Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-72.186.71.135-20130430174909/@comment-8564792-20130502190014

They really ruined this one for us. Normally a FTP game has two simultaneous ways to succeed:

1. Have no life and dedicate inordinate amounts of time to the game.

2. Be rich.

In this case the fact that the first two bosses could always pay out two battle cubes total if you built a strong enough team and dedicated massive amounts of time to the game allowed people of type 1 to have a chance of getting a very high ranking. While type 2 allowed people to use their money to achieve a similar result.

This event they yanked the battle cube from the First Attack bonus for Arcee, the second-tier boss who took over rather early, making it impossible for those of us who went the type 1 route to have any real chance of success. The most we could do for a couple of days was not lose any battle cubes while taking her out. But the number of cubes we were able to amass to head into the later days was paltry.

If they continue down this route (who wants to bet they remove the battle cube from first attack on first-tier bosses next event?), the game will be handed over entirely to the people with crazy money and the rest of us can just go home.