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[Golilla]

Hello again!
This is Golilla from the BWC. Though I do enjoy and participate in the challenges, and love the shinies that come from playing anyway, I was wondering why CW got left out in the cold?
If my math is correct, you can get up to 12 mil C-bills from map drops, I can only get 2 mil in CW.
I feel that the promotion of playing CW should be just as, if not more important, and worth more.

My 2 cents, Golilla

[Lydialeera]

I have one question for you:

Why not do both?

[TheMadTypist]

Because coordinating groups across multiple powers can potentially farm the hell out of any challenges through ghost drops? Because CW is still in beta and PGI actually don't want to heavily encourage lots of players into it right now? Lots of potential reasons.

[Corbenik]

It can also be completed faster since you can use four mechs almost one of every mech class. and since CW depending on how good you are you can probably make way more cbills than a map drop.

[stratagos]

It's almost like most people aren't interested in CW, and PGI realizes some significant changes will have to go in before they try to lure people back...

[Wintersdark]

Corbenik, on 15 March 2015 - 02:25 PM, said:

It can also be completed faster since you can use four mechs almost one of every mech class. and since CW depending on how good you are you can probably make way more cbills than a map drop.

No, you don't get the bonus match rewards for the challenge in CW. You *only* get the 100k win or 50k loss bonuses, nothing else.

[EgoSlayer]

The maximum payout in CW is for 20 wining matches, just like the weight classes. But how much time will that be to get 20 wins in CW?

Edited by EgoSlayer, 15 March 2015 - 02:45 PM.

[Corbenik]

Wintersdark, on 15 March 2015 - 02:28 PM, said:

No, you don't get the bonus match rewards for the challenge in CW. You *only* get the 100k win or 50k loss bonuses, nothing else.

No I meant overall you still get more cbills without doing the challenge the 100k or 50k is like extra pittance money well if you are good, but since its a 12 man thing pugs get ggcloserekt , they coulda like given extra loyalty or something extra though.

[Triordinant]

Golilla, on 15 March 2015 - 02:18 PM, said:

Hello again!
This is Golilla from the BWC. Though I do enjoy and participate in the challenges, and love the shinies that come from playing anyway, I was wondering why CW got left out in the cold?
If my math is correct, you can get up to 12 mil C-bills from map drops, I can only get 2 mil in CW.
I feel that the promotion of playing CW should be just as, if not more important, and worth more.

My 2 cents, Golilla

The reason is only 13.5 percent of MWO players play CW so 14% to 20% of rewards going to CW matches sounds about right. Source: answer to Question 16 here.

[Satan n stuff]

EgoSlayer, on 15 March 2015 - 02:31 PM, said:

The maximum payout in CW is for 20 wining matches, just like the weight classes. But how much time will that to get 20 wins in CW?

Could be as much as 30 hours if you never win.

[Golilla]

Thanks for all the quick responses, I do appreciate the feedback! A couple have hit on the real reason I posted. It takes up to 3 times longer for 1/7th of the community to earn a lot less. I just felt there should be a boon there somewhere

[Wintersdark]

Corbenik, on 15 March 2015 - 02:36 PM, said:

No I meant overall you still get more cbills without doing the challenge the 100k or 50k is like extra pittance money well if you are good, but since its a 12 man thing pugs get ggcloserekt , they coulda like given extra loyalty or something extra though.

Under normal circumstances I make more in CW in a 12 man, but only in a 12 man - you need that to get drops faster. Also, you need actual opponents to fight, and in my experience most pugs won't keep queueing and getting wrecked by a 12man at a given world.

In actual practice, during this event, the public queues are the way to go. It takes practically nothing to hit 30 points in a match - you should do that win or loss - and 150k bonus per 7minute match makes all the difference. With your hero bonus, prime time, and +150k per match you make silly money.

On the other hand, CW is full of 10+ minute waits, ghost drops, 20 minute matches. I'll do 3 pubqueue drops per CW match... And that's assuming you have a 12man.

Yeah... The permatch bonus, if nothing else, should be substantially higher. At 50 or 100k for a match that counting search likely took 45 minutes... And may have ended up as a ghost drop earning practically nothing, they could have made the reward 3-5 times more.

[Johnny Z]

The star map is in beta. They are not really promoting it yet as anyone can see with these challenges.

[Evan20k]

How come every weekend someone is always complaining about free stuff?

[LordKnightFandragon]

IMO, I think there should be no limit to the income.

Let us Get our billions back!!! I mean, if the game isnt going to buff base Income amounts, then let these challenges be fairly easy, but no limit to the amount we can get.

Honestly, I wish this event was a normal bonus, added on as a percentage boost of your match score, truly a good measure of your match performance. Get play like ass and get a match score of 20, you get a 20K bonus. if you get a match score of 90, you get 90K added on.

Then in CW, you get a match score of 220, you get 220k added on lol. CHACHING!!!

Edited by LordKnightFandragon, 15 March 2015 - 06:16 PM.

[Lynx7725]

Shrug. I'm not so masochistic that I want to keep dropping in CW to get steamrolled over.