Bubba Wayne had just gotten the alert from Nova on his BADGE Comwatch. He was to meet up with Clark Kant on a mission to stop meteors from hitting the planet. He wasn't sure what he could do. He didn't have super powers like laser vision or nigh invulnerability like Clark. He didn't have super strength. He didn't have any nifty gadgets or vehicles like his rich cousin from Gotham. He couldn't even fly, so he wasn't at all sure how he was supposed to get into space to deflect these meteors. Still, Nova sent out the call and it was his job to answer. He was sure they would know what to do with him, or else quickly realize their mistake.
He looked back over his shoulder at his secret hideout. It was modeled after his more famous cousin's. He had a hidden cave fully equipped with computers and satellite monitoring systems, along with a whole host of other awesome stuff like a gym. But that was his rich cousin. Bubba just had a cave. His secret HQ was a literal hole in the ground. He didn't even have a posh butler trained by the British government to be a super spy. He just had 3 yellow goofballs in blue overalls that liked eating bananas. One of them only had one eye. He found them starving in the woods and gave them some dry banana chips he had with him. They've been with him ever since. The three of them waved excitedly at their boss as he left them to face certain doom trying to save the world from meteors. He hoped they would be ok without him. It's not like they could do much damage. It was just a cave, afterall...........
To Be Continued..............
We interrupt your regularly scheduled program to bring urgent news about...........
ENERGY ALTS!!!!
Back in the Christmas Special Double Feature from a couple years back, I discussed the building of an Energy Alt. This is a utility alt whose purpose is to collect resources like MPs and Crystals to help build a league HQ for free. With the new addition of player summoned Raids, it's time to revisit this particular type of utility alt. This particular alt was discussed in Part 2, found here.
Now, an Energy Alt has all or nearly all their Skill Points (30) in their Energy, extending their Energy Bank as far as possible. The real value in Energy Alts comes in their ability to refill MASSIVE quantities of energy for a mere 5 MP. For most competition toons, that have around 30 SP in their Energy Bank, using MP Energy Refills is an economically bad idea the vast majority of the time. But for an Energy Alt, it can be huge!
I have one alt that has a nearly 1400 point Energy Bank. Simply doing 1 point missions in New Amsterdam will net me more MP than it costs to refill my Energy Bank for 5 MP. The only thing that limits me from leveling him nonstop indefinitely is my time and choice. But no matter what pace I choose to level that toon at, I always end up with a surplus in MP despite using MP Energy Refills.
Now, the main purpose for an Energy Alt is to gather resources for your main toon and your league, without sacrificing them from your competition toons, and to do so without spending any real world money. While not the only place to distribute farmed resources, the league HQ is the primary place one would distribute their mined Bux, Crystal, and MP. T
When it comes to most free or budget players, running an Upkeep deficit is crucial to competing with the bigger spenders. Energy Alts can be built to quickly level up to the minimum required level for the highest career. After that, they can simply collect Bux to pass off to your mains when your main toons are in need. Energy Alts make great Cash Cows!
Because Energy Alts can be built up quickly in levels, they not only make great Cash Cows, they make great Experience Cows too! When I need to level another toon fast, I can strip my high level Energy Alts of gear and either sell my cards or donate them to the HQ Sentinel, then hit them. Imagine a level 1 brand new toon with 5 powers and 1 ring gaining experience from beating a level 650+ toon. One hit would level him several times. Get a cache of these toons between you and your friends and add massive amounts of levels to new toons in no time. This is a great way to level up new Energy Alts that have a Red Cape consumable on, to quickly gather MP for HQ building.
There is a new aspect to the game since last we discussed Energy Alts; Raids. Raids give you the lowest return per energy spent when it comes to Experience Points. But what it does do is gives you cards and gear that you can then pass off to your league's HQ Sentinel. Doing so allows your leaguemates to keep their powers and gear as long as you have the donor Energy Alt on the team. It also provides another avenue for gaining MP and Crystals, by selling the cards and gear, that can be used to build your HQ.
Now that raids are here, it's even possible to turn an Energy Alt into a decent toon using just raid cards and mostly raid gear, supplemented with better when the opportunity arises. It won't be a great toon, but it potentially won't be a bad one either.
Energy Alts are also good for farming Raids Summon Items and Tokens. And the rewards they get for summoning them can buy you Red Capes from the Raid Punch Store.
If one of your raids needs to be finished fast, Energy Alts could be the cure you're looking for in a pinch.
Lastly, Energy Alts can collect gear, power cards, and cons for you and your friends. How so? Well, once Halloween rolls around, you can put those items in your Trick or Treat Bowl and let your friends and leaguemates know to jump in line real quick. And if several of you each have a few alts with goodies, the lot of you can really rack up.
I hope the original, combined with the update, serves to help you, especially the free and budget players. Energy Alts were designed for your needs and restrictions. Using them effectively can go a long way towards helping your main toons compete with the big dogs. From building up top notch HQs, to beefing up Sentinels, to passing gear and rare cons off to your leaguemates during Halloween, building one, or a few, and getting your leaguemates to do the same, can really give you an edge that costs others lots of money, for free.
We Now Return You To Your Regularly Scheduled Program.
Bubba was almost home. He would like to say he was glad, but that wasn't really the case. BADGE had assigned him to monitor incoming meteors from their satellite HQ, helping direct other, more capable heroes, to where the meteors were headed for Earth. They had the nicest facilities he had ever seen. Training rooms, a cafeteria, an infirmary, you name it, they had it! They even had indoor plumbing and air conditioning! Bubba had basalt walls and bat guano. No, he certainly wasn't looking forward to going home.
As he got closer, he could hear the unmistakable sounds of cheering and construction going on. Lots of cheering and lots of construction! The voices sounded like his little yellow buddies, but there were so many of them. As he got closer, he found his three little friends, once helpless and saved only by a bag of banana chips, had multiplied into a veritable army of little yellow workers all building something around the mouth of the cave. It was a giant metal door with a basalt veneer that looked just like the rock wall and hid the entrance perfectly!
Upon his arrival, his 3 little buddies cheered, followed shortly by the rest of their friends cheering as well at Bubba's return.
"BOSS!!!! YEAH!!!! BOSS IS BACK!!!!"
As the rest continued working, the three originals then led him on a tour of all the new improvements they made while he was gone. There was a cafeteria, a training room, an infirmary, and a host of other additions. Not only that, the group had been hard at work building underground tunnels to other HQs they had built all across the country, with an express Rakly Industries patented Magnarailgun Train system to get them instantly from one to the other in no time. Bubba couldn't believe his eyes! This was everything he could have ever dreamed for. Eat your heart out Bruce! He just had one question.
"This is great, guys! I can't believe what you've accomplished while I was gone!" he said.
"YAY!" they screamed. "WOOHOO!" "It's been a long trip though." he continued. "Where's the bathroom at?"
"Bathroom?" they said as they looked at each other in confusion, "Uh...... heh........" before arguing over who's fault it was that there was no bathroom...........
The End.
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