Dalek said:
Special battles no longer use daily tries and no longer reward points, they are for fun and personal testing
First, I want to let you know that when I tried doing a Custom Battle last night it used up one of my daily runs. I assume this has been corrected since then (about 12 hours ago from the time of this post).
Second, the timing of this update is very poor, and if I may say so, a bit ridiculous. I used 45 points (granted, that's not a whole lot) to purchase the Custom Battle mode knowing that it was good for quick, easy points when I didn't otherwise have the time for or interest in doing either of the Normal Battle modes. So now I find out that I wasted those points for something that I otherwise have basically no interest in doing since it doesn't award points? That's pretty absurd. I can tell you that I'm not the only player who enjoyed doing Special Battles for quick points. The idea that you could do quick runs and still get at least a few points in return, and therefore not feel like you left any points on the table for that day, was a great feature. Moreover, it's not like using all of your daily runs on Special Battles was a quick way to farm massive amounts of points (you only got 5 per victory). Had this update been in place from the start, different story. But to change this feature almost two weeks after its release is in very poor taste in my opinion. If it's going to stay this way, then players shouldn't have to use 45 points to buy each of the Special Battle modes.