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Kylra
Dec 1, 2006

Not a cute boy, just a boring girl.
I've been getting tens of thousands on mats from solar flares every day.

Also, the pay to win is in stuff like the 1400 prestige runes that give+50% combat stats. A competent whale alliance would rule the game. They've acknowledged that they're too inaccessible to non- whales though, so it might change.

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Kylra
Dec 1, 2006

Not a cute boy, just a boring girl.
There's not really anything you can do starting now anyway. There's like 2.5 weeks left or so. Just tinker with it a bit if you feel like it. Next phase is probably going to be fairly different anyway.

Kylra
Dec 1, 2006

Not a cute boy, just a boring girl.
The people left over merged with one of the other top alliances. We're probably going to win now. Round ends in 7 days.

Official discord is pretty slow.

Most people are just tired and waiting for it to end now.

Kylra
Dec 1, 2006

Not a cute boy, just a boring girl.
Nobody paid to win this alpha I'm pretty sure. The winners didn't at least.

Kylra
Dec 1, 2006

Not a cute boy, just a boring girl.
That's not what p2w means! It means you pay real life money to win in game!

Which is sorta doable, but infeasible for critical outpost materials, which you basically just have to grind the normal way unless you're going to drop a few million or something.

Also I don't think 80% of the game could have done much alone to the top 10-20 no matter how much they paid. Anyone under rank 100 is almost fodder or xp material for the top 20-30 or so unless they really know what they're doing but don't have the time or got knocked there from a higher position. Labor is a pretty serious bottleneck, and you have to grind outpost materials to get the appreciably. But that's the ridiculous time requirement talking. And also the semi-untouchability of the top 10ish by most of the game is an issue itself.

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