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[Brother Calidus]

Hmm, i may just get these wins in my old Centurian-A i still have. Already mastered mind so not sure how useful the champion version will be for me.

[Lukoi Banacek]

Cool stuff PGI.

Testing the UI functionality with this opportunity?

[T Hawk]

10 losses in a row. Who cares for the event, not gonna get it anyway. Gotta be really lucky if you aren't with a group because of all those....awesome players you are thrown together with.

Nice event though, at least they try.

[Lukoi Banacek]

What's common throughout the 10 losses?

I got mine pugging.

Maybe you should take a breather and try again later.

[Polignac]

Great! Thanks PGI

I will say, too, this is smart because the Cent isn't a particularly faction specific mech. It's a good overall shared mech to have in the mechbay.

[Zolaz]

Good job PGI

[SgtMagor]

@THawk, pugging can be rough, but if you constantly keep track of your team and radar, and stay with your team. things will get better, I pug all the time.

[Edward Mattlov]

T Hawk, on 21 February 2014 - 04:57 PM, said:

10 losses in a row. Who cares for the event, not gonna get it anyway. Gotta be really lucky if you aren't with a group because of all those....awesome players you are thrown together with.

Nice event though, at least they try.

Drop with some friends. I got one win solo and four with my clan. I have a good friend who drops solo most of the time and got his five wins fairly quickly. It is far from impossible and you have almost four days to do it, so statistically you should easily be able to get five wins.

[T Hawk]

SgtMagor, on 21 February 2014 - 05:13 PM, said:

@THawk, pugging can be rough, but if you constantly keep track of your team and radar, and stay with your team. things will get better, I pug all the time.

I had two guys fighting over who should be giving orders to the team in my last match just now. They were insulting each other in the midst of combat. I just couldn't take any more of it, lol.

[Mudhutwarrior]

23 matches for 5 wins but its done. Hang in there and you will get there.

[Hellen Wheels]

[silentnukerecon]

This is a nice of PG to do. I just got the mech and I never thought to use this mech before.

[Deathlike]

Necromantion, on 21 February 2014 - 01:21 PM, said:

You didnt have to redeem anything to get the xmas tree or any of the cockpit items that were given out for participating in the "X wins for whatever" promotions they had before. So therefore theres nothing different now other than as soon as its fulfilled you get it rather than waiting till the end of the period, if you recall the counters on your account under the achievements or whatnot tab always updated in real-time before. Do you think they then went through a database of account numbers before and manually or separately created a program to award the items? No they just did it at the end of the period.

Also so youre saying just because each other time they only awarded one item rather than multiple they couldnt have given you two? You really are special. If they could inject a single item they could inject multiple, they just would add a second section of code that is identical to the one for the first item but contains the parameters for the second.

This UI has done nothing to change any of this, the counting of wins was not and still is not done through the UI, its server side and still handled how it was before. The new UI doesnt handle items being added to the account any differently then before either.
Jeesh. Think for a moment.

Well, all I will say is that although the difference is minute (data being refreshed properly after relogging in), it's a lot more convenient when it is refreshed on demand. I think whatever code in the older UI 1.5 that didn't refresh stuff properly after being bought (like MC, or mechbays or whatever comes up)... it had to be redone... because it would be difficult to code alerts properly... and nothing good comes out of "not getting the urgent message that the server was going to come down". There was some weirdness with the state of the game (like those previous challenges with the items).

Although, my particular experience with the addition was strange. I was informed of getting stuff, but I ended up getting a mechbay at that time. After dropping into another match, the popup came again with the Cent-A Champion. I wonder what would have happened had I bought a mech into that spare mechbay at the moment....

Cimarb, on 21 February 2014 - 01:26 PM, said:

Exactly. Previous challenges like this could be completed on Friday, and you had to wait until the next patch to receive the item/reward. Shoot, sometimes you had to wait a couple days to even see how the challenge was going on the website, lol...


I'm of a different mindset. I will take free things all day long, but earning them means immensely more to me than getting it handed to me for participating. I love the idea Bryan talked about in the latest NGNG podcast where you could earn a mech through the achievement system, but if they are going to give one away for five wins over almost as many days, it takes all of the achievement out of the challenge.

I am all for it, and will enjoy the mech as I have only used trial centurions up until now, but I would rather feel a sense of accomplishment for being challenged, or it be just a true "thank you for playing" gift up front, than given the line "meet this challenge" without an actual challenge involved.

I've felt that way with Operation 24. That was my biggest gripe with the entire challenge. Now if you find stuff like say the Alienware heads... it's not a "challenge" but I guess it's the other "best" kind of free stuff you can get (the one where you stumble onto the goodies).

Oh well.

[GalaxyBluestar]

quite a smart move to encourage play, and it's been an idea asked of pgi for a while well done.

Edited by GalaxyBluestar, 21 February 2014 - 05:31 PM.

[SubGenius23]

thank you. that made me want to play the game again. not for the free stuff, but for the fact that you are starting to care... with all this steam sales, almost free bundles and free giveaways, you did a fair "bundle" sale and the "thanks for playing" giveaway... keep it up guys. game needs steam release also...

[Creeping Deth]

Thanks for the coolness Piranha!!

[Alaskan Nobody]

Brother Calidus, on 21 February 2014 - 04:56 PM, said:

Hmm, i may just get these wins in my old Centurian-A i still have. Already mastered mind so not sure how useful the champion version will be for me.

Consider it a free mechbay and Cbills then

Edit: if you do sell one - I would lean more toward selling the non-(C) one, as if nothing else, it earns 10% more GXP as well.

Edited by Shar Wolf, 21 February 2014 - 05:57 PM.

[Werewolf486 ScorpS]

So it took me 5 matches in a Jenner to get it. The teams that I was paired with won the first 5 drops I was in. I'd be pissed if I had paid real money for this though. Oh well, I was only suckered into a Founders Hunchie and forced to buy other mechbays, so thanks for the free mechbay and a Champion version to replace my regular mastered Cent-9A.

[Ertur]

I'm tempted to use my CN9-A to get this.

[Aluminumfoiled]

Mechbay and a STD 275. Thanks