Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-9234979-20130627225928

In the initial stages of an episode I scan for bosses and one-cube them until they get too strong for that. But they are still measly bosses with crap payouts, so they aren't worth tagging and then sending out for help. So I stop scanning and I hang out in the boss queue and snipe and tag bigger bosses for the rest of the episode. I don't want to waste battle cubes on piss bosses because I want them for the big bosses in the final days and hours.

For this event and the last one though, my boss help requests came through only in a trickle. I wasn't sure why, but figured they'd tweaked something behind the scenes to favor paying players. Who knows.

But because of that trickle, I didn't think I was going to hit my rank target, so I said WTH and went back to scanning my measly bosses that pay out like 2500 or whatever. Better than nothing. Well I did that just five or six times and then went back to my desolate boss queue and now it's like somebody uncorked it because I have a flood of help requests, and quite a few are for big dog bosses with big payouts. Just like that.

Now, much like early humans trying to interpret why things happened in the natural world around them, and making up theories and deities and whatnot, we don't know why things happen behind the scenes at mobage and so we make up all kinds of theories and speculation that may have nothing to do with what's really happening.

But this was a dramatic difference for me just now. My pathetic trickle of wuss bosses became a flood, just like the old days, right after I started scanning my own bosses for a while. Has anyone else noticed this? If your bosses have dried up to a trickle and you're not going to hit your target rank anyway, consider experimenting. Go scan five or six of your own bosses instead of just waiting to help out with other people's. Invest those battle cubes in what seem like bad investments and see if they uncork your help boss flow like mine did.

I could be correlating two unrelated things or making up a silly theory based on a coincidence, or based on some other cause I can't see, but I figure maybe other people can share their own experiences and do their own experiments and let me know. 