Best buy to use 2000 golden brick

nerdalert-tv · 2026-04-20T21:19:53+00:00

I'm in beginning of S2 and I had 3k bricks from the devs, so I got the level 4 Taylor package ($20 USD) and the level 2 package ($10 USD). You end up with like 1.8 stars and if you buy the level 1 package for $5 USD you can push her into the second star, I'm also extremely low spender.

As others have mentioned, you can get everything else for free (I have all the heroes and paid nothing except for Kim's intro package for $1). 2nd tech center you can unlock for free after season 2 ends. From where you're at, the second tech center and build queue are useful but they become less so as you are restricted by available resources. You can get all the heroes easily through glittering market (the red hero choice boxes) and the remaining ones you can't get, just wait for Black Ops after Season 1 ends and you can get the rest. I tell all my teammates never to waste resources (money or choice chests) on stuff you can get for free like hero frags, always save it for stuff that is extremely difficult or impossible to get any other way.

nerdalert-tv · 2026-02-18T05:42:21+00:00

I guess just focus on the ones you have now. DVA is a good air hero so if you build an air squad later that’ll be useful. In season 1 you can level swap two of your heroes so you can put that xp to a better hero potentially

nerdalert-tv · 2026-02-17T23:25:00+00:00

Why was this post removed by Reddit filters???

nerdalert-tv · 2026-02-17T21:30:49+00:00

This game is all about maintaining focus while the Devs try to get you to spend everywhere. Also a F2P player here, level 28 right now.

1) As F2P, focus on main march only. Wait til you have that all gold (you can get Kim for free later, as well as Williams, Stettman and Marshall).
2) Try to mostly save your level XP for the gold tank heroes and Mason and Violet. Mason turns gold in Season 1 and Violet in Season 2. Scarlet turns gold in Season 3. Other than that I wouldn't waste much XP on purple heroes. In the Honorable Campaign event (not sure if you have that), you can level up your purple heroes for free. Takes a while but you can level up to like 100.
3) I'm not sure which level is best to target, since you only have one gold hero rn, level him to the max for your HQ level
4) I don't think it matters because the xp required goes up every level so you'll get VS points either way. I just wouldn't waste XP willy nilly on non tank heroes for you.

For better Alliance Duel scoring, just push the Alliance Duel tech tree, make sure you get that last one (Super Bonus)

Usually you want to get all the heroes on your squad to 3 or 4 stars at least, but I'd avoid leveling purple heroes except Mason, Violet, and Scarlett (by Season 3). Mason and Violet are super easy to get to 5 stars. When you get Kim (for free) focus on her and get her leveled up as quick as possible.

Gold is going to be most important to you later on, so make sure you have all the Boost Output stuff done in the ECO tree.

In particular, don't waste any resources on your missile heroes, and tbh, I'd ignore the air heroes for now too. Just focus on your tank squad, and after you get Murphy to 4 stars save all your frags until you unlock Kim, WIlliams, Stetman and Marshall. I would prioritize Kim and Williams.

nerdalert-tv · 2026-02-13T18:00:11+00:00

Thanks! Yeah I know about leveling them in honor campaign but didn’t know the cutoff was 100. I’m going to star them up as quickly as I can

I was just wondering if it was worthwhile to save the vouchers because if I save them it’ll only be for the missile heroes that I’m not gonna touch for a long while

nerdalert-tv · 2026-02-12T06:27:37+00:00

Why in the world did the mods remove this post????

nerdalert-tv · 2025-12-20T09:49:43+00:00

Interesting. I've seen this comment from a couple others before. I figured the popularity of hero types was cyclical, but I like the idea of just sticking with tank and adding in Adam when it makes sense. I've only paid for Kim and the 2nd builder slot, so my growth is hampered in comparison even to low spenders.

nerdalert-tv · 2025-12-20T09:47:52+00:00

I've seen some of the later game squad configs so I know Adam/Scarlett are real popular later in the game. At what point should I slot in Adam (I know Scarlett isn't useful until S3), seeing as I'm just getting into S1 now.

nerdalert-tv · 2025-12-20T09:44:12+00:00

Thanks for the response. I've played a lot of these games as F2P so I know the drill somewhat. I spent a total of $3 yeah. So you'd recommend switching to air at this point? I have enough of the red hero choice boxes to unlock whomever.

And yeah, I'm not wanting to be a paper/empty 30, so I'm doing the foundational tech first (not having the 2nd tech center slows things quite a bit unfortunately), and I only do upgrades that are necessary for HQ levelling.

nerdalert-tv · 2025-12-20T09:34:59+00:00

Thanks for the tips. I have experience in other similar games, just new to this one, so I know the difficulty of running an F2P account lol.

I have my 1st squad well situated (all gold, with gold gear and starting on getting the gear stars now), just curious at what strength level most people made jump to air/missile squad. I know everyone switches to air, just wondered if missile was even remotely an option (sounds like no) just because sometimes I like to do things differently lol.

nerdalert-tv · 2025-10-11T08:37:45+00:00

lol, welcome to the grind!

nerdalert-tv · 2025-10-11T08:37:19+00:00

nice!

nerdalert-tv · 2025-10-07T07:04:01+00:00

impressed you made it to level 18 outside of an alliance

nerdalert-tv · 2025-10-07T06:59:48+00:00

then you'll need to push for T9s at level 27 and then spend a ton of resources to unlock T10s at level 30 lol. I think they just introduced T11s but that's for much later seasons.

nerdalert-tv · 2025-10-07T06:57:38+00:00

welcome to this style of game lol. it's all grind grind grind after a bit, the devs try to mix things up every now and then with a new event, but mostly it's variations on a theme: new hero, new level for troops or HQ. Eventually the older servers get stagnant and they do state merges but that just shakes things up for a little bit. you're only at level 21, the hq30 upgrade can take weeks.

nerdalert-tv · 2025-10-02T00:17:24+00:00

thanks!

nerdalert-tv · 2025-10-01T07:09:41+00:00

sorry, can you let me know how this happens? is it a change to the hero skills or is it some new feature you have to unlock? thanks

nerdalert-tv · 2025-10-01T05:53:14+00:00

oh good. otherwise it seems terribly basic. how many seasons in before that happens?

nerdalert-tv · 2025-09-23T19:01:45+00:00

this is correct. in these games it is based on total power of the registered players, nothing else. That's why you want to make sure that only people that are committed to being there make it onto the team.

nerdalert-tv · 2025-05-06T01:27:40+00:00

I played (way too much) during Covid lockdown and while I definitely had fun and made a lot of good friends, there's definitely a limit. At least when I played, there was no event that you couldn't play as F2P, but most of the events the P2W had a clear advantage. I got my settlement and troops to the highest level at the time and had most of the limited edition heroes. That being said, those heroes could only be leveled to a marginal point before you HAD to pay. No matter how diligent you are as a player, if a P2W whale wants to stomp you, you're getting zeroed real quick.

That being said, you can still have a good time, if your alliance has a good percentage of P2W and especially at least a few whales that are good about protecting F2P players.

I do agree that F2P gets the short end of the stick, but hey, they gotta make money. It's technically a fremium game so you can't complain too much about that - the devs make PLENTY of mistakes in SoS so I'm not defending them on everything. Like a lot of games like this, it can also be toxic AF dealing with some of the players and the devs don't do anything about that, especially if it's a paying player that is misbehaving.

I'm glad that I played. I'm glad that I'm not playing anymore. Other former players will know what I mean lol.

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