Originally Posted by Tomaa

That could go bonkers due to very varied response time that is there all the time. Would be funny if it ended up buying random stuff from cash shop though.

Yeah, because their PC would be at risk, downloaded some bad shit if that's what their "macro" is doing.

Originally Posted by Tenhou

Next gambit, next EA thread. Pretty sure every gambit but the first has had a thread condemning EA to the pits of hell.

Removing everyone who has him as a friend does little against him or the ones you remove, only hurting yourself as you need to find a lot of top players with free slots that do not have him added. Checking through my list of boxes there's a ton of them that EA never nabbed and i have nabbed a ton of boxes from people that EA is friend with.

That said, i wonder who'll make this thread when the next gambit hits.

If Nutaku stop to put garbage in golden boxes, it couldn't be a problem.

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As i warned before, to counter macrofags try to farm boxes instead of opening others.

Originally Posted by Ladies lover

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Dude, i tell you what. Relax.
I was feeling like you once, and created the second "macro-hate" thread here after Julia first brought this problem up, and i clearly know ALOT of top players doing this shit, no matter macro or not. This is called "pink hunting" - people may just sit in the "your friends cases" page with filter set to pink only and constantly switch between opened and unopened cases tabs, and open unopened ones right after they appear on the list.
And yes, i was pissed at first too, because i felt that it is a cheating on normal players like me, who visit case page only like 10 or less times in a day, and mostly get nothing from it because all pink cases are bieng stolen by campers/macro users. So i even started such thread on the forum, and removed everyone who had EA in their friend list from my own friend list in the game.
But think about it a bit more, will ya?
EA, and those other "whales" (who, often, are pink hunters) are the only reason you can actually get enough Super Elite Guard Eliminations (100, 200, 300) to get those rewards - and they are much more valuable than all that cheap trash you can get from pink cases alltogether.
They also are up for finishung off the rest of remaining, or even taking all of the inhibition of those SEGs and EGs that you can't handle in time yourself, so you won't ever lose any EP from those (and get a better Ranking reward during Elite Guard Events, and sure will end up among top 1000 to get a new unique SR girl) and more important - you'll get quite valueable rewards for any focus you spend on hitting those Guards - that literally means at least 1 SR Wild Card for every 1 Focus you spend on poking those guards and about 10 focus for a R gacha ticket! I'd say this is compared to at least 1 silver key per 1 Focus. Or even a Golden key. Now, do you still think this is not a fair trade? Okay, pink cases sometimes contain R Gacha Tickets, which are quite valueable - especially for the new players, but still they are quite rare in those, and during this Gambit they even were removed from pink cases until Phase 2. So those pink cases are just rubbish, in general, and don't worth all that hype and hate.
Also, the amount of Kairo (other trophies) in those Pink cases is so small it won't really make a big difference for you, unless you'll start pink hunting/macroing yourself. So, you know - i don't give a damn about those macro cheaters anymore. At least they've helped me to deal with all those EGs and SEGs from the very beginning, when i was a puny lvl 10 noob, taught me many game secrets and they cuntribute to the PeroWiki here at HBC, so i'm fine if they'll get a small profit from my pink cases and the ones i could take myself from my friends (and my friends could take from me). Personally i've got several hundreds of SR WC from the last Gambit and near 2 million Pero thanks to my "slayer-friends" who are now popping my pink cases like popcorn.
So, in a short words - giving up pink cases for help during EG events is a fair trade.
Btw, if you feel you are getting too little pink cases - try buying enough pink keys with N Gacha tickets to make the number of your pink keys always be over 1000 - you'll stop getting pink keys from 1-focus boss encounters and start always getting pink cases from them instead. This will compensate the loss of cases from friends in a way... (this secret was told to me by EA, btw)

In general: this game is fucked up by Nutaku or DMM (or both), not by the players who adapt. Blame them instead, if you want to blame someone (they could make it so pink keys won't be buyable, and be rare enough so everyone had enough unopened cases to open, or daily limit on how much pink cases you can open per day, for example - but they did it this way instead)