Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-12362668-20131015235656/@comment-9890645-20131016131833

Info after slashes is for my alt account...

Final Rank: 49 / 12654

Final Score: 7,172,099 / 13,257

Deck Power (Pre/Begining/End/Post): Main ~17.5k all episode. / Alt made it to 11k by end of ep.

Money Spent (and currency): $20. I had leftover coins. / $0

Coins Spent: 400: Two character tiers, got crap; 1000: Three weapons tiers, no Acid Storm weapon, AKA crap; 2500: Acid Storm pack since I am a fanboy and all other avenues denied me; 2k-ish: However much all those "cheap" packs were. / 0

Battle Cubes: I think I used around 300; I have 90 left. / I think I came out neutral.

Energon Cubes: None! / Spent about 10.

Medals: One of each bot from golds. I pulled an endless string of Acid Storm bots from rubies, then closed on 20/31 Whirl alts. / Acid Storm alt from golds, consistent MTMable Whirls on rubies - five of them! Unfortunately I only have the resources to MTM one. :(

Highest Streak: 60, twice / 11 in Corporal

Liked: Can sleepwalk to T1 finish AND Hound is a beast. Stable PVP mechanics from start to finish. PVP seems like the TFL loyalty reward program for its T1 players. / Transmetals as prizes.

Disliked: Where to begin! No Razorclaw fix. No MTM stats for prizes. Inability to gain weapon medals past Sergeant level meant mandatory trips to tiers for weapons, and weapon tiers are pricey. Not so cheap "cheap" BC. The "opponent loop" of über decks that popped up whenever rubies or big transmetal were on the line. The seeming change in mechanics that made it impossible for me to two-cube beyond win 60 despite facing the same exact decks. Master Corporal will probably be a 1.08x bonus - the slow rollout of the ranks also stinks. / Going up ranks is a sucker's bet. Every time I advanced a rank, I had to claw and scratch for even a single win for days after - meaning little advancement was possible. It's very difficult as a free player to advance your deck in any meaningful way without putting in months of work, and doubly so if it's your second deck. No weapons medals and light distribution of gold character medals make upgrading your deck in a meaningful way nearly impossible.

Other: I found two old screen captures that tell two stories about TFL... The first was my 113xx DP deck from right before my first T1 finish, which made me realize that my alt deck, even with dedication to the account, would require hundreds of dollars in product to compete for T2, let alone T1, in the current system. The second was from the prior PVP episode, where I screencapped a deck of 9 MTM Grimlock. The deck owner? The same guy who pulled the Bumblebee ruby exploit that got it shut down.

PVP is a snooze - for the right reasons for my main account and the wrong reasons for my alt.