We need 3 payout time changes per year not 2 and here's why...
Countries that time-shift for summer/winter do so twice per year, in spring and autumn/fall.
CG gave us two in-game arena payout / store refresh time changes per year to adjust to this.
The problem is that unless you apply your first in-game time change on the same day that your country does, you get stuck in a cycle where every time change you have to wait days/weeks/even months to change your in-game payouts.
For example, my time zone just changed by 1 hour and I am stuck with the adjusted payout for 57 days before I have an in-game time change available. That's roughly 2/3 of the way to the next real world time change.
Simply increasing the in-game time changes from 2 to 3 would fix this problem.
CG gave us two in-game arena payout / store refresh time changes per year to adjust to this.
The problem is that unless you apply your first in-game time change on the same day that your country does, you get stuck in a cycle where every time change you have to wait days/weeks/even months to change your in-game payouts.
For example, my time zone just changed by 1 hour and I am stuck with the adjusted payout for 57 days before I have an in-game time change available. That's roughly 2/3 of the way to the next real world time change.
Simply increasing the in-game time changes from 2 to 3 would fix this problem.
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it's better to have two than less? bold
The reason they won’t give us more time changes is that it can be abused. Definitely nothing to do with dev resources for this one.
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Re-file under "With a small tweak would be good enough"
150% of nothing is nothing.
Simply increasing the number of.time changes available from 2 to 3 (each with its own 365-day cooldown) would allow players to use them as intended without exposing the system to people constantly payout-hopping which I believe was the concern.
The time change can be used to get 2 payouts per day. Can’t really explain how to do it as I’m sure I would get chastised for it.
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I'm going to use my change to go back in time and reset my defense after seing my opponents'
But if it were me, DST only lasts about 4 months so I would change it now and just keep it for the year.
basically, you can get an extra 900 crystals by collecting both Payouts and then setting it later which can be considered as abusing the system, do this again 2-3 more times and you end up with +2700 crystals instead of the current +1800
but i don't see anyone realistically try to double crystal rewards unless they are serious about moving their Payout forward, some players change their payout to an earlier time and lose out on crystals
Okay, I guess if 2 payouts a YEAR is considered abuse & they actually WANT to change their time, then yep, there is room for abuse.
Sigh. 4 comments up.
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A once or twice a year bonus 900 crystals isn’t going to break the bank, but the devs are right to ensure people are not able to get a bonus 900 crystals 5-10 times a year. 9000 crystals obtained this way would have otherwise cost around £60.
And don’t think for one second that this is a fantasy situation because you wouldn’t do it - there are definitely people out there that would!
If 3 can be abused, 2 can be abused as well. If you folow that line of reasoning to its logical end, even a single time change can abused and we should therefore go back to having none at all.