Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-11710472-20130810005610/@comment-11482499-20130813090757

68.100.207.181 wrote: Unless you have been super lucky by pulling raid cards via episode card draws there is no way you are telling the truth. Run the math and look at the other posts. T2 always takes at least 6M points to safely achieve. There is no way someone can play with the amount of free battle cubes provided and acquire enough points even via sniping and only contributing one cube on 50k bosses to reach the threshold needed ....Heck maybe after 14 events (started Robots in the Sky) I still have not figured out your awesome free strategy. For me the game got old and there is no way a free player will make past T3. Sitting on 80 paid currency credits, >6M in credits, 406 energon refills and 380 in bc, over >1.5k in gold medals, >2k in gold weapons medals (because lets face it having to switch screens to constantly sell got old quick and who wants to dump previously paid and hard earned cards?)  As a thank you to all my former allies I am finishing off their already significantly tackled lvl 8s and then I am done.

I'm another T2-freeplayer commenting. Started with DotD2. Never spent any money until Covert Ops. It's definitely do-able, does take a good chunk of time (not 16 hours a day though), requires good allies. I'm honestly surprised some find it hard. So, let's analyse this rationally.

First off, Mr 68.100.207.181, you say "Run the math" and "T2 always takes 6m to safely achieve". Fair enough. From a cubes-to-points efficiency ratio, I've been getting above 30k per cube so far - and I've been keeping personal daily TFL logs since Heavy Metal War. 6m points divided by 30,000 means it costs "only" 200 cubes to achieve. So we know it takes 200 cubes.

Well, how many cubes does a player earn per event? Well, let's break it down:

1. Hourly regens - I'm awake 17 hours, sleep 7 hours a day. Plus when I wake up I have 3 cubes charged and ready to go. This means I have 20 cubes a day. Events used to be 7 days long (now they're 6, so you do earn less cubes per event), so you'd earn 140 cubes per event (only 120 for 6-day events now)

2. Level up cubes - even using only natural energon and no refills, I level up about twice a day. That's 6 more cubes per day, or 42 cubes per 7-day event (36 cubes per 6-day event)

3. Points rewards - well, if you hit 6m points for T2, you will get 66 battle cubes.

4. ??? boss cube rewards - In the past, I got an average of 30 cubes from ?? level bosses (no more now sadly)

5. Episode signup reward - 16 cubes given to you at the start.

"Do the math", you said. I did. The above adds up to 294 cubes farmed. You spend 200 to reach T2, you profit +94 cubes. Even in today's reality of 6-day events and no ?? bosses, you will farm 238 cubes - still slightly above the 200 cubes.

Not surprisingly, the math is backed up by reality - In past events I farmed 150 cubes per event, because I'm a bit more efficient than the simplistic math above suggests. As a result I'm sitting on 900 cubes now (I bought 150, so really "only" I farmed 750 cubes).

I'm sorry, Mr 68.100.207.181, if your experience does not match mine. But your claim that T2 is impossible for free is false.

Myth busted!