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[dragnier1]

o0Marduk0o, on 24 October 2014 - 09:40 AM, said:

What is wrong? So few Timber Wolfs!

That was at the start of the tourney. I opted in when i saw no one playing summoner. Looking at the scoreboard now, i think there were like 30-40 others who took out their summoners just for the challenge, and that's not counting others who will join in the next few days.

I'm thankful i got to be 2nd place, even if it were for a few seconds. 26th now

[dragnier1]

Ironwithin, on 24 October 2014 - 04:07 PM, said:

Because the point of the challenge is to get as many people playing as possible, for the whole weekend. They don't want to give you free stuff, they use that to get you to play their game so you maybe spent some money on it.

Also possible it's to raise the active player count to show their investors some nice, juicy numbers. Who knows... as long as it's fun, who cares?

If that's the case, i think we'll see "events" every week. Any "event-less" weekend will have to be self-imposed.

[Frytrixa]

Deathlike, on 24 October 2014 - 11:42 PM, said:

Pretty much. If you had a case of the "dropsies" (general DC issues), and manage to "win" those matches, you have a bare minimum score of 200 after 10 wins (minus friendly fire damage).

ty, was little confused

[SovietArmada]

Oi, after the last leader board tournament burned myself out a little and had 2 weeks of exams. Hop on today and I can tell I was way to rusty... One of those rusts that needs a good few days to shake off but don't have the will or time at this moment .

Angry too cause I would swoop down on that Hunchie leader board

[Conoger]

And the server is FUBAR again. Makes the challenge hard when you have limited playing time.

[Cricket504]

Started playing in my Timber last night. But with only winning matches counting in the pug queue, decided to drop out after several losing matches were capped off by a loss with 3K, 1089D on a loss where one team member deliberately committed suicide. Not sure where you are looking for top in a chassis, yet only count wins where you have little or no control over the possible victory. Kind of tilts the metrics to look at only wins.

[Cyote13]

chipps101, on 24 October 2014 - 01:02 PM, said:

says in the rules -

• Only your best 10 victorious matches in each chassis throughout the course of the event will be counted.

Which makes no sense to add 20 points to the scores for winning...since only wins count, everyone gets the 20 points

[Motörhead]

making only win count, with this formula, is plain silly.

Edited by fx8320, 25 October 2014 - 07:57 AM.

[Ghostwolfe]

I applaud the PGI employee who is trying to come up with with weekly challenges to keep the community and game going.

However this employee needs to be taken to the closet and locked in there with a pissed off raccoon for this weeks challenege.





This challenege only creates crappy games. PGI have you seen how the players play during these types of circumstances?

- you need to get away from kills being the main source of points and do something that rewards the team as a whole for a win.

- Make kills and assists have the same value, make damage done the stat which sets apart the best players from the average ones.

Do those two things and the team will play more as a team instead of all these people hiding behind others waiting for the kill shot, or hiding in the back and waiting for the others to "soften" up the enemy, or in general just not playing as a team.


Lately it is NOT worth logging in a few games on weekneds with these types of challenges

[WVAnonymous]

Anyone else finding that certain mech chassis refuse to appear?

I'm dropping in a variety to get a feel for where the rankings are now, and I have chassis that I dropped in last night that still don't appear in the tournament page.

Tarogato, on 24 October 2014 - 12:03 PM, said:

Here's the full list of 'mechs in order of popularity:

# |  Mech  |	number of participants in each snapshot
1 Stormcrow	15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15
2 Atlas		10 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15
3 Direwolf	  8 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15
4 Centurion	 8 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15
5 Jenner		8 11 11 13 14 15 15 15 15 15 15
6 Summoner	  0  8 14 14 15 15 15 15 15 15 15
7 Adder		 3  9  9 14 15 15 15 15 15 15 15
8 Jagermech	 7  9  9 13 15 15 15 15 15 15 15
9 Locust		1  8 12 12 15 15 15 15 15 15 15
10 Timberwolf   2  3  3 12 15 15 15 15 15 15 15
11 Cataphract   2  3 11 11 14 15 15 15 15 15 15
12 Shadowhawk   2  6  6 11 15 15 15 15 15 15 15
13 Thunderbolt  1  4 11 11 13 15 15 15 15 15 15
14 Stalker	  1  5  8  8 13 15 15 15 15 15 15
15 Awesome	  3  6  8  8 12 15 15 15 15 15 15
16 Spider	   1  6 10 10 11 15 15 15 15 15 15
17 Kitfox	   0  2  6  6 12 15 15 15 15 15 15
18 Maddog	   2  7  8  8 11 14 15 15 15 15 15
19 Firestarter  2  7  7  8 12 13 15 15 15 15 15
20 Catapult	 2  5  9  9 10 12 15 15 15 15 15
21 Raven		2  6  8  8 10 12 15 15 15 15 15
22 Battlemaster 2  5  5  5 11 14 15 15 15 15 15
23 Banshee	  2  4  6  6  7 10 14 15 15 15 15
24 Commando	 1  3  3  3  4 11 15 15 15 15 15
25 Dragon	   2  4  4  5  6  8 14 15 15 15 15
26 Warhawk	  4  7  7  7  8  9 12 15 15 15 15
27 Orion		2  6  6  9  9 11 12 14 15 15 15
28 Hunchback	3  4  6  6  7  9 12 14 15 15 15
29 Blackjack	1  2  4  4  6 10 12 14 15 15 15
30 Quickdraw	0  3  5  5  7  9 11 15 15 15 15
31 Nova		 1  3  4  4  6  8 10 13 15 15 15
32 Cicada	   0  0  6  6  8 10 12 14 15 15 15
33 Griffin	  0  0  3  3  6  9 10 13 15 15 15
34 Highlander   1  1  1  1  2  5  7 10 15 15 15
35 Wolverine	2  4  4  4  4  7  9 13 14 15 15
36 Victor	   0  0  1  1  5  8 11 13 15 15 15
37 Kintaro	  0  0  1  1  4  5  9 11 14 15 15
38 Vindicator   1  3  5  5  6  8  9  9 10 10 11
39 Trebuchet	0  0  1  1  4  4  7  7  8 12 15

Data gathered across 11 snapshots as the leaderboard filled up with participants per chassis.

Interesting.

Tarogato, what's the timeframe for these snapshots? Every 30 minutes or so?

[Ironwithin]

WVAnonymous, on 25 October 2014 - 09:43 AM, said:

Anyone else finding that certain mech chassis refuse to appear?

I'm dropping in a variety to get a feel for where the rankings are now, and I have chassis that I dropped in last night that still don't appear in the tournament page.



Tarogato, what's the timeframe for these snapshots? Every 30 minutes or so?

Dropped in my Shadowhawk once about 15hours or so ago to see roughly how many people are a competing, hasn't shown up in the board yet.

[Kresko]

I think a lot of the players are missing that only if your TEAM wins then it counts your score for the tourney.

[Ironwithin]

Faison1970, on 25 October 2014 - 10:11 AM, said:

I think a lot of the players are missing that only if your TEAM wins then it counts your score for the tourney.

Good point.

[Nightmare1]

Wow, after 8:00 PM last night, all the LRM spam came out in force.

...I guess I need to re-kit my HBKs so that I can climb a bit higher. This brawler build just isn't cutting since I can't get close now.

[Klappspaten]

I had looked forward to playing for this challenge this weekend. I managed top 10 placements in every leaderboard challence I took time for so far and so I hoped for a lot of fun this weekend. Im trying for about 4 hours now and I have only made 5 games. The rest of the time was spent with waiting for matches and the game crashing.
A BIG disapointment for me.

[Saobh]

Well if you plan on playing on a medium, yeah its going to be harsh time waiting. I have my scarcrow + shadowhawks to level up but I'm going to pass this week end as 50% population in medium is nap time waiting line.

And yes people need to be reminded that playing solo to gets points is pointless (well even more pointless) if you team losses because of that.

Tho I did have one great end match :
Ended LRM Catapult vs SRM Catapult, both out of ammo. We tried to finish it out by ramming each other but the timer went to 0

I believe all had a good time watching that Mech sumo ending. Makes up for the countless teamwork lacking games we've had today ^^

Edited by Saobh, 25 October 2014 - 12:33 PM.

[Docta Pain]

PGI is gathering data to re-evaluate the variant Mech-Quirks that they've developed. Everyone participating is play testing the quirks. The validation performed on the prior list of tier 1-5 rankings was done based on selective player input, with backing from some data. However, the data & players information was skewed by the weight class match maker system, so this weekend's tournament, A.K.A. playtest , is to more fully evaluate each variant in a non-weight class specific environment.

In other words, PGI is determining if "Clans are still OP", and if the Mech-Quirks should be implemented by variant as previously classified by tiers.

[Docta Pain]

Suggestion: Place Unit affiliations next to our names. I like seeing which teams the best of the best are a part of.
ex: [SRPH] Docta Pain

[DarthPeanut]

Ended up playing a few matches for fun running a Banshee last night. Might do some later tonight.

Will not have time to play probably much more so I do not expect much. Bit burned out from the last 2 tournaments honestly.

[Major Derps]

Klappspaten, on 25 October 2014 - 12:18 PM, said:

I had looked forward to playing for this challenge this weekend. I managed top 10 placements in every leaderboard challence I took time for so far and so I hoped for a lot of fun this weekend. Im trying for about 4 hours now and I have only made 5 games. The rest of the time was spent with waiting for matches and the game crashing.
A BIG disapointment for me.

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