4Game

Thoughts?

Two things to start off:

1. It seems like the gold pass doesn't really give you much beyond another bond rammer (I realize it's slightly different) so I'm not talking about whether it is worthwhile to get the money pass.
2. The main event grind seems easy to complete, but it's followed by a bottomless grind for bonds.

rewards:

That being said, it seems like the big rewards are:

• bond GLD at level 30 (rammer at 20 if you get the gold pass)
• blueprints, premium days, credits are all pretty spread out over the 45 stages
• fancy 0-skill 6th commander is at the end
• about 5k bonds over the course of the elite progression, which is is actually much bigger than the regular progression- 6500 points vs 2250 for the main event. It's basically a bottomless pit of grinding. The bonds are evenly spread out, with basically 500 bonds per 10 stages at 65 points each.

effort:

Main event- 2250 points over 90 days works out to something like 20-30 points a day on average, or 4-5 games, which is nothing IMO. I could easily do 50 a day if I'm bored and just playing for fun, much more on weekends. On blowout losses, you generally get 5 points and you can't lose progress. It's nothing like the ranked battles grind where you're constantly stressing about ranking high enough and it completely skews the play style of everyone in every match.

Elite event- 6500 points over however many days you have left after the main event. If this was its own 90 day event, this would be fairly punishing- you'd need to do about 70 points a day (ie, 15 games per day). If you're going to do both events (regular and elite progression) you're probably going to have to play like 20 games a night for 3 months. But it might be more than that if you factor in breaks for FL in April and any other events, etc.

But is 5k bonds worth that kind of ridiculous effort? 4 stages of FL will net you that much for 2 days each of play.

Feel free to correct my math.