Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-9713390-20130628000009/@comment-11067648-20130628003938

Final Rank: 752

Final Score: Just over 6M

Deck Strength (Pre-event, during, and Post-event): 8.6K / 12.7K / 9.4K (although haven't  MTM'd my loot yet)

Money Spent (Amount and Currency): $0.99

Mobacoins Spent: 100, got Ep Ultra magnus robot.

Medals (Type, Amount, and Draws): Estimate about 1,500-2,000 of each this time, rather than many thousands, because there was no X bosses paying out lots of gold medals. Draws started magnificently - Ep Kup (alt) on first bridge, first 15mins of episode. Then a second Ep Ultra Magnus robot the next day (wished it was the alt, but hey, it still helped the deck). After that, draws were luckless, just an Elite Ironhide robot on final day clearing medals. Weapon draws got junk only.

Liked:  No X bosses - I thought it was good to get back to basics. Expanding the character levels out to 8 was also a good idea and I think well-intentioned by Mobage. Found more good, gracious allies on this forum who were accommodating.

Disliked: Strong bosses very early. The Help system was negatively impacted this time by the combination of people on the same sniping strategy and stronger bosses, which equaled an anaemic help queue for the first 4 days of the event. When galvatron arrived, things loosened up a bit and by the final day it seemed normal again, but the reticence of gamers to spend cubes on anything but the biggest bosses (and fear of imminent X bosses) or seed any bosses (because fear no one would help) really did dry everything up. This needs to be looked at for the future eps and Masa had some good suggestions on another thread about tinkering with the boss reward system so the help system flows again. Also, Mobage can help by communicating pre-episode that X bosses are not coming... how hard is it to write that line in a blog post? Would have encouraged people to go for it earlier. Also - where did the ?? bosses go??

Any other notes/comments:  Frustrating ep but my best finish by miles, so I'm happy. Stopped pushing with 12 hours left and drifted from 492 to 752 (with a few paranoid level 8 kills this morning ;) ) for my first 2nd tier finish.  Using this forum to find good allies is a big plus.  Special thanks to the big guys chucking me a stream of bosses - Zynordar, Oneacemiller, and Freelancer75 (and Hiphotoguy at the end when Mobage sorted that invite out). You guys rock.