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

Event review: THE LAST TRICK

We just came out of what was an, in my opinion, exciting and motivating event called "The Last Trick", which came as a type of event a lot of people were looking for. Not only was it an alliance totalizer with 60 prestige but it also offered a so called "Trickster Crystal" at the end of every prestige with a chance on either 2-, 3- or 4-star shards or a new bot in 2-, 3- or 4-star Cosmos. Additional to that, the event offered a total of the following rewards:


60 x 300 = 18,000 Spark
60 x 25,000 = 1,500,000 Energon
60 x 25,000 = 1,500,000 Alloy


In preparation for this event no major player movements were made, so all three alliances started with the personnel they had. The goal was as usual to finish Warpath early in the event and than spread out to Beings and Knights for a maximum possible reward for everyone. Every group set very clear minimums this time:

• Warpath: 9k total minimum, 3k as daily target
• Beings: 6k total minimum, 2k as daily target
• Knights: 3k total minimum, 1k as daily target

Warpath had only 5 people below the expected score (adjusted to the fact we finished early), Beings saw a little more with 13 players missing out on the target, and Knights had 8 folks below par. The upside of this was that we had some early and clear statements from people who had to deal with real life or technical issues, which I truly appreciate. As long as we know about someone's whereabouts, we won't lash out on or even kick them.


The overall dedication to this event let to Warpath finishing after approx. 50 hours. We have to admit here that we received huge help by lesviva and mudthump, two Warpath alumni now killing it TF Psy-Ops, who brought as an extra score of 50,972 points. Without them, we would have needed maybe 8 to 10 more hours to finish, still leaving us with at least 12 hours to help out the family. In reality, we now had 22 hours left to spread out in rotation which was great.


Beings already had about 184,000 points by themselves when rotation kicked in, Knights had about 124,000 points. So Beings were heading for 264,000, Knights for 178,000 if both kept their pace. Both numbers are great, and with some help from Warpath members we finally finished with the following results.

I took a look at everyone's combined score from all three groups and, for the first time, I'll present to you the first Sentinel family event ranking.

Congratulations to everyone who extended their personal best and thanks to all who pulled their weight this weekend.


Kind regards
bioDROID

Event info: THE LAST TRICK

Holiday season is around the corner. For celebration Space Ape gives us what could probably be the last alliance totalizer this year. And it's an event type lots of people asked for.

We are facing a 60 prestige event for up to 60 crystals with a chance to pull 2-, 3- or 4-star Cosmos, the newest member of the Autobot roster.

Leading staff set up the following minimums for our groups:

• Warpath: 9k total minimum, 3k as daily target
• Beings: 6k total minimum, 2k as daily target
• Knights: 3k total minimum, 1k as daily target

Warpath will as always try to finish early and help out the other groups with a smooth player rotation.

Here are the details on the zones and rewards:

Good luck and roll out!

bioDROID

Event info: STARGAZERS

This weekend will be shard heavy as we are approaching a 60 prestige alliance event which will give us a shard crystal every 6,000 points. Those crystals can spawn all shard types up to 5-star shards or spark.

For a 40 people alliance this means 9,000 points each, which isn't too high for dedicated  players. Warpath will try to finish this as early as possible to help out our folks in Knights and Beings getting the maximum rewards.

If you need a plan how to get to 9k, check my player's guide on event scoring.

Find the details for the event below.

Good luck to all of you!

bioDROID

Event review: TRIPLE THREAT

Last weekend saw the long awaited introduction of the Triple Changers, Springer and Astrotrain, to the game. There was a lot of rumors about the event type in which they would be dished out to the players, and it turned out to be a classic leaderboard event. I won't start to vent about this questionable type of event at this point and stick to giving you a review of how the event went down for the Sentinel family.

In preparation of the event, we decided to melt down on of our smaller alliances in Sentinel Rising. Last weekend already saw a temporarily merge of them with Sentinel Knights, and we decided that it be better for everyone if we would just focus on a family of three again. So we did a smooth switch of all players on Thursday, having all three alliances ready for the event in time.

We already decided earlier that we won't be able to seriously push for the top 100 ranks with any of our groups, so we issued hall passes to everyone who would like to act as a merc in of the top 100 crews. A six man task force went to TF Black Ops, a smaller number of solo fighters went to different other groups.

All three groups finished the first chapter of the event- reaching a alliance total o 60,000 points - within the first 24 hours. Warpath were then set safely in the top 400, while Beings floated in and out of those ranks. To secure extra rewards for the most people possible, Knights' top scorers hopped over to Beings and Warpath to fill up their open slots and let both crews finish in the top 400. Some low scorers had to be demoted to Knights for that to happen. Those of who we knew the reason for scoring low weren't affected. This once gain proves: Communication is the key!

Both Beings and Warpath did an incredible job and finished on solid ground in the top 400, securing every player an extra of 5 premium crystals and 1,000 spark.

Our task force in TF Black Ops represented Sentinel style in the best possible matter. They scored a combined 139,385 points or 18% of TF Black Ops' overall score and therefore played an important in role in letting that crew finish ranked 29th and earning them 3-star Springer.


Me personally was extremely motivated for this as I wanted Springer in this game since day 1. The time span from him being rumored to be added until he finally hit the game was way too long, so I just couldn't wait to get my hands on him. I even thought about a one time only shot in a top 5 crew, but that's just insane considering the time and money needed to do so. Nevertheless, I hit a new personal best in cracking 30k for the first time. It's not a score I can do on a regular basis, but it was a lot of fun to go there and hang with the elite players in this game.

Thank you for reading along.

Roll Out!
bioDROID