A different hero upgrade method... (potential solution to current upgrade method)

[Galath]

Instead of collecting hundreds of thousands of DE in your storage at one time to upgrade a hero, if a new hero is added, why not make it slightly different?

For this hero, you need to stay active and feed it with DE everyday, the amount will vary depends on the level, an approximate range would be 50 DE per day all the way up to 10000 DE per day. The upgrade is instantaneous, which means it is basically a wall.

The hero will have multiple stages (levels), each level changes its appearances slightly (maybe a little larger), and in order to reach that level, you must feed it with DE, non-stop, for a period of time. Levels can take up to 8 days of feeding to reach.

If you decide to stop feeding it for more than 2 days, it's progress will drop everyday until it reaches day 0 of the current level, and you must feed it again to regain that progress. Progress cannot drop below current level. (so Level 4 stays at level 4 forever)

After each feeding is a cool down time, user can use gem to speed up the cool down time and feed it again.

If the hero reaches max level, progress will no longer drop. However, feeding additional DE will slightly improve its stats for a short amount of time.


To help you understand:

Level 1: 50 DE per day, 2 days of feeding to level 2
Level 2: 100 DE per day, 2 days of feeding to level 3
Level 3: 150 DE per day, 2 days of feeding to Level 4
Level 4: 200 DE per day, 2 days of feeding to Level 5
Level 5: 200 DE per day, 3 days of feeding to Level 6
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Level 39: 10000 DE per day, 8 days of feeding to Level 40
Level 40: 1000 DE per day to have a slightly improved stats on Hero.


- Say you are on Day 4 of Level 38, and you stop feeding for a week, then if you start again, you must feed 8 more days of Level 38.

[Galath]

Not necessarily a bad idea, but I don't think this would fit in with the game very much and it could be very complicated - it could also make some people mad if they go on vacation and their hero gets worse.

It can't drop below the level they are at. you just start over from that same level.

[MandoGotChu]

This is pretty creative. If Supercell is looking to add something completely new I would want it to be this. It would make sense if this new hero was some type of animal if you plan on trying to find a name for it and stuff like that. I can imagine a dragon that consumes dark elixir and when it's on the alter it's attached to a chain which is it's leash.

[Arasein]

This is pretty creative. If Supercell is looking to add something completely new I would want it to be this. It would make sense if this new hero was some type of animal if you plan on trying to find a name for it and stuff like that. I can imagine a dragon that consumes dark elixir and when it's on the alter it's attached to a chain which is it's leash.

Creative, but the prices need MAJOR changes.

It costs a total of 16,000 to upgrade a hero to level 40.

That is LESS THAN HALF OF A LEVEL 1 QUEEN.

Plus, it won't require that much activity in the beginning, as I could just boost my drills and be active once per day.

[MandoGotChu]

Creative, but the prices need MAJOR changes.

It costs a total of 16,000 to upgrade a hero to level 40.

That is LESS THAN HALF OF A LEVEL 1 QUEEN.

Plus, it won't require that much activity in the beginning, as I could just boost my drills and be active once per day.

I agree but it's always easy at the beginning. I can only imagine everyone struggling when it's leveled up and trying to save D.E.

[BigKid]

It's a creative idea but maybe a little too different from current upgrade paths. I'm also not crazy about the potential removal of DE from the economy.

[Galath]

Creative, but the prices need MAJOR changes.

It costs a total of 16,000 to upgrade a hero to level 40.

That is LESS THAN HALF OF A LEVEL 1 QUEEN.

Plus, it won't require that much activity in the beginning, as I could just boost my drills and be active once per day.

Ya I guess 2k is a bit less, 10k should be fine.

You don't have to be active to make this work, maybe farm 50-60k when you have time and use it over a period of time.

[Antdroid]

This without being active, would be great!

[rwelshjr]

If people are constantly dropping small amounts of DE into their heroes instead of saving up the larger amounts it will mean there is not much in the game to support raiding. In the end this will backfire because you wont be able to steal the DE to feed your heroes, or maybe you just get into a pattern of just feeding them from the collectors, which is not the point of the game.

Its frustrating to save up the larger mounts, it drives me nuts too. But its an important part of the game that we be forced to do this.

Edit - I did not vote because the 'no' is worded as "despise it". That would not be true. I may not agree with it, but I certainly don't despise it and do appreciate the OPs attempt to come up with an approach.

[ironagedave]

even at level 21 it has taken me ages to store up the required amount to upgrade, I think as rwelsh suggests create more problems.