Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-11482499-20131024035856/@comment-11482499-20131024163453

Dr Crossby - if you had a choice for getting 2500 points (for 1 cube, i assume), and 7 cubes to get 75k points, the 75k pts is a lot more efficient (it's 10k pts per cube), so in fact it is quite efficient (relatively speaking to the alternative) and so your argument is rational.

It is precisely sharing and dialogue like this that I was hoping to unearth through this thread. As Jam15007 above says, i may not realise what new players face. When i was a new player (similar to what GOC said) even random L8s were quite plentiful and it was quite easy to T2 by 1-tagging L8s and other bigs that come along. Since then, I suppose either the algorithm's changed, or manymany more people are playing (yet only 100 players are still seeding L8s) so the scarcity of L8s per active player has perhaps worsened.

This is unfortunate for new players, and also does make allying up with T1 players all the more important. T1 players also need steady supporters, not just other T1 allies, for tactical reasons I have explained above, that even T1 allies for mathematical reasons are unable to fulfill.