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Ah well, you should be able to get another couple of spins off before she leaves the crank. You actually got decent results for the amount of medals spent.

A while back I wrote this box crank simulator:

https://repl.it/Iyrw/9

I figured I might expand on that a bit by dumping the results of a million unlock attempts into a percentage-based graph:

http://i.imgur.com/AbrPJgp.png

What this shows is that 20,800 medals are required to unlock "in more cases than any other", but the chances of unlocking on exactly that value are still only ~4% - the row of blue lines at a similar height indicate that it could easily swing up/down by a few thousand.

Still, the red lines ("chance that you'll need to spend only that many medals") show that you had something like a 6% chance of victory spending just 9,600 medals as you did here.

For a more reasonable ~80% chance you'd need to bring 24,800 medals. ~90% is at 28k, and by 32k you're all but certain to have your 80 parts. I didn't see any instance where more than 40,800 medals were needed - higher values can happen, but the odds can be considered worse than one in a million.

This accounts for the first spin being free, and assumes you follow the logic of resetting the box crank list every time the amount of Clone Abby parts on a new one (60) times the percentage of icons removed from the current one becomes less than the amount of parts you've gained from the current one.

For example, say your first spin on a new list gives you 5 parts. 10/250 = 4% icons removed, and 60 times 0.04 is 2.4. That's less than the five parts gained from that list already, so you should reset immediately.

... and by the way: F

Just a heads-up, Bluestacks pesters you every once in a while to try some apps, runs kinda good, resolution seems weird, but for MSA is perfect. On the other hand Nox App Player runs flawless, can root from the start, resolution and framerate is just perfect for MSA ~~but it installs apps without your permission (you can uninstall them just fine though)~~. Both allow custom keybinds, Nox feels a bit better to use them.

That being said:

1.-Go to the website of your preferred Android emulator

2.-Install it. Set up your google account if you plan to get MSA from the Play Store or download the APK from somewhere else instead.

3.- Get the device that currently houses your MSA account, go to profile, choose "Create Password" and write it down somewhere. On the emulator, stay on the title screen of MSA, click on the red tool button on your right, click on "Device Change" and write down your generated password, accept and let the magic do the rest.

4.- Set up your keybinds using the Bluestacks' WASD button or Nox's small keyboard logo on the right.

5.-You're ready to go.

There are many guides around the web, but I thought it'd be fun to mess with your image a bit.

https://youtu.be/jFE53CXMkjE

Yeah I'm no artist but it may get you started.

One trick is to work in high-res, then merge all layers and downscale the final result before publishing. This does wonders for smoothing out where all your lines / backgrounds / etc meet; it's basically how anti-aliasing works.

The editor used here is the free Paint.NET: http://www.getpaint.net/index.html

Use an application such as APK Extractor to dump the game's main installation package to your user-accessible storage. Copy the APK to your PC, and unpack it with 7zip or similar. The file is in its assets folder.

Wait, it crashes there? It should hardly be taxing your phone during the file check. During the loading sequence after the title screen maybe, but not on the title screen itself...

Given that you only have this game + Discord on your handset, in your shoes I'd be booting the phone into recovery mode and pulling a factory reset.

Be sure to check contacts.google.com first to ensure all your phone numbers are synced.

> other friends in Discord recommended me to open storage permission, but it is still, not appear.

I've got a hunch that you might need to completely wipe the game, re-install it, then open up its storage permission before first run. Messing with it after the game has already started dumping files to some other location isn't likely to change anything.

Failing that, next thing I'd try would be the same thing but also manually creating an empty com.snkplaymore.android014 folder before first run as well.

Also see if the DiskUsage app can spot it hiding in some other location.

I've heard rumours that the game might write to different locations in some cases, but haven't ever heard from someone bright enough to figure out where those locations might be. Makes me wonder whether they're not just using crap file management apps that filter out folders that aren't the basic "movies" / "pictures" / "DCIM" / whatever.

I suspect that if you fail to start the game with Storage permissions enabled before first launch, on later versions of Android it may dump the files somewhere other than the usual "directly into your user-accessible storage folder". Perhaps into the Android sub-folder. If it is still somewhere within the regular user-accessible storage space, then the DiskUsage app would make it pretty obvious as to exactly where.

(And if you happen to have a rooted phone, that app'll help you pinpoint the game files even if they're in a location that'd usually be user-*in*accessible.)

If you really get stuck, try double-checking that you have a screenshot of your account password, completely uninstalling the game, re-installing, and then using your device's Application Manager to grant MSA "Storage" permissions before you first launch it again. I'm betting this'll cause it to write to the usual location.

If the game works then the folder must still be there. Normally Android file managers will only hide folders which begin with periods, but I suppose it's possible it's being hidden some other way. I suggest trying a better file management app, such as Root Explorer or its free version - these have view settings that specifically reveal hidden files.

Sounds like file corruption. If you're lucky, extracting the game's installation package and re-installing that over the top of the old version (without uninstalling) will sort it out.

But more likely it's your save file that's broken, in which case you'll be relying on support to get you back in. It's worth learning how to back up your save file locally to avoid this in future.

It's almost certainly not what you're thinking of, but I quite enjoyed Bloody Alice. I myself stick with an old version (as Apple eventually insisted that they edit out the blood), but I'm sure the basic premise hasn't changed.

It basically plays like MSD/MSA with a rather more limited selection of units, except you also gain direct control over Alice - so you're sending out units while fighting against the enemy yourself. There's no PvP, but there is an ending, which I consider an important aspect of any decent game.

I'm guessing you're referring to the Google Play Services app, which isn't the same thing as the Google Play Store app (or even the Play Games app!).

The Play Services, among other things, act as a sort of Android update for devices that don't actually have the latest Android updates installed. For this reason, exactly what it does varies depending on the device you install it onto - it doesn't need to fill in as much functionality on a "current" device.

For whatever reason, on my older phone, the only way to get it to update was to manually use that store link - it never showed up in my regular list of apps that had updates available. So first off, load that up on your Tab and see if it offers an update.

Failing that, you can also try going into your device settings and using the application manager to remove all updates for the Play Services (purely for the sake of testing - you can re-install them all afterwards, and will probably want to). In my experience, MSA runs fine with old versions - even if it likes to throw up a message saying it'll be unable to start without updates immediately before it starts up fine anyways.

The text isn't anything terribly interesting. Most of it just clarifies what the imagery shows - eg, "two hair braids", etc. The bit down the bottom is pretty close to her in-game description.

Google has a translate app for mobiles that can be used to photograph and read Japanese glyphs easily.

I have spent nothing on this game, and never will for various reasons. Too bad I'm missing a lot of units as a result.

On a side note, to those that want them microtransaction benefits without technically spending any money, Google Opinion Rewards can be a real benefit.