191 replies to this topic

[Asmosis]

Vandul, on 17 October 2014 - 01:15 PM, said:

Pushing 30% already. PGI, how about 75% for a million points?

how about 100% if we reach 2 million points? not the bays obviously

[Bilbo]

Asmosis, on 17 October 2014 - 01:18 PM, said:

how about 100% if we reach 2 million points? not the bays obviously

Vandul, on 17 October 2014 - 01:15 PM, said:

Pushing 30% already. PGI, how about 75% for a million points?

The progression isn't linear. We'll be pushing to hit the 50% number.

[Deathlike]

The biggest problem though is that there's no "vested interest" for those that already acquired a Stormcrow through buying the packs, or those that already bought it with MC.

Something for those that already bought in would probably made the event more "inclusive".

Edit:

For instance, just for a basic idea...

If a Stormcrow is fielded (regardless of team), the points gained is increased 2 points more for every Stormcrow. - This would be there to show its power/worth of the chassis (it is a solid one after all)

If a Stormcrow pilot contributes to a win, a free mechbay is gained every 10 wins, up to 3 mechbays max. - This would incentivize mechbay purchases indirectly, since you're getting free mechbays AND have some power over the sale price of the mechbays (Shadowhawks and Mechbays will go on sale, not just Stormcrows).

These are simple ideas to make people want to play for the weekend, despite having zero interest in the Stormcrow sale.

Edited by Deathlike, 17 October 2014 - 01:37 PM.

[Vandul]

Deathlike, on 17 October 2014 - 01:28 PM, said:

The biggest problem though is that there's no "vested interest" for those that already acquired a Stormcrow through buying the packs, or those that already bought it with MC.

Something for those that already bought in would probably made the event more "inclusive".

I dont know, 75% off mechbays sounds good to me.

[Deathlike]

Vandul, on 17 October 2014 - 01:35 PM, said:

I dont know, 75% off mechbays sounds good to me.

PGI has never gone beyond 50% for sales, so no dice.

[Vandul]

We were surmisin'

[Bront]

Minor scoring problem:
Assault/Conquest:
Team that wins on objective: 20 points.
Team that wins by killing: 10 points
Teams that draw: 5 points (So, both teams get 5 points, meaning that we still get 10).

Unless I'm reading it wrong.

[Deathlike]

Bront, on 17 October 2014 - 02:05 PM, said:

Minor scoring problem:
Assault/Conquest:
Team that wins on objective: 20 points.
Team that wins by killing: 10 points
Teams that draw: 5 points (So, both teams get 5 points, meaning that we still get 10).

Unless I'm reading it wrong.

It's not about teams, but "match outcome".

It's a community based result.

Edited by Deathlike, 17 October 2014 - 02:08 PM.

[Bilbo]

Bront, on 17 October 2014 - 02:05 PM, said:

Minor scoring problem:
Assault/Conquest:
Team that wins on objective: 20 points.
Team that wins by killing: 10 points
Teams that draw: 5 points (So, both teams get 5 points, meaning that we still get 10).

Unless I'm reading it wrong.

1 match. 1 score.

Ninja'd

Edited by Bilbo, 17 October 2014 - 02:08 PM.

[Darth Futuza]

Asmosis, on 17 October 2014 - 01:18 PM, said:

how about 100% if we reach 2 million points? not the bays obviously

Mwahahaha! Free mech bays, begin mass purchasing today!

Would be so wonderful

[Goose]

Annnnd somehow every game is Skimish.

Guess I'll go find something fun to do …

[Carthoo]

Sry about probable answered question, but that "sale" means stromcrow will be for cbills too from 21? Or mc only?

[T K O]

two mechs only? really...

[Deathlike]

Carthoo, on 17 October 2014 - 03:38 PM, said:

Sry about probable answered question, but that "sale" means stromcrow will be for cbills too from 21? Or mc only?

Both.

[-Natural Selection-]

Goose, on 17 October 2014 - 02:49 PM, said:

Annnnd somehow every game is Skimish.

Guess I'll go find something fun to do …

Applies to all 3 modes.. Unselect skirmish

[Ayrmoon]

OK, the sale is nice. But I'm I the only one excited to see that PGI has come up with a way to put more emphasis on Assault and Conquest? It may be a small change and it has to be tied to an incentive (sale by % for a physical in-game reward), but this goes a long way into making these two game modes what they should be, Assault and Conquest. Instead of a Skirmish mode with a secondary of capturing a base or cap point.

Thanks PGI for trying to make the game something more than just, “Run out and kill Mechs”.


Yes I know what you are going to say. “Once the sale goes away, people will go back to just killing Mechs!” This may very well be true. But once CW starts, if the Primary Objective is large enough/important enough then that objective will become the focus of those matches. Making the game much more fun and challenging.

I would bet that PGI is watching the results of this weekends challenge to see if there is an increase in the primary objective over that of a same period/range of matches before this sale. I think that the results would be very interesting to see. And it will tell PGI that the man hours for coding, and coming up with primary objective rewards in CW, will be worth it.

So, if this is a small preview of what we might expect in CW, I can’t wait for that part of the game to begin! Rock-em, sock-em robots can get redundant.

Thanks PGI,
Ayrmoon

Edited by Ayrmoon, 17 October 2014 - 03:47 PM.

[ImperialKnight]

Terciel1976, on 17 October 2014 - 09:21 AM, said:

Everybody should only play skirmish if we want to do this as efficiently as possible.

Not sure if serious or trolling. The most efficient way is to play Assault and only cap bases, resulting in 3 min games that contributes 20 points


Also, people don't get how exponential increase works and are way to optimistic. We are now 7 hours into the challenge and at about 34k points. If this rate is linear, we'd only be at about 350k points by the end of the challenge. It's by no means a given that we will hit 450k points. Get out there and start capping

Edited by knightsljx, 17 October 2014 - 04:08 PM.

[Sereglach]

This is actually pretty impressive . . . and a really frigging creative idea. Bravo to PGI for coming up with it!

It could also actually get me to buy Stormcrows. Granted, I'm too poor to buy them for MC, but I've invested money into MWO when I have the ability to and the fact that this sale will extend to c-Bill variants is really classy of PGI.

Thank you very much, PGI. I look forward to helping push up the point total.

[IllCaesar]

Already at 50,000. If this pace continues, we won't reach the 50% off mark, but we should reach 45% off.

[Draven Darkshadow]

well it started at 10 am and its 10 pm now so during this 12 hour period we got 56k so about 4.7k points an hour on average so 60 hours left approximate at the current path we will only make 282k more points to get about 338k points to get 450k we need to improve our points gathering by at least 33% ... man what a daunting task
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