Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-16151769-20140109140504

I started TFL just before 'Robots in the Sky' and we all have our reasons to play or stop. Without the winded explanation, I am stopping and wanted a chance to sign off on the game and with my friends here, so thanks for indulging me. I will still be around here as we have an incredible crew, but I don't intend to play.

I started on the wiki in the summer, first just reading threads. It was a while before I joined chat but damn I'm glad I did. It has been the BEST part of TFL for me for months and what has let me go out of TFL with a blaze of battle cubes. The last raid we finished together was my 'swan song,' so HUGE thanks to all! Raid is my thing! I dig it! I'm good at it! I like playing with teamwork, and that is all that has kept me in the game this long! It's awesome seeding and seeing the battle log of my dead lvl 8 with a list of my allies on it! AND THEY DIE FAST with my crew!

I included a pic here of what are essentially my TFL accomplishments. If a picture is worth 1k words...then you have the story. Although, I have 2 other T1's not in that deck, which are the other 2 PVP's (Hound and Blaster). As a player I have been what you might call 'low spend.' All those T1's were accomplished with only 2 complete top raid cards. One was with my first T1, for which I MTMd R5 Shock from the bridge, but back then the rate was better I am SURE! The other was when I completed R5 Brainstorm 2 (the x9 version) from a combination of a gold medal pull and lucky ass pull of the other half at the end of bridge loop 3, WTF. Not that I haven't failed chasing into the bridge for raiders, notably Jetfire, Megs, and Tryp, but overall I mostly spent on battle cubes and some weapons bridges.

Dumb facts...when I started TFL, I just played. I didn't look online, it was just a phone game. I figured out how to play, managed to finish T2 in 'Robots' after just starting, built a deck and upgraded what I could. I remember playing with R4 weapons upgraded to level 10, and that was SOMETHING, and not MTMing cards because I couldn't get the resources to do more. I figured out which bosses would die and when to add a cube. They died much slower in the old days. I called finishing the boss 'stealing' because I thought I 'stole' something, LOL! I didn't call it 'sniping' until I found out on the wiki that's what it's called.

My first raid T1s were without allies! I got Grimmy and Galvy solo! Wild huh! It would be impossible to do that now, but then I did. I just figured out what I needed to do, played all the time, 'stole' shit and won! I thought...'what is all this ally stuff for anyway?' But then I tried it,  I extend a special THANKS to 3 members here that accepted me long ago as an ally before I was a consistent presence in the game...GL, Pat and Kyzaa. Before I was ever on the wiki or in chat, and well before in-game walls, you guys accepted me as an ally for 'Road to Ruin.' It was my first time playing with allies, and I pretty well sucked at it, but you tolerated me, and we won, and I have learned a lot since then.

When I found the wiki and then the chat room...that changed things for the better and opened new doors for more teamwork! Wow, teamwork is great! Now I see it as an essential part of the game, at least for the FUN in the game for me! That's why I dig raid so much, the rest of TFL for me is just raid prep. So thank you to all those here that contribute, whether an 'ally' of mine of not, for keeping the fun in the game! I dig all the info we share in the threads and how we help each other in chat. It is great teamwork from everyone!

We all know this is a virtual game where you don't keep anything, yet we play! For me, I played for fun and entertainment, and as long as it's fun, it's all good. I still enjoy it because of my friends and allies, but it has run it's course for me, and what I have to do in real life. So in the end what will last for me, what I will take away is memories of playing a phone game with people that are really excellent people in life!  