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Flame Con has an X-men redesign panel every year, and every year we tackle different hard-to-redesign characters (and some easy fan favorites). I’ve compiled all the designs so far. I really want to make a print, probably just of my women redesigns so the scope doesn’t get out of hand, but we’ll see. The Gambit is a redesign crossover with Soul Calibur, and the Storm was done on my own time just for fun. They’re in the order they were completed for the most part so you can see the amount of time and effort going in to these increased as time went on. Still, I really love the simplicity in the earlier ones. Which other characters should I redesign for the print?
So that’s the end of the event for me. I got: 2 new characters, got the returning characters up to gold, got the penguin, bought the Bucky costume, and got four characters up to rank 5, which I consider great. And I’ll get the gold trophy.
I did like getting gold orbs in fights when we first cleared nodes so I liked that. I liked the crate part. Bucky’s storyline was very funny with all the emo callbacks.
The thing is that for me to get the two new characters, I had to buy the generators. Comparatively speaking, I was willing to buy the premium characters during the version 1 events. I’m wondering if I want to budget for that again, i.e. buying generators. I’m kind of in a spot where I have the vast majority of characters (I’m missing 3) so the events don’t have much for me if I can’t earn new characters.
The other thing that I learned from this event is I have to start getting characters up vibranium and leveled up beyond level 50 (my current academy level is 55) to get further in future events, specifically the diamond trophies.
I like getting new characters and I don’t mind grinding for them. But the game is focused more on rewarding a player when they’ve ranked, leveled, and raritied up chatacters than having a lot of characters. Except for those rare types like a mystic tank — it’s necessary to invest getting those types of characters. So that makes me wonder about waiting to get new characters later through orbs or as returning characters in events. It makes sense to do that, but not as much fun.
On to the next event, I guess.
Right now it is 11:38 am Sept 26 in Baker Island. Hmmmm. Maybe I can get the Cap-IM draft done.
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-QuietPineTrees
I love writing microfiction, and Unbound is an unconventional publisher that accepts my own brand of weirdness. They can experiment on authors like me by crowdfunding the first run of new books. This is a dream of mine, so please, consider pledging.
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