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News Credits: 4 · by **King Kuuga** » Thu Sep 01, 2016 12:09 am

Friendly reminder: a good chunk of these comments are showing up under the post that Burn newsed and the front page doesn't have a profanity filter installed.

Maybe we could steer things back towards the game itself, the pros and cons of the event, rather than bickering over departed members and making ourselves look bad to anybody who pokes their head in from the front page.

Yes, it does suck that only the top 80 alliances (roughly 320 players) are going to get 3*/4* Magnus or Galvy. But we already knew that the system for getting characters even above 1* was crap. You have a decent chance at a 2* from the free crystals, low chance of 3*, and practically nill chance of a 4*. Why? Because they want you to pay for those characters. They hook you with easy low level free play and then make it so you almost have to fork over real money once you've invested a lot of time and gotten interested in the game. At the end of the day, it's a game that's stacked to favor those who invest more money but you can get plenty of free entertainment out of it as well. Maybe you hit a glass ceiling in leveling up. So just keep attacking bases at a comfortable level and enjoy the new bots. Enjoy the game for what it's good at.

Also:

Burn wrote:My HQ is now level 13. Know how much upgrades cost? At least one resource (either energon or alloy) is near, or in excess of 2 million.

The only way to get that is to hit higher and higher zones.

This is not actually true. You could certainly get the necessary resources from your harvesters and hitting whatever zone you're comfortable in. It would take longer but it is, technically, possible.

News Credits: 3 · by **ctrlFrequency** » Thu Sep 01, 2016 12:25 am

Leave it to Bot to be level headed.

News Credits: 1 · by **Absolute Zero** » Thu Sep 01, 2016 12:26 am

I apologize for language.

I apologize to you Burn for upsetting you. I feel bad about that. It was not my intention, and I am not upset about Sid or anyone leaving. If they feel they need to, then that's their right.

News Credits: 8 · by **LiKwid** » Thu Sep 01, 2016 12:38 am

I go where I'm needed. Going seibs 2 showed me 1 thing. I need to improve. As long as it's allowed I will jump from alliance 1 to 2 if I'm needed. As long as Seibertron is winning, we all win. I felt like I was doing more harm than good in the gold wars barely managing 15 pts. I jump to seibs 2 and I'm reaching commanders and I feel like I'm contributing.

1 thing that is gonna kill this game is the rng. I have 2 3* characters and both times I've gotten a 3 star crystal I have gotten duplicates of those characters. In today's age that is gonna drive alot of potential players away. A smaller player base translates into mayhem attack squad being the only achive team.

So many little things bother me about this game but it's so much fun that I overlook them for now but down the road this games legs are gonna fall off. The wandering bot syndrome has to be addressed as well as the brackets for pvp attacks. I went into a 3000 match and the guy had level 1 mortars, no beam and 3k of each resource. Smells like pay to win is rearing its,ugly head.

News Credits: 3 · by **ctrlFrequency** » Thu Sep 01, 2016 12:45 am

Sin... AZ, Dizz, and I were discussing certain members of Seibs II (those of a certain level and track record) bouncing up to the main alliance for events.

Basically, we figure you and a few others would benefit more being with the main alliance for events. Seibs II isn't likely to do well in events regardless of who is there, at least at this point.

News Credits: 1 · by **Absolute Zero** » Thu Sep 01, 2016 1:07 am

LiKwid wrote:I go where I'm needed. Going seibs 2 showed me 1 thing. I need to improve. As long as it's allowed I will jump from alliance 1 to 2 if I'm needed. As long as Seibertron is winning, we all win. I felt like I was doing more harm than good in the gold wars barely managing 15 pts. I jump to seibs 2 and I'm reaching commanders and I feel like I'm contributing.

1 thing that is gonna kill this game is the rng. I have 2 3* characters and both times I've gotten a 3 star crystal I have gotten duplicates of those characters. In today's age that is gonna drive alot of potential players away. A smaller player base translates into mayhem attack squad being the only achive team.

So many little things bother me about this game but it's so much fun that I overlook them for now but down the road this games legs are gonna fall off. The wandering bot syndrome has to be addressed as well as the brackets for pvp attacks. I went into a 3000 match and the guy had level 1 mortars, no beam and 3k of each resource. Smells like pay to win is rearing its,ugly head.

The RNG does leave a lot to be desired.

The 3k match seems to be a side effect of when they changed the zones. I don't know if it's a pay to win thing, but those under powered bases also are not awarding medals. It's been rare to get more than a handful from a win, but the ease of getting resources is nice.

News Credits: 3 · by **ctrlFrequency** » Thu Sep 01, 2016 1:20 am

On an unrelated note, I had typed up something to post bit ended up editing it out... so I will post it now.

Seibertron is an awesome alliance. I get to see a lot more than most people do since i'm one of the few privy to both the command and the member side of the alliance.

AZ and Dizz have stepped up and have worked so very hard make this alliance better. The amount of time they both spend working on both alliances (they run circles around me) is tremendous.

Dizz plays 'Bad Cop' so I don't have to in Seibs II as well as Main (he kicks everyone needing to be kicked :-P

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AZ stepped up to be the commander, even though he wasn't sure he could at first.

We email constantly... and now Line chat... and never once have they teased me about my "reply all" button location problem... and consantly talk, plan, and work out details in game.

We have Bot to be the level headed voice of reason (He would be our compass in the storm).

And of course, Burn, our roadblock base.

There's an entire list of people who deserve praise. I don't want to leave anyone out, but Kurthy, Kurona, Galaxy, Nano, Arlo, SiameseDream, all do amazing jobs pulling in the points. We'very had so many go to help out Seibs II as well.

I really hate listing people because I always forget someone (we love you Shaun... even on vacation you've pulled your weight!) but I have really seen a lot of hard work.

We reorganized the entire alliance, and AZ and Dizz really came through on it. They've done a lot more than most people can see. So you have to understand why there's an emotional charge to this, there's been a lot of work to try to get us to the point where people are clamoring to get to us because we are a high performance alliance. We want to be able to hit Cybertronian League and finish way more than 10 prestige in an event.. or hit the top tier prizes.

We want to so it with you guys and ladies.

But I want to thank everyone, especially AZ, Dizz, and Bot.

The big alliances have started pulling in smaller ones and reorganizing them under the banner of 'so and so' family. I still haven't decided if this is good or bad... but I do know it makes it harder to find new members. That's why it is important to us to be able to offer gold/platinum league wars and top tier prizes. It was suggested to me in general chat the other night that we join one of these 'families ' otherwise we will die. I am not ready to suggest that yet, but I do know we need to work hard and appreciate everyone we have.

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Thu Sep 01, 2016 3:22 am

That Bot wrote:This is not actually true. You could certainly get the necessary resources from your harvesters and hitting whatever zone you're comfortable in. It would take longer but it is, technically, possible.

I could, and I do ... but again, 2 million. That's going to take a number of days to bank up. Not to mention the potential to lose resources when attacked.

by **PadForce** » Thu Sep 01, 2016 3:40 am

Hey ppl... so im that noob that couldnt tell the difference between being lvl10 and having a lvl10 HQ, oops!

Anyhow just after a bit of clarification, is it only mortars that shoot over walls? Its a bit annoying that the game itself doesnt seem to provide any of this kind of relevant information.

On this basis, do you typically aet up your defences with walls further from your front line defences, or right infront of them?

Im relatively happy with my defences atm.. only really lost medals when attacked whilst mortars are upgrading, but if anyone has a second for a quick look at my base and correct anything obviously dumb, that would be great!

Finally, obviously trying to mess with AI is good and i have noticed people putting ie alloy storage out the front of their base. Is this worth it as by doing so you are giving the opponent more ability points?

Ta

by **PadForce** » Thu Sep 01, 2016 3:46 am

Wtf.. tripple post???

by **PadForce** » Thu Sep 01, 2016 3:47 am

Double post!

News Credits: 1 · by **Absolute Zero** » Thu Sep 01, 2016 3:54 am

Everything can shoot over/through walls on defense. Only gunners can on attack (and abilities)

News Credits: 191 · by **Kurona** » Thu Sep 01, 2016 5:20 am

Can't we, like, get to 60,000 points before alliance jumping?

Like Questworld12 on Facebook · by **Questworld12** » Thu Sep 01, 2016 8:01 am

Kurona wrote:Can't we, like, get to 60,000 points before alliance jumping?

I'm with Kurona, I really think both Seib 1 and Seib 2 could get there. This is the first time that I have heard of alliance jumping. So, I wouldn't jump with out your permission.
For me I really think I fit in with Seib 2. It allowed me to fit with my pace of growth.
Just my two cents.

by **PadForce** » Thu Sep 01, 2016 8:08 am

60000 would seem doable to me.. 3 days, 20 members, 1000 per member per day.. definitely achievable if people take part

News Credits: 191 · by **Kurona** » Thu Sep 01, 2016 8:17 am

I'm also very happy to jump down into Seibs 2 for a bit after Seibs 1 has got their Galvatron. Just to help you guys out if you have any spaces

by **PadForce** » Thu Sep 01, 2016 8:20 am

Move quickly, only 20/40 spaces free!

Like Questworld12 on Facebook · by **Questworld12** » Thu Sep 01, 2016 8:40 am

Also, I can see in the Seibs 2 chat that you have an LINE chat group.
So, do I have to be invited to the group on there or friend bDizz and ctrlFreq?

LINE id: MXAGhost

News Credits: 1 · by **Absolute Zero** » Thu Sep 01, 2016 9:55 am

My idea for suggesting the jump up for the event was to ensure people get their rewards. Last event I don't think we broke 30k.

*edit*

I also wanted those who'very slugged through crap in Seibs II to get rewards that make them better, then come back down after to the low stress group. I don't know if we can get Galvs in a day like with Scourge, but we also couldn't hit 80k in three days in the last one. So I want what is best for my people.

News Credits: 3 · by **ctrlFrequency** » Thu Sep 01, 2016 10:01 am

Hey Ghost, I can't find you on Line

News Credits: 13 · by **kurthy** » Thu Sep 01, 2016 10:10 am

Burn wrote:
That Bot wrote:This is not actually true. You could certainly get the necessary resources from your harvesters and hitting whatever zone you're comfortable in. It would take longer but it is, technically, possible.

I could, and I do ... but again, 2 million. That's going to take a number of days to bank up. Not to mention the potential to lose resources when attacked.

Yeah, Cons get attacked way more than Bots (doesn't Hasbro always say that Bots are more popular?). My HQ13 bot account gets attacked once every couple days, but my HQ12 con account gets attacked about every 7-8 hours. It gives me the opportunity to test out strategies on defense.

And this game is quickly proving that the most important assets are your base and spark. And like Burn said, he can't get enough resource in between attacks to get the resources he needs to upgrade his base because he doesn't have enough spark from war wins.

I'm seriously worried about how long it will take before people start getting frustrated with the games reward structure mixed with AI issues. Right now 4*s are around 100-1 odds on premium crystals with no guarantee you won't get a dupe even if you only have one 4*.

I also think the alliance heavy bent is going to drive a rift between daily players and hourly players. It would be nice if they spent a few weekends on individual events so that people could work as hard as they wanted to without letting down teammates.

By the way, CtrlF, you should recruit some new cons from that line chat group I added you to. AlwaysHostile doesn't have a con set up (well, not really) but there are quite a few with con accounts, plus the chat group is interalliance and there are quite a few Con only accounts in there.

News Credits: 3 · by **ctrlFrequency** » Thu Sep 01, 2016 10:14 am

I'd be happy to recruit AH. Freaking rock. I just don't do well recruiting people.

But umm... i do more stealing, we did grab the Bot commander from the last war. That'a the second time we stole a Bot from an alliance we Warren with.

News Credits: 13 · by **kurthy** » Thu Sep 01, 2016 10:17 am

ctrlFrequency wrote:I'd be happy to recruit AH. Freaking rock. I just don't do well recruiting people.

But umm... we did grab the Bot commander from the last war. That'a the second time we stole a Bot from an alliance we Warren with.

Well, you won't be getting AH accounts, you'll be getting Con smurf accounts from guys that are also in AH. I'll kick you out if you start trying to recruit Bots out of AH, sorry, sacrosanct.

News Credits: 13 · by **kurthy** » Thu Sep 01, 2016 10:19 am

Also, if you haven't used a promo code yet, hit up grimlock8u for one. You'll get some free premium crystals and a few resources (the resources aren't much for HQ12).

News Credits: 3 · by **ctrlFrequency** » Thu Sep 01, 2016 10:20 am

kurthy wrote:
ctrlFrequency wrote:I'd be happy to recruit AH. Freaking rock. I just don't do well recruiting people.

But umm... we did grab the Bot commander from the last war. That'a the second time we stole a Bot from an alliance we Warren with.

Well, you won't be getting AH accounts, you'll be getting Con smurf accounts from guys that are also in AH. I'll kick you out if you start trying to recruit Bots out of AH, sorry, sacrosanct.

That's what I meant. I would never recruit out, mostly because why on earth would they want to abandon high level accounts?

I already have and Jon3.0 got us some codes a while back. AZ could probably use one, but I think most of the rest have used one already