NW Tokens

Doesn't really matter, token price will go up and individual ones will be worth more.

Increase the max all you want - didn't even realize there was a max because don't think it's EVER been reached, least not for Heaven's Tear.

I pulled 30,000 contribution tonight - final standings were very tight, was in a second place nation - got 200 tokens. Got triple the players now, actually fighting for the same reward pool that EACH server was fighting for before - I say triple because this new activity brought back a lot of inactives.

It's why I was a bit annoyed with the one week warning of the merge, since I'd just used up tokens to make a reawakened Single Butterfly. But I made up for it by buying up SoW the week preceding the merge. Since tokens can't be bought or sold, and the increased number decreases the amount of people getting 50+, it means the amount of SoW able to be made will actually be less than the half you'd think from the simple half reduction in over-all tokens given out.

So SoW was a great bet to hedge against both token inflation, and the guaranteed greater than 50% reduction in SoW being able to be crafted (outside of those alts that just save up for it.) I'm mostly looking for G15/16 demand to decrease the number of people willing to hold on long enough for each multiple, to help drive the price higher.

Of course, it also helps to then mention it in game and on forums, after I'd already bought 150 of them. No sense letting a great idea go to waste, without reaping maximum profit from it.

torres7 wrote: »

in eatheerblade(arch and ht) we had 201,193,189,199 5 minute after nw start. so almost 800 ppl in nw already and with 80k max token its 100 token per person. that kinda low but the amount of good fights b/w nations had inc so its good tho.

Thing people will realize, is that actually combats alts. One, they need to do enough to qualify for tokens, and increase presence decreases the chance they can afk their way through. Two, even if they do qualify, they now need to earn enough contribution to actually matter. Because they could go through all that for just 20-30 tokens only as a reward.

Which directly affects the urge for OP not to bring those alts, since their main will be busy actually fighting too much to waste time on their alts. And any time removed not actively killing and earning contri, is that much less their main has to get a higher placement. And getting higher placement of even one spot, can often earn much more than the paltry amount that can be earn with alts.

5172 contribution in dark netted 58 tokens, 11236 contribution in flame netted 84 tokens. Dark came first, flame last. Dark got to share 10k more tokens than flame was awarded. If you got more than around 13k contribution you would get the 100 tokens (or close to it). Also it is the ones that are in NW at the end that share the tokens, so figures from the start are only an indication of numbers. Also tokens are not given out in a linear manner according to contribution, higher than average contributions get more tokens than they deserve. Dark had a region score of 28.7% of the total, but got 31.9% of the total tokens. Flame, who got 21.7% of the regions only got 18.8% of the tokens.

The figure of 100 tokens above is a rule of thumb and probably only meant to indicate that since the merger EVERYONE will get less than they are used to getting.

It's actually useful for finding the lower range of tokens gained. Because it does do disproportionate dispersal, the fact is the majority will be getting less than 100, since the OP players will get the lion's share of it. Which goes back to the decreased number of SoW popping up, except for the strong players hording them to jack up the price.

my guess would be that for cross server nw there is a different reward. but just guessing, i dont know.

I've been doing my part by avoiding NW for like a year now. Got sick of people showing up in the last 10 min and getting triple what I got wasting 2 hours, and then the tokens being worthless. I already find pvp pointless, so its no loss.

NW time for me is basically time to go play something else because the server stops everything for it, and the only thing you read is stuff that would get you muted in any other game in WC lol.