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[Training Instructor]

Jazriel, on 26 September 2014 - 09:51 AM, said:

Go to the forums under the faction that you pick,to find their public TS channels.
Log on, join the TS and wait in the lobby well dropping solo.
Sooner or later some one will pick you up.
With every one knowing of this challenge it will be expected.

Learn to make friends.

But what about people who might only be able to commit to one match at a time?

I'm in a unit, I can join them if I want, but I fully understand the plight of someone who just wants to fight in a semi-organized fashion 15 minutes at a time. I skip half my unit's practices because I've got other stuff to do. There are plenty of paying customers who would gladly join the group queue on a match by match basis, rather than having to go join people on a 3rd party chat somewhere.

[JohnnyWayne]

dr lao, on 26 September 2014 - 06:34 PM, said:

You do know no one under 40 nows that song lol lets see i was 10 when that came out im 53 lol

As pointed out, the song is known to every generation, but maybe! only to those with at least some education.

[Training Instructor]

Big Tin Man, on 26 September 2014 - 10:28 AM, said:

I'm just sad that kills are worth one point instead of 3 (2 points for shooting the guy, 1 for kill shot).

There's nothing worse than being afraid of taking the shot because you might kill that mech, because that would slow your progress. Can we get this fixed for the next one?

And I love this event. Last one had some of the best matches and teamwork I've seen in this game since I started. PUGS were listening. SQUEEEEEE!!!

Sounds like someone who hides for most of the match, only to pop out with their dual-gauss Jager halfway through the match, trying to finish people who have already been damaged.

[Training Instructor]

I'd be totally down for group voicecomms if I only had to put up with them when everyone was ready to start the match.

Been in so many groups of people on comstar and ngng who make you wait while they tweak mechs, go afk, etc.

When I'm ready to play, I'm ready to play.

[Nyuuu]

These Lance Challenges are kind of starting to annoy me, why am I treated second class just because most of the guys I know have a job by now not playing much and I am not in the mood to sit in some random ts lobby waiting for the mercy of someone to move me to a channel.

[Gnume]

Mudhawk, on 27 September 2014 - 02:33 AM, said:

Well Captn, Kudos if you dare facing a Lance challenge as a 2 man team. Thats brave if somewhat foolish. But the second part? The "Let us drop on top of Soloists as a Group and get full rewards"... Happens every day were there is NO challenge. I do not feel a need to extend the stomping into Challenge territory.

You'd make a fine Sherrif of Rottingham though:

"So it's come down to this, has it?
A fight to the death...
...mano a mano...
...man to man...
...just you and me and my...
...guards!"

(Mel Brooks / Men in Tights)

PS: (Pun incoming) Seriously, I doubt dropping a Lance on Solo-Dudes is JUST play... :-P

You misunderstood. I wasn't advocating allowing team drops in the Solo Queue ... I was saying make that type of Challenge an Individual Challenge, irrelevant of which Queue you drop. Play in the Solo Queue when you have no friends on and earn points towards the Challenge or group with your friends and still earn the points when you are playing in the Group Queue...results based on your INDIVIDUAL performance, not your team/lance (ie., you earn points towards the Challenge by Just Playing).

As to the other ... it's always rough in the Group Queue, no matter the size of your group.

[Tumbling Dice]

Training Instructor, on 27 September 2014 - 03:28 AM, said:

I'd be totally down for group voicecomms if I only had to put up with them when everyone was ready to start the match.

Been in so many groups of people on comstar and ngng who make you wait while they tweak mechs, go afk, etc.

When I'm ready to play, I'm ready to play.

^^THIS!^^

[rangergord]

Like I said, we need an in game lobby for people wanting a group and ready to play

Edited by rangergord, 27 September 2014 - 06:50 AM.

[CaptainFuture]

hey,

maybe i am spoiled, but just some gxp as reward for tier2 and tier3 seems a bit lame. how about some MC or Mech prices next time ?

bye,

CaptainFuture

[Grayson Sortek]

Last night I was on with three of my friends... Two joined me because we wanted to get some points for the challenge, the third was being a big cry baby about not wanting to play a game where you have to join a unit or group to win (which we weren't doing at the time). So we launched without him and decided to try to pick someone up from the match, unfortunately no one wanted to join us. We launched again, same thing, then again, then again, then again, then again, and finally... again no one wanted to join so we were done for the night.

Already I can't convince my friends to join my unit (C4, which is an awesome group of people) so how the hell am I supposed to convince them to join a TS pug looking server? This would be a moot point if we could just queue up in a LFG system that would add one more person. So as it stands now I either bang my head against the wall with my RL friends that I've known for 16 years, or I tell them to go screw themselves and I play with my unit (sounds dirty).

I'm leaning towards the latter. PGI a LFG system in this game would be a god-send, please, please, please consider developing one.

P.S. You would think that a challenge like this would encourage more group cooperation and social interaction, but unfortunately it can cause drama and division when you have to deal with generally anti-social people.

[noise gate]

reward is meh

[Alaskan Nobody]

Ovion, on 27 September 2014 - 02:35 AM, said:

It's like people know Beethoven, the Beetles and Elvis. Old =/= not around anymore.

Good music never dies.

Edit: or goes out of style

Edited by Shar Wolf, 27 September 2014 - 09:22 AM.

[Taifune]

Please, for the next time: no TAG/NARC Bonuses... the number of LRMs in group queue is just insane....

[Speerit Ward]

First White-Knight: Thank you for keeping the engaging contests and interesting things like this going. I appreciate it.

White knight sleepy. Black knight now.
Several issues here.

-Max reward of 4500 GXP +3 days premium? Ok, first of all, the 3 days premium is worth more than the other two combined, so it should be the top tier reward. (Literally. 4500 GXP would cost... 180 MC to convert? Am i right on that?) and 3 days premium would cost over 600.
-To reiterate, the tier 2 and 3 rewards are actually garbage. I mean just awful. What were you thinking? (One might argue you were thinking "Hey! Here's something for free, just for playing in a 4 man") but for the reasons I will spell out below, you have created a weekend of really bad play for everyone, so you might have made it WORTH it.

-Your scoring system can only have been designed by someone who was either heavily intoxicated, or just...careless. You award 1 point or a kill. 1 insignificant point. But 2 points for an assist. So never mind the dire wolf that pounds down the atlas singlehandedly, one point for him. But 2 points to the shadowhawk that snuck in a medium laser. Are you stupid? And you award 2 for spotting, tagging, and Narc'ing. Something an accomplished light pilot can get 20+ of in a single match, all together. In fact, if he takes a ERLL, Narc, and Tag, he can get 12 asists, and average 15 from narc/scout/tag. Thats 54 points. And if he wins, which he did with 12 assists, 58 points. Yes, thats a STELLAR GAME, so lets compare it to a DPS roles stellar game.

Timber Wolf rolls out. Claims 8 kills, 2 assists. An incidental spotting bonus. Make it 2. And a win, naturally.

20 points. For a LEGENDARY game.

So, an obvious scouting bias. You know who REALLY cleans up? LRM boats. They can get spotting bonuses, TAG bonuses, assists, AND the win. Thanks so much for LRMageddon V 3.0.

Why you would set kill rewards so low is beyond me. (It creates an environment of teamwork and cooperation!)
No, you shut your ***** mouth. It creates a battlefield where no one wants to take the last shot. You are literally PENALIZED for killing mechs in this program.

[SpoonFox]

Looking for lance players

pls contact me to team up.

@PGI: please make a in game chat so people can get in touch, inorder to make the challange at all.

[Sudden]

thanks for this. I do enjoy the weekends like this

[Smargl]

Previous "Lance challenge" tought me, how to use TS3, i joined a unit, my friendlist now always have online pilots, i'm sorry what was i'm about... some people who whine there about how hard to assemble 4 players group lrmageddon e.t.c. Thats why its called challenge isnt it? When do we started to call free giveaways "challenge"? And many of you really can just say, "Hey give me another free cockpit item".

[Pet Dude]

Looking for a lance? Message me I'm around in game a lot. I'm willing to drop with people.

Looking for a lance? Message me I'm around in game a lot. I'm willing to drop with people.

[Kira II]

Wish it was easier to find groups. In the mean time, add me if you need another. Will be on all weekend.

[Ovion]

It's not really that hard to find groups.
There's the TS servers (Comstar, NGNG, others)
Various Units / Groups / Clans to sign up with. There's an entire section of the forums dedicated to that.
Forum section to find groups I think?

Hell, I went on TS, ended up joining CI - always someone to play with, or I can go pugging.
No obligations whatsoever. (Apart from joining their website and wearing their tag on TS)
And I'm sure there's other similar groups too.

Edited by Ovion, 27 September 2014 - 02:15 PM.