Hi all, it's your favourite captain typing another post. let's talk game balance today.
In a grinding game you need to keep things tight. You want to NOT flood the game with gold, scrolls and meat. And in this we find a big problem in the mythical chest. It is way to good and generous. The amount of meat regular players have is insane. I myself currently have a stack of meat (15671) worth 2600 dollars. This is just the meat and it gets even worse if you look at my stack of gold, currently at 870535 pieces.
The influx of legendary scrolls is even worse. I have so much blobs I can drop them as if they are common units. The amount of scrolls in the game when it comes to spy's and phantoms is simply staggering. The amount of common, uncommon and rare scrolls handed out each roll is equally out of hand.
New players can use some help but if you simply flood them with items, the drive to grind is soon gone and they loose interest. Older players don't need it that much, they simply like the grind.
The game of claim during the streams is taking a nose dive. Nobody can hardly be bothered to claim captain loot anymore since the flood gates are fully open. Why would you bother to claim 10 gold? For streamers this is a very important part of the interaction with the player base, that is lost in this way. Active players in chat is very important for streamers since it makes the chat lively and entertaining. Small streamers need this even more.
The Myhic box needs urgent attention. If you want to be generous then give out more skin tickets. Tweak the amount of meat, gold and scrolls down. Give it a extra rare skin ticket for super rare skins to be collected as replacement for less gold and scrolls.
My two cents, love ya all, Immer:)
#The devastating impact of the Myhic Box.
mint fiber
tepid python
Agreed with all of the points listed above. I strongly agree that the generosity of the Mythic Chests are discouraging chat interaction for loot rewards after a Stream Raiders battle, and this is damaging to SR.
mint fiber
Just had a brain fart. Why not up the amount of loot for the streamers to hand out while in the same time lowering the chest content? Just one of the possibilities.
wide stag
I like the idea of nerfing scrolls, gold and meat in exchange for a slight ticket increase, but I am not sure about introducing that 2nd type of ticket for rare skins..... there's healthy grinding and unhealthy FOMO triggers.
I feel like introducing that might cater ther latter.
vast moth
I'd like to see more necro scrolls (maybe replace one of the spy and one of the phantom with neco scrolls - perhaps 3 instead of 5 or 7) and less of the other legendary and other rewards and maybe 2 tickets per 30 chests.
bleak skiff
🧙♀️ Maybe create an event merchant/shop with a time limit, available for 1-3 days a month or a few hours, where you can exchange meat for Crystal, 50000 gold for 1 Skin Ticket, 100k gold for 200 Rubies. ❤️
brave cloak
As someone who's been playing for 5 months these chests have been a beacon for me. I understand the grind but it's felt pretty abysmal playing almost half a year and still having multiple first time units still not fully leveled.
I understand as a day one or early player this grind may have felt rewarding but at this stage of the games lifecycle people like me kinda just want to get caught up. The grind isn't as rewarding when everyone else has 5+ of every unit and a full set of souls.
I understand seeing people who are new doing half the grind you had to do to get where you are. I've been through a couple games that did something similar. But I think newer players finding the game at this point could use a boost to give the playerbase a lift.
I've grinded about 25-30 mythic boxes and have finally felt like I've made some progress in my account. Still not nearly enough gold to max out a lot of units.
Just thought I'd throw in a newer player perspective, as the OP has almost 1m gold, admitted stacks of legendary units, 1000s of rubies while implying everyone else is getting "too much" of something. The players affirming the opinion have end game accounts as well. The extra meat only helps newer players since the endgame players have multiple uncommon, epic, and legendary units off cooldown.
So I'd propose meeting halfway. Either a mild decrease in mythic rewards, or a substantial increase in Captain rewards for viewers.
To be honest, I think the viewer scrolls and gold were meager in the first place, not just relative to the mythic boxes. So I never bothered with channel redeems even before the boxes appeared. The channel redeem spam reeks more of desperation for resources, not necessarily enjoyment or channel interaction.
TL;DR I think giving captains unique and larger rewards to viewers would be a bigger impact than nerfing boxes, factoring in new players, the games current playerbase, and the games age/popularity.
fading zealot
I disagree
This is at last the gold we need so m u c h to upgrade the older so expensive legendary units (beyond blobs, amazons, spy, phantom). Please no reduce! I always could level up more but 2000 gold was missing for next level.
I already had over 18000 meat b e f o r e mythic chest and was suggesting last year/spring if we could exchange meat in gold saying that there is nearly no need anymore for meat when having duplicates. So there was always too much meat in all game & shop chests, battlepass line in the past. Have not noticed that there is so incredible much meat in the mythic chest.
A lot of several complain of many since last year that we get much blob, amazon, the never from captns wanted spy while we nearly get never necro scrolls, so it was often asked to change mythic chest content into generally/ any legendary scrolls and to remove the special amazon, blob, spy, phantom scrolls.
wooden cedar
I mean, there is not even really any point in trying to complete the Clash quests anymore. I already have X10 Phantoms.
vale nest
Thank you for the feedback!
We're discussing hwo to approach this, since with Mythic Boxes and other rewards we tried to amp the supply of currencies, but we never changed Captains' rewards. We like the idea of granting more rewards for Captains to distribute, so we'll probably do some fixes in the near future.
We might end up tuning down some of the rewards in the Mythic Box though. But if we do, we'll look for ways for new players to catch-up a little bit easily.
dapper grotto
I want to just point out something, and disagree a little bit here. As a captain who runs battles once every 30 minutes, and usually places with captains who run every 30 mins, I do not have millions of dollars, tons of duplicates, or tens of thousands of meat. I find it DIFFICULT to unlock duplicates and also to get skin tickets (wish we could share skins or rubies on both captain and viewer). Getting enough rubies to get 1 freaking ticket is difficult unless you grind only with fast battlers, which I don’t very often. I do place with immer occasionally but he’s usually running when I’m asleep, cause time zones LOL. I usually place in smaller captains/streamer battles as well, which makes all the difference.
I notice a regular handful of people complaining about the chests and money etc are fast battles who grind like crazy. One could say I grind a lot cause I play every day on both viewer and captain, but compared to yall, I’m not a grinder in the slightest. I don’t think it’s a good idea to consider this a typical style of playing, to be honest.
I would LOVE to personally see a nerf as to how many rubies it takes to get 1 skin ticket. 360 rubies for 30 chests is absurd imo. I’d like to see it halved at the very least, to get one skin ticket. I also would not introduce a new rare skin ticket.
With the mythic boxes, I’ve FINALLY got enough good to upgrade my units on captain and viewer. I was always running empty. And meat I was also using in dungies cause of only having 1 of each unit, 2 if I was lucky. Thanks to this gold from mythic chests, now I’m able to multiple common units instead of just 1. But meat is still used.
I do think it would be nice for long time players who have lots of resources to be able to exchange for other resources they need more. That is something that could be a great benefit.
Also upping the amount of loot streamers get to give out on stream is 100% a great idea! Rarely people would ever redeem, so I removed them completely from my channel as it was a waste. But if it was upped I could see people taking more interest in that!
While I think it’s great to hear feedback, I notice it’s often the same handful of people, and I think it’s important to hear from a variety of different captains and viewers with different play styles to let CTV know there are different play styles and to not nerf something that’s good for the majority just cause a few are incredibly rich in ways we wish we were. 🙂
(I say “few” yet I know lots of people place with immer (and other captains) etc, but those groups don’t make the majority of all players in sr, not by a long shot).
Love y’all. 🙂 
