Hero Academy! Can we please have more information?

[Gryphonknight]

@hotkarlmarxbros

If we could have some insight as to how this will be implemented I would feel more comfortable knowing that I’m not needlessly saving these guys

According to head Dev Tim, do not save duplicates.

It is easier to save 1* / 2* ascension items since the take up no space and are hard to use up.

Alchemy Lab will enable conversion of “junk” (lower rarity items) or items so you can use lower-rarity items to try to get higher-rarity items.

Alchemy Lab is more straightforward, and the design’s already mostly done. It’s just waiting to get coded up.

The Hero Academy will be F2P friendly. The Alchemy Lab works differently; we know that people have surplus items.

But this is a feature where we need to wait and see what happens in beta. Alchemy Lab is more straightforward.

Too early to tell, will need to see what is released in beta and how the Hero Academy will be functioning.

Too speculative at this point to stockpile heroes; we can put out some more information once we are further along.

SGG "Ask Me Anything" AMA transcript - 13 March 2019

Fairness / Trading 5. Are the boards actually random or not? Are they influenced in any way by the attacking team a player uses? Does it vary at all in Raids, Titans, Wars, World Map stages, or anywhere else? Why do opening boards hardly ever have good matches? If you do say that it’s all random, how do you explain to players who are convinced that it’s not, based on their own experiences? The convincing part is really hard if you don’t believe us that it’s random. Did you ever play an older …