i started early/mid december and after realizing how slow the xp was, i bought the time warps so i could participate in all the higher lvl content. i think that's something they're banking on and a reason to keep it slow.
I am returning player that started from zero 30 days ago. In which time I got to experience new player strugles quite a bit. This extreme xmen test drive turned out amazing for me. Thanks to unlocking nightcrawler (with orbs mostly because game didn't allow me to participate in some events due to low lvl...) and Miss Marvel hardlight I managed to clear some of that event claiming tons of xmen shards (which would be amazing year or two ago, now all those uncany and astonishing shards were pretty much worthless untill some rework happen) but also tons of gold gear. Then when I finally unlocked sr strange it helped me go even further claimiming pretty substantial quantities of teal gear. And then I stuck for few weeks because forge became mandatory. Thankfully today at day 29 which was also end of extremly sinister event for me I unlocked rest of this campaign part (there was a 3 node stage everyone cleared for free, then pretty easy gold gear stage with around 10 nodes I think, and then teal gear stage with as many nodes I managed to clear thanks to unlocking forge 2 hours before event campaign ended). New players should seen and participate in events, especialy new character events faster. But also there faster way for aliance to participate in wars. If few friends create an aliance it can take ages before they can participate in war and they waste ton of potential progress. I don't say war should be avaible for lvl 1 aliances but 5 seem reasonable level for it I think. Also = aliance search should be corrected. You need level 20 aliance to participate in war. But if you check list of aliances you can't sort it to see only 20+ levels of aliances. Or with certain number of players. And even if Someone sent you invite and you visit his aliance through it I believe you don't see aliance level! This is just dumb.... Also I think there should be at least 100 more mega orb fragments for few lowest blitz ranks and few hundreds more for top 2-3 ranks... Anyway I managed to complete extreme xmen team in my first 30 days which makes my main objective complete. Right now I participate in my first crucible (unfortunately I reached level 60 few days before crucible event for forge ended, but next crucible was starting few days after it ended so I didnt even get single point through it:/) . First day I cleared all but one rooms and since then for now I clear all (so far I am 2:0 and going for three wins which is not that easy at this low level even against basic hand defences). PS: I believe there are four working gifr codes: for hela, for venom, for gambit (there are two for him but you have to choose one), and miscelanous (i believe some premium orbs or something) if you didnt collect all mentioned let me know and I will give you them. You may spread all of them to all new players with your platform.