Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-99.247.42.132-20130818010142/@comment-9200727-20130820112443

GoDofcyanide wrote: Why are we handwaving the blatant misleading of players, though?

If I'm around the "recommended" DP, I wouldn't mind if I had to two-cube the occasional wave. Three-cubing is a good expectation for those seeking to profit off the game. However, at some point, the game has to meet player expectations, and this failure is one in a long string of failures to meet player expectations that have driven free to high-paying players away from the game. It's the polar opposite of what this kind of game should do!

And, yes, now 3 Hotspot leaders. What Decepticons should I be running with 4 Autobot raid cards and 3 Autobot R5? The raid cards being Autobots, in particular, is another player expectation that is not met. It's a Decepticon bonus event, yet we are effectively encouraged to run Autobot cards by making them 5x raids. No faction bonus beats 5x Attack in terms of damage dealt per cube, and doubly so when that 5x Attack is attached to Hotspot's insane Health and Defense. I feel ya. The Autobot raid cards are more easily accessible than the Decepticon counterparts which inevitably makes them weaker cards overall (dev point of view). Additionally, only Decepticon cards receive the Faction Bonus as you mentioned. I assume that they are trying to use these type events just to get "good" cards to the lower tier players in an inexpensive manner, relatively speaking.

I don't have a solution for the game state. Mobage doesn't have an open line of communication with the players.