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I thought Bagman was the worst hero in the game until I got Invisible Woman. :|

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fyi, a fully powered invisible woman is nearly unstoppable. she does that bubble lock skill. then, she explodes them. i've seen that skill take out one of my guys with over 3000 hp. insta kill. but yes, as a low level character, she's terrible.

ares used to be my favorite. i love, love his green skill. the only downside is it gives the opposition half the amount of green he used on his skill. so, the trick to him is either target the character w/ green they have first and take them out, so he doesn't fill that skill for them or only use him against teams that have no green skills.

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If you already have 13 slots filled, and you get a 14th cover, you can cancel one of the other spots. You won't get points for the dropped cover. But at least you're not stuck with it. So you don't have to worry about saving that 13th slot. You can fill it now and delete it later when you need to free up space.

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Yeah, all I've got now is the bubble lock skill, so it's only mildly useful for delaying countdowns...and there are much better heroes for that (like original Black Widow).

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Yeah, they changed that recently (thank goodness). What I was saying is gobble up covers in the beginning, but once you get your 14th you have to decide which power you want to drop down.

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I was doing fairly well in the Punisher event, or so I thought. I ranked up to 70 and my opponent's heroes I was choosing to fight ranged from levels 1 to 8. I took a break and played a few Juggernaut missions and won a standard recruit token. I then bought another token for 500 ISO. I received these two heroes:

Black Panther (Man w/o Fear), 3*, Lv15
Psylocke (Classic), 3*, Lv15

I then went back to the Punisher event and now all of my opponent's heroes were levels 25-40! Is it just a coincidence or do higher star cards affect your opponent level?

Also, how are those two heroes? I haven't seen any covers for them yet so not sure how I will raise their powers without spending real $.

Finally, I'm maxed at 7 roster spots and out of tokens. Wondering who I should sell if any.

Hero List:
Iron Man (M35), Black Widow (M), Storm (M), Thor (MN!), Magento (MN!), Venom (DASM), Hawkeye (C)

Need to Claim:
Black Panther (MwoF), Psylocke (C)

My main team is IM, Thor, BW, Storm. Who should I sell to make room assuming BP and Psy are good heroes?

Thanks

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Its a little unlucky that you get those 3 stars so early. Getting other covers to upgrade them is going to be rare, so they will level up very slowly, which isn't helpful in the early game.

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Darnit the server problems at the end of that last event kept me from a Widow cover, like I need another Moonstone. Ugh.

I would say if you want to keep those two three stars, you can drop Hawkeye for sure (you can easily pick him back up later, but IM/BW/Storm should be ok for 1 stars) and probably Venom. Just a warning, Panther and Psylocke will be all but useless for you for a long, long time, since you'll need at least 7 or 8 more covers for each to really get them to the point where they're better than the two star covers you'll be building up.

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That's what I figured. Maybe I will sell them or at least one of them.

Is there a way to change or combine covers? Black Widow's Widow Sting power is at lvl 4. I don't have any levels in her other power, the steal AP one, and was wondering if I could trade a Sting cover I just earned into the other power cover?

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No, and that's the hard part. Even if you have tons of money, you need at least one cover of each color to buy other covers. For instance, I've never seen a red hulk cover.

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I know I have no chance of a super high rank in the 4-week season thing they just started, but holy shit are the top prizes good.

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There are a billion events going on right now. We should probably pick 1-2 to focus on so we can maximize our alliance score.

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focus on the hunt. it's only going 4 more days.

my new shield one is fucked up. i was at 182 points. i beat 2 people. didn't add any points and i didn't get prize. finally beat someone to put me over 200, but didn't give me the prize. so fuck that. if they can't score it right, i'm not bothering to play it.

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I'm currently #4 in my group for the overall Hunt event. I think I've been top 50 in all of its sub-events, taking top 10 in two of them. I'm wondering if that's leading to harder levels, though, as it's getting to the point where 1/3 to 1/2 of the levels are coming in at deadly difficulty from the get go. One silver lining I have found to those, though, is that they tend to have higher points. I'll exhaust the normal levels for what I can get from them and then tackle the deadly ones with like 15-30 minutes left in the event. Since they let you stack bonus cards now, it's definitely possible to tackle the harder levels with a little planning and it gives a nice point boost when you beat a couple of them.

I also started playing the Season 1 event and have gotten up to #129 in that. Can't imagine that lasting though.

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I'm currently #125 in my Hunt group (around 43,000 pts). I land around #150-250 in the events. I usually can't play half the levels. Either I don't have the characters (just got Human Torch earlier today). Or the levels are too high. Even though I've got 3 boosted characters (Magneto Now, Storm Classic & Black Widow Classic), some of these battles have opponents that are 30+ levels higher than me. So I just end up replaying the battles that are in my level range.

I really wish I understood the way enemy levels are assigned. I was playing Alaska today. And there's that row of 3 Fake Black Widow battles down the middle. I looked at the level totals before I started. It was around level 45 for the first battle, level 55 for the second battle, and level 65 for the third battle. I kicked butt on the first battle. Then went to the second battle and it jumped to level 90. The third battle jumped to level 110. With the 3 boosted characters, my best team is level 65-70. There's no way you can compete against characters that are 40 levels higher. I don't know why the game does that.

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It's definitely possible if you save and carefully use your boosts. I've beat levels where all the enemies were 60 - 70 levels higher than any of mine. For example, this morning I beat one of the DA Widow levels you mention. The enemies were all 185 or higher and my highest character was 125. Used 3 of the +1 AP for blue/purple, 3 of the +1 AP for all and 2 of the +20% round damages. With two moves, I was able to use Classic Storm's blue, MN Magneto's purple to create 2 criticals and generate more blue, then Storm's blue again. Had one enemy down and the other two stunned and at less than 1,000 HP after that. I was able to finish them off without them getting another attack in. I will say, make sure you're using boosts on levels that you truly need them and where the payoff will boost you to the next reward level in an event, as otherwise you're just wasting a really valuable tool.

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There is ANOTHER factor in enemy leveling (besides community grinding, and ranking/refreshes affecting number of points), and that's your health. Seriously. If you're going in and using OBW to heal all the time and coming out with almost full health (or going into matches with almost full health) and winning a ton of matches, the game will try to make sure it's getting more difficult.

There are a lot of factors, and they sometimes change, go to the developer's forum and read up on some of the tips and tricks forum entries if you really want to know more. Like I said before, I haven't had the time to go really in depth, but most of the top players know the system pretty well.

Also, you can sometimes beat higher level teams, but you have to really know them. For instance, high level snipers and whatnot can kill guys in one blast, and high level Dakens or Bullseyes have almost ridiculous boosts on their strike/defense tiles.

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just promoted a guy to the team, as a non-commander. he bumped us up quite a bit in the hunt event. if we need to kick him later, we can.

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So what are the current prices for slots in the dvdtalk alliance? my current alliance is of 3-4 active players and if the spots arent too much, we wouldnt mind joining the dvdtalk alliance so we can all get better alliance rewards

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We're currently at 10. So the next four upgrades would be 1100, 1200, 1300, and 1400. If you guys can swing that and play regularly over time you should get some of those hero points back (we regularly get hp as alliance rewards for the events, and with more players that should go up).

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Next slot costs 1100.

Edit: D'oh, Groucho.

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we do have one spot open, technically, since we just accepted a random. but i don't mind kicking the fool to the curb if we are going to get 3-4 more guys. the bigger our alliance gets, the more points we get and we get closer to the bigger prizes. right now, we are usually getting between 500 - 1000 in most events. adding 3-4 people should push us into the 250-500 range, which is where we start getting the good stuff as rewards.

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<s>Okay, here are the people who have paid for a slot:

maxfisher (slot 6)
Deftones (slot 7)
fujishiq (slot 8)
Groucho (slot 9)
TheBigDave (slot 10)</s>

Updated list below

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Should we wait until The Hunt finishes to drop the newb? We're in the top 500 right now and will lose over 90,000 pts if we kick him. Also, it seems fairly unlikely we're going to get 20 active players from here. Should we offer him the chance to join permanently if he pays to open the next slot? Or do we want to keep it to DVDTalkers only for full members?

Unrelated, the rubberbanding hasn't seemed as bad for me during The Hunt, until this morning, when I went from #2 to finish as 'top 100' in the last ~20 minutes of Florida.

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I'm not opposed to letting "outsiders" join if they're willing to pay for a slot, especially if they are big contributors.

One caveat: once we promote this guy to "Commander" we can't demote or kick him. So if he agrees to buy a new slot and reneges, there's no recourse.

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yeah, only people who post here should have commander status. outsiders do not get that privilege. if they want to pay to be in the alliance, i'm fine with that, with the understanding they'll never have the opportuinty to be a commander.

as for adding/kicking people before the event ends, i say we wait a few days until this is done. get his points for it, then move on if we have to.

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But you have to be a commander to contribute to the next slot, don't you?

Darnit, a doom event. My doom sucks.

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I agree with not promoting non-DVDTalk members to Commander even if it means they can't buy a new spot if they want to, but its not a big deal if you guys prefer otherwise for the alliance's benefit.

I'm still down to buy an extra slot if we need it too.

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If you (or anyone else in the alliance) is going to buy some slots, I don't mind pitching in a couple bucks. Especially if it'll help get us into a higher award bracket. Drop me a PM and I can send you some Paypal.

It would be great if we could get DaveNinja's group to join.

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yeah, i'd considering contributing a few bucks if dave ninja wants to merge his group. we'll recoup the cost in the coins we win in the alliance payouts in probably less than a month.

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nothing is better than pulling a 3* cover from a standard recruit token. got a punisher the other day and i just got a black panther. :up:

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Hi everyone!

I've dusted this game off and am playing through the prologue. I'm playing under the name WilliamTBunny. Can I join the alliance?

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I'd like in as well but 1100+ tokens (which is around $10?) is more than what I wanted to spend in this game especially if I'm not spending it on precious roster spots. I'd be willing to Paypal gift someone $5 to help cover a spot if that is an option.

I should be in a better position to buy some gold after this event to buy a new spot. If we kick out that random guy we would have 2 spots for you guys to join and maybe pool together funds for the next one.

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What's the deal with Event Rewards? I finished The Hunt: Alaska somewhere around rank 200, and I didn't get anything? I thought I was supposed to get a token.

The rewards aren't given out right away. It usually takes an hour to two IIRC.

Might just be a delay, I've seen it take a bit for me.

Went ahead and bought the 11th spot so there's one free for the next person to join.

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Ah okay cool.

I'd love to join you guys, been playing for the last couple of days, fun game.

edit: Invite Request sent. Same name.

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flashburn is in. Here's an updated list of the people who have paid for a slot:

maxfisher (slot 6)
Deftones (slot 7)
fujishiq (slot 8)
Groucho (slot 9)
TheBigDave (slot 10)
fumanstan (slot 11)

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Boom. Got a falcon in the hunt, pulled a red rags in a token and also will get 3* magneto for that doom event. Crushed it.