Voodoo Magic attempt to complete Azur Lane Collection

[Admiral_H_Nelson]

I have gone to the trouble of creating this post in the hope that by doing so the problem will go away. i.e. Sod's law will apply

 

I wish to complete the Azur Lane collection. I have 29 out of the 36 necessary tokens.

In fact I have had this number for weeks now! Since my last unique token I have had 32 duplicates (and many of the containers that I have received have not contained a token at all of course, which is WAD)

The odds of a sequence like this is 1 in 1,011 so I am feeling pretty unlucky.

 

It is beginning to feel like the days of my youth when I collected bubble-gum cards. There were always one or two which were very rare and hard to get. Of course that made you hand over more of your pocket money!

 

Ordinarily I would just swap some duplicates and complete the collection - but this has become mildly annoying and I want to see if I can get closer to completion before doing that.

 

Anybody else had large sequences of duplicates for this collection?

 

[Egoleter]

It was pretty much the same for me.

29/36 for several days. Completed the collection yesterday by exchanging duplicates.

 

I wish you luck so your streak breaks and that you'll finish soon.

[SEN_SEN_Channel_Portugue]

same here.... who codded the drop sequence need another job.

[BLUB__BLUB]

Same here. What will I get? looks to me, you collect all of the toddlers,

and then you get a fallen Madonna with big boobies? 

[NothingButTheRain]

Is this collection time-limited or something? I thought it could be completed whenever we want to, similar to the Ovenchicken collection?

Because if it needs to be completed now, I'd rather exchange all my duplicates now. And if it's not, then I don't really understand what all the fuss is about.

With the US cruiser collection I ended up having over 170 duplicates before I finally got the final missing part 

[Egoleter]

1 minute ago, NothingButTheRain said:

Is this collection time-limited or something?

No, it's not. Don't worry.

[Aotearas]

3 hours ago, Admiral_H_Nelson said:

Anybody else had large sequences of duplicates for this collection?

Don't know my current duplicate count for the AL collection (currently paused in favour of the russian collection), but my duplicate record was with the Yamamoto campaign iirc. Topped out at just under 200 duplicates (something like 193 or so) before I got the final collectible to complete the collection.

[Zieten]

Yeah, i'm pretty certain that mechanism is rigged AF. Noticed it with the Russian Collection.

[black_falcon120]

1 hour ago, NothingButTheRain said:

Is this collection time-limited or something? I thought it could be completed whenever we want to, similar to the Ovenchicken collection?

Because if it needs to be completed now, I'd rather exchange all my duplicates now. And if it's not, then I don't really understand what all the fuss is about.

With the US cruiser collection I ended up having over 170 duplicates before I finally got the final missing part 

 

1 hour ago, Egoleter said:

No, it's not. Don't worry.

Careful.  I was inactive for a year and apparently there was one collection WG had to stop for IP reasons, so although I wouldn’t rush, I wouldn’t let this one drag on for too long either (ie for the next year or so).  The person who told me that could have been lying though.

[BLUB__BLUB]

1 hour ago, Aotearas said:

Don't know my current duplicate count for the AL collection (currently paused in favour of the russian collection), but my duplicate record was with the Yamamoto campaign iirc. Topped out at just under 200 duplicates (something like 193 or so) before I got the final collectible to complete the collection.

WHAT! I have 20 duplicates, and 5 items to go. 

Man you really PO'd someone at WG. 

[ollonborre]

6 hours ago, black_falcon120 said:

 

Careful.  I was inactive for a year and apparently there was one collection WG had to stop for IP reasons, so although I wouldn’t rush, I wouldn’t let this one drag on for too long either (ie for the next year or so).  The person who told me that could have been lying though.

Think that was the Arpeggio thing. And as I recall it was indeed something about their collab ending. 

[Sir_Grzegorz]

I try to have one collection at time running, so when russian collection come out I just completed AL collection with duplicates.

As random is supposed to be random I was not paying attention how many of what I had.

Is there any good reason why you do not want to complete collection with duplicates?

 

This is not same a collections in real life that very often have one piece missing so you will never get it or is exremely rare (presented in one batch) so there is a proof it does exist and thus gives you feeling that you can do it.

[WeGreedy]

1 minute ago, Sir_Grzegorz said:

I try to have one collection at time running, so when russian collection come out I just completed AL collection with duplicates.

As random is supposed to be random I was not paying attention how many of what I had.

Is there any good reason why you do not want to complete collection with duplicates?

 

This is not same a collections in real life that very often have one piece missing so you will never get it or is exremely rare (presented in one batch) so there is a proof it does exist and thus gives you feeling that you can do it.

Only reason not to finish are the credits you get for the duplicates when the collection is finished. You're basically getting some credits for free.

[HaachamaShipping]

9 hours ago, NothingButTheRain said:

With the US cruiser collection I ended up having over 170 duplicates before I finally got the final missing part 

 

9 hours ago, Aotearas said:

Don't know my current duplicate count for the AL collection (currently paused in favour of the russian collection), but my duplicate record was with the Yamamoto campaign iirc. Topped out at just under 200 duplicates (something like 193 or so) before I got the final collectible to complete the collection.

Do people not know that you can get missing pieces by spending dupes or do you just want to hoard extensive amounts of dupes for the heck of it?

[Panocek]

1 hour ago, ollonborre said:

Think that was the Arpeggio thing. And as I recall it was indeed something about their collab ending. 

But then, Arpeggio had no Collection to collect. Haifuri/schoolgirls at sea is another matter, it had collection with meaty reward of semi premium paint for Yamato.

[Episparh]

22 minutes ago, Cagliostro_chan said:

 

Do people not know that you can get missing pieces by spending dupes or do you just want to hoard extensive amounts of dupes for the heck of it?

Each duplicate is 15k credits when you finish the collection. If you finish it... You no longer have a chance to get 15k credits with each daily chest. 

 

Isn't that obvious by all posts above? 

 

P. S. That's good reason but I wouldn't do it with collaboration collection... Still not sure AL collection wasn't time framed. That's why I have finished it and went to the permanent soviet collection. 

[HaachamaShipping]

10 minutes ago, Episparh said:

Each duplicate is 15k credits when you finish the collection. If you finish it... You no longer have a chance to get 15k credits with each daily chest. 

 

Isn't that obvious by all posts above? 

 

P. S. That's good reason but I wouldn't do it with collaboration collection... Still not sure AL collection wasn't time framed. That's why I have finished it and went to the permanent soviet collection. 

45k a day sounds... underwhelming. On some collections you could likely profit more from just taking the permacamo you get at the end and save the money that way by playing 1-2 matches a day.

[Episparh]

14 minutes ago, Cagliostro_chan said:

45k a day sounds... underwhelming. On some collections you could likely profit more from just taking the permacamo you get at the end and save the money that way by playing 1-2 matches a day.

That assumes you are not having any ships with perma camo or you have just one ship that a particular collection will reward you with such... Which is kind of a corner case for very young accounts. 

[HaachamaShipping]

3 minutes ago, Episparh said:

That assumes you are not having any ships with perma camo or you have just one ship that a particular collection will reward you with such... Which is kind of a corner case for very young accounts. 

While for older accounts, they likely have better ways to farm credits if they really need them. I guess if you really don't give a damn about getting the rewards anytime soon, you could just stockpile the dupes, but even something like 200 dupes takes over two months to collect for what will be 3 million credits.

[Episparh]

4 minutes ago, Cagliostro_chan said:

While for older accounts, they likely have better ways to farm credits if they really need them. I guess if you really don't give a damn about getting the rewards anytime soon, you could just stockpile the dupes, but even something like 200 dupes takes over two months to collect for what will be 3 million credits.

It's something called min/max.. In general how to maximize profit.

Example: if you play just 5 battles a day, assuming you winn all of them and want to grind 5 lines. Which one will produce better result:

A. Doing one battle with each line to get its daily bonus. 

B. Playing all battles with one ship. 

[BLUB__BLUB]

9 minutes ago, Cagliostro_chan said:

While for older accounts, they likely have better ways to farm credits if they really need them. I guess if you really don't give a damn about getting the rewards anytime soon, you could just stockpile the dupes, but even something like 200 dupes takes over two months to collect for what will be 3 million credits.

Correct. I can grind 1 million a day in Hood, for example. 

And I'm not that good... 

[Episparh]

4 minutes ago, BLUB__BLUB said:

Correct. I can grind 1 million a day in Hood, for example. 

And I'm not that good... 

Still the duplicates are FREE and come on top of what you earn. 

 

"Patience is a virtue"

[BLUB__BLUB]

16 minutes ago, Episparh said:

Still the duplicates are FREE and come on top of what you earn. 

 

"Patience is a virtue"

Well, I guess. It's not a big thing for me though. We'll see what I get in the end and meanwhile I'm not worried.

[Aotearas]

2 hours ago, Cagliostro_chan said:

 

Do people not know that you can get missing pieces by spending dupes or do you just want to hoard extensive amounts of dupes for the heck of it?

I know.

 

I was just not doing it to see how long it would take (nothing valuable tied to the collection completion, just a flag). At the end I was slightly disappointed I didn't pass the 200 duplicate mark, I had a good run going.

[BrusilovX]

I have 30 out of the 36 items with 25 duplicates - so either another five duplicates (I just got another one) or one non dupe.