LOE Marine Reptile Event

LOE is now running a Marine Reptile limited-time event.  Like the previous event, there are three days to level up 8 creatures as high as possible, and tons of pay-to-play options to avoid along the way.  I made it to number 1 on Sunday. which was a fun goal to hit. 

 

Then I had to go back to work, so other players had half a day to pass me by, but I was still 4th when I got home monday night.  I pushed back to number 1 with a few minimal strategic purchases, and when I woke up tuesday it was over and I ended at number 3.  This time I got screenshots of all the (relevant) tier and rank bonuses and creatures.  

So, for the $ spent, this is a good way to get a huge variety of in-game goods, including ones I did not even know about.

I'm a bit annoyed at myself that I spent about $25 on this thing, but there is a psychological draw to wanting the highest numbers you can get.  While the selection of chests in the event offers a range of things you might need, don't forget that back in the main game, shop page, for each $6.99 you spend you get a bonus 600 diamonds, which you can go back and turn into 4 hours of evolution.

Don't take those free chests until a quest comes up saying to unlock 2 or 3 chests, then grab them.  Otherwise, the quests just translate levels and breeding tiers into trophies, which get you progressively higher bonuses, regardless of where you rank at the end.  Next time I will spend $0 and see if I can get maybe 300 trophies and be happy with it.  Just don't look at the leaderboards.  Except that this is the only app I have where I have any chance of getting into the leaderboards ... others have millions of people clicking all day long, probably dumping tons of $ into boosters.

It is up the air about whether any of this is "worth it".  We could have paid $40 to go see the Dune movie.  Wait, we're going to do that anyway after the crowds die down a bit.  We had no problem paying $3.99 to "rent" Starfall (James Bond) without ever having the physical thing in our hands.  It's a far cry from the best deal I ever got in entertainment/gaming, which was Minecraft, where I paid $20 over 11 years ago and have created a dozen worlds and hundreds of YouTube videos, and it still works twenty major updates later.  But we are in an awkward new world where we blissfully trickle out a few dollars here and there for things that are in no way real.  On the other hand, I have spent $30-50 for hardcopy board games only to play them once or twice and move them to the Sell pile, only to never have them actually sell.  Or $20 for a piece of fish at a restaurant, that was probably only worth $7.

And now that my membership (whatever it was) has expired, it's back to being pretty tedious.

Who knows ... we entertain ourselves in so many different ways.


 

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