So our alliance is now having a big discussion on the best way to achieve 35 titans in 50 days (if that is what is required - we still don’t know yet I suppose).
Two options:
Continue as we normally have and flask when needed
Drop titan stars and repeat 1 and 2 as necessary
Now I don’t want to say what my views are just yet but can anyone please enlighten me on the strategy?
Also isn’t a risk of option 2 the fact that we may have more than 5 titan tiers? Ie deliberately skipping titans when 45 titans could be needed sounds very dangerous to me
Assumptions: 25 members, 9-11* is our general range, we generally skip 12*. 9* and 10* is pretty standard for us.
I don’t think most alliances need to change strategy. Kill what you can handle and drop as necessary. If you’re in the range of killing them consistently, you’ll reach the goal. 5 per week will get you 35 kills in the timeframe. If your alliance keeps a relatively strong core, that shouldn’t be too much of a problem.
Slightly beside the original point, but at some point we implemented a feature that if a titan is killed very quickly, the next titan will immediately be at least one full star higher.
Wrote by mhalttu in Active Player Lounge “the problem with elo ladder based matchmaking”
So Id say that if your alliance would avoid killing your titans too quickly while letting pass some of the stronger ones you’ll not have many problems in reaching the quota.
For example, killing a new titan within a 2 hours of his spawn after you alliance stopped the previous titan isn’t a good idea.
Anyway, your alliance could always start with their titan’s attacks with cheap items and then the alliance leader would say at 11h from his escape if the titan have to die or if you would need to let him escape.
Option 2 doesn’t work. It takes too long to drop and when you kill a titan you get pushed back up. You have to be consistent at whatever level titan you normally kill. Plan accordingly, conserve resources and call a pass at the spawning time of an appropriate Pass Titan.
New alliances start at 1-star titans and work their way up. It might take one or two kills before reaching 2-stars where the lowest tier of the quest will start counting. Assuming you are all nice enough to tap at the titan lightly so that everyone gets part of the kill, you will eventually end up at your normal titan, but probably 2 - 3 weeks into the challenge and in the middle of the 3rd tier I think. I’m sure there’s a way to figure out the perfect way to time the creation of this alt alliance so that it reaches 5-star titans right as you need to start on the 4th tier of the challenge.
@FrenziedEye Yeah, what Rigs suggests is the perfect way to fill in a slot on the challenge during your alliances normal Pass Titan. You won’t lose any progress on the quest chain and some people in the alliance can take turns minding the store during the pass.
You can manage around war. Bigger loss would be with reduced Titan loot. I have usually found titans to be one of the best sources of mats in game, so would need to minimize # of alliance swaps
I’m hoping it won’t be necessary for players to HAVE to go mercing in order to fill their quota. I suppose we’ll have to see how it goes this first time.
