Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-24705123-20140129005312/@comment-24705123-20140130000306

12.153.218.50 wrote: AndRollOut wrote: Actually, cartels mean MORE competition, and more $$ for Mobage, so they'll probably keep the Ally thing. Because the cartels compete with each other more fiercely than individuals compete. If individual (non-cartel aligned) players leave the game, there would still be fierce (more than 100 players) competing for T1, i suspect.

Allies are already useless in 2 out of 3 events (campaign, PVP), let's not make allies completely worthless. The ally community adds largely to the fun. It would appear teams or cartel's have a clear advantage over an individual player. seeds are directed at particular players needing help and could boost them faster than the average joe scanning himself and hitting random seeds. the ally feature has kept me glued to this game for sure, i joined the chat cartel at the end of this event. It helped. I have to agree. Partially since along with Ry, Justin & Stuss, I was one of those that was about to fall out of T1. I don't know how many of the players who were on our tail were part of "teams" such as ours, but I know that, scanning in majority unicron7 down to Galvatron7, not to mention all the other scan items, by myself would not have kept me up. By choosing to hop on chat, I increased my chances of hitting bigger stuff seeded to me. Truthfully, until I was above 90, I didn't even bother scanning. I just watched for seeds. After I made it above 90 for a time, then I did some seeding to help Ry and gave Ry a chance to hit the seeds the chat room was finding.

Nobody says others can't join groups like ours. The bigger we are the more small groups there could be, overlapping teams. Like youngboomski had been stating in chat, the Lvl8s are sent to 9 allies. The ally list need not be long, but the more people you know you can rely on in clutch moments like last night, though epic feeling, you can be brought through.

It also can help in drought moments like Stuss had Monday. I give him a lot of credit for probably sacrificing a lot of his cubes seeding bosses that in turn I wound up sniping. In a drought of seeds, you don't get production.

If others choose not to find groups like wiki, it might be their loss. I don't think it should be banned because of it. After all, mobage encourages it. It is just part of the learning expirience of the game, that if you want go for T1, being part of a system can cheapen some the cost of time & money. When I choose to go for another, I will be happy to rely on and help anyone here in chat.