Board Thread:Frustrations and venting/@comment-2089224-20140124183642/@comment-2089224-20140124210830

CforKat wrote: You dont need to spend any money to get into tier 2, I.e. top 1000. Lots of people do it all the time, in fact with a lot of patience and good team work, even T1 (top 100) can be achieved for free, its been done. I'm not denying that at all - the major component seems to be time, which on the whole is actually pretty fair. It seems like spending money (for at least one x10) might reduce the amount of time that one has to invest, which also seems fair - reasonable, even.

That said, I'm not really clear on how it's done (which I should probably make a second post about over in the gameplay section really).

My point was mainly that the amount of time required to invest in the game in order to make such progress is becoming prohibitive for me, and if I don't invest that time, there isn't a lot left for me to do as far as I can tell (please correct me if not, I'd be very pleased to be wrong). The "casual" gameplay element pretty much vanishes as you approach the top end, it seems.