Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-10813029-20130616083317

A few things caught my attention today and I think Mobage is really screwing us with a lazy untested product. We all know the help system is flawed, but how flawed? Well, I'm starting to believe the help system is sending out help requests to inactive/offline players. Here's what I've noticed, let me know if you're seeing the same things too.

1.) I was offline as I slept, woke up, started the game and on my main event screen I had a help request from an ally. Great timing right, however when I looked at the clock, there was about 14 minutes left on the timer. So, either my ally just happened to seed the boss at 14 minutes left or was this help request sent to me 5-6 minutes ago, while I was offline?

2.) A few bosses I seeded yesterday went out to an ally, who is level 25 and has an outdated episode leader card. Today I seeded some bosses and some went out to this ally who is still level 25 with the same outdated leader card. There's no way an active player at that low of a level would stay at level 25 over a 24 hour period! Obviously that ally did not tag the boss I seeded on any of the help requests.

3.) As far as Wheeljack is concerned, the help request goes out to 15 other players and of those 15 players 5 are always from your ally list. That's great in theory, but if we play at odd times, will we always have 5 online allies? In my experience, it's always 5 allies, has anyone ever seen less than 5? If they have then that might help to disprove my theory of help requests being sent to offline players.

4.) In the previous event, there were times where a level 6 boss would have 10-15 million life left  with 10+ minutes left on the timer and had only been tagged by 15 of the 30 players. That boss would sit there for a several minutes before someone finally killed him off. Of the other 15 players who had not tagged the boss, if you're actually in the game, why would you not tag the boss? I can see perhaps a handful of players weren't paying attention, but 15? And we're talking about minutes here, not seconds... so perhaps some if not all these players were offline?

It would be great if some of you can confirm or disprove what I've noticed. I hope I'm wrong about  help requests going out to offline players, but at the same time, I don't have much faith in Mobage. I'm sure they're more concerned about newer and better ways of screwing us with the space bridge and boss buffing to entice us to spend more than to actually spend some time fine tuning the mechanics of the game. 