Well, not even one single post about rewards suck?
I'll do it then. I guess we tried at first, but after realizing that we would get all of 10 extra Talany cells for a win we didn't even try. And why should we? At one point the game killed 3 of my lineups in consecutive attempts to attack. Always the same, an error message that BG is not available right now (or whatever), back to the main screen, and when I check back into BG then my monsters are lost.

So, I guess it took me 1-2 hours to place defense and attack, and as a reward - drum roll - 150 orbs and 10 Talany cells. NEVER AGAIN.

My team (barely) qualified for Tier 1 and surprisingly won.
Tier 1 had the excellent rewards of 150 Talany Cells, 30 elementium and 2 diamond relic chests. Obviously I agree that the difference with the lower tiers should not be that big.

About the event itself: much better than previous editions. Certainly not a 'gem war' this time. A lot of talk about the best strategy and, most importantly, the use of many monsters that otherwise do not see any play time.

It was fun playing with my rank 2 Metalhead, rank 2 Cavenfish, rank 1 Greedy Dragon and many others.

The biggest point I would make is that the result was easily predicted from the match we made. Thus we spent time and effort knowing we were losing all the way. A bit demoralizing to be sure. Rewards were basically free though so that's all fine.

I’m sorry you had bad experiences.

This was our third TBG and the best to date.

We were matched appropriately, and we had a lot of fun. I appreciate the no reviving with gems rule. Use your monsters wisely.

At our teams level we made it to the third reward which was 60 VIP cells, a huge thing for some of our lower level members.

This will make it more like that they improve all their monster in anticipation of the next TBG

@ibobs72 said in This Battlegrounds...:

The biggest point I would make is that the result was easily predicted from the match we made. Thus we spent time and effort knowing we were losing all the way. A bit demoralizing to be sure. Rewards were basically free though so that's all fine.

You are in Five Attacks, a top 5 team, you want 'the big three' only to match each other? Which is even impossible since it is an odd number.

@Ekto-Gamat wow that's an amazing reward. We got the 115K points with win and got 40cells, 10 elementium and a gold chest i think

@ibobs72 said in This Battlegrounds...:

Rewards were basically free though so that's all fine.

IDK. I don't place money value on time spent, but it's not as if the rewards came as "side effect" to normal gameplay (like mazes, islands etc.). And if you spend several hours on an event, discuss strategies with your team, then the reward should reflect that.

@Frunobulax now that BG became a gem-free and with the no revive system, basically we're getting those rewards just based on team effort, strategy and time invested on it. Rewards for next BG may change into war medals rewards and which is proportional to winning some team wars

@Frunobulax said in This Battlegrounds...:

@ibobs72 said in This Battlegrounds...:

Rewards were basically free though so that's all fine.

IDK. I don't place money value on time spent, but it's not as if the rewards came as "side effect" to normal gameplay (like mazes, islands etc.). And if you spend several hours on an event, discuss strategies with your team, then the reward should reflect that.

Thing we sometimes lose sight of is that we play for fun.

If the time spent discussing strategies and etc on the event is not fun, that is an issue. If it is enjoyable, then that is the reward and anything else is a bonus.

I certainly place a time value on Races, which is tedious and a waste of my time, so mostly I don't race. But I do enjoy TBG, more so now that revival is gone. So for me there is no time cost - it is time reward.

This event has gotten better!

I like the no cool downs better. Now you have to use more strategy and can't just spend your way to victory.

Rewards are small but it doesn't cost anything to play.

I love the idea of using all these monsters that I never use in wars because they are not my "elite" monsters.

Our matchup on all three of these has been bad, however. Our opponent has had much higher MP than us all three times and we have not done well. This is the only improvement I think they need to make--the matchups.

I hope to see more Battlegrounds but I'd rather see them more often. Like maybe once a week? They really only need 24 hour prep--not 3 or 4 days like they gave us. I'd rather see Battlegrounds treated more like the team wars. Don't make too big of a deal out them. Just run them more often.

No, I just mean fair matches are difficult to find. Not just us. If we match outside top teams then the result would also be easily predictable and thus one team will always get a rough deal. Win or lose a good fight is more enjoyable than a walk over. Matching one to one will always have such flaws. That's why I would like to see tbg with many teams in it.

We got a fair match, it was really close and we beat the other team by just 3k points, both qualified for rewards on defense, having the restrictions like they were allowed me to use a ton more monsters than before and not being able to use gems made me strategize a lot which I liked, we got 50 Talany cells and a Gold Relic, would love to get a diamond one one day.

Point is, best BG iteration so far for me.

@c0ntr1v3d said in This Battlegrounds...:

Thing we sometimes lose sight of is that we play for fun.

Sure. The event stopped being fun when 12 of my best monsters were suddenly gone due to that bug that has been around for 2 months, and when I realized that our opponent had twice the MP, and thus we had no chance.

I have to say that all BG for my team have had a fair match. I have to say I was kinda afraid that lower members of my team couldn't reach the minimum required to qualify for rewards due to the changes of no reviving at all, but somehow we managed to do so. I really enjoyed last BG, was a very exciting one and also allowed us to be more strategic being element-free

This battleground has been a horrible, glitchy, experience.
Aside from the AI getting constant specials and missing most of my Attacks

Totally agree! And it drives me crazy!
I'm losing monsters because of the constant misses and special attacks against monsters who i can easily beat. And than I have to repeat the attack. The opponents monsters mostly don't have any runes or if they have they are low lvl runes. I mostly attack them with 2 monsters. One fast monster to possess, freeze or stun them and one strong. But still somehow my monsters miss always 1 or 2 or even the whole team.
Like my Kihaku for example. He did freeze 2 monsters but he didn't freeze or possessed the Frogy Prince (Prince Charmless ).
All these problems I had in the last BG plus the error messages (which i luckily didn't had so far in this BG).
And the rewards are a joke! Because of them and the constant misses I literally have to force myself to do my attacks, since i didn't put any monsters in defense and i have to make some point to get my orbs. My teammates feel the same cause they didn't attack much like they did in the previous BG.
It really needs more improvements I think.
Sorry for the long post but I'm really upset!

I have to agree about the specials, getting way too many. Was either back to back from 2 enemy monsters or the same monsters getting their special and then again on their next turn.

I would like to see them disabled for battlegrounds.

Too many bug.... I have our strongest attacker unable to access battleground due to icon missing and not showing up.... Clear cache restart and etc does not help.... And members reporting losing 9 monster due to crash... And many more...

My experience with this BG wasn't as good as the previous one, even though the same issues of losing attack monster teams due to glitches or crashes were kinda disappointing (especially ranked ones taking into account there's no revive system), not being able to access the event most part of the day which translates into losing valuable attack time and more chances to score more and team chat won't load. Instead of just complaining, I'd like to suggest for next BG event make sure servers work well to prevent future crashes, take enough time to test it well in order to prevent bugs and glitches from happening and could somehow affect the gameplay experience of this event that happens to be the fav one for lots of players, including myself. I'm sure many of us wouldn't mind to wait a lil bit longer for next BG as long as it'll go and run smoothly without rushing into it. Also, a great option to take into account, another suggestion would be for next BG that Leads and Co-leads being able to remove defenses, that'll help to solve issues when a player doesn't follow the team's strategy or place defenses as he pleases.

@bellatrix said in This Battlegrounds...:

. Also, a great option to take into account, another suggestion would be for next BG that Leads and Co-leads being able to remove defenses, that'll help to solve issues when a player doesn't follow the team's strategy or place defenses as he pleases.

Exactly this. I suggested it after the first edition already. This time we had one egotistical buphole, or a kid who does not know any better, fill up one of our front grounds with useless trash. Cannot remove those defences and cannot kick the player before the end of Battlegrounds.

This is an incident in a team that is not very organised, but at least with players that mostly communicate about the most important stuff. I do not want to imagine how bad these things can be in even less communicative teams.

Other than that, I am enjoying this edition. Spent a few hours playing with unusual monsters and monster combinations, so I am good.

@wazdog said in This Battlegrounds...:

I would like to see them disabled for battlegrounds.

Getting occassionally wiped by specials, or experiencing many misses, is normal when playing many, and often longer, battles with unusal monsters. It's part of what makes TBGR exciting.

Please do NOT remove specials. I do not need a lollipop for my efforts. I want to feel I actually can lose, even against the most unlikely teams, otherwise there will be no excitement.

Also we need the ability to see who attacked who on each BG, we strategize the path we're gonna take in order to maximize the monsters use by attacking an specific path in order to get the most points, sometimes we have people attacking other territories basically wasting their monsters, leads should be able to see this information also.