Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-11482499-20131121165716/@comment-11482499-20131124151947

Thanks folks for your contributions!

Based on your screenshots, and what I've seen, my current hypothesis is that these are mostly alternate accounts, with the occasional new player.

Reasons / evidence:

1. We know many people create alt accounts for various reasons - primary one is to snag the Sky Lynx rewards. So there are definitely many alt accounts lying around

2. Mobage is giving out a lot of free bcs - from daily and monthly rewards - so it's not hard to imagine alt accounts could have tens or even hundreds of free bcs. And as alternate accounts are not as "treasured" as the main accounts, the owners will feel free to whack multicubes/waste resources on their alt accounts.

4. Many of these decks do not - strangely - have any Tier rewards. They mostly comprise raid cards and capturable Evo cards. This is because ending in T2/3 does take a large amount of time - it is much more time efficient to just grab some rubies, get a few raids/ evo cards, then beat it for the rest of the event to focus on playing your main account. No point wasting time if it's only your alt account, after all.

5. These decks - again strangely - do not have Sky Lynx. Why not grab SL when he is a great free R5 card? Again, it shows these decks are not "treasured" by their owners - making 15 "friends" is a chore and something owners will only do for their main accounts. In fact, I would go so far as to say that any average deck without Sky Lynx is probably an alt account.

6. Some of these decks have similar-sounding names. It implies the owner has a more powerful main account but doesn't want to forget the names of his secondary alt accounts.

I do not think it is the following theories:

1. Bots by Mobage. Because we've all seen their woeful quality and coding standards. If they tried to create bots the bots would probably crash on their own or worse, help players win.

2. Cheats (well, probably not the majority of these). If these players cheated they'd be running around with 9 R5s. They don't even have one R5. Also, I think there cannot be this many people running around cheating, or we'd also get wind of it and how it's done if it's that commonplace.

3. Noob players running around whacking multicubes. This is in fact a possible competing theory with mine and some of this might be happening. However, no new player has stepped forth to explain or discuss this matter (and I think this wiki is quite well-known so it's unlikely zero new players have come across this site), so that leads me to think these are alt accounts run by more experienced players, who do indeed know what they're doing, but are obviously keeping quiet since they will be frowned upon.