Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-65.28.197.82-20130530140853/@comment-108.65.236.17-20130530210927

I will throw out my strategy for consideration. I started at the beginning of Cold Delivery, and quickly found myself spending more time on this game than I anticipated, and more than I wanted to. I was building up a deck of R3's as the event unfolded, and found myself really grinding it out at the end to just get top 10k. I like the game enough to continue playing, but I cannot spend the amount of time looking at my phone that I think it requires to get top 100/1000. This time, I spent the $5 to get, and MTM, a raid Red Alert. My goal was to get top 5000 so I can slowly build a deck of R4's. That x3 raid card made the game a ton easier.

I was able to just check my phone a few times per day (for just 5-10 minutes) over the weekend and farm cubes by 1-cubing bosses and ?? bosses. I got up to 160. During the week, I would log in and use my hourly cubes quickly when I could, during the work day. I was ranked about 5k when the lvl 6 bosses came out. Because they were dying quickly when they first came out, I used about 20 cubes over a couple hours at that point. I sky-rocketed up to about 2200 rank. Since then I have not tried to snipe anything. I log in briefly every 2-5 hours to use free cubes and have hovered around 2500 rank with 140 cubes left.

I am more than content to pay the $5 for x3 raid cards for any event I want to play, and just get top 5k, until I get bored with the game and quit. I would only consider purchasing the x5 cards if I thought I could get top 1000, and that reward was one of my favorite characters, without an accompanying huge time commitment. I feel like my time commitment this time around has been minimal, and it made the event more enjoyable. The first time around I was asking myself why I was wasting my time with this meaningless, addictive game (probably because I can't resist any form of competition, no matter how silly, and enjoy sparking memories of my favorite old toys/cartoon). Like a hilarious/surprising amount of the people playing this game, I'm a 30+ year old who was a superfan of Transformers in the 80's. I have my own office at work, so I can check the game quickly without anyone looking over my shoulder, but I cannot check it at all at home until late at night. My wife and kids would kill me if I check it before everyone has gone to sleep. So basically, I too am interested in strategies that minimize the time commitment while feeling the sense of accomplishment that I won at least one full set of R4's from each event.