource you'll get truckloads of on every event. As such, you can easily stockpile them in the hundreds in just a couple events.
Radars are only given for Gambles, so you won't be getting any more than the ones given through the event (plus a dozen or so you might get your hands on beforehand).
I didn't mean to imply that stockpiling radars would be completely useless (in fact I actually stated that it would let you push further). What I meant was that, in most cases, the amount of push the stockpile would give you would be proportional to the amount of momentum you'd have lost for stockpiling them.
We're not talking about having a x15 mltiplier from getting 12 slayers next event, as that's pretty much outside of F2Per range unless you stockpile e-gachas for a year and then have the devil's luck (Tenhou stated yesterday that it took him 35 e-gachas to get all SRs from this event).
We're talking about current situation and logical workings of the game for anybody that might be F2Ping in the future.
We get, at best, up to 3 free E-Gacha Tickets a month (1 for 30 day login bonus, 2 for 2 possible events giving e-gacha reward), and that's not even sure (only the daily login one is certain).
You can't count those into any strategy, unless you're talking about year long strategies and lots of luck.
And, the moment you buy even 1 gold worth of resources you've stopped being an F2Per. Even if you're a very lousy P2Per, you've already paid for something in-game (and no, the free 500 gold from referals still counts as buying stuff. Just because YOU didn't pay the money for the gold doesn't make it any less bought resources)
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