Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-9200727-20130816201950/@comment-5603871-20130821111916

I am new and interested in a guide, but of a different sort than what you're thinking of here.

As I said, I'm new - and really, I started playing the game for the artwork. I've been a big TF fan all my life and only just discovered this little gem a few weeks ago. Not able to spend large amounts of cash on coin, I've been trying to make do with what I have.

I started working out my own calculations from the stats on this site, mostly pretty basic, but what I found was that the 'Recommend' button was doing a pretty good job for my basic team, though I was having trouble working out which weapons were worth using as "Recommend" would often put the wrong weapon on a guy because I'd levelled it where another would have been better (if I had known it was better and levelled it...). I've ended up making a spreadsheet that I can use to filter the weapons I've found based on the character... moreso for R4 cards that I have no hope of obtaining their signature weapon.

For example, I got a Dirge Evolve (1) from the last event, he's (sadly) one of my better cards. Using Excel, I was able to easily filter all "Ranged" and "Assault" weapons and determine of the lot I had, Skywarp's (R3) Weapon was going to be the best. I maxxed this weapon and sure enough, "Recommend" chose it for me. While this isn't always the case (Hotspot's Weapon gives a substantially better Attack), it helped to work out what was a better weapon to keep/max to start with. The same process also made it pretty clear that some weapons are pointless - another example, Thundercracker's (R3) Weapon is always worse than Skywarp's (R3) as they are identical (Decepticon/Ranged/Assault/Infiltration) but Skywarp's has higher stats.

I guess what I'm saying here is, a good "getting started" guide for what R3 characters and weapons are worth holding onto or maxxing as even though its been a few weeks, I feel I have thrown away thousands of Gold Character Medals that could have been better used (on a side note, is it even possible to get R4 weapon drops through the Gold Weapon Medals? I've had a few R4 Characters, never a weapon).

Another guide I'd like to see would be one for farming - before you say anything, yes there are already plenty of guides out there, but what I want to know is why? Why should I convert cubes into battle things? Should I sell every R1,R2,R3 card I have or use them to upgrade others? I see all the methods, I just don't see why you would want 100 battle things or whats better to try and get; easy cards for upgrading or easy transmetals?

Lastly, I guess is more of a heads-up for each event as to what cards are easy to get in the event. This last one gone, I don't know how but I missed the Streetwise boss in the Easy game, otherwise I probably would have fought him a bunch of times to finish off my Streetwise Evolve (just have the 2 free cards), instead I thought Blades was the first R4 card and repeatedly beat him, used a ton of Energon recharges and the two free 100% Chains to do so - didn't really help that my deck didn't allow me to get very far on Hard. Just a guide to the "current event", what cards can be farmed and what cards can only be obtained in the random roulette of mobacoin.

Its not really much of a game, but I love the artwork, have nearly completed my Cyberdex of R2 and R3 cards, wish I could go back 8 months and have a chance of earning the other Episode/Evolve cards too.