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[mp00]

Even though I did see it and opt in...I have to say again not enough advance notice, totally excludes so many people who miss the opt in. This is supposed to be positive and fun but is totally negative for those who cannot participate for missing the opt in. Seriously PGI locking so people don't change factions once it starts is useless, people change factions before they opt in!

LOCK THE DAMN FACTIONS WHEN YOU ANNOUNCE IT!!!
"Tournament will prevent players from switching factions for the next 3 days. New accounts may still choose, but all others will remain locked until the tournament runs its coarse."
This will let everyone participate, prevent people from switching just beforehand. Or if people want to switch durin the tourney it will invalidate there tourney results.

[Weirdjedi]

The challenge here is a little ambiguous in details. Before, the whole thing was centered around winning a few matches. You opted in, you could track your marker online, and you immediately (or within the hour) got your reward.

This tournament seems to have several flaws. You participate in 10 matches. Are there any restrictions? Could you die and leave the match? Are we sure they counted? There is no tracker to make sure. Getting the reward after the tournament doesn't help. I'm also a little confused how it states 'manually injected' in the preview. Perhaps it is just flavor text for saying 'you don't have to press a redeem button to get it'.

There also seems to be a lot of confusion with the links (which have been fixed), the lack of knowledge of this tournament beforehand, the confusion and frustration between this tournament and the other tournament being scheduled close together, and the small window of opportunity to play.

I'm not too bothered with it all. I just want confirmation before it ends, that's all.

[AC]

Roadbeer, on 22 May 2014 - 02:59 PM, said:

Solo only faction pride tournament,

This never ceases to crack me up.

let me get this straight.... We have a faction challenge, and we can't actually play with out factions? (ie. No 2-4 man premades??)

I figured by now you would understand the importance of the social aspect of MechWarrior. I guess I am wrong.

[Deathlike]

AC, on 24 May 2014 - 10:47 PM, said:

let me get this straight.... We have a faction challenge, and we can't actually play with out factions? (ie. No 2-4 man premades??)

I figured by now you would understand the importance of the social aspect of MechWarrior. I guess I am wrong.

Tourney player - leaves friends, win tourney, spends MC on more mechbays, trinkets, or camos.

That's the life!

[C E Dwyer]

Standards are a lot worse this time around.

My final score last time put me five places outside the scoring fifty, this challenge I'd be second, in my pool.

Mind you I'm playing like an ass haven't broken into the top 100 yet.

[mp00]

Yup it is great for building up community... half my friends missed the opt in many of which wanted to play... they found several of us trying to solo drop for the tourney... so it was either play for my house in the tourney and abandon my friends.. or play with friends and skip fighting with friends for the house...not to mention all those who decided to skip playing out of frustration with not getting into tourney or those seeing they had been free premium time ...that had already started and nearly run out or had run out...



PGI gives us a calendar.... week 1: solo tourney. announcements and start registering for 4 man tourney. week 2: 4man tourney. announcements and registering for 12 man tourney. week 3: round 1-2 or 12 man tourney. week 4 finals for 12 man tourney.

[Accused]

Weird.

I opted in asap, yet I'm not registered. Then it let me opt in late, but still not showing up in the brackets. Think I missed the boat due to this buggy mess.

[Linkin]

Roadbeer, on 22 May 2014 - 08:01 PM, said:

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Not blind, but perhaps delayed or selective sight, ty.

[Shadow Wolfe]

Opting in an hour after the 10am PDT time means I can't get any rewards, even the 10 match reward?

[Zolaz]

So ... how do you tell if you have done 10 games? Is there a counter or something?

[Zerberus]

FREE HULA GIRL!!!

[Eglar]

So Davions get the revenge...

[Stickjock]

Eglar, on 25 May 2014 - 06:18 AM, said:

So Davions get the revenge...

For now... it's been pretty close so far... lol... Have to get some chores done then I'll be in helping out Steiner defend their victory from the first Faction Challenge... not sure exactly how much help I'll actually be... but still...

[xMintaka]

So. Many. Lurms.

[Wildstreak]

What a Faction Challenge should be:

- 12 man teams where every person on the team is from the same faction.
- Exception allowed for Merc Corp and Lone Wolves. Due to their nature, they may be recruited/contracted to fill out a different faction's team.
- Ban of anything meta to allow more diverse loadouts and gameplay.
- Limit of 2 of any Mech on a team, allows for more diverse gameplay.

[Zolaz]

PGI says one thing and does another. Faction challenge means PUG matches. Because that is how nations fight ... they take a bunch of militia and throw it at the enemy.

[Quardak]

max combined Pinpoint Damage in 1 Mech: 20

1x AC/10 + 1x AC/5
2x PPC
1x PPC + 2x AC/5
1x AC/20
4x AC/5

Enough Pinpoint

Also: Max combined LRM: 40

Edited by Quardak, 25 May 2014 - 07:08 AM.

[Zolaz]

I think I got my 10 matches in. No way to be sure. PGI cant spend 2 min of coding time so that you can see how many matches you have played or what score you got from the individual matches. Seems like if you are recording that information anyways that you could share it with your players.

Oh well, probably too much to expect from PGI.

[Thrudvangar]

Eglar, on 24 May 2014 - 02:07 PM, said:

20 games on point with 1994 #1 overall, too bad proton wants to play tomorrow.
For anyone interessted.. my games so far

telle me.. how do you get always those high damage games?

my kills/assists are almost the same but i don't go over 500 dmg ....

[Eglar]

Enzlaved, on 25 May 2014 - 09:13 AM, said:

telle me.. how do you get always those high damage games?

my kills/assists are almost the same but i don't go over 500 dmg ....

Push. Use Strikes, Win or Die in a horrible fashion. Make sure you are the front-most mech at any time unless you're cored.