Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-12362668-20131016161833/@comment-14093408-20131022142758

Ranoake wrote: Depends what you are scanning, if they are 10K+ I would totally do it if you think you need the points. I would also try to snipe my own seeds to hold on to MVP if it is close. 50% is 50%. Remember that the cutoff will be 4.2 ish million, just beat that and rest. What is your current score?

I find it hard to predict how many seeds I will get. It is easy to say you will only tag the L8s. your average will be awesome, and you can calculate how many cubes you will burn to get X million points. The only hitch is that you are assuming that you will get that many seeds, which I find rarely happens. I never get the number of L8s I need to get T2, so you have to seed yourself and hit lower bosses or some combination. compare your score to the projected cutoff and the right path will be self evident.

That also just might be the cost of a normal T2 and you can't get around that, even with the allies and whatnot. I know the T1 players do for sure, so it makes sense that you have to at least partially do it in T2. T3 you can just tag and not seed at all. Makes farming all that important if you are a free player. Right now, sitting at 4.08M I think I'm quite safe already, I will just tag some L8s if I get close to 900th (I'm 295th). So if I do seed would only be to convert Battle Cubes into energon recharges. My main concern, of course, is that doing 20-25M to the bosses I get (from 5K to 13K points is what I'm scanning now) some of them may not get finished after I seed, and I'll have to toss extra cubes to get things done. If I was scanning 20K+ bosses I'd do it just to help my allies, but most of them won't hit a 5K boss unless they can snipe it :-)

I was quite sure I'd need to seed big time to get a T2 as opposed to the stick-to-tagging-after-day-one T3 strategy, but as stated before, maybe due to the slower pace this time around, it hasn't been necessary, even partially.