For some reason, I keep reading Stickywebs as your id. 

 

That's why i said as of right now. I haven't drop still holding my place and been gaining points in a somewhat steady pace.

 

Good luck

 

Nice, I have you on my ally list

Tbh, the rests of the other rewards after swoop ain't good.

 

Seems the push is starting. I am seeing several lvl 6 in my que now.

 

I think its time for me to sit back and watch my rank. I started out with almost 600 cubes just from saving them from past events. Currently at rank 320 with 8 million points. I still have 300 cubes and i think ill save them for future events, i only want to rank between rank 101-1500. As long as im under 1500 ill be happy. If im rank 300 or rank 1400 its the same so id rather save my resources.

 

For having not spent money and for this being my second event (started playing in the middle of the last event and didn't have a good idea what I was doing), is rank 14xxx decent?

I think I'm doing ok, having only recently learned of the infiniplay and sniping concepts and stuff recently (within the last few days).

I see everyone else at top 1500 or so...I have a feeling this game gives a lot of benefit to those who know how to really work the system in the beginning of an event and if you didn't work it right, your screwed pretty much.

 

Rune - very similar to what I have done, I am at 340 with 7.7 million. I still use cubes to tag stuff for TFW icons, but otherwise I'm mostly just sniping and staying pretty steady.

If at this point tomorrow I am still under 400 I'll probably call myself safe and stop entirely until 2-3 hours before the end, when I'll keep an eye on things to make sure something crazy doesn't happen.

With boss health values and the fact that even at my rank I can't spawn Grimlock, much less any level 6 bosses, I just don't see 1100 people managing to gain millions of points and pass me. Hoping to bank 200 cubes for next event, we'll see how it shapes up.

 

That is about where I was for my first event - and that was Fatal Furies right at the start of iOS, so there was less competition. Deck power matters a lot too, I was at 12000 ish for most of the event, then when Mobage gave me free stuff for their crappy bridges and I finally got an MTM ratbat and another Max Ratbat Half, I'm at like 12800 I think.

Event rewards are the quickest way to get power - it took me 3 events before I felt like my deck was ready to compete. First event I got the 3rd from bottom tier of rewards, next 2 events I got the 3rd from top. This time I'll get 2nd place unless something goes crazy today/tomorrow and at the same time my phone dies so I can't even blow cubes to maintain. So you'll get there, just need to get some cards (and the only way to really get good cards is events - both T4s from medals and from rewards).

 

I'm around 550 and thinking the same thing.

 

im 268 and im going to keep doing maintanence to stay here ...im not gonna blow extra cubes but im still gonna hit high bosses and snipe through to the end

 

Well said

 

I don't mind them either honestly. My biggest problem is the massive card inflation occuring. T5's are a lot better than t4's which is fine I suppose however, why STILL give them a 10X? A 5X would have been fine (Which I still think is a bit without the 2X for other cards).

 

loving the low/high level club going on. Sitting at 363 where I've been for most the event.

The boss tier's have been royally mobage'd up; to think there's so many of us in the same bracket not spawning level 6's is ridiculous.

 

i dont even bother spawning anymore this event...im down to like 30 energon refills and like you said ...i cant spawn anything that will help people here

btw i like the new replacement for f'ed up lmao

 

As of now, 30.3m is the cutoff for top-100. Right now I'm at 24th with 43m, hopefully that'll be enough to secure top-100 as I'm planning on taking a long break between now and tomorrow night.

Somewhere along the way (around 35mil maybe?), I received a complete Ratbat (x3) set as part of my rewards. Did anybody else get those?

Had a bit of luck drawing some T4's out of the space bridge last night. Completed my Optimus, got a complete Prowl, Jazz & Metroplex set, an Arcee (bot) and a Ramjet (x5, bot). Going to keep trying for that Ramjet alt mode.

 

yeah its mobage trying to keep customers happy who bought into the tier bs.... i got it too

 

I can't believe this is happening again...

... so I complained how just shortly after the start of Cold Delivery and purchase of some more Mobacoins my game went bonkers and would not start "SD card full/inaccessible". Took three reinstalls and deletions of Mobage files from the phone.

Just minutes ago I was playing the game, suddenly it restarted and after the screen with "getting new content" it went bonkers again, saying the same error. The timing is perfect - the event is coming to an end and I need to maintain my position within 1500 to get Swoop. What fantastic timing!
One second you play the game, and then it's dead. Aaaaargh.

 

If anyone is getting high level bosses feel free to add me i need to make up some points

 

Must have missed this post from butch overnight or something, but I mostly agree with this post also.

My problem with Mobage isn't the bridge specifically. I think my deck power with no event cards was like 11200 or something, and I spent most of the event at like 12500 with the event cards I managed to get (half ramjet, half ratbat, plus the points ratbat).

I know there are guys that have been playing since release that could get to 12500 without any event cards (my autobot deck power will be there after this event I'm pretty sure). And with that deck power, I'm feeling pretty comfortable in the 2nd tier of rewards, because of the power of my allies list (thanks guys!) and sniping during the day since I work from home.

So I could probably go through the rest of the events until I quit the game in however long placing 2nd tier without a lot of effort.

So, from that perspective, it was definitely the fact that it was not 100% clearly labeled (after being essentially the same for the past 2 events, just slightly different costs and # of free cubes) that is the problem.

In an ideal world though, I don't think this new bridge is very good either. It might just be that it costs too much, or it might be that event bonuses need to be removed entirely.

Some examples, just random musings:

We were all speculating about the Ironhide T5 card with the 20 tiers of bridges that was in the temporary page. If they went with a system like that, but every tier for 20 tiers was $3, then at least $60 in I know I'm getting that T5 card. With the current system, you could spend $500 and not even get half. Random has an implication of fairness, but human psychology is also such that when I see how lucky Oblagon got, I'm more inclined to feel that I was cheated than that he was lucky. Just the way it is, and it will scare a lot of people away.

Consider also the 10x bonus from Shockwave. Without it, he is still a pretty beastly card, and with his weapon for points you know you'll be able to get his weapon, which increases his value even further over random T4 bridge pulls. It would also balances the playfield even more between people that play for a long time and gather event cards slowly and people that buy in. But because he is a 10x, I didn't even bother going for top 100 this time. I feel pretty confident that if I scroll through the entire top 100 and look at their leader card, they all have at least half of a Shockwave. Which means that with the current system, if you don't buy in, the best you can hope to achieve is 2nd tier.

Combine those two things, and you have the possibility of spending $500 and still not being able to get into the top 100 (ignoring for a moment that you could have gotten 2500 battle cubes for that money instead, which probably could get you into the top 100 even with a deck power like mine). I think that is too much stick and not enough carrot. There needs to be some middle ground.

I could offer up some suggestions but posting them here is probably likely to get agreement but not affect anything, so why bother