The Energon Pub

by **Whitestorm** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 5:36 pm

My top bot got to L1 today. I was very excited and put him in one of the new missions i saw L1-8. He got wasted in 1 hit! OK, i see my logic was flawed. I thought all i needed was 1 hit and i would have been quids in! Making that hit is another matter, lol Not going to try that again soon! :grin:

Several missions later and i find my new L1 bot is up against other L1 bots who have 250-350,000 experience and shed loads of upgrades! I was so proud to make L1 in a week, but my best bot isnt doing as well as he was with no experience! I can see how and why a commander would do this to his troops, just wanted to know if it was kosher or not?
Cheers.

by **Tammuz** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 5:45 pm

the official line has been "if the game lets you do it, it is not cheating"

i don't think it's particularily sporting.

by **Ouroboros** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 5:45 pm

simple tip, save some xp for the road ahead.

If you give us a link to your character that would be helpful, or tell us his max xp, either will do.

Personally, I waited until I had 2 points in robot mode before upgrading. As the cap is 40,000 xp, I saved my guys up to 21,000 xp before making the jump, and they don't do brilliantly, but they're not getting hammered.

Jump back down to lvl 0 and gain more xp first, that's my solution.

Side note: 21,000 xp is about the same as 3 upgrades in 1 class, 1 upgrade in another class, and 1 upgrade in tactics (worth 1,000 xp), as well as 2 upgrades in robot mode.

News Credits: 3 · by **DISCHARGE** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 5:45 pm

Sometimes it's better to get a few more points to upgrade before you actually level up. Plus at lvl 0 you don't spend any energon in the cr chamber

by **Netminder** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 5:53 pm

I agree with the other posters who say wait until you have enough exp for several upgrades. It's much less painful.

by **Whitestorm** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 5:55 pm

Thanks guys. I hit 10k and upgraded right away! I didnt know that i wasnt spending energon for cr but that explains why i have almost 50,000 and nothing to spend it on!
I take it the advice is to stay at the lower level until you have to go up?

by **Tammuz** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 6:10 pm

No, it's advised that you stay in a level until you can afford to maintain that bot at the next level.

found an old post about "level bullying/overamping/leveling up"

tammuz wrote:
strategically level bullying does have short term advantages, but in the long term you want to increase your level as fast as possible, staying at a lower level for a prolonged time slows your xp intake. a level 3 needs to kill 4 level ones to make the same xp as killing a level 3, or doing half damage to a level 4.

energon wise level bullying akes alot of sense, but tapping one of your richer mates is usually better for this anyway.

News Credits: 7 · by **Chaoslock** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 8:24 am

Level Bullying was only fun when the quintessons was here, and you could take in 8-10,000 Xp for one mission on lv.1 (well, that probably wasn't level bullying, since the enemy was lv.6-8 ).

by **Ouroboros** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 10:52 am

Chaoslock wrote:Level Bullying was only fun when the quintessons was here, and you could take in 8-10,000 Xp for one mission on lv.1 (well, that probably wasn't level bullying, since the enemy was lv.6-8 ).

Good times, that was my primary xp income at the start.

Now I have to do it the lame way like everyone else!