Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-24705123-20140129005312/@comment-10708945-20140131053701

Stussyxsean wrote: To the wikia contributor who wants the ally system removed - You know nothing until you've experience it.

I cannot imagine anyone playing solo derive any sort of pleasure from tapping on a phone for 6-10 hrs a day. Without the ally system, T1 will be the top 100 highest paying players. Being in a cartel requires much more thinking, using strategies, rather than buying nine x10 raids to T1.

I cannot describe in words the sensation you get (especially on the last day when everyone is tired) that you are not alone, that there is always someone pushing you forward and watching over your shoulder. It is a true battlefield out there when you go for T1.

The epic finish to the last episode was the most nerve wrecking, yet thoroughly enjoyable hour of my TFL career. We were so close to losing our T1 finish and I get allies like Stinger who risk his own finish to use his alternate (weaker) account so he could seed lesser beings to me. BMClauser did the same earlier that day. I was out of BCs and could only snipe, without these small amounts of points accumulated in that hour, there is no doubt I'll be in position 101. I finished 92, 400+k point above cutoff of nearly 140million. Stinger ended up with only 1 mil above cutoff. To put that in perspective, the rate was probably 4-5mil  per hour in that last hour. It could have cost Stinger his T1 if he stops playing for 15 minutes.

Then there is Ry-Guy, who was at work and dropped down from 25 to 100 in a flash. He couldn't be in the chat room but everyone started to get worried and quickly regrouped frantically to seed him. This all happened without him needing to ask for help. Everyone was watching over each other, sacrificing their own time to help each other. Yes, we all wanted the T1 reward, but I felt that the sense of achievement is far greater when everyone in chat got through.. all 19 of us if I am correct.

The few players who were already safe could have gone to sleep or taken a break, but no one stopped, they regrouped to help the ones in danger and was tapping together with the team till the very last minute... Yank, Neo, BMclau, Vega, Kub, Justin and many others. And tks to Vega for updating the score and projecting the cutoff constantly.. for those like myself who had no time to check. There were even those who were not T1ing joining the run just to seed us, using up resources that they painstakingly farmed.

Sorry for the long post but I felt strongly against the suggestion to remove the ally system. I will delete this game immediately if it ever happens.

And a big thanks to all for helping me out when I was at work as per usual on the last day. Usually I can gain enough points in five days to just coast on the last day with maybe  a bit of playing here and there if I can find some time away from prying eyes but this time last day was just too crazy. Around 1 am Monday T1 was moving pretty slow and I had a 34 mill points lead on it so I decided to sleep for a whole 5 hours before getting up for work. Woke up 5 hours later to my points lead now only about 24 mill ahead. I knew right there the points were climbing too high per hour for me to be at stuck at work 8 hours out of game but I had no choice.