Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-10947222-20130616225238/@comment-10214922-20130618092009

Timewaster2901 wrote: I thought I would add my voice to the choir on this event.

I am sitting at 1067 place and I have seen no more than five level 6 help requests this event. My ally list has a fair amount of big dogs. Do you guys think it is more of a function of the help request system or lack of requests from the top 250 players?

I have been lucky (but time consuming) to have level 1-5 ratchet help requests getting sent to keep me going. It is brutal down here, Ironhide 1's are timing out even when started off with 25M hit off the bat.

I was planning on getting a big enough cushion to hold on the last 3 hours of the event, as I will be unable to play. Given that the game play so slow now, I am afraid it could be a quick drop of 400+ spots on Thursday if I am not making any kills. I guess could have my 6 year old fill in and burn blindly through my battle cube stash :)

At least I just got to see an Ironhide x1 go down. Hey bro, there aren't as many big dogs out there as most people have put the brakes on their cash spend in this game. There are less big hitters and a lot more people playing.

When I tried my first event (Beasts) I started at about rank 40,000. Last event there were over 100,000 players and this event about 75,000. I checked this by getting my wife to join the event later on and see where she ranks after the token kill. The help requests are therefore getting sent out to a random mix of more of these players, that is why bosses aren't going down, and also the reason why you are less likely to get L6s either as a random request or an ally request (depends whether your big hitting allies are online at the same time as you too).

Also, the top 20 players are probably able to 3 or 2 cube all the bosses they encounter due to packing their decks with X10 cards, so they don't see the need to share any help requests. This strategy I think of as 'point starvation', creating a bigger lead as they are the only ones mining MVP points. All the players saving cubes to get in on the big action are getting left at the bus stop because Bill Gates has chartered the bus for an express ride to the top 10.