Mjolnir Event Scam

Day 2,989, 07:08 Published in USA USA by 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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