The Energon Pub

News Credits: 1 · by **Absolute Zero** » Tue Sep 06, 2016 5:22 pm

Kurona wrote:I really don't get how sending in teams of 4 works. Like, you're still using up the same amount of fuel cells so you're still getting the same amount of points; just over a different amount of time. If it's at the end of the event and you quickly have to use up all your fuel cells then yeah sure, but if you're still using up all 50 then sending in teams of four makes absolutely zero difference. Hell, you'd be sending them into lower level zones so you'd get even less points than if you'd just waited. Logistically and mathematically it just doesn't make a lick of sense to me.

Sending out a team of four will usually put you in a zone where you can score 2/3rds of your full teams potential score. It you mash up your bots, with one dude from team 1 and then 1 from team 2 and 1 from team 3, you can add a bot to level up and get 40 (as opposed to 60) and then do the next team and do the same. If your teams fight in multiple zones, this levels them out a bit and you still score more with your fuel than you would just doing three then waiting for recharge. Once fuel is out, if you're still playing you just deploy your best team every 20 minutes. But you score at least 30% more per 10 deployments than you would with full teams this way.

News Credits: 90 · by **Tyrannacon** » Tue Sep 06, 2016 5:23 pm

King Kuuga wrote:This website's name (and subsequently our alliance name) is pronounced SAY-ber-tron. FYI.

Time for business. Seibertron Decepticons, we're starting boot camp! Too many bases have underleveled defenses and that's just not going to fly if we want to seriously compete. We need everybody at their best, and to that end we're requiring that all defenses be maxed out before HQ upgrade. You've got a little slack on walls because they're expensive, but don't let them get more than 4 levels behind. We will be performing weekly base inspections starting on Saturday. We will be messaging everybody who needs to improve their defenses so that you can get started on that, just as a friendly heads-up. If we haven't seen any improvement after one week, you'll get a warning. Two weeks with no improvement, you get kicked. We understand that it can feel like an uphill battle to upgrade all your defenses if you're 3 or 4 upgrades behind, and we don't want it to seem like you have to max everything from there in one week or you're out, we just want to see good progress towards our requirement. The biggest takeaway from this should be no upgrading your HQ to the next level until all your other defenses are maxed out. We appreciate your understanding and look forward to your first base inspections!

And CtrlFrequency is absolutely adorable.

Roger roger.

And she is.

Burn wrote:You upgrade to HQ12? Guess what, you're gonna have a real hard time upgrading any of your defences after that because of the cost. You need to have your storage fully upgraded.

If you're going to upgrade your storage, you may as well upgrade everything else. Including walls AND stasis mines. You really shouldn't underestimate walls and stasis mines.

Whenever I upgrade, and I'm putting this out there for others to maybe help them, is I do HQ first of course -> Production -> Storage (alternating between the two until all of it that is finished). Production and storage are basically the key to having a higher everything as much as possible, so they get the upgrades first before I start on anything else. After that, I hop between walls, turrets, and lastly mines. If it is a drastic upgrade (gives you more power basically) I make it a priority. I know with my stasis mines this time the higher value is negligible at the most. Like 3 second to 3.25 seconds. To me that's not worth pouring resources in until all my other stuff is taken care of. I do try to think tactically in this as much as possible.

News Credits: 3 · by **ctrlFrequency** » Tue Sep 06, 2016 5:27 pm

Kurthy mentioned the radius of the mines increases as they upgrade, which makes it worthwhile in itself

Like BDizz76 on Facebook · by **BDizz76** » Tue Sep 06, 2016 5:29 pm

ctrlFrequency wrote:Kurthy mentioned the radius of the mines increases as they upgrade, which makes it worthwhile in itself

Has that been confirmed? The radius on mine still look as small as they were at lvl1

News Credits: 3 · by **ctrlFrequency** » Tue Sep 06, 2016 5:33 pm

Maybe Burn knows. But I never compared to know

News Credits: 1 · by **Absolute Zero** » Tue Sep 06, 2016 5:50 pm

The radius does seem to expand, but it's not by a huge amount. If you can drop a new one, or when you can, compare it's radius to the radius of one you have leveled up. The leveled one should have a noticable difference.

News Credits: 1 · by **Absolute Zero** » Tue Sep 06, 2016 5:59 pm

Double posting.

Also, I can't remember if it was here or on line, but someone said that the events are draining the p2p guys and eventually it'll only be f2p guys in the game, and the game will die. I don't think that's true. I love me some f2p games. I play them on console all the time. Warframe is amazing. You know what though? I still give them money. Not because I need to get the stuff they're selling for an advantange, but because they're selling stuff that, while I can unlock it in the game, I have terrible luck farming (I've gotten the same items repeatedly while friends I am playing with have collected the parts to complete new warframes for instance). Plus, the game has a trading system, so you can trade stuff among players and use the cash currency as a trade currency. It's just a really well done system. Nothing you buy gives you an advantage, and some of it is cosmetic. All of it is available through in game means. If all the p2p people leave TEW, then hopefully they'll over haul their shop system so it's worth while to buy stuff. 20$ for a chance at a 2 star character is absolutely the opposite of a good deal.

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Tue Sep 06, 2016 6:03 pm

I can't say I've looked at the radius of the mines, but the time increases with each level (something they changed a few weeks back)

News Credits: 4 · by **King Kuuga** » Tue Sep 06, 2016 7:39 pm

Feels like I'm the only one here who
*runs 4 teams (sometimes) to avoid cooldown
*evenly divides my teams so they're roughly the same power

Then again my guys are level 30 max so I don't have 30-40 minute cooldowns yet.

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Tue Sep 06, 2016 9:13 pm

I can see no difference (about 1.5 squares) between a level 5 stasis mine and a level 8.

News Credits: 3 · by **ctrlFrequency** » Tue Sep 06, 2016 9:16 pm

Well... I guess that settles that. They don'the appear to increase in radius.

Like BDizz76 on Facebook · by **BDizz76** » Tue Sep 06, 2016 9:17 pm

ctrlFrequency wrote:Well... I guess that settles that. They don'the appear to increase in radius.

On the next episode of Mythbusters.....

News Credits: 3 · by **ctrlFrequency** » Tue Sep 06, 2016 9:20 pm

Mythbusters is a great show! Science... AND explosions.

EXPLOSIONS!

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Tue Sep 06, 2016 9:39 pm

ctrlFrequency wrote:Mythbusters is a great show! Science... AND explosions.

EXPLOSIONS!

Ah, Other people who appreciate that show. I love it so much.

Now back to your regularly scheduled gaming schedule

News Credits: 3 · by **ctrlFrequency** » Tue Sep 06, 2016 9:42 pm

D-Max! I should have known that would bring you out of hiding!

You should play Earth Wars... and play Cons... because we're so cool (and the Seibertron Autobot alliance is dead)

News Credits: 41 · by **Cobotron** » Tue Sep 06, 2016 9:46 pm

ctrlFrequency wrote:(and the Seibertron Autobot alliance is dead)

It would have lived if Game Ape would have helped me recover my lost game. [-(

Glad you all are still at it though. ;)^

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Tue Sep 06, 2016 9:47 pm

ctrlFrequency wrote:D-Max! I should have known that would bring you out of hiding!

You should play Earth Wars... and play Cons... because we're so cool (and the Seibertron Autobot alliance is dead)

I would gladly play, but I don't do mobile games or anything like that

News Credits: 3 · by **ctrlFrequency** » Tue Sep 06, 2016 9:52 pm

Cobotron wrote:
ctrlFrequency wrote:(and the Seibertron Autobot alliance is dead)
It would have lived if Game Ape would have helped me recover my lost game.
Glad you all are still at it though.

It's too bad they had to be jerks and not help

We have considered taking the Bot alliance by force and overthrow the current government (well I have at least)

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:
ctrlFrequency wrote:D-Max! I should have known that would bring you out of hiding!

You should play Earth Wars... and play Cons... because we're so cool (and the Seibertron Autobot alliance is dead)

I would gladly play, but I don't do mobile games or anything like that

So what do you do?

*wanders off humming Adam Ant

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Tue Sep 06, 2016 9:55 pm

ctrlFrequency wrote:
D-Maximus_Primal wrote:
ctrlFrequency wrote:D-Max! I should have known that would bring you out of hiding!

You should play Earth Wars... and play Cons... because we're so cool (and the Seibertron Autobot alliance is dead)

I would gladly play, but I don't do mobile games or anything like that

So what do you do?

*wanders off humming Adam Ant

School work mostly. Not really much for games. About as close as I get is my PS2 at home

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Tue Sep 06, 2016 9:57 pm

Cobotron wrote:
ctrlFrequency wrote:(and the Seibertron Autobot alliance is dead)
It would have lived if Game Ape would have helped me recover my lost game.
Glad you all are still at it though.

Maybe try Space Ape? :-P

Or you know ... start over. AZ over there started with a fresh 'Con account a couple of weeks ago.

News Credits: 3 · by **ctrlFrequency** » Tue Sep 06, 2016 9:58 pm

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:
ctrlFrequency wrote:
D-Maximus_Primal wrote:I would gladly play, but I don't do mobile games or anything like that

So what do you do?

*wanders off humming Adam Ant

School work mostly. Not really much for games. About as close as I get is my PS2 at home

Burn wrote:
Cobotron wrote:
ctrlFrequency wrote:(and the Seibertron Autobot alliance is dead)
It would have lived if Game Ape would have helped me recover my lost game.
Glad you all are still at it though.

Maybe try Space Ape?

Or you know ... start over. AZ over there started with a fresh 'Con account a couple of weeks ago.

As a Con. You should come to the Cons. We have cookies and all ... some might not be poisoned!

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Tue Sep 06, 2016 10:03 pm

ctrlFrequency wrote:
D-Maximus_Primal wrote:
ctrlFrequency wrote:
D-Maximus_Primal wrote:I would gladly play, but I don't do mobile games or anything like that

So what do you do?

*wanders off humming Adam Ant

School work mostly. Not really much for games. About as close as I get is my PS2 at home

Yeah, but maybe I'll give it a whirl soon. I'm hopefully getting a new phone this coming weekend so maybe I'll download it

News Credits: 3 · by **ctrlFrequency** » Tue Sep 06, 2016 10:06 pm

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:
ctrlFrequency wrote:
D-Maximus_Primal wrote:
ctrlFrequency wrote:
D-Maximus_Primal wrote:I would gladly play, but I don't do mobile games or anything like that

So what do you do?

*wanders off humming Adam Ant

School work mostly. Not really much for games. About as close as I get is my PS2 at home

Yeah, but maybe I'll give it a whirl soon. I'm hopefully getting a new phone this coming weekend so maybe I'll download it

Yay!