Badge Fragments drop rate unproportionally low compared to other materiais

dgraminho · September 2017

NG, can you please check again the badge fragments drop rate. It is too much lower than materials, so you just keep acummulating materials and not being able to do anything with them, since you will be missing the badge fragments.

From this picture, you can see more than 20 of each type of rare material, but no badge fragment for you to be able to do anything with them.

In a few months I can bet there will be a lot of people with more than 99 of each material (common, uncommon and rare) , but without fragments at all. I believe this was not intended.

Movado · September 2017

Is the Fragment drop-rate actually lower than components, or, is it just because there’s more types of components so we tend to obtain more of those cumulatively. I would guess it’s the latter, but who knows...

dgraminho · September 2017

I believe badge fragments indeed need to have a lower drop rate than regular components, since you use 4 materials per badge. But it seems the drop rate is too low in comparison

TJS · September 2017

RNG!

JayZ · September 2017

Movado said:
Is the Fragment drop-rate actually lower than components, or, is it just because there’s more types of components so we tend to obtain more of those cumulatively. I would guess it’s the latter, but who knows...

It's not the latter. Even though there are 4 types of components, you still need 4 components to make a badge. If drop rates were equal and the sample size was large enough, you would expect that the total number of components divided by 4 should be equal to the number of fragments, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

The solution seems so simple: supplies for fragments. Two birds with one stone. I'll even make it easier by inventing a catchy name for it: "Fragment Fridays"

dgraminho · September 2017

JayZ said:

Movado said:
Is the Fragment drop-rate actually lower than components, or, is it just because there’s more types of components so we tend to obtain more of those cumulatively. I would guess it’s the latter, but who knows...
The solution seems so simple: supplies for fragments. Two birds with one stone. I'll even make it easier by inventing a catchy name for it: "Fragment Fridays"

Liked the name :-)

Poppy · September 2017

Yes its too low, im in a similar situation and needs slightly increasing.

It probably looks worse than it actually is though as 20 components vs onl 5 fragments are available.

Think the question that needs answering is do fragments & components have their own drop tables or share the same one.

nadecir · September 2017

There's a reason why badge fragments are required for every badge craft. NG could have easily designed a crafting system that didn't require a fragment or any specific component., but they made a conscious design decision to require a fragment to make a badge.

By requiring a fragment for every badge craft, the value of fragments is raised. By restricting the drop rate of fragments, you can further drive up the value of fragments. Another valuable commodity means players have another item to chase even if they are content with everything else they have. You can see where this ends up, right?

shaunatthepub · September 2017

A scrapping option for low level components would be nice, rather than only having the ability to scrap formed badges.

StretcherBearer · December 2017

The badge fragment issue is getting ridiculous. I already have 3 types (by type I mean color set of 4) of components running on high 50s and no fragments tu use them.

Any thoughts NG?

Troublemaker · December 2017

Just another thing NG has to fix and does not...

Nick37 · December 2017

Does any one at NG actually play this game ? I very much doubt it.
Does any one at NG actually read these forums and take note of all the problems with this game ? definitely not.

Fragzie · December 2017

I haven’t crafted a badge since the last update, using my tomatoes to upgrade my camp. Chances we can get a scrap yard for all the tat I need to weigh in?

TransmuteJun · December 2017

I just calculated and if I crafted all of the badges I could right now, I'd be spending close to 2 million food.

I suppose once I max out on tomatoes, it might be a thing to do...? Most of them are common and uncommon, so I likely won't be keeping them, but scrapping for XP. I guess it's a way to turn food into XP.

xxarea83xx · December 2017

I'm dealing with the opposite problem. I have 6 epics badge fragments and 3 legendary badge fragments. I'll give you 2 guesses what 2 things i have 1 or 2 of, but you may only need one guess.

OneLessTitan · December 2017

This may have something to do with “coming soon” feature displayed on badge crafting menu. During their party thingy a couple months back, NG said that the ingredients would be used for that “coming soon” aspect, but something other than Fragments would be used as the basis for crafting. Perhaps when that feature is released, those extra ingredients will be able to be immediately used without a second type of component.

But in a vacuum and how it stand still right now, yes, the drop rate is not great. But I’ll be optimistic about what me be coming...for now...

theldssdl · December 2017

I agree. I have literally hundreds of components and no fragments to use them with. Yet another ridiculous imbalance in the game.

NCDawgFan · December 2017

Badge fragments, especially epic and legendary, are by far the rarest commodity within the game. Couple this with the completely rediculious results you can expect when crafting badges (like consistently getting a green result from yellow and blue components), it's a very frustrating process.

Rocketman · December 2017

I along with others suggested a while ago we should have a weekend event (higher chance of badge fragments in post mission crates) as most people can agree that fragments don't appear often other than the ones you receive from the distance.

Tapatio75 · December 2017

I havent received anything since last week, no fragments or components

Nick37 · December 2017

I find the whole concept of the badge system frustrating & unfair, extremely rare to find and when you craft the badges they are always a lower value,

DLich · December 2017

OneLessTitan said:
This may have something to do with “coming soon” feature displayed on badge crafting menu. During their party thingy a couple months back, NG said that the ingredients would be used for that “coming soon” aspect, but something other than Fragments would be used as the basis for crafting. Perhaps when that feature is released, those extra ingredients will be able to be immediately used without a second type of component.

But in a vacuum and how it stand still right now, yes, the drop rate is not great. But I’ll be optimistic about what me be coming...for now...

I believe the "coming soon" will be some type of crafting for components. Meaning you can mix 4 lower types of components to either upgrade guaranteed or a "chance" to upgrade.

4 Common turn into 1 uncommon
4 Uncommon turn into 1 Rare
4 Rare turn into 1 Epic
4 Epic turn into 1 Legendary

You'd need 4 of the exact same type of components to turn it into 1 level higher (same type in/out)

This would ultimately allow you to turn 16 commons into 1 rare or 64 commons into 1 epic.

That's what I think it's for anyways.

*edited to add, currently there aren't alot of players that have 200+ of common/uncommon random components... As time goes on I believe some type of ability will be added like this "upgradable" ability.

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