Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-9713390-20130706000013/@comment-9890645-20130706182238

@ Ironhide - I said the same exact things after my first top tier finish (HMW1, go look up the post-mortem!). I top tiered next event, too... (In fairness, I also had a vacation from work that week.) Check out my blog on this site. :)

Final Rank: 164

Final Score: 13,139,060. I wanted to be 13.13 after rounding, but I had cubes to farm and limited opportunities. My number still leads with 1313, and my score is dedicated to the memories of Peter Steele and Fred Gwynne. :)

Deck Strength (Pre-event, during, and Post-event): 12k-ish, 14k, 13454 w/ my man BC.

Money Spent (Amount and Currency): Boycott crappy events! $0

Mobacoins Spent: Boycott crappy events! 0 coins

Cubes burned: I think I'm +6 on the event, which is worse than I wanted to be, but one of my allies was making a top tier run and, since he kept me on his short list, I felt obliged to cube his bosses (until he was in top tier and I reached my point goal). If not for that, I would seriously have been +100 cubes and would have finished in the 400s. I also kind of wanted to finish higher in second tier than before; cube savings trump that, but helping allies make runs trumps cube savings.

Medals (Type, Amount, and Draws): Lots as always, got a few R4s: Ironhide alt (now MTM), Shockwave bot (already have MTM), Galvatron alt (second one), Flamewar alt. No raid cards from medals. :(

Liked: Beachcomber!!! Helping the aforementioned ally top tier with my relatively meager 14-19mil hits on his L8s. Watching my teammates get yanked into second tier by the yeoman's efforts of the big boys on the team.

Disliked: Pretty much everything else. The new app was a little give (ally info better) and a LOT of take (new upgrade function actually didn't..., no auto-dismissal, bugs with allies page still unfixed, LAG LAG LAG OMFG DAT LAG, and probably a few things I'm forgetting). The bizarre episode progression issues (first the top seeders' BC1-3 issue, then the super randomness of scans I saw - in 10 minutes I scanned everything from AG7 to H8 at one point) and lack of any sort of excitement in the episode. The art was PATHETIC; characters too far away (where was Huffer?) or doing unlikely things (Bumblebee is NOT Tarzan, why is BC surfing a missile?). Giving away the x7's weapon only, bearing in mind it was shown to be strictly inferior to the Long Haul weapon (given away two eps ago) on the given-away x3 raid card; also, the implication that now many players will actually never have the signature weapon for the man they were given. Oh, yes, and OMG WTF Bumblebee > Galvatron? I likely would have spent $0 even if we weren't boycotting the event, despite my utter love for this group of Insecticons, and would have felt equally justified after the unmitigated disaster this event was.

Any other notes/comments: I'm glad this event is over. It was quite nice doing minimal work for a day and only dropping 20 places. Congrats to SSG1 for the first-place finish and to all my teammates for a great run again.

This game desperately needs fixing. SSG1 had a few suggestions in his post that mirror suggestions I have made amongst my team, including giving an R4 x4 each event and offering some method of acquiring old episode cards. I'm actually in the early stages of compiling a list of all the changes I would make to the game to balance it out a little better.

The developers of the game either have little foresight, relatively little game design experience, or both. I don't think they realize how much of their profit is coming from the strength of the franchise as opposed to the fact that this "game" is really just a poorly-designed casino with enough for free players to do to not make it outright gambling.