Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-220.255.1.144-20141220103312/@comment-9605025-20141231074338

Stay away if you can. However, if you are like me and cannot, here is what I think.

Other players say to farm resources. I find that Mobage has been making this increasingly harder to do. This is an issue because Mobage has also increased the resource cost to do well in events. As you already noted everything is higher now. I don't know when you left but we now have through R7 for characters and R6 for weapons. R4 are essentially useless. What you are seeing is the result of stats inflation. Mobage kept releasing high powered cards for the top finishers and as a result needed to beef-up the challenges.

How fast you climb to the top will depend on time, money, and luck. Especially luck during team events.

By the way, there are also 3 types of events instead of just the original. You can view them here.