Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-9488559-20130524000230/@comment-9234979-20130524035656

Finishing Rank: Low 6000s Finishing Points: 1 million and peanuts I think

Deck Strength (start and end event): Started something mid 6000s, ended 7398.

Cash Spent: $0, and zero MobaCoins either. I only have 100 left from the freebies I've gotten for downloading all those other crap games. Spent most of those on cubes towards the end of the prior event. Wish I'd saved them for x5s.

What you did enjoy: Now that I've finally learned the ropes since my start during Furies, and now that I've finally built up a deck that can do moderate damage, I enjoyed getting to have a good crack at bigger and tougher bosses and being able to snipe more of them. It was so nice to be dealing in Level 6s there in the final stretch and reaping huge bounties just by making my modest contributions.

It was fun trying to guess which bosses would get finished and which wouldn't, fun to try to time snipes, frustratingly fun to watch a ripe one slip through your fingers at the last microsecond, and heartbreaking to watch your invested cube die on the vine because MOTHERSCRATCHERS WON'T HELP YOU OUT! Come on, guys, help a ninja out over here! I've cursed you all out, by the way, even though only 20-something of you deserved it at any given time.

Also it was nice that they let you use more raw material cards in a single upgrade transaction this time. They raised the limit with this episode, which was a nice time saver. Can't remember if transmetals debuted this time or last time, but those are nice and handy for faster upgrading. It takes forever to level up an R4 with cards alone.

What you didn't enjoy: It's sucking the life out of me. Spam spam spam, lurk lurk lurk, snipe snipe snipe, bridge bridge bridge, sell sell sell, upgrade upgrade upgrade, tweak tweak tweak, spam spam spam... Where has my week gone? Seriously. This is worse than my internet addictions. I fall asleep playing it and I start burning those free battle cubes literally before I've even opened both eyes in the morning, much less gotten out of bed. I start to wonder what the point of it is. Gotta level up so I can do better in episodes so I can get stronger cards that I can level up to do better in episodes so I can... AAAH! Still, it's fun. And nostalgic. And free.

Lag is sucking hard. Results in plenty of mis-taps and missed snipes. Kept having to restart for just a short reprieve each time.

I love that I get access to helping out with other people's big fat bosses towards the end of the episode, but I never draw bosses with worthwhile bounties in my own exploring at that point. In a scarce cube situation in the final couple of days, I have to be strategic and efficient about what bosses I spend them on, and there is a minimum bounty threshold below which I will not bother unless I can one-cube finish and recoup my cube. But the bosses I'm able to bump into and start on my own are always below that threshold, yet too high to one-cube, so I wind up just bailing on them once I see they're not a ???-level boss and they just sit there and clog up my help queue with their measly bounties. I'm not going to touch them after that so it's just a waste.

PVP battles are basically a thing of the past for me now and seem kind of useless. The rewards don't seem worth the time investment and there's so little time between episodes now anyway. You're not going to spend cubes on that during an episode either, so I only PVP if I bump into one while out scanning. Late in an episode, I don't even accept those because I'm just trying to level up and don't want to waste the time. PVP seems about as useful as bronze medals at this point.

Which brings me to bronze medals. Useless clutter that accumulates in single digits very slowly. More trouble than it's worth to even cash them in.

That reminds me that Allies seems like a useless function now too. My Allies don't even know I've cheered them and all I get out of cheering once per day is a few crap ass scrub bots. Not a useful function after very early in one's Legends career. Unless I'm missing something, there's no appreciable point to having Allies.

How you fared with space bridge returns from gold/silver medals: All crap. The best I got out of hundreds and hundreds of golds was a few top R3s I already had like Optimus, Grimlock, and Megatron. Otherwise just clutter and fodder. And silver is even worse. Weapons: also crap. A few things I already had multiples of like Optimus's weapon, Megatron's, or Wheeljack's.

I'm sitting on tons of medals because they're just a pain in the ass to even process or sell. I'll slog through them once I've spent these latest transmetals but oy, it's going to take forever. Still, it's free upgrade fuel and green points that would otherwise take forever to accumulate via spamsploring. So it's a good thing, if tedious.