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[Revorn]

Alexander Garden, on 30 December 2014 - 05:19 PM, said:

Adjusted reward amounts are reported to be as follows:

House Kurita
62,500 C-bills (a 25% increase to standard C-bills)
65 Loyalty Points (a 30% increase to standard Loyalty Points)

House Marik
62,500 C-bills (a 25% increase to standard C-bills)
65 Loyalty Points (a 30% increase to standard Loyalty Points)

Free Rasalhague Republic
100,000 C-bills (a 100% increase to standard C-bills)
100 Loyalty Points (a 100% increase to standard Loyalty Points)

Are this Boni apply only if you can Manage a Victory?

[Warchild Corsair]

Our contract ends soon. This will make us reconsider the option of going back to FRR and against the Clans.

[Appogee]

Do these contract rewards get paid only when you win a CW match, or do they get paid even if you lose the CW match?

[I_AM_ZUUL]

Appogee, on 30 December 2014 - 11:57 PM, said:

Do these contract rewards get paid only when you win a CW match, or do they get paid even if you lose the CW match?

Only when you win.... so not that big of a deal when you are getting +500 LP on a loss and +1000 LP on a win.

[Deathlike]

XphR, on 30 December 2014 - 06:49 PM, said:

A little heavy handed on the 100% LP bonus. Other than that, kudos.

It's only for winning the match... which from 50 to 100 (if you're doubling it) is actually a cruel joke on a defense contract that nets one ~1000 loyalty points on a good day (before bonus modifiers like premium time and phoenix pack mechs and medallions).

Edited by Deathlike, 31 December 2014 - 01:34 AM.

[Revorn]

Well, if it is only for winning, than thx Alex, but, LOL.

[G SE7EN7]

Until wait times are reduced I dont see any of the adjusted 'reward' amounts have any impact what so ever in terms of who members play for.

In the grand scheme of things the loyalty points and cbills paid for winning a match is pittance compared to what you earn in the game.

[Pat Kell]

I could be wrong but I think the long wait times are because of disparate populations where the group with a higher population has to "get in line" for a match. This bonus may help spread teams out more so that wait times are less....we'll see I guess. Not an issue for me either way so if PGI wants to put a carrot out there to see of people will move around and balance the population some, that's cool with me.

[G SE7EN7]

IS players want a match... Clan players want a match... sooooo FIGHT. this is CW beta, give us some matches without wasting our time. the rest can get sorted as we go.

[HANGMAN1962]

1/2 my dropdeck is trial mechs and I still get consistent wins in cw lols

[JD R]

I_AM_ZUUL, on 30 December 2014 - 09:00 PM, said:

I love how steiners still dont get anything even though we have over 1/3 of the contested worlds to deal with..... that right "balance" the faction numbers with each other not with the amount of worlds they have to fight on and for. Makes perfect sense, Steiners have lost more worlds than anyone but we dont get anything.

Yes this few thousands of Steiner can never do that......

http://mwomercs.com/...-cw-time-lapse/

look at that and say who lost the most of his worlds.

[LordChu001]

Just as the group chat functions are still active while you are waiting in queue, I suggest that screen also have a bunch of "mini-games" or a mech shooting range players can engage in, for small amounts of c-bills or something.

Just as mechwarriors would need to kill the boredom between system jumps, in CW, we need access to items during our wait, like:
- HPG news feeds
- planet battle stats
- mech stats/info
- mech shooting gallery (with a generic mech)
- mech slots (?)
- Mech-checkers
- instead of team chat, call it a "MechWarrior bar" or "Mech-Donald's"
- a "Cockpit items gift shoppe" to browse.

Essentially, anything in-game, which will dump as soon as MM finds a match, would work.

I do not mind the wait times as much as how it locks down your session from doing anything. Alt-Esc does not give me a notification the game is on, so the suggestion is about in-game activities.

[Markoxford]

As a PUG "win only" rewards are not very enticing My next contract will be with the clans.

[SuomiWarder]

Faction rewards to tempt solos and mercs to switch sides helps round out the player population by faction. Winning a planet because no defenders showed up is not letting the players define the map pre se. Just luck of the numbers and faction popularity.

It is sill the player's shaping the map - they can choose to ignore loyalty bonuses to support a preferred faction.

[I_AM_ZUUL]

LordChu001, on 31 December 2014 - 07:52 AM, said:

Just as the group chat functions are still active while you are waiting in queue, I suggest that screen also have a bunch of "mini-games" or a mech shooting range players can engage in, for small amounts of c-bills or something.

Just as mechwarriors would need to kill the boredom between system jumps, in CW, we need access to items during our wait, like:
- HPG news feeds
- planet battle stats
- mech stats/info
- mech shooting gallery (with a generic mech)
- mech slots (?)
- Mech-checkers
- instead of team chat, call it a "MechWarrior bar" or "Mech-Donald's"
- a "Cockpit items gift shoppe" to browse.

Essentially, anything in-game, which will dump as soon as MM finds a match, would work.

I do not mind the wait times as much as how it locks down your session from doing anything. Alt-Esc does not give me a notification the game is on, so the suggestion is about in-game activities.

The MWO icon blinks yellow when it finally drops for me in the toolbar... so I pause the movie, tv or internet im doing to play. just lucky that works for me. But all your ideas still sound really good