Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-162.225.253.61-20140416003009/@comment-24829928-20140529025254

71.217.107.200 wrote: Going back to what I said before. I don't see how somebody can possibly get these extreme point totals. Case and point... New event just started and as of 2 hours and 35 minutes into the new event. There are people with over 2.5 million points on only Shadowstalker first day bosses. Something is weird with that to me. I have 600k, and a bot x10 from point rewards. /shrug

Day one, like today, the bosses, in this case Shadowstalker and Howlback, give two important rewards:  First attack rewards 1 small energon charge. Finisher rewards 1 battle cube.

Break it down, you average 1-3 boss encounters for every small energon charge used. So, for every 1 small energon you spend, you get 1-2 back. This leaves energon as a limitless pool, for the first day.

Finisher giving 1 cube means bosses are free fights to anyone that can 1-cube them, which is basically anyone in the higher DP.

This is the infinite-play effect some of us talk about now and then. That grace period where players can play indefinitely, as long as they have time to invest. Some folks have that time to kill, and since it costs 0 resources, the points roll in. More than that, the early fights are actually giving resources, 3 energon for every 1 spent specifically, which is turned around and used later in the week to grab more 8s/9s, further bumping the points up.

That is not even considering the cash investment many T1 players put in every week.