Board Thread:Frustrations and venting/@comment-11264457-20130919144523/@comment-13156619-20130919210618

GoC:  I'm with you, this is the the worst type of event. Sadly, it could be better. Mobage would actually have to put some critical (pun intended) and/or creative thought into the player-battle gameplay mechanic.

In reference to your comment about more ranks: Will new ranks be released?

Given that question, I have been asking myself another question, which i now ask to anyone in the top 20:  "Why would you spend so many cubes now, on Day 1?"

Let's assume you are a T1 finisher. It seems like there are two goals for this event:

1) Get to Max Rank

2) Accumulate points to build toward a T1 finish

(I'll leave out the collector goal, as its not relevant to my question)

Lets assume that every T1 player has a 'Max Rank' goal.

If new ranks open on Day 2, then you have to spend more cubes to achieve those new ranks, in addition to the 'extra' cubes you spent purely accumulating points. Lets also assume new ranks open each day, like new bosses in Boss events. Do you even know how many cubes it will take to achieve the next rank? Will the points needed for the next wave of ranks scale linearly? Exponentially?

That being said, I really have to question players' logic here. Why not just secure your Sergeant rank on Day 1? Then see if Mobage releases new ranks on Day 2? If Mobage does, then you have more data to extrapolate how many cubes it will take to achieve your goal of Max Rank. Don't you think you can wait a day or two, before starting to accumulate points? Given the cube drain and general lack of interest in this event, you may be able to accumulate enough points for a T1 finish in the last 24-48 hours.

I'm not saying that this is the best strategy. I'm just wondering why you would blindly throw so many cubes at accumulating points for a T1 finish on Day 1, without having more data to estimate how many more cubes it will take to achieve the Max Rank of the episode?

But, a wise player once told me "T1 play is more stylistic, than anything else"...