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Optimus_Pig
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Well I’m glad that you guys still find this game enjoyable.

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The way I see it, there are really three approaches to the game:

1. You’re in it simply to blow things up. Ranking up is purely an incidental endeavor (you’re collecting all those coins anyway, may as well upgrade, right?) plus you still need to level up high enough to avoid instadeath. So this is fine (as long as you can get yourself up to L11 so that you’re not instantly dying).

2. You’re in it for the endgame. Getting to rank 405 (rank 250 before the latest update) is all that matters. In this case, stable gameplay (i.e. running nodes) is irrelevant, because you can earn far more coins, gems, and special materials by harvesting and doing missions than you ever would from node runs. Unless you’re also in it for the Achievements, in which case you’re kind of stuck.

(Speaking of Achievements I’ve pretty much given up, since I only have 499 / 5000 miles in the “Roll Out!” achievement despite playing this game for eight months and being at Rank 293 – stupid bugs).

But otherwise getting to Rank 405 shouldn’t be particularly difficult, just extremely time consuming. I’m curious how long it will take for the first person on this forum to announce that they’ve reached Rank 405, but I’m guessing it won’t be for at least another six months (maybe closer to twelve), unless they decide to spend a pile of money buying gems.

And of course, by that time Rovio will probably have moved the goalposts. Again.

3. A bit of both. You love to blow stuff up and you want to rank up to prove your overall progress in the game. Probably the most difficult, and time consuming, and frustrating of the three options, because you need to manage the challenges of both (1) and (2). For example, on more than one occasion I’ve had all six of my active nodes blocked by TFs that were off on a mission!

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For me, my main problem is that my personality is either all-in or all-out. Either I’m going to put my all into the game (for example login in every 4 hours to harvest, run some nodes in between that, and manage my missions) or I’m going to drop the thing entirely. There’s really nothing I can do about that, it’s just the way I am. So I have to make the decision soon, and Rank 297 seems like a good time to do it. The game is already sucking away 2+ hours of my day, every day, so I really shouldn’t be continuing on if I’m not truly enjoying it.