Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-68.144.203.120-20131106231109/@comment-10520512-20131107101157

Best advice for a free T1 run is luck.

On day 1 you will hit a wall really soon. Like Tier 2 boss 2, if you have to 2 cube them, then you are fucked, you need to get rubies for pulls and hope you get an x7 or 1-2 x5 on day 1.

If you dont manage that, cut your looses and dont bother pushing. I have 1600 bcubes, i have great allies, but hitting a wall early and no luck in ruby pulls limits you a lot. That is how last few raids went for me. Still waiting on that lucky day 1, anything else is just a waste of cubes.

You cant keep the pace, you spend a lot of cubes on low point bosses, and as you progress with scanning and keep getting bigger bosses, you need to invest more cubes to keep MVP to earn rubies, and that further bites into your stockpile.

Lets say you got lucky on day 1 with your DP going over 20k, snipe and snipe a lot, your snipes bring in a lot of income, points, rubies and medals, steal MVPs as much as you can. The more you snipe and MVP, more you pull from bridge and DP goes up and sniping gets more easy. And its free.

Then on days 4-5-6 when bosses have few hundred million HP, you will stall if you dont have a deck that can dish ~70 with 1 cube. At that time you should have saved at least 1k cubes for the end.

Lets say you managed to keep in low 200-300 in ranking, when L8s come out it becomes a riot, you need big points to manage to scan them. Even then you cant push out a L8 with 50m dmg done and hope for others to finish, some they will, some wont depending on random allies that get on list. So you need to finish your own, and depending on HP that can really take a lot of cubes. If you dont finish it, people will soon stop hitting your L8s since they are a waste of resources if they run away, and your initial investment goes to waste.

You need good allies, preferably in your timezone and to know when they play. So you can rack points from their L8s, and vice versa. But you need to make your own points at that stage.

What people forget when they get some cubes stockpiled is not that 100 cubes means 100 L8s are 3.5-5m in points. Not even close.

Ask T1s, you can scan 1-2 full bars and only get 1 L8 to seed out, and fill your list with garbage that brings 10-20k points and so your "cube for L8s math" goes down in flames. It turns from "points per cube" before L8s come out, to "points per hour", meaning you kill ANYTHING that brings points and keep your list clear for L8s, not getting clogged with rabble. At that point you need to be able to 2 cube almost anything aside L8s and highest bosses, when i say 2 cube i mean 2 and you get 1 back for the finish, so you only spend 1 in the end.

This event ended with ranks 40-100 within 1m point difference, so it was a close race. Hitting till last moment.

I would advise taking an event with a lower T1 reward, since not a lot of people will compete like they do for Optimus or StarScream, famous characters make people go apeshit.