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I jumped in and started playing again if for no other reason than to give concise feed back regarding the Seek & Destroy Event specifically. My thoughts on the sequence that led to frustration:
1. Not enough information — Pop-up with 2 day notice of event start, but no news feed with event description, parameters, or length. Nesters spring into action providing what little information is available from many obscure sources, but one question remains unanswered — how long is the event? We have lives, jobs, families, and time/monetary constraint. We need to plan! Why is this a secret?
Hint: Anger/frustration storm with Rovio abated with the introduction of the newsfeed please use for announcements more than confirmation.
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2. Seek and Destroy Event features more Seekers — We just had a Seeker event where we unlocked Acid-I’m-Not-Awesome-Storm. Save Energon Starscream, level 15 and sporting Shoulder Pads, Seekers are not destroyers, they’re runners. Competitions are geared toward destruction, you want to use bots that can reak massive amounts of destruction.
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3. Underpowered, inefficient bots — Three Seekers available, but they have to be used during the competition. Level 10. No Energonicons. No Buddies. The Seekers hit the blocks and the blocks fall over but don’t destruct, or they hit the tnt and the blocks spread all over the landscape. All my level 15, fully accessorized bots are not relevant. Ouch.
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4. Too many overpowered enemies that cause too much destruction — The Boss Pig, swarms of helicopter pigs, WMTs, falling Monoliths all at the same time and all while trying to destroy neon colored blocks. Did I mention that Seekers are not the go-to bots for destruction? Then there’s the pigs sitting atop the structures requiring 3 shots to dispatch and the scuba pigs that can’t be killed because you don’t have the time. Why, because the runs are like 5 minute nodes. The smug grin on the face of the boss pig at the end of the node I just paid gems for netting me less than 100 points? Not so much.
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5. Glitches in the game — I press “Play Event” and instead of the game screen, I’m looking at my iPad home screen. I log back in to find I’ve lost the opportunity to play for free.
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6. Value Proposition — Or lack there of. In the end analysis, I will have lost time and gems, the most valuable commodities in this game. Time spent playing every opportunity, gems spent to reach the daily challenge and gems spent on purchasing the bots because it’s mathematically impossible to unlock them just by spending time playing. For the record, the “continue playing” button is too expensive (I’m absolutely furious that I have an opinion on the subject).
Hint: if you read the forums the very first thing we do is figure out the math. We LIKE to do this, it’s a large part of the fun of playing the competitions.
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7. Now what? After the stress completing the competition to unlock the bot and spending the time to upgrade it, for what? UPDATE THE GAME…
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Just my two cents. I appreciate the opportunity to provide feedback.
Edit: I unlocked Sunstorm with gems and although I offset the cost with tokens, if my math is correct, then each Seeker retails for approximately US$40 (4800/3=1600 gems; 400 gems=US$9.99)? REALLY?! I’ve been had…