Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-9234979-20130531181805/@comment-9234979-20130531190450

38.124.23.2 wrote: I additionally like to see bosses with more time left. If one appears to have momentum early, I might jump in with 200m left, because that 200m will disappear in an instant. If it has less than 20 minutes left, it's going to have to be at 100m or below. Ah, yes, time is of course key. I've still been burned by a flurry of early damage/promise that petered out with 25 min to go and never recovered, but when things are really moving, you gotta risk trying to catch that train or risk missing it. I guess it's just the luck of the draw in terms of who has been invited to help and what their other options are. As a freeloader, I just can't afford to keep stranding cubes for no benefit though, so I'm much more conservative now, having been burned too many times.

I'm comfortable with my rank and even with losing 1000+ before it's over, so I think the thing for me to do is stay really conservative and just bank whatever cubes that leaves me with rather than scrambling to spend them all and make the next rank. Realistically I should probably just float now and see if I can coast to the finish under 5k and only spend more if needed. Should have started doing that last night actually. Never know what will happen overnight though, I guess, particularly as competition gets hot toward the end.