Somewhat new player, saying hi. :)

Hello all!
I've been playing, and therefore lurking, from July 2nd.   Lot of great information here, just difficult to figure out what to put in the search.  Thankfully sometimes frustrated players in the know post aggravated information, in response to others, giving me the right words! LOL Thanks to all of you.

Free player here, so far. Plan is, if I'm still playing in 6 months, to drop the equivalent of a 15/mon sub cost. Then nothing again for another 6 months. So only one 6* atm, and that was pure excited luck at the top of a tower.