IRON SHEIK “HALL OF FAME” DEBUT + Giveaway

I think it was a better event, we had the chance to do more matches apart from maxing the showdown coins. The free shards were a little low but it was ok.

IGN - Simmsys 9 iron

The Poster

Sheik looks to be nothing special but I bet theres a way to make him work with HTM's plate. Sub is way too long to be practical, you almost need to either use him against someone with a sub-down coach (lmao as if people use those anymore) and/or use Ciampa to coach him and gimp yourself out of a lot of green/multi gem damage. Just as well I have no better technicians to use. We need wayyyyyyy less submission guys or rather superstars with beefed up sub damage like Tech Brock, but maybe to not such a ludicrous degree, if Im gonna bring a guy with a sub to 5SG, I want 100k per turn across the board, not just in Feuds. You got Angelo Dawkins smacking people for over a mill per move and those are 6 charge moves as well, no reason why I cant sub a dude for 1m in a turn. If that means we have to get rid of the submission damage buff in feud perks, thats a risk youre gonna have to take.

The Contest(s)

If theres anything on earth that makes me feel good when playing this game, its actually being able to complete the bloody events for a change. But when you dip into your roster and complete the daily "spend a loot coin" point methods (Thanks for the 4SB Sheik btw love you lots) only to barely get halfway through the milestones, it kinda makes your accomplishments and the effort you put into building your roster feel insignificant. It's like smashing the faction feud with my showboat Naomi, blowing everyone away turn 2 and barely scraping by with 12 and a half million when youre asking me to hit 40 million. I'm all for a grind but you can at least pretend like you want me to actually reach the top milestones for free. come... on.

The tours

All I ask for in tours is simply have the rewards be worth it and make them possible, both reasonable talent for the opponent and let me use a guy whos useful enough to actually win, I dont expect to have 5 star silvers thrown at me and im not gonna pretend to be okay with it, I only pulled my first 5 star silver a couple weeks ago and I only have about 2 more ready to go 5 star silver, the way I see it, 5 star bronze should be as high as limited time tours go, but thats just the way I see it.

The event was a bit of a mess with the character being released for previews and then being significantly changed after the event started. The skill plate was never going to work correctly since it was a copy of the Omos plate which doesn't work. This wasted the content creators' time making two sets of preview videos and the big preview live stream was a waste of everyone's time who showed up to watch.

While it's good that feedback was listened to and the changes were made reasonably quickly, it does make me wonder how much thought and effort went into the original release.

I liked:

• The tours were again solid. Reasonable requirements, difficulty, and rewards.
• The required characters were fairly reasonable, and double-dipping or better was possible if you had all the CSS.

I disliked:

• I hate to be that guy, but Showdown is now too easy and boring. I'd suggest adding additional leagues with more coins or other point methods for players who want to play for more milestones. Right now showdown events only take a couple of hours and if you don't get a lucky bag, you're done.
• Yet again a community event was either miscalculated or set to a point that the community couldn't reach. While the community wasn't as far away from the final milestone as we have been in the past, the game just isn't built for these events. There is no practical way for the community as a whole to coordinate and cooperate to push further. Even with everyone working together, most players hit a paywall in the event and couldn't earn any more community points. For a start, future community events need an in-game progress meter to keep players interested. I would also recommend very simple scoring so that the average player can understand what they need to do to contribute.

Suggestions:

• Freshen up Showdown. Bring back the last man standing tag matches for some new strategy. Add new higher notoriety leagues for stretch goals. Bring back showdown leaderboards similar to feud warscore leaderboards.
• Reduce the price point to recruit the new character. When I saw the $300+ cost, I decided to not spend a single dollar. If the character is set at a more reasonable level, I believe many more players will spend for that guarantee. Set the gear at higher price points and for leaderboards etc.
• If players are going to be enticed to spend on HOF characters, there needs to be more HOF tokens available. I have no reason to chase 4/5/6 characters in a month when I only have tokens for a single character.

HOF Iron Sheik Debut Contest Feedback

The Character

Crazy to have such a U-Turn on the power level of a character after the major content creators had already had a look. It kinda reeks of realising that the whales may have skipped him? I will probably never get him so no matter.

The Tours

The Technicians tour which requiring HOF Iron Sheik himself or HOF Honky Tonk Man kinda sucked. the rest were fine

The SD Contest

No HOF's except the free ones or any Chyna in my roster doomed me to a lower score this event

I really appreciate that having two HOF technician cards allowed you to double dip and complete the 100 matches for each requirement during the event. The 100 match cap (actually 60-odd in the end for me) was fun, but I dearly wanted t earn more showdown coins. You hit the 1000 cap way too quickly.

Community Event

It was really good to see a community event on the portal again. But how did you all come up with the maths for this one. Getting so close and seeing no progress practically all of Monday was very poor planning. It was never made clear where you could gather the points and by locking it behind a paywall was not the way. The Community event should ALWAYS be grindable.

IGN: Yer auld Da