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[InnerSphereNews]

Greetings MechWarriors!

With the recent restoration of the Game Mode hard selections, we have an awesome challenge for you this weekend:

A challenge a day for 3 days!

Day 1 - Conquest Day - Friday Oct. 10th 10AM PDT to Saturday Oct. 11th 10AM PDT

Earn 200 points to receive 1 day premium time and a Wish Bone hanging cockpit item!

Day 2 - Assault Day - Saturday Oct. 11th 10AM PDT to Sunday Oct. 12th 10AM PDT

Earn 200 points to receive 1 day premium time and a Rabbits Foot hanging cockpit item!

Day 3 - Skirmish Day - Sunday Oct. 12th 10AM PDT to Monday Oct. 13th 10AM PDT

Earn 200 points to receive 1 day premium time and a Four Leaf Clover hanging cockpit item!

How to earn points

Earn points by playing the appropriate Game mode for that day and performing these actions

• Kill = 1 point
  
• Assist = 2 points
  
• Spot = 2 points
  
• Tag assist = 2 points
  
• Narc Assist = 2 points
  
• Victory = 3 points
  

Revised Points system:

• Kill = 2 points
  
• Assist = 3 points
  
• Spot = 3 points
  
• Victory = 4 points

For more info regarding these Revisions, please refer to Paul's post: http://mwomercs.com/forums/topic/174405-reward-tracking-and-narctag-bonuses/

Note:

To earn points, you must be playing the correct game mode for the day

You can play in solo or group queue.

[GenJack]

Yay

Edited by GenJack, 10 October 2014 - 09:33 AM.

[Bront]

Nice. Group or Solo, only the mode counts.

[CycKath]

Solo challenge! Happy!

Hopefully I have enough time on Monday, thanks to the time difference, to be able to get the Skirmish challenge cleared in time...

[sabujo]

Meh... I think the biggest "reward" here is not getting the red "X".

[Thrudvangar]

Nice, kills aren't the best point givers....!

[TercieI]

Don't know why wins got devalued, but nice challenge.

[Hemholtz]

Nuts....can't do the 4 leaf clover challenge

[Deathlike]

If this were St. Patrick's Day weekend, I'd see the value.

I'm not sure how Christopher Columbus feels.

[Jody Von Jedi]

Assist is worth more than a kill, interesting. Should be an easy challenge, 5 assists alone will net you 10 points. Don't care for the hanging items, but the premium time is OK.

[Logan Hawke]

I'm guessing this is to get better info gathering for the different modes? Not at all a bad way to do it, rewards are always a nice incentive.

[Kilo 40]

Deathlike, on 10 October 2014 - 09:07 AM, said:

I'm not sure how Christopher Columbus feels.

Angry enough to commit genocide!

[Lily from animove]

my buddy in a light and me in a medium trying to group drop in conquest and we can not find any matches, something broken?

Edited by Lily from animove, 10 October 2014 - 09:14 AM.

[Big Tin Man]

Continues beating my head against the desk

WHY IS A KILL WORTH LESS THAN AN ASSIST?????

Just make kills worth 3 so people won't be afraid to take the kill shot. I.E. you still get the 2 points for the assist, plus 1 for the kill.

Edited by Big Tin Man, 10 October 2014 - 09:16 AM.

[Deathlike]

I think people "misunderstand" the whole kill = 1 point situation.

If it had the most points, the assist is devalued, especially when people will try to solo more vs their opponents just to collect 3 points. With it being 1 point, sure someone will get "less points" than the rest of their team, but everyone gets an opportunity at the assist... plus, you don't mind padding your k-d ratio do you?

[LT. HARDCASE]

Does the UAV count for the 'Spot Bonus'?

[Deathlike]

Kevjack, on 10 October 2014 - 09:18 AM, said:

Does the UAV count for the 'Spot Bonus'?

AFAIK, it does.

[Big Tin Man]

I'd be ok with it if kills and assists are equal in value (though I still think that isn't right). The fact that a locust with an er large that splashes everyone gets more points than the people actually doing the work killing is fundamentally wrong.

Did the pilot who got the kill shot do anything more or less than the pilot who took the first shot?

[Sky Hawk]

Solo OR Group-Q? So nobody will cry "Why not ...XY-Q too"?...

+1 Point by you PGI!

Big Tin Man, on 10 October 2014 - 09:14 AM, said:

WHY IS A KILL WORTH LESS THAN AN ASSIST?????

Because there are some crazy, "I will Kill in any case, even we lose on that way badly!" players...

Edited by Sky Hawk, 10 October 2014 - 02:45 PM.

[Warblood]

awesome Thanksgiving weekend challenge!