After playing this game awhile and having spent a bit of money, I think that patience is key. We all want that new ninja when it first comes out, but after telling myself "Hey, you should just WAIT" and learning that the hard way with so much ingot and coupon spending, I've resigned myself with the fact that chipping away at frags from special events and such will inevitably get you what you want. So many ninjas seem unattainable but with these updates I'm seeing ninjas come back that I thought I would have to wait forever to see again, LOL. It's a hard pill to swallow, especially since you don't want to be kicked into the dirt by the P2Ws, but...

I don't know. I mean, when I saw Haku Edo Tensei came out (Lucky Board, though I'm unsure if he had premiered before then), I got 10 frags of him immediately with a little coupon spending. That's 1/3rd of his frags acquired right there. And as I type this, another special event has popped up where he is 65 points on one of the events, and just from throwing those shuriken at the balloons I have 45/65 points needed to get a frag, and that wasn't even all my shuriken.

Not trying to say you're whining, because I was totally in the same boat before I came into some money to spend on a game I'm playing very frequently, but now that I have I see that while the road is bumpier, it can lead you to the same results, it's just that it's much SLOWER.