Board Thread:Current Episode Discussion/@comment-9890645-20140910233740/@comment-9890645-20140912175542

Benji208 wrote: Can I get some tips? Am brand new - just started an account a few days ago - but I've played games like this and it more or less feels familiar. I signed up just in time to hit a single day's victory in the Co-Op event, so I've got a trans-scanned Scourge reward mostly finished, and the 10x boost event card from the... green thing with the silly name.

I'm currently in the 8k range event rank, level 35ish, 120 battle cubes or so, deck hits about 13k if I choose "recommended".

Questions:

- is there a quicker way to collect credits and feeder cards? It feels like getting even my single event card maxed is taking forever, let alone the cards and credits it took to max Scourge and then trans-scan it.

- I don't plan on spending any money, so what is a reasonable expectation of finishing rank? Can I manage top 5k if I use all my battle cubes? Is getting the alt form of the 10x event boost from the green thing plausible? If I can get it, should I max it and then use both, max it then immediately trans-scan, or trans-scan without maxing?

- ...anything else I should know? This game seems cool and I like the art but it's all a little opaque compared to games similar to it. First off, check my blog posts that CforKat linked to earlier. While the game has changed a lot, much of the content of those posts still applies.

This game is COMPLETELY opaque, and Mobage has given us zero indication that this will change. You'd be right to think this is a horrible way to run a game.

For right now... Allies will help. I'd recommend first coming to chat and meeting up with people there. You want as many big-hitting allies who will take down your bosses for you.

You may also want to restrict your BC/EC spending to recharges until the Level 8 and Level 9 bosses appear, especially if you have under 500 of either. Those levels of bosses give MUCH greater XP for your BC.