Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-9605025-20130821003428/@comment-9890645-20130821044857

Final Rank: 513 - lowest rank since my 1354 finish in my first episode. Oh well!

Final Score: 3,861,107 - brought to you by the 90% reduction in point rewards since Covert Operations. Not that it really matters.

Deck Power (Pre/Begining/End/Post): 14.7K / 20K / 14.8K but not due to any "spoils" from the event, just some better deck teching.

Money Spent (and currency): I think $40-50. I wasn't really keeping track since I knew it was light.

Coins Spent: ~3300: 1 loop and 2 tiers for 6 Dirge and a deceptive Decepticon in R4 ELITE Thundercracker bot (did need him to finally MTM one of two alts, so...); 100: 1 weapon tier, yay Streetwise weapon (not); 1600: 10 chains; 1000: 5 single chains (see below); 500: 5x 12 BC. I started out with ~3200 coins and have ~1000 left.

Battle Cubes: +140 from farming; +60 from the packs

Energon Cubes: -50 to 70. I stopped using cubes at 70, and that was 2 days ago.

Nets: +40

Chains: Push. Start with none, end with none.

Medals: A few R4s but all I have to really show for it in the end is a now second MTM'd Metroplex. Was fun ripping R4 of Soundwave and Bumblebee, as well. Coincidence???

Liked: The fact that everyone was as disgusted with this as I was and showed it by making this the least competitive event I've played in in this game. It gave me some time to meet new people in chat and work on a lot of mathy goodness. I am a Dirge fanboy and was pleased to acquire a good version of him.

Disliked: Um, everything else. Really wish it was slightly less unlikely to easily acquire Dirge's weapon instead of out of the 60% duplicate to free stuff Weapon Tier; you can see I didn't bother trying. (I miss the days of "Guaranteed Divebomb Weapon!") But Dirge doesn't make my mixed team and I am left to wonder if his weapon would have helped change that. Hotspot was fun in event with the x5 bonus but lackluster outside, and Inferno is his kid brother. These events should be SHORTER, hint to the devs, no one wants to play these episodes after three days. Oh, and don't recommend a DP if it's the three-cube minimum. That is blatantly misleading players. There is an extent to which games must meet player expectations; this is absolutely one of them and the ball was dropped as per usual.

Why I bought 5 chains instead of a 5-pack: It was my intention to have 2x Hotspot and one of each of the other two, so I bought 10+2. Then I netted a Hotspot Sunday... (and a second on my last attempt). But I finished Hotspot 3 on Sunday to kick my DP up a notch.

Other: Yay Team Wikia Chat for keeping each other entertained through this mess, and especially to the three big helpers to my mathy work (you know who you are!). GI Joe is fun but has its own issues. I'm listening to "Transport Is Arranged" by Pavement at this moment, which is a kick ass song.

Hey, it says "other." :D