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YAY I'm helpful! 😄 
I appreciate @Alexander for rescuing SuperMechs from TactiSoft.
I appreciate @Raul for his work with SM to include the monkey torsos and creating several other sprites.  As well, I'm pretty sure he either created or at least has been updating WU.  WU is a huge benefit in SM because you can "sandbox" your builds.
I appreciate @epicspeedster for all his build and tactics help.  Even though he needs to stop yelling at me 😭 LOL
I appreciate @CleverName for his META listing and our many conversations.  It makes builds very easy but also as a philosophy I can start to learn what works and what probably doesn't.
I appreciate @Mechzilla for his advice and friendship.
I appreciate Bobson for his energy scope builds, proving that it's possible to be rank 1 with energy (much less energy scopes).
I also appreciate all other top 10 energy players because they proved energy isn't completely dead.
I appreciate @Marija for her humor and helpfulness on discord.
And I appreciate @Malthael for creating this thread.

YAY I'm helpful! 😄 
I appreciate @Alexander for rescuing SuperMechs from TactiSoft.
I appreciate @Raul for his work with SM to include the monkey torsos and creating several other sprites.  As well, I'm pretty sure he either created or at least has been updating WU.  WU is a huge benefit in SM because you can "sandbox" your builds.
I appreciate @epicspeedster for all his build and tactics help.  Even though he needs to stop yelling at me 😭 LOL
I appreciate @CleverName for his META listing and our many conversations.  It makes builds very easy but also as a philosophy I can start to learn what works and what probably doesn't.
I appreciate @Mechzilla for his advice and friendship.
I appreciate Bobson for his energy scope builds, proving that it's possible to be rank 1 with energy (much less energy scopes).
I also appreciate all other top 10 energy players because they proved energy isn't completely dead.
I appreciate @Marija for her humor and helpfulness on discord.
And I appreciate @Malthael for creating this thread.

wait, what about Killin?

I would like to express my appreciation of Alexander, as well as provide this thread to anyone who would like to give their appreciation.
Alexander's gold portals give me more tokens than I got in TactiSoft era.  And more gold.
I appreciate how the drop rate has increased slightly.
I appreciate the "special quests" that give me 100 tokens for random things.
I appreciate Alexander listening to us on this forum and on discord.
I appreciate how some of the build options in the base are cheaper now (though I'm sure Alex is still in the process of experimenting with the base factory build option prices).
Alexander isn't perfect, but neither am I.  But I appreciate what he's doing for this community.
Please reply with what you appreciate about Alexander.

If it wasn't for Alex and @battlesqui_d's tips, Workshop Unlimited wouldn't exist. 👍

I have to say, I've known Alex for a long time now. 5 years? something like that. 
actually, now that I think about it, my second ever battle dawn era (in 2011) Alex and Kenny beat me up pretty bad 😦
we've had out ups and down, I've been pretty mean and nasty at various times in my life - and I can blame it all on this or the other thing. but ultimately it doesn't really matter. I think he knows I'm sorry for the things I've done in the past.
today, I'd honestly say I consider Alexander a friend. maybe we don't know each other super well, but I'd like to think we've grown warmer on each other over the years. where once we were enemies, we became acquaintances, then friends, perhaps even - lovers? (joking)
When I heard Gato were buying SuperMechs, I was skeptical. In knew Alex's real passion project was battledawn (understandably), but over these past months Alex has gone above and beyond to fix this game up, and make it fairer and more available to players. beyond this, his community interaction is exceptional - nothing of the sort happened under SM.
basically, Alex is a friend, and a good guy. 
I like him. 
although, I still will never forgive him removing and temp banning me for posting an image of 9/11 on the last forum - that post slapped.
sincerely,
Baz
*mwah* 😘

I would like to express my appreciation of Alexander, as well as provide this thread to anyone who would like to give their appreciation.
Alexander's gold portals give me more tokens than I got in TactiSoft era.  And more gold.
I appreciate how the drop rate has increased slightly.
I appreciate the "special quests" that give me 100 tokens for random things.
I appreciate Alexander listening to us on this forum and on discord.
I appreciate how some of the build options in the base are cheaper now (though I'm sure Alex is still in the process of experimenting with the base factory build option prices).
Alexander isn't perfect, but neither am I.  But I appreciate what he's doing for this community.
Please reply with what you appreciate about Alexander.

Based on what?  Do you have access to all of his messages?  How do you know which ones he's responding to and which ones he's not?  You don't.

I would like to express my appreciation of Alexander, as well as provide this thread to anyone who would like to give their appreciation.
Alexander's gold portals give me more tokens than I got in TactiSoft era.  And more gold.
I appreciate how the drop rate has increased slightly.
I appreciate the "special quests" that give me 100 tokens for random things.
I appreciate Alexander listening to us on this forum and on discord.
I appreciate how some of the build options in the base are cheaper now (though I'm sure Alex is still in the process of experimenting with the base factory build option prices).
Alexander isn't perfect, but neither am I.  But I appreciate what he's doing for this community.
Please reply with what you appreciate about Alexander.

Based on what?  Do you have access to all of his messages?  How do you know which ones he's responding to and which ones he's not?  You don't.

Based on what?  Do you have access to all of his messages?  How do you know which ones he's responding to and which ones he's not?  You don't.

yes.... he has responded to every single message i have ever sent him

i appreciate how, even though he is often busy, he takes the time to respond to messages regarding the game, and the forum.

I'm not against it, but it's also highly illogical.  A "shield drone" might make more sense though.

I would like to express my appreciation of Alexander, as well as provide this thread to anyone who would like to give their appreciation.
Alexander's gold portals give me more tokens than I got in TactiSoft era.  And more gold.
I appreciate how the drop rate has increased slightly.
I appreciate the "special quests" that give me 100 tokens for random things.
I appreciate Alexander listening to us on this forum and on discord.
I appreciate how some of the build options in the base are cheaper now (though I'm sure Alex is still in the process of experimenting with the base factory build option prices).
Alexander isn't perfect, but neither am I.  But I appreciate what he's doing for this community.
Please reply with what you appreciate about Alexander.

I'm not against it, but it's also highly illogical.  A "shield drone" might make more sense though.

I would like to express my appreciation of Alexander, as well as provide this thread to anyone who would like to give their appreciation.
Alexander's gold portals give me more tokens than I got in TactiSoft era.  And more gold.
I appreciate how the drop rate has increased slightly.
I appreciate the "special quests" that give me 100 tokens for random things.
I appreciate Alexander listening to us on this forum and on discord.
I appreciate how some of the build options in the base are cheaper now (though I'm sure Alex is still in the process of experimenting with the base factory build option prices).
Alexander isn't perfect, but neither am I.  But I appreciate what he's doing for this community.
Please reply with what you appreciate about Alexander.

I would like to express my appreciation of Alexander, as well as provide this thread to anyone who would like to give their appreciation.
Alexander's gold portals give me more tokens than I got in TactiSoft era.  And more gold.
I appreciate how the drop rate has increased slightly.
I appreciate the "special quests" that give me 100 tokens for random things.
I appreciate Alexander listening to us on this forum and on discord.
I appreciate how some of the build options in the base are cheaper now (though I'm sure Alex is still in the process of experimenting with the base factory build option prices).
Alexander isn't perfect, but neither am I.  But I appreciate what he's doing for this community.
Please reply with what you appreciate about Alexander.

Good morning, 
 
We've evaluated this thread and would like to explain a few things: 

When we bought the game we first took the time to see how Tacticsoft's event schedule plays out, how people respond to them, how we feel playing with them and so on. A few things we concluded, concerning portals specifically, I felt like, frankly, they were extremely boring. 
You click the mission, click auto-pilot and get your reward. No thinking, no strategy, no workshop required. If new, you may have to struggle a bit for the higher levels (if you feel like it), but really, even then, it's not strategy, it's just that you don't hit the required numbers yet. 
Said reward wasn't bad per se, a free 30-45 tokens (40-50 cents) for clicking 2 buttons isn't the worst of deals, but I wouldn't call it "fun"  and I personally believe games should aim to be fun first and foremost, rather fun than balanced, rather fun than fair, rather fun than anything else. We play to entertain ourselves, after all. 
So we began experimenting.
 
Ultimately I hoped with harder portals, people would learn more about the game, play more in the workshop, think more on their actions and turn off the darn autopilot. We felt that, after struggling to finish it, they should feel like it was worth it (a sense of achievement and satisfaction) so we combined this with drastically higher reward reflecting the up to 30 minutes you may be spending on it (or more, if you're less experienced / have a lesser inventory). 

Simultaneously, we felt this gave both motivation to improve your mech (better rewards) before you get into multiplayer, and more tokens for f2p-ers and small spenders to attempt to rise up a bit. With Hard and Easy you'd be pretty close to a premium pack and once you've had a few, insane would be achievable with enough strategy, and it would be a case mostly of reducing required revives. 
 
This didn't really affect our business beyond perhaps a minor drop in income, we didn't see any correlation with retention or such (after all, newbs just kind of do what they can and go do something else if they can't manage yet, plenty of hard content that isn't doable for them yet in SM and they don't value tokens as much until they've stuck around for a few weeks to months already), but we hoped it would be more fun that way. I like a challenge and some early reactions I heard (frustration, persistence, and then great happiness on success) made me feel like we were on the right track. 
 
This however doesn't deafen us to criticism - it is clear some players feel very scammed by the likely need to revive, discriminated by the difficulty and the last thing we wanted to do here is scam our playerbase and ruin an event they like. 
 
As such, the next portal has been set to Tacticsoft's settings - slightly better gold than TS gave, the higher token option (45 opposed to 30) and slightly easier difficulty than the old TS ones so it should be achievable for every single player. A flat out improvement, even if not really my personal cup of tea, opposed to a potential 'ruin' of the portals. We intend to stick with this for the foreseeable future pending feedback.
 
Thank you for your feedback everyone!
 
I'm closing this topic as the subject has been solved and some of these conspiracies are a bit much. 🙂
 

Sure, there is that minority of people out there who would willingly eat garbage.

Sure, there is that minority of people out there who would willingly eat garbage.

Sure, there is that minority of people out there who would willingly eat garbage.

This is my 2nd double teleport.

Why is this in spam?  It's not spam.
I like the confetti paint option.  I think it should be in the shop.

In terms of probability and logic, it is more likely that YOU are a scam.  But then again, that's why I have you on ignore.
The gold portal is not a scam.  With all due respect, if you sit there and click Revive over and over, you are harming only yourself.
No one made you click the gold portal.
No one made you ignore the high damage output of the final mech.
I saw that one coming and did only one revive.  That didn't work, so I gave up.
With a heat bomb I'm sure I could've beaten him, but alas....
With all due respect, this type of lying (i.e. misrepresenting things just because you're upset) is toxic and part of the reason people don't get on the forum enough (although there are also other reasons).
Instead of "the gold portal is a scam" you could have also decided to think, "well maybe I'm just not ready for the insane mode yet."
And you also conveniently ignored the fact that the rewards for this portal are basically twice what normal gold portals are.
I'm not having a single problem walking away with like 110 tokens on this thing, not to mention the gold.
With all due respect, do you think of EVERYTHING that you don't like as being a scam?
How did Gato Games scam you?
Seriously............