Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-11482499-20131024035856/@comment-14093408-20131024173910

KUB4$K!E wrote:

Also, last day of the event, who is worried about rubies? They will be gone that evening anyway. I was worried about points than I was rubies. If for some reason I was able to get MVP with a 2 cube shot in the last two days, I took it. At least I got one cube back. I was just going to say this, so I'll quote it. I understand how as Ranoake said, scarcity can be a factor worth considering and that T1s may not think of as they are the seeders, but MVPing with 10 cubes doesn't seem to me like a profitable situation no matter what (and I, as probably everyone else, have done it in the past when I had no clue as to what this was all about).

I think that this situation can only be profitable in very rare occasions and as such it would not be noticeable if the problem was not simply a bad choice. For instance, let's say is 10 minutes to the end and you are five rubies off a bridge opportunity with no energon left. Well then maybe you gotta seize the opportunity (if the card you may get is going to be coming into your deck) but still it's not something that will happen often.

The best thing about this community, the reason I write here and I was lurking before I started posting is that you get educated on how to play the game. And you build up into a group of people where you can mutually benefit. So I take the starting post as a way of think thoroughly game strategy.

That said, I was lucky enough to have Coholips18 and Cannibusprime (maybe someone else I cannot think of right now) as my allies this time, and they may have been the reason I made it easily into my first T2, but I think it's worth considering something I pointed out during the event: scarcity may very well be factored by ranking. I had never been fed as may L8s and high-end bosses as I was this event, both from allies and random guys and this was an event where I was top 500 most of the time. Could it be that your chances of getting requests to beat L8s were a function of your position the same way scanning bosses goes?