Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-9524180-20130608013043/@comment-9890645-20130609153427

@BladeRy - You mean "dmg is kinda low to force us to buy a chance at getting x5 and x10 cards." ;)

I agree with a few points and disagree with a few over the last few posts...

- I agree that seven days is a long time for an event. 4 days sounds perfect. Start them on Wednesday or Thursday of each week so they end on Sunday or Monday.

- Something is definitely broken with the help system! Last night, I saw a lot of the L6 bosses with one guy dealing 30-150mil damage, me and a few others in the 6-10mil range, and then 10+ men doing <2mil. If this isn't an error, then there is a clear motivation by Mobage to get us to spend money on cubes, because everyone's going to be either wasting cubes or spending more than 1 cube to drop bosses.

- The problems with low damage absolutely stem from the "no more guarantees" policy on episode cards. I was a solid bet from the last two events to invest in x3 and x5 MTMs and weapons. I bought the first three tiers and epically failed in the guarantee lottery even by drawing x3 Ratbat robot modes in tiers 1 and 3 and getting no other R4s, and I haven't pulled a single R4 character (ep or otherwise) from my episode medals this event. I want to deal more damage, but the Mobage slot machine has put a cap on it, because I am not sure I want to spend $12 on what will likely be 4 R3s and 6 cubes, to have a shot at spending more money and possibly drawing more lemons.

- My policy is to snipe everything that passes me that's in my sniping range (10-11mil for Slugs, 9-10mil for Swoops, deck power 11343), to throw a cube at anything worth 20k points or more, and to see if the rest look like they will fall. With the awkwardness of the help system right now, and the somewhat forced scarcity/random distribution of episode cards, there is no guarantee any boss will fall. For these reasons, as well, I don't put any boss out there that I doubt will fall. Despite having 3.4mil points at around 500 rank, I don't see anything bigger than Swoop 2, and those escape all the time, so I'm pretty much not putting a damned thing out there right now.

- Sniping will forever exist in this game because of the way the system works, despite all Mobage has done to impede it. People will always play min/max games with any game system you can create, and sniping is the ultimate min/max in this game. It does slow the game down and makes it difficult to drop bosses, but I've been visiting this forum since I started during Unleash the Beasts, and everyone's always complained about "no one wants to be second to last guy on a boss." The main difference between now and then is that a higher percentage of players are looking to snipe, which is making it harder for everyone to snipe, unless you hit a jackpot at the Mobage slots.