wittygamer said:

As always commanders I appreciate the feedback, and hopefully this will catch the attention of the team =)  Maybe it is something that can be tweaked =)

One piece of hero gear not dropping for 1.5 to 2 years and going. That is not random. Implies some gear may actually be blocked to some accounts. Definitely when that player gets duplicates in vast quantities of the other hero gear. 

And the Elite contracts. The drop percentages of grade 5 mercenaries need tweaking. More so now that there are even more types of mercenaries. So the chance you get a mercenary you want is drastically reduced the more mercenary types are added to the game. 

Then there are the empty alliance containers and some alliance containers even contain a item that does not even exist in this game. Not to mention the fact that alliance container contents do not scale with the grade of the alliance container anymore. (Superior, delux, legendary etc). 

Lastly defense in this game is pointless. Defensive orientated units make no sense anymore as 'no one' can defend their headquarters or black site/s against good mercenaries and alliance attacks. Unless they are troll attacks. 

This game has serious issues. And in the last 10 days I know of atleast fifteen players that have quit this game. 

In summary the game is all work, time consuming and no reward. The fun factor is nearly non existant. 

Playing for almost two years now...the game gets you hooked into buying more when the prices go down. If you don’t byefor a year... you might get a pack for 99 cents. I’ve bought over 20 merc packs and received only 1 level 5 Merc. That’s how they get you. It’s like being at the casino playing slots. You pray to win or in this case a level 5 Merc that you still have to get it to level 40 with 6 stars. What more are these thugs going to come up with to get more money out of us. Only time will tell. 

So true Sparhawk, this game has became such a gambling mess, and we can no longer defend our HQ’s or BS’s without spending tons of money gambling... they need HQ nodes... they need better chances for higher grade mercs.. they need to give more elite contracts in a $100 pack.. and they need to boost stats for defensive units and keep offensive units the same. Defense should always have the upper-hand.

I have yet to see a single legendary t4 item or crate drop. I play quite a few OPS and this is quite disheartening. Where is the investment myself and other gamers going? Of course if this were a real casino, I would have taken my money elsewhere months ago. Perhaps we should stop spending all together. Even casinos let you win every once in a while. They even give comps (that ridiculous crate I see bouncing on my screen hardly counts). 

Maybe I'll just stop researching aviation tech. That would save me tons of boosts and rescources. I mean ...why bother if I can't get the proper gear I need to support it ?

For the ones who are spending money and only getting the same thing again and again will make them stop spending or worse: stop playing. It can be fixed with trading in the store. Example: you own 7 legendary hero gear and only need one. You trade in 2 legendary gear for the one you don't have. 

Simular could be done for the Mercenary.

The worst thing that has happend is that HQ are not the safest place to have your army like before. That's the biggest bug so far. Tx

Indeed. I predicted things like this some time back, when they started pulling and jacking with Alliance containers. At that time I limited myself to only make purchases on necessary and permanent things. Look at those bogus DUAL tournament trash events, completely devised to increase the need to make purchases but have extremely limited rewards.

Krue

 Not surprised that the developers sacrificed the HQ... we have to wait for at least one or two more major updates to see where this game is going .It might balance out but I don’t think so.. the game is unbalanced , for sure .

Update. 

Have now opened 7 Mercenary Elite contracts in a row over last few weeks. None of them have been a grade 5 mercenary. 

This game is a money Casino gambling sponge. No rewarding gameplay. 

The lack of a developer support presence in this forum implies that they are at the stage where they are abandoning this game. Plus their silence is condemning of a lack of competency and professionalism on their part.

How hard is it to listen to your playerbase and try to make the game fun and enjoyable. Not turn it into soulless shell of a casino luck driven game. Too much elements are hinged on luck when this game is supposed to be a strategy war game. Luck is not strategy. 

Hello, Commanders!

Though I understand many of you're not happy with the way Mercenaries drop from Contracts, it has nothing to do with gambling.

Gambling means you receive some real-life profit, it's not a case with the game.

From the very beginning, it was said that the higher Mercenaries' Grade is, the harder it's to obtain him. It's logical as Mercenary of higher Grade, gives you higher Bonuses and correspondingly they're rarer.

It's how this system works in all RPG games. Many depend on how lucky you are!