Coming to this thread late …

… in part because I came to the competition late. I got lucky, had an easy cohort, and took 2nd place, but didn’t get far up the token progression at all.

Today seems more reasonable — I did one recharge, hence 8 runs, and hit the 50 token level or so. But I do miss the first days of some recent competitions,…[Read more]

I’m just glad that they took out the “Be scrambled exactly at the end of the run” and Eggbot ones. The former is random and the latter costs gems.

The first answer to a support email is often just something canned like that.

Don’t judge them until you try writing back and saying “You missed the point; please try again.”

That said — your email wasn’t good anyway. You put many complaints into one email. You mixed together bugs and other kinds of complaints. Almost no game or other software…[Read more]

So is there another event starting Friday or something, or are they taking a rare week off?

@paul13,

My gem stash crossed 11,000 recently, and I’m not doing anything special. E.g., I don’t use pigs to shorten missions, except occasionally when there’s a specific reason due to a competition or to my sleep schedule.

Well, I needed only 600 tokens, and 2 different days of quests contributed to my stash, so I’m already done with the non-cash rewards. :)

My only Unicron sighting was when I had a terrible pair of TFs to tackle him with. I didn’t even try to kill him.

I’ve had a lot of runs that gave 650-1000+ tokens pre-bonus. Mainly, these were in the desert.…[Read more]

All I’m missing are the launchers, so that’s 600 tokens needed.

Presumably, I’ll pick those up by the end of the first day.

The bugs — or perhaps they’re just UI stupidities — I hate are the ones that make it hard to get a target lock on something. E.g., a missile comes at you, you wait until the missile is coming in straight, you shoot, and you still don’t have a chance of hitting it. Or you try to shoot backwards and you’re in a TF that’s unhappy to do that. Or you…[Read more]

I had 4995 tokens early yesterday. :)

Given how few tokens turn out to be spendable on the accessories, I’m going to coast now to the finish.

It’s dumb to have only two accessories, and those for the same slot. Even giving the cheap ones — headphones and so on — as optional rewards would be an improvement.

My big confusion today is whether a gold block scores 15 points or just 5. Are they all 15? Just the larger ones? Is there a partial-damage level that scores 5 or whatever?

@elpapam,

Actually, I’ve been spending 30 gems per day to get two recharges. As long as I enjoy the runs, why not? 20 gems are pretty easily come by …

… except that I’m getting really tired of how long the Lab animations take. If I stop playing the game out of boredom, it will be because of how long one transaction in the Lab takes.

Anyhow…[Read more]

I’ve been pretty lucky so far. The first day I spent 30 gems and easily got 1550 tokens. Also got 130 tokens plus some gems from the daily quests.

Today I’m in what seems like a fairly tough cohort, but I got Unicron while I had Goldie Grim out. (I got bounced down to 2nd place soon after that, actually.) The lucky part is that I start more runs…[Read more]

I’ve been pretty lucky so far. The first day I spent 30 gems and easily got 1550 tokens. Also got 130 tokens plus some gems from the daily quests.

Today I’m in what seems like a fairly tough cohort, but I got Unicron while I had Goldie Grim out, giving me a nice lead for now. The lucky part is that I start more runs with 4 hearts of health than I…[Read more]

I’ve been pretty lucky so far. The first day I spent 30 gems and 1550 tokens. Also got 130 plus some gems from the daily quests.

Today I’m in what seems like a fairly tough cohort, but I got Unicron while I had Goldie Grim out, giving me a nice lead for now. The lucky part is that I start more runs with 4 hearts of health than I do 5, to save the…[Read more]

I got unicron twice. Once Bluestreak was out, who barely touched him, I think due to lack of range on his shots.

The only boss I’ve beaten today was Boss Pig.

I got Boss Pig when I had a Grimlock out, so that was good.

I got Unicron in Pig City when I had Optimus Prime out. No chance of beating him, but it was still my best run so far. :)

My first few days of quests all had crazy/impossible ones in the mix.

Now I’ve had several straight days of doable ones.

I’d add to the comments above that 10 chips is a nice reward. You can break those down for, on average, a reasonable number of gems.

@sntrooper,

So we should make sure not to use Armada with Ultimate Dark Megatron?

Thanks!

Actually, the coins bug cleared up, and I got the full-day reward. Yay.