Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-13129747-20131209135629

I've been playing TFL for a while now (I think since the Bee Team episode). The only reason I started is because my son wanted to see what the game was all about. I played for free for several months and then realized if I wanted to get better cards I had to pay for it. Over time I would chip in some money when the rewards were going to make it into my deck and stay there. At this point I was still a T3 player. Then I came here and joined the chat room and started getting better allies and finally pushed into T2 territory for the past several months.

I never had any R5 cards in my deck until I lucked out and got half a Ravage from gold medals and managed to get the other half from farming rubies. Then Mobage came out with Sky Lynx and Elita One. These are the only R5 cards in my deck. The rest are Jazz, Hoist and Rampage (all from campaign events).

I tried to farm as much as possible during previous events and during Raid campaigns would try to chip in to help out the big seeders or snipe to maintain my BC count. The last PVP episode I managed to increase my BC stash to almost 700 (the highest I've ever had). My EC is around 425 (I can't farm that any more because of the latest changes Mobage has made).

I never had the resources to T1 a campaign (either farmed resources or the cash), so I was resolved to be a T2 player. Before Mobage made their changes to the raid events I had planned on farming as much as possible and then trying to make a push to T1 for at least one event in my TFL playing career. I'm not sure that is going to happen now.

The rewards for T2 players have stagnated and it doesn't make sense for me to waste time/resources trying to maintain a T2 finish only to get a card that will be of no use to me. With the huge gap between T2 and T1, there's no way I would pay the amount of money required to climb the ranks to get into T1. With the boss release schedule, I can no longer 1 cube anything after the first 30-45 minutes of playing a campaign, so there is no incentive for me to push to finish any higher than I can while trying to farm.

So it's a chain reaction:

1) The inability to farm and gain rubies means there's no reason to try and save for a pull on an X5 card because I'll never get to 1000 rubies.

2) The X3 cards won't stay in my deck after the event, so why spend the resources trying to upgrade them? (I realized this after upgrading 2 X3 cards for this latest episode only to have the recommend button not even put them into my deck)

3) Even if I scan and hit a boss, the way the power creep is, I can only do 30M damage on a 190M boss, so I seed it and half of the time they time out because nobody wants to waste resources hitting such a small fish (everybody is waiting for the L8's).  If you're going to chip in on a kill, why waste your cube on the little points?

4) Mobage has taken away any incentive for me to even spend money on this game.  I can't and won't spend the hundreds of dollars it requires to get an R5 card because it's the only thing that will make my deck.  I used to be motivated to pay to finish in T2 because I could use the card, but not now.

5) I think I've seen maybe 2 or 3 help requests from allies.  The rest are from unknowns.  I watch the bosses timeout.  If I try and wait for the power left to reach my sniping range, they typically get killed if they don't timeout.  If I'm not certain a boss is going to die, chances are I won't chip in.  If I see an L8 seeded with 10M damage done to it, chances are it won't die.  If the seeder has done 100M damage or more, it's more likely it will be killed.

The "rewards" Mobage has put into place for being a part of killing the 1, 100, 1000, whatever boss aren't worthwhile either. I don't need the transmetal to upgrade cards since I don't get any cards worth upgrading. Right at this moment I have 4 bosses in my queue that will probably timeout (183/221M, 478/557M, 86/253M, 154/174M). All of them escaped as I typed this. None of those were worth chipping in on and since none of them is an ally I'll let them all go.

I'm sure there are a lot of other regular T2 players that are in the same boat. I want to like this game (for the transformers franchise, and partly because of the money I've spent on it), but it's becoming a T1 only game. There will always be players who will pay to be T1, but the group is getting smaller and smaller. I'll login daily to get my bonus and hopefully finish my 2nd Elita One. I'll chip in on ally help requests (if I get any, look at the forum for people complaining about not getting ally requests), and try to keep building resources. But I won't be furiously scanning to try and get to T2 unless changes are made that aren't geared towards a T1 only crowd. Might never happen, but I'll have to wait and see. 