Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-9713390-20130614000458/@comment-11067648-20130620235838

Lot of talk about the use of X1s and X2s this time and yeah while they do certainly help the newer players I found they acted negatively in a couple of ways. Firstly, no one would hit anything else while the X1s and X2s were loose - meaning anyone requesting help on other bots was gonna be left stranded most of the time. (Which goes against the spirit of the game IMHO).

Secondly I actually found that having invested a bit of time in days 1 & 2 before the X1/2s arrived put me in good stead when they did turn up - because everyone was hitting the X1s and 2s, everyone was floating up in points but not necessarily ranks. ie. sitting at around 1700 at end of day 2, hitting the X1s/2s just kept me there - no forwards or back, just maintained. If I had waited till later to join the fight it would have needed some pretty hardcore play time to move forward when everyone else was too on the same bosses.

I think the X1/2s are Mobage's answer to cube farming. They look across the network, see a certain level of cubes out there, and the X1/2s were out there to get total cube levels down to a lower number. I suspect they will be deployed again in future events when they see cube numbers getting high.