Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24.145.17.142-20130226202601/@comment-5522245-20130724044318

66.58.212.95 wrote: Kit12188 wrote: The iOS version and Deluxe version costs the same (if you count the Premiums in iOS). iOS is $2.99 or $3 USD ($4.99 or $5 USD if HD) and Deluxe is $14.99 or $15 USD. Only premiums in iOS are Double Cash ($9.99 USD), Healthy Bananas ($0.99 USD), and Bigger Beacons ($0.99 USD). iOS, which totals up to $14.96 USD... $0.03 difference... Who uses premiums anyway? The only reason I could think of someone to use premiums is if you are terrible at the game. I actually only started using premiums after my girlfriend got the deluxe version. Splodey Darts made the Wizard Lord mission too easy although I could also beat it with just bomb towers. I guess I only use premiums 'cause they're fun. I for one have bought and upgraded all but the Super Monkey Lair in the online game, meaning, playing daily has become meaningless especially knowing that the Lair only makes it difficult for me to use apprentices which are cheaper and the only advantage for supermonkeys will be the camo vision. Not to offend anybody but after some time, the game gets pretty old. The premiums on the other hand makes the game interesting at least for me. And I think another reason why some of us need premiums is because sometimes we need that tiny push to finish Expert and Extreme tracks. I myself haven't finished a single Extrene track in any of the versions.

Anyway, on the Heli Pilot, I just got me my own Android version of the game and frankly I found the tower as expendable as any when you know how to use the cheaper towers. I've finished off hard levels with just Dart Monkeys, Boomerang Throwers, Ninja Monkeys and Engineers for my main offense. I just bought and upgraded my first Engineer's Workshop (second specialty building I bought in this version after the Dart) and finished an intermediate map on hard difficulty mostly with 6 to 8 of these towers.

The Heli Pilots is simply just another tower although it was through the use of this tower where I found how easy the usually hard rounds/maps/difficulties can get with a pair of these. It's not that it's "overpowered" (although that word sounds wrong, grammatically incorrect and misused--to be overpowered means to BE dominated, which basically is the opposite of what everybody else is trying to say with the initials OP). Rather, it becomes too cheap, being not that far off from the Spectre which is another tower that seems to be underpriced. This fact is more obvious when you realize that iOS and Android versions of BTD5 give out more money than those in the Deluxe and online versions of the game.