Event info: BATTLE OF WITS

Sorry for being lazy here lately, had some busy days. This weekend will see an individual totalizer with 60 prestige, rewarding us 2-, 3- and 4-star shards. It will be a triple XP event, therefore everyone battle zone only offers a max of 10 battle points.

Assuming one scores an average of 9 per battle and fights the full 192 battles I calculated in my player's guide a few months ago, the possible score to achieve without spending or sacrificing sleep would be around 1,700 points.

So since every prestige takes 100 points, this allows you to get 17 prestige and the following rewards staying F2P:

17 x 25 = 425 2-star shards
17 x 15 = 255 3-star shards
17 x 10 = 170 4-star shards
17 x 50,000 = 850,000 energon
17 x 50,000 = 850,000 alloy

That's very lame, so it'll be all about the XP this again.

Go level your bots!
bioDROID out

Event review: POWER BEYOND MEASURE

So here we are, guns are still hot from shooting down an incredible amount of Decepticons this weekend. The event was called "Power beyond measure", and it saw the official launch of the newest additions to the character roster: Rodimus Prime for he Autobots and Motormaster for the Decepticons. I'll get into those two bots and their abilities later in this post.


Leaderboard events are always special as they are the only type of event with a game wide ranking and no point limitation whatsoever. A lot of people despise them though because it's been almost impossible to hit the top 100 and get at least the 3* version of a new bot without having a majority of the alliance buying fuel cell bundles. So basically non-spending alliances are doomed to a new 2* and a handful of premium crystals, which isn't the most appealing reward for a weekend of grinding. But still, the event itself usually always is a lot of fun, and this weekend was no different.


Sentinel family had a hard time on leaderboards lately since we lost a bunch of hard hitting members a few months ago and couldn't get anywhere near the top 100. This led to other members (including me) leaving the family for the triple changer weekend and act as a mercenaries on other alliances to get their shot at the new 3* bot. The remaining players focused in our top and mid tier groups Warpath and Beings and finished both groups in the top 400 (#346 for Warpath, #381 for Beings).


But since we still want to evolve Warpath back into a top 100 group, we tried to do things different this weekend. Warpath currently has 34 regular members. We approached all of them two weeks before the leaderboard and asked them to state a score that they are able and willing to hit in the event. We got 24 answers, 10 of them committing to our minimum score of 12,000 points or higher. 10 people went for at least 10,000 points, and another 2 admitted they won't be able to hit hard that weekend and dropped down to Beings. Two members openly stated early on they were going out to a top 100 group as mercenaries.


So we now had the chance to offer the remaining 10 spots in Warpath to every Sentinel member from Knights and Beings who would commit to at least 10,000 points. The resonance was awesome, so we had no problem in filling up Warpath to a full army of 40 players. Beings again took in some players from Knights to be at 40 as well. So with all the pledges combined, we could expect a total score of around 430,000 points, which should have led us at least back to the top 300. But what happened than was just amazing.


We started off pretty well, finishing the first part of the event (a 60,000 point totalizer for mainly shards and 2* Rodimus Prime) after 4 to 5 hours in. Looking at the leaderboard we realized that we were way more higher than expected, always pending around rank 120 something. Especially our "guests" from Sentinel Beings and Knights really pushed themselves hard, adding up nicely to our top 5 scorers. so in the end, we exceeded our expectations of 450 to maybe 500,000 points by far, ending up with a total of 603,593 points, ranking 131 of the world.

This was a fun race with some motivating competition within the alliance, and I'm very proud of where we ended up. A lot of folks exceeded their pledge by far, and all I can say is thank you guys for the effort made, the time invested and the dedication proven.


Bad news of this event is that, the bar for hitting the top 100 once again has been risen. 760,000 points were needed to get a 3* bot out of this event, which is an average of 19,000 points per player and therefore near to impossible to reach without spending money on fuel cells. I'm sure this will just intensify the anger at this type of event, but most likely nothing will change.


Before I close this post I wanna take a short look at Rodimus Prime.

His special "overloads" the other bots in the team and pushes their stats for a short time period. I already read that even the 2* gives a nice boost to a squad and that people expect this ability to be nerved very soon, so enjoy yours while it lasts.


Thanks for reading along, see you next time.
bioDROID out!

Event info: POWER BEYOND MEASURE

So here we have it, ladies and gentlemen: The first leaderboard event of 2018. This one is for our new leader class bots Rodimus Prime (Autobots) and Motormaster (Decepticons).


In preparation we organized some temporary player movements. Warpath will be filled up with 40 players doing a minimum of 10,000 points, some aiming even 12,000 or 15,000 points, to end up ranked top 200. Beings loses some hard hitters by this, but will still aim for the deserved spot in the top 400. Knights will aim at finishing the 60,000 point totalizer.


Here are your event details:

 

 

 

Have fun and go smash some cons!


Yours
bioDROID