Mjolnir Event Scam
Gnilraps
Ain’t Goin’ Down to that Well No More (Mandatory listening)
Day 2989 of the New World
January 26, 2016
Yesterday I posted a shout.
What I said was that I had read the terms of this week’s “Tanking Mayhem” event and it gave me a headache.
What I wonder about most, unfortunately, is not whether or not many other people got a headache while reading that garbage. What I wonder about most is whether or not most people actually even read it at all.
I don’t blame you if you didn’t.
Unfortunately, I kept reading it until I (think I) understood what’s going on.
Let’s get one thing out of the way immediately:
There’s a new tank skin!
I will leave you to decide if a tank skin even registers a blip on the “things I care about in eRepublik” meter. I will probably end up getting it accidentally. I rarely DON’T end up with 40,000 prestige points in a week. Judge me not.
OK so wow there’s that.
Now, let’s get to the main meat of the “Tanking Mayhem” challenge: The alleged “damage boosters”.
I’m gonna start with the tl;dr version: They are vapor. They don’t exist. They are NOT DAMAGE BOOSTERS. In fact, take my advice: Don’t use the so-called Event Damage Boosters. They will be worth more after the event expires in 14 days.
OK, so you want me to show you why these are NOT actually “Damage” boosters?
The key is in understanding the following language from the event details published by Pluto himself:
See that +1?
You’ll wish you hadn’t.
Since it was completely unexplained, some interested folks took to the official forum for clarity.
What does a +1weapon usage per hit mean?
I have bad news. It means that +1 weapon usage per hit means that when the “Event Booster” is activated, you will consume 2x of your weapon.
A normal 100% booster works in the following way:
I click the FIGHT button.
I make 1 kill.
That kill required (for instance) two “hits”.
I do (in this instance) two hits worth of damage/influence.
The 100% booster doubles that total.
So I make 1 kill, consume 2/10 of my Q7 weapon, and do 4/10 damage/influence.
The “Tanking Mayhem Booster” works in the following way:
I click the FIGHT button
I make 1 kill.
That kill required (using the same instance) two “hits”.
I do (in this same instance) two hits worth of damage/influence.
The 100% event booster doubles both the damage/influence total and the hits total.
So I make 1 kill, consume 4/10 of my Q7 weapon, and do 4/10 damage/influence.
The Event Booster is a marginal booster.
It is a 2x accelerator in terms of weapons used while being a Damage booster in terms of energy used.
It is Bulls**t.
Now admittedly, there are two smallish additional “features” of the Event Booster - it is cumulative with regular boosters and it is increased to 150% (instead of “100%”) by using a tank skin.
Let’s look at what the maximum possible benefit looks like with Pluto’s crappy Event Booster:
First, you have to make 40,000 Prestige Points THIS WEEK. The best case scenario for this is that you DON’T reach this landmark until near the end of the event-week. Why? Because the Event Boosters last 2 weeks… they don’t need to be consumed this week. So there is NO VALUE in spending Energy Bars to chase 40Kpp early. Best case scenario is to hit it next Monday.
So now you have the Mjolnir Skin. You activate it. This turns the “Event Booster” into a combined 2x accellerator (see above argument) and a 100% booster. Plato has not revealed how many such boosters he will have given out for 40K Prestige points. So nobody actually knows how much actual value is awarded. Let’s assume it’s a mix of 24hr, 8hr, and 2hr boosters. Again, since Plato won’t tell us, let’s guess that at 40Kpp, we get 1x24hr, 5x8hr, and 20x 2hr “Event Boosters”. So a total of 64 hours.
So for a total of 64hrs you have 100% boost plus 2x accellerator (again, see above argument) plus the option of adding an additional 100% (or 50
😵regular booster.
And this benefit is good for exactly 1 week. Wow.
So let me be perfectly clear with my advice.
1: Don’t bother.
2: If you MUST bother, don’t waste the “event boosters” this week until you get the new skin. And if you get the new skin before next monday you are stoopid.
3: The event boosters are actually worth more, in my opinion, allowing them to expire and become regular boosters. 100% boosters are awesome. 2x accellerators are marginally useless.
And Plato?
Eff off.
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Comments
https://www.erepublik.com/en/article/mjolnir-event-scam-2579310/1/20
Pluto Stoopid
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But combined with the 5x accelerator from the BK pack, you end up with 10x accelerator? Which is pretty sweet?
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it is a booster because you use less energy for more damage but you use more wepons. accelator makes the same amout of damage faster, the point iof this is that the tanking is priceir in terms of cc (which helps economy something what idots are shouting for years to fix, and this does that)
no, this don't help economy or whatsoever, just caused either some ppl getting hellish rich or price of the weapon getting effed up.
so how would you fix eco if not with biger profits?
bigger margin and profit caused cc's gathered by many ppl centered to few person. this in long terms caused inflation of cc's. but enough of that, i respect you and what you stands for.
this doesnt help "economy". ppl will just build more companies and we will come to the same situation we are now.
just means u have to build x2 companies you have now to be at the same place you were yesterday
gud info
endorsed spiritually (spent all my money on tanks)
I don't see why the extra weapon consumption is such a big problem, the price is less than 1/20th of paying for EBs and can be paid with cc.
The main problem is that everyone has it for the short period of time and makes it just about dealing damage for the heck of it..
just saw someone with the skin already 🙁
http://i.imgur.com/AXthvem.png
Someone? they are frigging legion
lol
probobly bug, sometimes i see people with 5 bh and skins
I knew that's why i decided to keep them for later
well in general i agree with you but u re wrong , this is booster not acc, just using it u will pay double for your wep....for me it s ok...i need my rank up 😃
the boosters is the only reason why I decided to go to 41k pp 🙂
and rank ofc...
hard voted, but please delete your article, i have invested too much in wrm's hoping the prices will explode 🙂 hahahahahaha
yep i did read. yep i did notice +1. But i`m RL accountant- my job is to see those kind of things 🙂
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Plato Eff off o/
Lol, love the sentiment here
Free "Mjolnir Tank" skin in 7 easy steps. (Pictures included):
www.erepublik.com/en/article/2579270
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😘
I agree that the rewards aren't as good as they seem to be. Anyhow I'm trying to get myself at 40k prestiges.
I haven't yet decided that whether to use the booster or not. The 100% damage bonus is useful when the energy bars are limiting factor and gaining extra rank points is desired, plus the high damage output per click. Should do the math to see the real cost for Mjöllnir skin..
nice one!
As one who doesnt give a f*** about pay to win events, I must say that I enjoyed reading this.
this is really good, ty gnilraps!
unlike yourself, pluto doesn't makes false promises, so please stop complaining!
Oooh good one
I didn't read his letter. It has been almost a year since I had the resources to complete on of his challenges.
I couldn't reach 40k PP if I tried and spent money, so it's irrelevant to me.
I plan on getting zero PP for about one month...
Good job man indeed!
Good explanation. Vote!
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GR8
Thanks for breaking down the event.
amen
erepublik is scam in itself
Another sham from the Admins
I'm glad there are writers like you to explain what I didn't get around to figuring out for myself. Thanks, Gnil!
Good piece.
TBH, I couldn't care less about Plato's crappy events.
nice... havent even noticed or understood that part + 1 wapon
If only I had read this an hour ago.
I will not say that we read Plato's regular news but I did this and that detail! Immediately I noticed the date of validity of the tanks that are on offer, and figured it would either be a lunatic to try that in the first 36 hours get to 40k PP, or the people who are up to the end of the week to reach the 40k PP, it has to be clearly, that the tank get only one week of use, but to have a specific plan for that one week! My personal opinion is if you really want change in this game, and to reduce the influence of players who are willing to spend lots of money to satisfy his ego, that should go into a serious boycott, do not buy anything more than food that is necessary and hope that primarily moderators games and then Plato to understand that overreacting to offer their made-up novelties!