I tend to message a lot of people in the game, particularly in our group. If you just hit /sg that triggers the Supergroup Chat tag and you can just enter in text there.

You should totally hit me up for artifacts you might want/need, btw. Because I have a lot of extras.

Awesome! I was playing Ms Marvel lately and she is just NUTS. Seriously much kicking of the rear. Though not as awesome as Wanda now, who is definitely my fave. I might end up prestiging her.

The SHIELD simulator is a PvP training ground, basically - it works just like the tournaments, but there are only participation rewards for getting to certain point levels.
I'm not a big fan of Cap - I know he can be effective, but he's just not my cup of tea. Spider-Man and Wolverine are good though, but they may need some help early on. Maybe you could run your Iron Man instead of Cap?
Yes, so there's no real point in being greedy with them - if you get a restock that's great, if you run out you can always buy more.

Oh, and another resource management thingie: Health packs regenerate over time, so once you go below 5 you'll get another back 36 minutes later. So make sure to use them when you need them. (though if you play in a tournament, be sure to be restocked in the final hour so you don't run out on the home stretch. )

Hope I am not being too basic here...

I have been stingy with the health packs because I didn't know they regenerate. That's great to know. I have 13 now. At one point I had 18. And obviously, you're not being too basic. I didn't know most of what you told me today. I've been grinding the lvl 3 Doom for 20 ISO at a time to level my guys. It sucks.

Yeah, the 20 ISO rewards are no fun. I get them a lot grinding the Hulk missions. Better than nothing at all I suppose...

By the way, what powers/levels do your main guys have? (Iron Man, Modern Widow, Modern Storm, Spiderman, Wolverine, Cap)

I'll try and compile a list of who I have and what powers they have. I don't own SPidey though, he was just the helper on the one Hulk level.

Oh, right. Those helper characters are quite nice... It took me forever to get my own Spider-Man.

By the way, one little abuse trick I read on the developer's forum: There are a few levels on the Venom missions where you get Spider-Man's help, and it just so happens that that Spider-Man has a good healing ability. You can use those missions to heal up your characters faster and reduce downtime between the real missions.
It doesn't work for me as my team tears Venom to shreds before Spider-Man has enough yellow tiles to heal anything, but it's good to know for new guys.

I had thought of that, but at the moment I'm too weak to properly utilize that tactic.

As Quebbster said, Thor is so much better than Iron Man and Widow covers the stun needs for about half the cost. Once you get Thor covers boost him immediately.

My understanding is Spider-Man is one of the best characters to have (I don't have one).

Something else to take note of is your match up.
Daken is a bit of a pain if you have to match Green early (he auto gains Strike tiles for every green match made) Bullseye auto gains protect tiles for Purple matches and Ragnarok, at high levels gain his special ability for every 2 AP of either Red or Green. So against them you want to be able to build your specials without them gaining theirs. Also don't always trust the difficulty ranking prior to the match (Trivial, Impossible, Hard, etc.) A Trivial match against say some Maggia Muscle will be much harder than Hard match vs the Spy.

I just dropped Bagman (who is all but useless without Venom) as I just got two Ragnarok covers.

I did the same thing a while ago. I have also dropped Bullseye and Yelena as they just aren't that exciting. Looking forward to the next Lightning round as I might actually be able to score some Diabolical tokens.

Also, some tips for Stan: Daken's healing factor only triggers if there are enough Yellow tiles on the board - if there are too few he takes damage instead. Ignore him at the start and stay away from Green matches and he won't be a big problem. Similarly, Yelena is fairly weak, so I'd go after Moonstone first. If you can get rid of a lot of Yellow, do it.

I'm learning a lot today.

Good to know. Thanks.

Thank you! I would have missed it.

Ok Quebbs, this is what I have right now.

This discussion confuses and infuriates me.