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> These creatures tried to scale the heights of Olympus and planned to set upon the gods (190b–c). Zeus thought about blasting them with thunderbolts, but, not wanting to deprive himself of their devotions and offerings, so he decided to cripple them by chopping them in half, in effect separating each entity's two bodies.
Ever since that time, people run around saying they are looking for their other half because they are really trying to recover their primal nature.
The Symposium (Ancient Greek: Συμπόσιον, Greek pronunciation: [sympósi̯on], romanized: Sympósion, lit. 'Drinking Party') is a Socratic dialogue by Plato, dated c. 385 – 370 BC. It depicts a friendly contest of extemporaneous speeches given by a group of notable Athenian men attending a banquet. The men include the philosopher Socrates, the general and statesman Alcibiades, and the comic playwright Aristophanes. The panegyrics are to be given in praise of Eros, the god of love and sex.
In the Symposium, Eros is recognized both as erotic lover and as a phenomenon capable of inspiring courage, valor...
Basically you get the more "romantic" version "everyone has a special someone - other half but only a few ever find them" or the idiotic version trying to explain genders...
> There were three sexes: male, female, and hermaphrodite; (cut)...
and then going to claim that the males and females when split in two create two same gender identity halves while the hermaphrodite creates two hetero halves. Idiocy, like I said.
It the previous context, I just meant that if you have random matching, trying to find someone that has the other characters you need for your team to work is like randomly finding your "other half / soulmate" in a crowd.
consider the old video I had posted about a quest tutorial
Your team is 5 characters and you choose a "Friend captain" from your friend list active captains (don't ask me the details).
the point is that even now you have to
- find a team you can build
- find a friend that has the captain you need for the friend slot.
most of the time unless you use the new batch-bosted-to-do-all just released in the gacha for that event you NEED to have a SPECIFIC friend captain for your team to work.
but... you get a list of available helpers and pick the one you need.
Now, imagine instead you got a random helper.
won't work 90% of the time.
And now imagine instead of a single helper you got FIVE and you have to get all five right RANDOMLY.
Starts to look like playing Bingo.
I doubt, if you watch the preview video it is clear that the co-op quest gives you
-gems, used for the main gacha. But you can get these from other source (including money), so skipping only means less free resources / pulls.
- items to bost skill used only in Co-Op. You don't need those if you are skipping the co-op.
- items used to pull characters on a new gacha banner. This is the only way to pull on that banner and some characters are only available on that banner.
The last point is where the scam lies.
If you skip this mode you are locked out from ever getting some characters that you may need from other modes.
@AndrasDeak--СлаваУкраїні are you familiar with Dwarf Fortress Tantrum Spiral?
Basically it is a concept that says that when a Dwarf get upset their action get othe dwarves upsets and so on, so it generates a self feed feedback loop that get worse and worse.
This game has the same issue apparently.
If you skip an event then you don't get a character that will be useful for the next one. So you go bad on the next one,you get less rewards, so you pull less, so you lack more characters, so you can't play events so you get less etc etc etc.
the fact that characters get obsolete fast means that you never are "strong" - you are strong only when you you have the currently boosted units. But you can get "weaker" if you miss some rewards, and that in turn makes you miss more rewards and so on.
it is built in a way that renders the rewards not optional.
@AndrasDeak--СлаваУкраїні point is, it is basically the only One Piece game, and the only source artworks of characters in some contexts.
The Corazon/Law card is pretty good (especially since poor Corazon died and this will never happen sadly)
