Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-67.190.213.217-20130521214926/@comment-9519540-20130522052214

If you use one cube and request help, there's a chance the boss could be dead within a few minutes.

The "penalty" is what is known as opportunity cost. What happens if your other 5 slots are full, and now you won't draw any more bosses for 15 minutes or more? How many opportunities are you missing out on?

So the question is ultimately whether losing a cube is worse than occupying one of your 6 slots with a boss that provides no possibility of yielding any points for 30 minutes?