Board Thread:Event archives/@comment-10782738-20131106001024/@comment-9890645-20131106045245

Final Rank: 22 skidoo

Final Score: a touch over 45 million

Deck Power (Pre/Begining/End/Post): 18487 / 31973 / 18999

Money Spent (and currency): $170

Coins Spent: 2950: 2 loops and 2 tiers of character bridge (I had originally planned on buying just the first two tiers - see medal pulls); 100: 1 weapon tier (Highbrow); 15100: CUBEZ.

Battle Cubes: 1300 is not a bad estimate.

Energon Cubes: Lost too many.

Ruby Pulls: Didn't really keep track, but between tiers, medals and rubies I could have MTMed a team of Highbrow. Pulled 26x on the Hardhead bridge at end of ep. 13 of them got Ghost pieces to L60 and 5 Highbrow got MT Ghost to L79. ;)

Medals: x9 alt, x8 bot, four x5, three x3. Usual ton of R4 I foddered or sold. Pulling the x9 alt sent me to the end of the second loop; I went the extra two tiers at the end trying to MTM the x8. Heartily foiled both there and in weapons medals, as I pulled no episode weapons despite pulling every weapon medal I earned. Enjoyed some fun during the medal glitch and blew all my ally points. ;)

Liked: Starscream's Ghost. Many new allies. The chat, of course. Congrats to our own HCDMC who scanned the first Starscream's Ghost!

Disliked: Not a fan of this implementation of cogs - particularly the EXTREME cost in acquiring enough to be useful. Would be nice to have a way to convert L1 to L2 etc., vice versa, whatever, even if it took cogs to do. Crap T2 reward was undeserved, and his weapon, WTF, Mobage, why are you insulting T2 players?

DAT LAG was so bad ass this episode that it deserves its own paragraph. If I didn't restart the app every ten minutes or so, it crashed. It made me want to quit TFL and burned me right out on playing. I considered aborting mission multiple times just to not deal with it, and I gave up trying to play my alt this episode. Which brings me to a classic Mobadouche move: announce new daily prize on day 2 of the month and have day 30, the last day, be the crucial day to hit. I didn't log in with my alt on Nov. 1 and got burned. Anyway, I think what pissed me off most about the lag was that it seemed to only affect iOS users. I was effectively playing with only one finger. (One of the factors that enables me to play at a high level is that I play on an iPad with both hands and multiple fingers to be faster.)

Other: Congratulations and a huge thank you to all my allies for all they did this episode. Love you all. Keep on rocking!