Board Thread:Current Episode Discussion/@comment-9890645-20140812234652/@comment-9890645-20140813032529

Main to the left, alt to the right, as normal. For what it's worth, when I play both accounts simultaneously, my left hand runs godofcyanide and my right runs swansthresh. I had some jokes earlier about how each hand was outperforming people on its own. ;)

Final Rank: 42 (yes, finally!) // 347

Final Score: 216,390,961 // 51,790,450

Deck Power (Pre/Begining/End/Post): 54951 / up to 141k / 59321, pre-customization // 39k / up to 110k-ish / definitely higher but haven't worked on it yet

Money Spent (and currency): $0 // FTP

Coins Spent: 100: Skywarp weapon. Still have 3120 coins in reserve // 0

Battle Cubes: +2259 BC and +280 full charges. Yes, that's right, I finished the second Teletraan board at least 28 times. // +951 and +30 full charges. I didn't always take that route on the alt as I was more pressing for moar Thrusting. ;)

Energon Cubes: +113 // +278

Ruby Pulls: A lot, ended ep with 40k rubies (pulled a lot of weapons for upgrading) // A fair amount but significantly less, obv. Pulled a lot of weapons here because they'll see use.

Medals: Oh my freaking... Didn't pull much from character medals (I think I got a Thrust piece somewhere along the line) but those weapons medals... FOUR Skywarp weapons on my main alone, plus one for each of two of my farming alts, plus one Thrust weapon on the "main" alt (lol) and another farmer got two Thrust weapons.

Liked: Autobot Spike was a favorite episode from my youth. Hey, they made a Spike card! Received some valuable assistance this episode from many allies, but special shout-outs to chat folks Found3rOfMurd3r, StarscreamF15 and Broadman312; a lot of the new allies I added this ep turned out to be MONSTER seeders and I look forward to next raid with them! My T1 adventure (see below). No glitches in boss release. Learning the name ThaBluprint uses for his seed accounts and stealing his seeds when I see them. :D // Easy access to raiders made running up a second account effortless. Also stole a seed from ThaBluprint. :D

Blu, if you're reading this, it's probably a good idea to NOT name your seeding accounts "ThaBluprintSeed##". Kinda makes it obvious (and makes guys like me gun for your seeds). I run four farming accounts and you'd never know who they were unless I told ya. ;)

Disliked: I never thought I'd dislike a gift to players, but this chips glut was... well, absurd. They took away the free points raiders and gave us a few old school raids, which were warmly welcomed by the veterans, then they took THAT away and went even further off the deep end than the free points raider by letting everyone run Teletraan like it was nothing. Mobage has to realize that you can't judge the effectiveness of alterations when you alter five different things every episode. That's why it seems like they're just throwing shit at a wall to see what sticks, instead of carefully crafting a gaming experience for players of all power and experience levels to enjoy.

Other: My T1 adventure:

Originally, I planned on straight farming this episode while still finishing T2 on both accounts. However, the ease of loading up with raiders got me moving on my alt account quite hard (both accounts were in top 400 much of the episode), which slowed down my farming (something about three devices and two hands, ya know) considerably. This led my main to creep up the ladder, and I found myself in the mid-100s as Day 4 was winding down. As I kept playing, while my rank wasn't moving, my distance to 100 was shrinking rapidly, and I noticed I was well outpacing the line.

Now, those who know me and who follow my postmortems and such know that I tend to T1 wire-to-wire or as close to that as possible, and I get high up in the tier, plant a flag, and ride out the episode. This is the first time I decided to T1 a raid with less than three days left, and there were points early on where I was regretting it. However, by Sunday night, I was in T1, I think around 70.

Monday almost derailed the dream. I weathered a long outage (sleep to work without touching game) and found I was still hanging on to the tier. I had begun to work at getting more points when my father called; his car was in the dealership shop near my house and I almost was stuck chauffeuring him around for the day. I wouldn't dream of ditching him for TFL... but I also had two tutoring gigs during the day, one of which I was still waiting on a time for (I did embellish a bit, said one of the jobs was further than it was heh). I ended up just driving him to get a rental for the day, as he didn't want to screw me on work. I was out for the tutoring gigs, but was still in tier when I returned home, so I climbed up again and finished I think around 60 or so, maybe a bit better.

I want to add here that a few members of the TFL community - most notably -vegetassj4- - saw what I was up to as far as T1 and left some very encouraging posts on my wall. Really, thank you guys, cause those posts were a constant reminder to me that I was fully capable of making this happen when I was having doubts!

<p style="margin-bottom:0px!important;text-align:left;">Tuesday morning, I woke up and saw I was still well in tier. I got a little play time in and headed to work. I knew this was to be the most nervewracking time, but I also knew I'd have 7.5h to run the table at the end. When I finally get home... I'm at rank 100. All that work from the previous days and I'm back to inches from failure.

<p style="margin-bottom:0px!important;text-align:left;">Being dangerously close to failure only triples my resolve. Despite a few moments early on of worry that I'd not get above 80 and would have to fight tooth and nail the last few hours, and (again) HUGE THANKS to many of my allies, I was able to score a lot of points - at least 45M - during those last 7.5 hours. Also, a HUGE thanks to GLCorp, Patorikku and the rest of the chat crew for a LOT of laughs today, despite how badly chat has been punting!

<p style="margin-bottom:0px!important;text-align:left;">Autobot Spike, he is mine. Thank you all for your help! :D