If you're playing MARVEL Avengers Academy and trying to keep up with the British Invasion event, here is a summary of the Black Knight chapter:
Step 1 - Portal
Follow the quest to build a portal. You need to collect Magic Runes from the Mission Board constantly to keep using the portal.
When you activate a portal, you can send 2 characters at a time.
A third slot was temporarily available if you clicked-and-hold-and-scrolled-up the portal slots but it was actually NOT usable. Watch out for this to be reactivated and made usable if TinyCo decides to help out players more, like they did near the end of the Union Jack chapter.
Like the Union Jack chapter, you cannot re-open a portal until everyone is out, so pair your search parties according to mission times.
Iron Man - 3-hour or 7-hour search missions
Note that Iron Man can fight Black Knight so watch your scheduling if you want to use him to also fight Black Knight.
Black Widow - 3-hour or 4-hour search missions
Enchantress - 4-hour or 7-hour search missions
You MUST send Iron Man on a 3-hour mission to advance the story and make the Black Knight available to fight.
You may then be confused by Pepper Potts saying the Black Knight will be back soon, but he is actually then in quad and you can fight him immediately.
If you have several characters due to story advancement or special events, take advantage of it by cancelling missions from the mission board that use Iron Man, Black Widow, and/or Enchantress, depending on who you are using to find Artifacts.
Step 2 - Artifacts
Portal missions get you Artifacts (rings). You need 1 per character fighting Black Knight
You can use a team of up to 3 against Black Knight, which is more efficient than sending them solo.
Since 7-hour missions guarantee you at least 3 artifacts, each 7-hour mission guarantees you a battle with a team of three.
3-hour and 4-hour missions have a potential minimum return of only 1 artifact, so it is theoretically not safe for keeping up a steady stream of attacks against Black Knight.
The Stonehenge premium buildings (bought with Shards) automatically get you Artifacts but the drop rate is per 24-hours so you will probably still want to get more Artifacts with Portal missions to get the Black Knight quickly.
Step 3 - Fight the Black Knight
Captain Britain and Union Jack do the most damage, maybe around 4x to 3x compared to non-event characters.
Iron Man, Wasp, and Loki can also fight. If you have Union Jack, you can reserve Wasp and Loki to fight with him, leaving Iron Man free to do portal missions.
If you have several characters due to story advancement or special events, take advantage of it by cancelling missions from the mission board that use Captain Britain, Union Jack, Iron Man, Wasp, and/or Loki, depending on who you are using to fight the Black Knight.
Because there is a healing cooldown, you can use those periods to complete missions.
Union Jack + two non-premium characters will probably need 2x fights to defeat Black Knight once.
Make sure you have enough Artifacts to fight him at least twice in a 24-hour period as that is his time to heal to full health again.
Defeated hero teams require up to 3 hours (if the team was defeated by Black Knight, it takes 3 hours). Captain Britain reportedly takes 3x as long.
Watch out for a bug where the healing time does not tick down while you are in-game. Close the game and come back later.
You get 20 trophies per win and you need 100, so without Captain Britain you are looking at probably 10 fights at LEAST to complete the event.
After a win, Pepper Potts says "he'll be back soon" and the Black Knight has a timer on him, but he is actually available to fight immediately (?).
Watch for sidequests to appear after your wins. You may want to take care of them first.
10 fights with Union Jack + 2 characters = 10 x 7-hour portal missions = 5 x 7 hours x 2 characters = 35 hours or about 1.5 days. Since we have a week, this event should not be as tight as the one to recruit Union Jack.
If you're playing MARVEL Avengers Academy and trying to keep up with the British Invasion event, here is a summary of the Black Knight chapter:
Step 1 - Portal
Follow the quest to build a portal. You need to collect Magic Runes from the Mission Board constantly to keep using the portal.
When you activate a portal, you can send 2 characters at a time.
A third slot was temporarily available if you clicked-and-hold-and-scrolled-up the portal slots but it was actually NOT usable. Watch out for this to be reactivated and made usable if TinyCo decides to help out players more, like they did near the end of the Union Jack chapter.
Like the Union Jack chapter, you cannot re-open a portal until everyone is out, so pair your search parties according to mission times.
Iron Man - 3-hour or 7-hour search missions
Note that Iron Man can fight Black Knight so watch your scheduling if you want to use him to also fight Black Knight.
Black Widow - 3-hour or 4-hour search missions
Enchantress - 4-hour or 7-hour search missions
You MUST send Iron Man on a 3-hour mission to advance the story and make the Black Knight available to fight.
You may then be confused by Pepper Potts saying the Black Knight will be back soon, but he is actually then in quad and you can fight him immediately.
If you have several characters due to story advancement or special events, take advantage of it by cancelling missions from the mission board that use Iron Man, Black Widow, and/or Enchantress, depending on who you are using to find Artifacts.
Step 2 - Artifacts
Portal missions get you Artifacts (rings). You need 1 per character fighting Black Knight
You can use a team of up to 3 against Black Knight, which is more efficient than sending them solo.
Since 7-hour missions guarantee you at least 3 artifacts, each 7-hour mission guarantees you a battle with a team of three.
3-hour and 4-hour missions have a potential minimum return of only 1 artifact, so it is theoretically not safe for keeping up a steady stream of attacks against Black Knight.
The Stonehenge premium buildings (bought with Shards) automatically get you Artifacts but the drop rate is per 24-hours so you will probably still want to get more Artifacts with Portal missions to get the Black Knight quickly.
Step 3 - Fight the Black Knight
Captain Britain and Union Jack do the most damage, maybe around 4x to 3x compared to non-event characters.
Iron Man, Wasp, and Loki can also fight. If you have Union Jack, you can reserve Wasp and Loki to fight with him, leaving Iron Man free to do portal missions.
If you have several characters due to story advancement or special events, take advantage of it by cancelling missions from the mission board that use Captain Britain, Union Jack, Iron Man, Wasp, and/or Loki, depending on who you are using to fight the Black Knight.
Because there is a healing cooldown, you can use those periods to complete missions.
Union Jack + two non-premium characters will probably need 2x fights to defeat Black Knight once.
Make sure you have enough Artifacts to fight him at least twice in a 24-hour period as that is his time to heal to full health again.
Defeated hero teams require up to 3 hours (if the team was defeated by Black Knight, it takes 3 hours). Captain Britain reportedly takes 3x as long.
Watch out for a bug where the healing time does not tick down while you are in-game. Close the game and come back later.
You get 20 trophies per win and you need 100, so without Captain Britain you are looking at probably 10 fights at LEAST to complete the event.
After a win, Pepper Potts says "he'll be back soon" and the Black Knight has a timer on him, but he is actually available to fight immediately (?).
Watch for sidequests to appear after your wins. You may want to take care of them first.
10 fights with Union Jack + 2 characters = 10 x 7-hour portal missions = 5 x 7 hours x 2 characters = 35 hours or about 1.5 days. Since we have a week, this event should not be as tight as the one to recruit Union Jack.
If you're playing MARVEL Avengers Academy you may find this trick useful. Notice that when you open the game, it starts zoomed out so that you can see where all your completed tasks waiting to be collected / tapped are located. Once you tap all of them or tap something other than one of the checkmarks, the zoom goes away. You can zoom back out, but it quickly zooms in again.
To hold that zoom, do this:
Zoom out on your smartphone with both fingers, then release. It takes a half second or so before it starts zooming in again automatically.
During that time, quickly tap a building that is NOT being used by a character performing an action. This calls up the building name, BUT the screen will also hold its current zoom level.
Now, tap the icon in the lower left corner for the mission board, and tap outside that interface to dismiss the mission board. The building label will be gone, but the zoom level will still hold where it is and not reset and try to zoom back in again.
Great for leaving your screen up while doing other things, so at a glance you can see if any tasks are complete.
If you're playing MARVEL Avengers Academy you may find this trick useful. Notice that when you open the game, it starts zoomed out so that you can see where all your completed tasks waiting to be collected / tapped are located. Once you tap all of them or tap something other than one of the checkmarks, the zoom goes away. You can zoom back out, but it quickly zooms in again.
To hold that zoom, do this:
Zoom out on your smartphone with both fingers, then release. It takes a half second or so before it starts zooming in again automatically.
During that time, quickly tap a building that is NOT being used by a character performing an action. This calls up the building name, BUT the screen will also hold its current zoom level.
Now, tap the icon in the lower left corner for the mission board, and tap outside that interface to dismiss the mission board. The building label will be gone, but the zoom level will still hold where it is and not reset and try to zoom back in again.
Great for leaving your screen up while doing other things, so at a glance you can see if any tasks are complete.
For a limited time, GOG (Good Old Games) is offering huge discounts on game bundles between Monday, April 25th and Sunday, May 1st. Discounts so far range from 60% to a staggering 87%!
Some bundles are Build-Your-Own -- you can select from various games, and receive a discount on all selected games -- Such as the Nightmare Avenue bundle where you can choose up to 10 games at 80% off.
For a limited time, GOG (Good Old Games) is offering huge discounts on game bundles between Monday, April 25th and Sunday, May 1st. Discounts so far range from 60% to a staggering 87%!
Some bundles are Build-Your-Own -- you can select from various games, and receive a discount on all selected games -- Such as the Nightmare Avenue bundle where you can choose up to 10 games at 80% off.
Game Review: Island Experimentver: Rel4.0224.1142 a00302 Score: FAIL I actually like Island Experiment for many reasons. As a smartphone game meant to encourage you to spend money to avoid grind, it is obviously a very inconvenient game if you are hoping to make quick progress. However, where it fails is in math versus our expectations. Here are a couple of examples:
Farming:
The basic farm provides 6 food for 25 coin, or 4.16 gold per food.
A level 2 farm provides 24 food for 64 coin, or 2.67 gold per food. You get both the ability to "bank" food on your farm better, as well as a better price per unit.
A level 3 farm provides 40 food for 130 coin.
Huh? Now the ratio is worsened to 3.25 coin per food!
Sure you get to bank more food on each farm, but when you harvest, it goes into your warehouse, so banking it passively also blocks you from using your farm to make food.
Water:
Your first water source in the early game is a pond that provides 1 unit of water and 2 units of XP if you spend 3 units of food to draw that water.
Later you are asked to build a well. The basic well provides 3 units of water if you spend 30 coins and 4 food.
Huh? Suppose we use the level 1 farm coin-food ratio. 30 coins is 7.2 food. Plus 4 food, the cost for 3 units of water is 11.2, or 3.73 food per unit of water.
Not only does it cost MORE food to use your well, you also lose out on the 2 XP per unit of water you get when you draw it from the pond.
Considering that they haven't really thought things out properly, I don't really have much faith in the rest of the game and don't see myself wanting to trust them to tell me a good story for my time. Hopefully a future update will tidy things up!
Game Review: Island Experimentver: Rel4.0224.1142 a00302 Score: FAIL I actually like Island Experiment for many reasons. As a smartphone game meant to encourage you to spend money to avoid grind, it is obviously a very inconvenient game if you are hoping to make quick progress. However, where it fails is in math versus our expectations. Here are a couple of examples:
Farming:
The basic farm provides 6 food for 25 coin, or 4.16 gold per food.
A level 2 farm provides 24 food for 64 coin, or 2.67 gold per food. You get both the ability to "bank" food on your farm better, as well as a better price per unit.
A level 3 farm provides 40 food for 130 coin.
Huh? Now the ratio is worsened to 3.25 coin per food!
Sure you get to bank more food on each farm, but when you harvest, it goes into your warehouse, so banking it passively also blocks you from using your farm to make food.
Water:
Your first water source in the early game is a pond that provides 1 unit of water and 2 units of XP if you spend 3 units of food to draw that water.
Later you are asked to build a well. The basic well provides 3 units of water if you spend 30 coins and 4 food.
Huh? Suppose we use the level 1 farm coin-food ratio. 30 coins is 7.2 food. Plus 4 food, the cost for 3 units of water is 11.2, or 3.73 food per unit of water.
Not only does it cost MORE food to use your well, you also lose out on the 2 XP per unit of water you get when you draw it from the pond.
Considering that they haven't really thought things out properly, I don't really have much faith in the rest of the game and don't see myself wanting to trust them to tell me a good story for my time. Hopefully a future update will tidy things up!
Big Fish Games is having a sale on Time Management Games.
