Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-10520512-20140130194619

First thing first, not all bot fights give a cube back, some give 1 back without capture, some give 1 if you capture, some give 2 if you capture. Bot distribution is random, so you can get 5 bots in one stage that each give a cube back, or get 5 in a row that dont give a cube back. Its up to luck.

Net odds as far as I have seen are the same as always, low as hell.

Easy.

2 stages, 1-1 has 1 stage. 2-1 has 3 stages, 10 encounters per stage, 5 of them are bots, 5 are swoops. 40 encounters in total, 20 are bots.

Boss 1-1 gives a cube back, 2-1 doesn't. Total worse case - 21 cubes.

Medium.

4 Stages, 3 levels per stage, 10 encounters per stage, 5 of them are bots, 5 are swoops. Comes down to 120 encounters with 60 bots. That's 60 cubes in bot fights.

4 bosses - only 2 give a cube back.

Total worse case - 62 cubes

Hard.

Sideswipe comes out on H7.

So up to H7 (H7 not included, chaining math comes later) we have 6 stages, 3 levels per stage, 10 encounters per stage, 5 bots + 5 swoops. 180 encounters, 90 are bots...so 90 cubes spent to finish H1-H6.

Bosses give cubes on levels 1-3-5.

Total worse case - 93 cubes

H7 - Sideswipe

Lowest level to chain Sideswipe, he has 80m HP, so most decks with 21k "could" 1 cube him, and he gives a cube back.

4 runs, 3 stages per run, 10 encounters per stage, 5 of them are bots, 5 are swoops. 120 encounters with 60 bots. That's 60 cubes in bot fights.

4 bosses give 4 cube back total.

So 60 cubes to chain 4 Sideswipes.

Bottom line cubes worse case. Easy        21 Medium   62 Hard        93 H-7          60

Total   236

Energon if someone is interested.

From start to 4 chained Sides, its 460 encounters (boss encounter does not take energon). Converted to energon recharges its 70 energon cubes. Every 100 scans you gain a level with 135 energon, so that is 2 free energon cube recharges per level and we get 4 levels. Total is around 64 recharges, time taken to finish is not included, but we gain 1 energon pr minute.

5 day run.

Event lasts for 5 more days, 5 days with 24h and 1 cube per hour gives 120 cubes with hourly. Including levelups of 12 cubes gives 132 cubes back. Energon needed is 460 scans with 10 energon per scan, so 4600 energon. We get 1440 energon per day, so energon is no issue unless anyone wants to rush and farm later.

So if anyone wants to try for minimum investment with cubes, you can stretch the playing time for entire event and save resources.

Point reward resources. Each H7 chained gives 137k points, so that is 548k points in H7x4 only. So until we hit 850k points we get 22 bcubes and 36 energon cubes for point rewards.

And there you go, before people try for Sides, this is the resources needed in worse case, meaning you dont net a single bot that gives a cube back.

Have fun 