The Samoan Bulldozer Contest

You guys are awesome..

This game is moving more and more towards the players that spend big money to have the required superstars. While this rest of us just get useless stuff.

As someone with not the biggest roster out there, I really like the option to turn the special blitz tickets into points, that way I can get something out of it instead of just sitting around doing nothing and I really hope this feature stays for future events.

I'd also like if we could turn regular blitz tickets into the special ones to then exchange for points, just a way to still get some points if you don't have enough superstars to do the blitz.

The Samoan Bulldozer contest is good. Not to hard that U need ultra high characters.

Since the blitz appears to be done how fo you then get any firther bulldozer shard looy coins? Stuck on 3950.

Finally thanks for adding UMAGA, awesome character to have. Probably best trickster.

Faction boss competition needed to make some changes to make the fun.

First, it should be run for 48 hrs as in every factions, there are players from different time zones. Its a team work so 29 hrs faction boss not giving enough time to have them team work time.

Give power of using all 4 players faction boss breaker to the person who created lobby also. It will make more impact.

Remove animation of moves or speed up them while faction boss.

Its hard to max faction boss competition as not much point given for faction boss coins. Hardly reached half milestone after beating (11,12,13,16 level)

Blitz concept was great.

Tours were perfect.

Faction competition was easy to max with good rewards.

Overall pls make changes in faction boss battle for more fun

Shocking that I’ve been unable to access the boss shop all week and support are unable to give me a fix time.

managed to fix something that was beneficial to the players within 20 minutes at the contest start though.

Feedback for Samoan Bulldozer Faction Boss

Positives

• New character Umaga was sought after and long been awaited in game so it's great to see this addition and a newly modeled character. The overall appearance is definitely a better look than some of the newer released characters.
• Faction Boss event was good this time as it didn't feel too restricted to using the needed characters to get the doable levels done. Although health-steal boost felt lack luster as there wasn't any character that had a good health steal move so this was quite a useless boost.
• Solo Milestones were ok and standard so no complaints there.
• The Faction Boss event was good as well with good number of resources.
• Solo Tours were not very restrictive so like the fact that it was doable.
• The Blitz was an improvement from last month where it wasn't too restrictive and changing the requirement (if intended) from 4 to 2 as requirement was welcomed so it allowed us to be able to blitz and get free 90 loot pulls.
• A positive outcome for the mishap with Talent levelling and making it fair by awarding it to all was the right-call so good job on that.

Negatives

• Still do not like the change of Faction Boss running from 48 to 24 hours as this makes it quite hard to get our levels done especially for factions who are as strong as the top 5 that generally has well-equipped rosters. The rest of us need time to plan and strategize according to our roster power and size so making it 48 hours makes it easier. Also hate the fact that by making it 24 hours and starting it a day later that means for those who are in timezones ahead loses out on half a day of playing as it's a working day for us and we don't have the time to play then. If it's going to be for 24 hours then atleast have it start on the first day as soon as the event starts.
• Prizewall was quite restrictive and only had rewards if you maxed the event so not for the many of us.

Personally feel like Faction Boss can be an enjoyable event if some changes to the timing is made but would definitely like it to go back to 48 hours so we can enjoy the game play aspect of it. Perhaps changing the scoring would be an option so that way you can still have Faction Boss running longer but allow for top factions to score more as to where they stand rather than just a max of 40000 as I'm sure the change of hours was purely due to top factions maxing in a day hence the change for everyone else to follow-suit which in some way isn't fair for the rest of us.

I've been a fan of faction boss since it came out but the recent updates have made it far less enjoyable. It was fine with 10 levels and 10 being quite difficult. Somehow, you added more levels but I'm now earning fewer boss currency per event.

At the same time, none of the problems with faction boss are improving at all. Connectivity is horrible. Huge amounts of lag (spare me the location of the lobby nonsense, it doesn't make a difference). Move animations take too long. Move effects are lost near the end of turns. Can't easily tell what rewards might come out of a level. Add to that the addition of more boss levels somehow also reduced the coins at any given level. These are the things that need to be worked on.

Event-wise...same old. Not enough bags, not enough shards.

I did like the blitz and shard loot, however not letting us do single pulls means I have a lot left over and nothing to do with them because its less than 10 pulls worth.

Its nice the blitz only required 2 characters because I only had two that could qualify in the first place. This really is a make or break point for the event as a whole. Anyone that couldn't do all 3 blitz runs likely had a less than enjoyable weekend. So while I had a mostly positive experience overall I think the event design was poor. I'm not going to rate by my personal experience but rather by the overall setup. I got lucky and so I had an ok experience. Too many barriers to entry in this event.

So overall a 6/10 from me. Better than most events this year but thats a very low bar.

Boss Battle - It would be nice to see some variation, a female boss battle is overdue. Also, I'd prefer to see the specific boss battle bonuses apply to a wider selection of characters. When the bonus is obscure like health steal then it just promotes using the same strong characters over and over. What fun is it to roll out an army of KO and mutant Seth every time? Ideally the bonus should be available to make average/good characters better than the heavy hitters that everyone uses. Also, it would help make every category viable instead of having focused/defensive carried by the team.

Blitz - It was nice to only have two required which helped most quality. The shard loot was welcomed and had decent rewards.

Faction Contest - Easy to max without any talent up, thank you for that.

Solo Contest - Boss battle scoring is problematic and heavily skewed towards top factions. I can easily max a feud war score or showdown contest but can't come even close on boss battle. In my opinion all the mlc solo points should be in the lower milestones and put just resources in the "bonus" milestones that only the top factions will be able to achieve. Another option would be to reverse the scoring with higher points in the lower levels. This would allow people in lower factions to still achieve most milestones and those in the top factions to get a couple extra bonus milestones.

What I liked:

• Umaga

Great to see this character debut in the game. His character model, card art, and animations look great too. While I didn’t get very close to a recruit at all, I do like the temporary evolve to 6sb for those who were able to get him in the debut event.

• TU Issue

Handled perfectly. Unless a mistake in the players' favor is completely game-breaking or destroys an event, it should be allowed to stand for all players. Thank you for making a great decision here, the additional rewards were appreciated.

• Tours

I feared the worst when I saw the blog for the event and the CSS for the tours. Thankfully the very rare CSS were needed to reach the bonus rewards, but not the regular rewards. This is a huge improvement in fairness and communication.

• Faction Event

I really liked the addition of a significant amount of boss breaker currency that matched with an important style for this particular version of faction boss.

• Blitz

I was able to fill each slot, but I know that many players were delighted to be able to play this blitz with just 2 of the 4 requirements. Very generous.

Dislikes/Suggestions:

• Player Buffs

The trap and health steal bonuses were a bit underwhelming. Although I still have a blast playing Faction Boss, it would be great to see more variation in the characters who dominate each version of faction boss, instead of the same handful each time. Maybe these type of buffs could be scaled way up to allow players more options to take down the boss.

• Faction Boss Schedule

Please go back to the 48-hour format. A lot of players and factions really struggle to coordinate and strategize within the shorter timeframe. I’m not sure why the hours were reduced, but I think 48 hours is overwhelmingly more popular with the community.

I appreciate that instead of a roll back you let everyone enjoy the mistake that gave everyone 1.5m points. This is how it should be. Your mistakes aren’t our fault. But most times you make it feel that way so thank you for doing the right thing on this one. Also please send me umaga

Shards used for pulls in multiples of 100 were deemed useless below 1000 due to minimum pull being 10 off... why? If 1 pull is 100 shards, I should be able to make 1 pull.

On the plus side, I liked the idea of the blitz with reasonable requirements and decent rewards

As a F2P player most of these contests are behind paywall to get further in the game. I would make at least more emerald tokens available in a few lower milestones.