Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-11710472-20130810005610/@comment-10962369-20130813052202

68.100.207.181 wrote: Iuselect wrote: I've been finishing T2 for the past 4 events, haven't spent anything in these boss events. Once I got dropshot, my DP started to crawl up. took ages for me to break t2. as a free player, you have to start off tagging to get into it. I've finished T3 in almost every other prior to the jazz event. so my DP was around 10-11k. This is enough to get you to T2. just needs more time hitting stuff.. takes a lot of time too. Now my DP is about 13k, I can break t2 easily. Unless you have been super lucky by pulling raid cards via episode card draws there is no way you are telling the truth. Run the math and look at the other posts. T2 always takes at least 6M points to safely achieve. There is no way someone can play with the amount of free battle cubes provided and acquire enough points even via sniping and only contributing one cube on 50k bosses to reach the threshold needed (OK, maybe once after farming for 3+ episodes [600 BC at least] but then you would be dried up again for the next episode). For instance, how was this true two episodes ago when the majority of ally requests were going only to one player prior to the fix? How did you manage to play for free last event and acquire enough boss capture points via the free nets catches? (I burned through >100 energon refills prior giving up on the new style event; in part because the rewards were horrible.  I already had an elite SW MTM'd from prior paid raid card draw attempts.) What big boss pulling ally is going to keep a small fry that is constantly only contributing ~10k on a 200M+ boss? I admit to paying over $200 an episode in earlier events and having fun via the competition aspect (missed the years of sports cards collecting and too old for pokemon/dragon ball z phase when those became popular, so for me this was a nice throwback as an adult.)  Previous events were much closer in ranking, particularly early on when we thought a half reward may one day receive his missing alt mode at some later point in the game's series and we also wanted the highest power weapon we could receive even if it didn't character match {megatron's stayed with me for a while :-)}.  The amount of time sucked into this 'game' alone disqualifies any normal free player from hitting above T4.  My deck is entirely made of T2 cards and a couple former x7 mtm raid cards in the third row (I have enough T2 cards with matching weapons to guild faction bonus both A and D but I tweak the deck based on hp). My normal DP is barely under 14k and I can one cube for 20k before the 5k+ point reward bosses come out then it drops to ~15k. I stopped buying raid cards when event Full Assult started because this 'game' just got old. This episode I did happen to pull via the rewards a Vortex weapon which was the only reason I bothered to go for 2M. Heck maybe after 14 events (started Robots in the Sky) I still have not figured out your awesome free strategy. For me the game got old and there is no way a free player will make past T3. Sitting on 80 paid currency credits, >6M in credits, 406 energon refills and 380 in bc, over >1.5k in gold medals, >2k in gold weapons medals (because lets face it having to switch screens to constantly sell got old quick and who wants to dump previously paid and hard earned cards?)  As a thank you to all my former allies I am finishing off their already significantly tackled lvl 8s and then I am done.

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well here's how I've made it to T2. with all the events I've finished T3, I did not burn cubes. I didn't pay for a single card or draw and raid cards through medals. I've purely been tagging bosses off good allies. Allies is what carried me into t2 for the first time. Yes it's terrible that I'd be doing some what 3-6 million damage on a L8 boss, but I tagged enough to get my rank up. bear in mind, when I finish in T3, I would give up on the last day and just snipe what I can as well as tag the occasional L8 to boss to stay in T3. Don't forget, we used to get ??? bosses, first few days I'd do the normal thing of sniping and one hitting bosses to farm cubes. You can farm anywhere up to 200~ cubes on the first day.

the event where all requests went to one player, that didn't seem to affect me. I was still getting requests and still getting points as per normal, so I was a little confused when the apology came out from Mobage. I spent the last event farming BC's in preparation for this event. I've made T2 as a free player previously with putting in the sheer amount of hours. Yes I've burnt a lot of my time and energon, but farming cubes and allies is what brought me there. not money. a x3 or x5 raid card can only get you so far. I've seen people get MTM x5 cards and barely scrape through T3. It's purely down to how well you spend your cubes and the boss requests on the final days.