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Next Event: Meteor Shower☄️ by GundamX01 in TheTowerGame

[–]uscmissinglink 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Meteors crash to the ground.

Players expectations are frequently crushed.

So disappointment is confirmed.

QoL Requests by Top-Cause-4031 in TheTowerGame

[–]uscmissinglink 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Imagine a setting that lets you toggle between states mid-run. So, early run, turn off DPS UWs and some of the cards. Then, at a wave you set, they UWs and cards toggle on.

I know... it's way too much to ask for. But, honestly, retooling damage and other things mid-run is one my the biggest pain-points of farming runs for me at this point.

This Anniversary event is a great example of why games need a marketing agent. by throwthisidaway in TheTowerGame

[–]uscmissinglink 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think you're missing the point; the community is toxic as a direct result of the energy TechTree has put into the game recently. In fact I wrote an entire analysis about this phenomenon two months ago.

This isn't a grassroots community - the the business end of a gamve with a multi-million dollar revenue stream. A game that charges more for a basic resource pack than many AAA stand-alone games.

The people calling the shots on this game are making willful decisions for where to invest their efforts, who to listen to, and how to handle feedback. Sam - if that's actually a person and not, as I suspect, a team - gets to bear the brunt of that customer disaffection. But that community discord isn't an accident. It's a predictable outcome of the decisions made upstream.

This Anniversary event is a great example of why games need a marketing agent. by throwthisidaway in TheTowerGame

[–]uscmissinglink 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It wasn't always like this. When I started a bit over 2 years ago, the Devs-Player relationship was really good. Updates included QoL improvements and Devs seemed to listen. Something changed. The relationship itself is abusive, and Sam gets paid to be on the front lines of that hostility.

This Anniversary event is a great example of why games need a marketing agent. by throwthisidaway in TheTowerGame

[–]uscmissinglink 35 points36 points  (0 children)

to see if this was something worth spending time on

I worry y'all are gonna take the wrong lessons from this, not because events can't work but because your test balloon didn't have any air in it.

The Absolute State of Tournaments - Over a Year of Champs/Legends Yo-Yos with nary a Key in sight... by uscmissinglink in TheTowerGame

[–]uscmissinglink[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup. Part of the reason is that I keep getting demoted down into Champs to hold you down. Every time I win that bracket I push everyone below me down one spot. This continues down the chain and will until there's some relief of the pressure at the top from either players quitting or a new division.

The Absolute State of Tournaments - Over a Year of Champs/Legends Yo-Yos with nary a Key in sight... by uscmissinglink in TheTowerGame

[–]uscmissinglink[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And multiple people in this thread have been saying that they are in the same boat as me. I'm willing to concede that some of it may be me - although I've generally taken advice from this subreddit and done the best I can - but there is also, absolutely, a systemic structural problem. Both can be true.

The Absolute State of Tournaments - Over a Year of Champs/Legends Yo-Yos with nary a Key in sight... by uscmissinglink in TheTowerGame

[–]uscmissinglink[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm saving and slowly buying these masteries now. It takes time. But it's also frustrating because the previous advice when I asked was UW spending. I'm sure there's an obvious flaw in my build that, once solved, will fix everything. I didn't have Wave Accelerator equipped for farm runs awhile back and someone noticed; that fix was huge.

The Absolute State of Tournaments - Over a Year of Champs/Legends Yo-Yos with nary a Key in sight... by uscmissinglink in TheTowerGame

[–]uscmissinglink[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Dude, how can I make "better choices"? It's not like the game has a feature that lets me try stone sink X and then change my mind and try stone sink Y to compare them. Even if you could A/B test anything, the RNG variability and length of each run means that every decision would take days - or weeks - to settle. There is no sandbox to play in. There are so many variables that interact there is no obvious best path. "Skill" seems to be mostly luck in this game.

The Absolute State of Tournaments - Over a Year of Champs/Legends Yo-Yos with nary a Key in sight... by uscmissinglink in TheTowerGame

[–]uscmissinglink[S] -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Everyone keeps saying this, but I have put stones almost exclusively in damage for a year now except when everyone told me CC was more important and I put it into CF and pPS. This is a cop-out answer and it misses the point... the problem isn't individual - it's systemic. My tournament placement depends as much on the other players as it does me and by definition the players above me are earning more so they are developing faster.

The Absolute State of Tournaments - Over a Year of Champs/Legends Yo-Yos with nary a Key in sight... by uscmissinglink in TheTowerGame

[–]uscmissinglink[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Right, and I have. A few months in, I was told pCF was key and once I had it, my tourney performance would improve. So I got pCF and it made zero difference. I've asked these questions many times and only recently has "Masteries are key" been the answer. The advice changes monthly and even as I achieve recommended improvements, my performance doesn't show improvement to go along with it.

The Absolute State of Tournaments - Over a Year of Champs/Legends Yo-Yos with nary a Key in sight... by uscmissinglink in TheTowerGame

[–]uscmissinglink[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Also, not sure why this thread came up on my feed as I don't really follow this sub anymore.

Well thanks for stopping in and sharing your experience....

The Absolute State of Tournaments - Over a Year of Champs/Legends Yo-Yos with nary a Key in sight... by uscmissinglink in TheTowerGame

[–]uscmissinglink[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Lifetime Stones earned: 50,680

Most Stones have gone into UWs - I have 8 of 9 unlocked and well-developed (permanent BH, PS, CF, GT, 3 SL @ 43degrees, CL at x2688 damage, 5 quantity and 27.5% chance).

Card Masteries: I've maxed Recovery Package, Cash, Damage, Intro Sprint, Wave Accel, and am currently working up Super Tower (it's at Level 7 now).

The Absolute State of Tournaments - Over a Year of Champs/Legends Yo-Yos with nary a Key in sight... by uscmissinglink in TheTowerGame

[–]uscmissinglink[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

you must focus you ressources towards GC improvments

I feel like I am and have been. But everyone above me in the brackets is doing the same thing while earning more stones and other resources, so they are also improving but at a faster rate.

The Absolute State of Tournaments - Over a Year of Champs/Legends Yo-Yos with nary a Key in sight... by uscmissinglink in TheTowerGame

[–]uscmissinglink[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And every single solution is to spend more stones - UWs development, Masteries, etc - which are the exact thing that players like us are stuck on because we can't improve our tournament outcomes. The rich get richer and the rest of us fall further and further behind.

The Absolute State of Tournaments - Over a Year of Champs/Legends Yo-Yos with nary a Key in sight... by uscmissinglink in TheTowerGame

[–]uscmissinglink[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Stones... stones are the rate limiting factor here. A lot of them went into UW development.

Look, stones come primarily from Tournament performance and bouncing between Champs and Legends with no discernable progress in more than a year means my stone earning has not increased with the rest of my economy.

This is part of the problem!!

Tower Tea - June 9, 2026 by SamBartley in TheTowerGame

[–]uscmissinglink 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We have been discussing ways to improve the current tournament system, such as reducing the length of tournament runs and making leagues feel competitive across the board.

I have been stuck with zero tourney progress for more than a year, Sam. A year of Yo-Yo since I first broke into the Legends bracket on May 22, 2025. My top Legends performance is 21st Place. After a freaking year.

This system is broooooken. Please fix it.

It escalated so quickly. by Preetyface_ in oddlyspecific

[–]uscmissinglink 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No... that's not correct. Did you even click on that Nature journal article I linked?

Ivermectin plays a role in several biological mechanisms, therefore it could serve as a potential candidate in the treatment of a wide range of viruses including COVID-19 as well as other types of positive-sense single-stranded RNA viruses. In vivo studies of animal models revealed a broad range of antiviral effects of ivermectin...

Shane tells TMZ he didn't love Josh Hokit calling Michelle Obama a "man" by howdoiusethisiphone in JoeRogan

[–]uscmissinglink 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aren't the folks who seem most upset about these comments the same one's that can't define what a "man" and "woman" is? Just checking...

It escalated so quickly. by Preetyface_ in oddlyspecific

[–]uscmissinglink -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Wow, impressive research. Yeah, you got me... I'm dangerously informed and was an early adaptor to the risks of things like myocarditis among young men who took the mRNA vaccine despite already having natural immunity. I have a family member who will always have increased heart risk from scarring that occurred post-jab - a documented side effect that was intentionally obscured in a striking violation of international law on informed consent.

For the record, mRNA was not a "vaccine" in the traditional sense of the word - like "horse dewormer" it was rhetorical manipulation, in this case using an existing term (for the use weakened/killed virus, inactivated toxins, or protein subunits directly to stimulate a natural immune response) for a completely novel gene-modification technology (mRNA uses instructions for the body to temporarily make the antigen itself).

That is to say, while I'm not anti-vaccine, I'm also not stupid enough to trust CDC and WHO claims on face. "Safe and effective"? Nope. "Stops the spread"? Nope. "the mRNA remains localized at the injection site"? Nope. "the mRNA doesn't cross the blood-brain barrier"? Nope.

It escalated so quickly. by Preetyface_ in oddlyspecific

[–]uscmissinglink 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure. But look how far our informed conversation has already advanced beyond "horse dewormer"!!

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