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== Event Rules == | == Event Rules == | ||
The event consists of three separate activity areas: | |||
* '''Demiplane Supply Station''' - Event fellow gacha. Awards 10 Demiplane Vouchers that can be redeemed in the Demiplane Voucher Shop. | |||
* '''Another Story''' - A dice game which is essentially a reskin of Adeline's Treasure. 10 of the 25 Demiplane Gift Cards (gacha tickets) are available here. | |||
* '''Emma's Trade Post''' - Consists of 2 mini games that award goods and orders that can be redeemed or "delivered" for chests containing various items and points used to progress in the Justice in the Night point reward system. | |||
In addition to these three activity areas there is also a voucher shop, point reward system, daily tasks rewards, and achievements rewards: | |||
* '''Demiplane Voucher Shop''' - Vouchers acquired from the Demiplane Supply Station gacha can be redeemed in this shop. There are a total of 6 'levels' to the shop and the top 5 levels are unlocked as vouchers are redeemed. Tomoe's Crystal (Tomoe SSR to UR ascension item) as well as the fellow attuned artifacts for Tomoe, Mio, and Shiki can be purchased in this shop. | |||
* '''Justice in the Night''' - Point reward system that awards various items for reaching specific point levels awarded from Emma's Trade Post deliveries. Shards of Tomoe's 5 star Justice in the Night costume can be acquired in this area. | |||
* '''Daily Tasks''' - Each day a new task list unlocks that rewards the players for various activities within the game such as hiring building employees, leveling up fellows, uniting graduates, and attending banquets. Each day a player can earn one Goods Ticket and one Order Ticket for Emma's Trade Post as well as three dice for Another Story via this system. | |||
* '''Achievements''' - Milestone rewards for delivering specific numbers of orders as well as trade post points acquisition. Notable reward is the Demiplane Gift Box which offers a choice of SR Fellow: Emma or 5 Demiplane Gift Cards when opened. | |||
== Acquiring Fellows, Costumes, and Fellow Attuned Artifacts == | == Acquiring Fellows, Costumes, and Fellow Attuned Artifacts == | ||
Revision as of 19:14, 21 September 2024
Overview
Moonlit Chill Work is a crossover event featuring characters from the Tsukimichi: Moonlit Fantasy anime series.
Event specific rewards include:
- SSR Fellow: Tomoe (Unfettered)
- SSR Fellow: Mio (Inspiring)
- SSR Fellow: Shiki (Informed)
- SR Fellow: Emma (Diligent)
- Transcender Figure: Makoto Misumi "The Other Protagonist"
- Tomoe's Crystal (SSR to UR Ascension item for Tomoe)
- UR Artifact: Draupnir
- UR Artifact: Tomoe's Katana (fellow attuned artifact)
- UR Artifact: Mio's Iron Fan (fellow attuned artifact)
- UR Artifact: Shiki's Crown (fellow attuned artifact)
Event Rules
The event consists of three separate activity areas:
- Demiplane Supply Station - Event fellow gacha. Awards 10 Demiplane Vouchers that can be redeemed in the Demiplane Voucher Shop.
- Another Story - A dice game which is essentially a reskin of Adeline's Treasure. 10 of the 25 Demiplane Gift Cards (gacha tickets) are available here.
- Emma's Trade Post - Consists of 2 mini games that award goods and orders that can be redeemed or "delivered" for chests containing various items and points used to progress in the Justice in the Night point reward system.
In addition to these three activity areas there is also a voucher shop, point reward system, daily tasks rewards, and achievements rewards:
- Demiplane Voucher Shop - Vouchers acquired from the Demiplane Supply Station gacha can be redeemed in this shop. There are a total of 6 'levels' to the shop and the top 5 levels are unlocked as vouchers are redeemed. Tomoe's Crystal (Tomoe SSR to UR ascension item) as well as the fellow attuned artifacts for Tomoe, Mio, and Shiki can be purchased in this shop.
- Justice in the Night - Point reward system that awards various items for reaching specific point levels awarded from Emma's Trade Post deliveries. Shards of Tomoe's 5 star Justice in the Night costume can be acquired in this area.
- Daily Tasks - Each day a new task list unlocks that rewards the players for various activities within the game such as hiring building employees, leveling up fellows, uniting graduates, and attending banquets. Each day a player can earn one Goods Ticket and one Order Ticket for Emma's Trade Post as well as three dice for Another Story via this system.
- Achievements - Milestone rewards for delivering specific numbers of orders as well as trade post points acquisition. Notable reward is the Demiplane Gift Box which offers a choice of SR Fellow: Emma or 5 Demiplane Gift Cards when opened.
Acquiring Fellows, Costumes, and Fellow Attuned Artifacts
Demiplane Supply Station
Another Story
Emma's Trade Post
Demiplane Voucher Shop
Justice in the Night
Free to Play Friendliness Factor
Unfriendly.
Issue #1: The following event rewards are completely locked behind a paywall:
- Tomoe's Crystal (SSR to UR Ascension item for Tomoe)
- UR Artifact: Tomoe's Katana (fellow attuned artifact)
- UR Artifact: Mio's Iron Fan (fellow attuned artifact)
- UR Artifact: Shiki's Crown (fellow attuned artifact)
These items are locked in the top two levels of the Demiplane Voucher Shop and are directly tied to gacha draws in the Demiplane Supply Station. The second to last shop level requires 1000 Demiplane Vouchers just to unlock the ability to purchase the fellow attuned artifacts. Without spending, the maximum number of Demiplane Vouchers that can be acquired is 250. Since any unused Demiplane Gift Cards (event gacha tickets) covert into crystals at the end of each event appearance, it is impossible to ever acquire these awards without spending.
Issue #2: Low draw rate for SSR Fellows
While low draw rates are not unique to this event, there are a few additional confounding factors that make Moonlit Chill Work especially unfriendly to free to play players:
- The guaranteed SSR draw pity counter resets at each appearance of the event.
- The Otherworld Bond pity counter resets at each appearance of the event.
- Demiplane Gift Cards (event gacha tickets) expire and are converted into crystals at the end of each appearance of the event.
Issue #3: Event crystal packs can only be purchased once each appearance of the event.
Crystal pack event bundle purchase limits do not reset during the course of the event so they can only be purchased once. The price of the top 3 packs is fairly high (1988 crystals).
Issue #4: Event changes in the most recent iteration of the event resulted in the reduction of freely available Demiplane Gift Cards from 35 to 25.
As a result, it is no longer possible to acquire the Demiplane Gift Box (contains choice of either SR Fellow: Emma or 5 Demiplane Gift Cards) without spending.
Cost Analysis: Acquiring Tomoe's 5 star Justice in the Night Costume
TLDR: For budgeting purposes assume a price range of somewhere between $271.66 - $311.64 and 6328 crystals.
Acquiring Tomoe's Justice in the Night costume in one event appearance requires a total of at least 450k points. Points are acquired by delivering goods in Emma's Trade Post. Due to the fact that there are three rarities of goods / orders and the exact number acquired each day is random, this cannot be definitively estimated to exact precision. However, each pairing of Order Ticket and Goods Ticket will yield approximately 1k points.
Each day a free run of the "Get Goods" and "Get Orders" mini games can be attempted. In addition, one Order Ticket and one Goods Ticket is available via each Daily Task list. Over the course of the event this will account for approximately 24k of the 450k points.
It is possible to acquire another 6 Order Tickets and 6 Goods Tickets with crystals in the Event Bundles shop. This will set you back 188 + 988 + 1988 = 3164 crystals for each ticket type or a total of 6328 crystals. That brings the total from 24k + 6k = 30k of the required 450k points. So the remaining 420k points must be from tickets purchased in the cash shop.
Since the lower priced cash shop ticket packs yield more tickets per dollar, the most cost effective method of p2w is to spread the purchases out over the course of the entire event. To determine exactly which packs need to be purchased, calculate the daily p2w point total required. 420k / 12 days = 35k points per day.
The 99 cent pack yields 2 of each ticket type, the $4.99 pack yields 8 of each ticket type, and the $19.99 pack yields 30 of each ticket type. So 40k points each day all 3 of those packs are purchased. 40 tickets * 12 days = 480 tickets which is 60 tickets over the 420k goal. So subtract two $19.99 packs over the course of the event. This comes out to $0.99 + $4.99 + $19.99 = $25.97 per day * 12 days = $311.64 over the course of the event. Then subtract those two $19.99 packs for $311.64 - $39.98 = $271.66 expected spend to acquire Tomoe's 5 star Justice in the Night costume in a single event run.
As stated at the beginning of this section, there is an amount of randomness to daily point acquisition so it may be necessary to purchase an additional $19.99 pack or two.
Cost Analysis: Acquiring Tomoe's Crystal and Fellow Attuned Artifacts
TLDR: $216.71 over the course of the event by purchasing the 99 cent pack every day, $4.99 pack 9 of 12 days, and $19.99 pack 8 of 12 days.
Tomoe's SSR to UR ascension item and the three fellow attuned artifacts are locked in the final two levels of the Demiplane Voucher shop. The artifact level requires 1000 demiplane vouchers spent to unlock and the Tomoe's Crystal level requires 1500 demiplane vouchers spent to unlock. As the fellow attuned artifacts cost 150 vouchers each, you will acquire all three on the way to unlocking Tomoe's Crystal. In summary, the voucher cost is:
- all 3 fellow attuned artifacts = 1450 vouchers
- Tomoe's Crystal = 1700 vouchers
1 voucher is awarded for each gacha draw in the Demiplane Supply Station. Since using 10 tickets at a time results in 11 draws (and 110 vouchers), the most cost effective way to play the gacha is to only perform 10 ticket draws. Therefore this assessment will only consider 10 ticket draws and not attempt to reduce cost by usage of single draws.
1700 vouchers total / 110 vouchers per 10 tickets = 15.45 draws. Since we are only considering 10 ticket draws that number needs to be rounded up to 16 multi-ticket draws or 160 Demiplane Gift Cards. There are a total of 25 freebie Demiplane Gift Cards (15 in Justice of the Night point awards and another 10 in Another Story dice game). As there are no crystal packs containing Demiplane Gift Cards, the remaining 135 gacha tickets will need to be purchased in the cash shop.
As with the Tomoe costume cost analysis, the number of tickets per dollar is greater at the lower three bundle packs. So we want to determine the average number of draws per day which is 135 tickets / 12 days = 11.25 tickets per day. Note that this is a ticket acquisition daily average and, since tickets can be saved over the course of the event, it is not necessary to round this number up as we did for the draw calculation.
The super easy math would be to just purchase the $19.99 Demiplane Special Bundle III everyday as it yields 12 tickets. However I will not take the easy way out and perform the full calculation to help those budget minded spenders pay the lowest amount possible.
The 99 cent pack yields 1 ticket, the $4.99 pack yields 3 tickets, and the $19.99 pack yields 12 tickets. All 3 packs would run $25.97 per day and yield 16 tickets. Over the course of the event that would be $311.64 for 192 tickets. However we only need 135 tickets so that is a 57 ticket excess. To get to 57 using ticket values of the various packs, the combination that would shave the most dollars off the total price would be four $19.99 packs (48 tickets) and three $4.99 packs (9 tickets) = $94.93 (57 tickets). Pulling this all together we have $311.64 - $94.93 = $216.71 over the course of the event by purchasing the 99 cent pack every day, $4.99 pack 9 of 12 days, and $19.99 pack 8 of 12 days.