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[Gremlich Johns]

I did it just for the premium time, didn't even bother working towards getting the cataphract. The, the endless patch loop after I woke up yesterday morning so couldn't finish it anyways even if I wanted that mech.

[Papapeshu]

Triordinant, on 19 January 2015 - 08:08 AM, said:

I basically did what I did the last time to get the most benefit for the least hassle: I showed up during the last couple of hours of the Challenge, played 4 games, got 3 points and banked the 3 days premium time for levelling a 'mech in the future since I already have a mastered CTF-3D, 7 empty mechbays and 215 million cbills. I wonder if the King Crab is worth spending cbills on tomorrow...

Erm... Those 3 days of premium time are currently ticking away.
Activates as soon as it's awarded. Only way to bank premium time now is to purchase it.

[Triordinant]

C J Sparrow, on 19 January 2015 - 08:17 AM, said:

Erm... Those 3 days of premium time are currently ticking away.
Activates as soon as it's awarded. Only way to bank premium time now is to purchase it.

Aha! If you exit the game before you go back to the UI and get the "adding new stuff" message it doesn't start ticking away. It'll start the next time I login to the game. If I don't play MWO for a week or a month and start playing at that point, that's when the premium time starts. I've done it before and it works like a charm.

[Papapeshu]

...AHEM!...exploit

[Jody Von Jedi]

Made it to 24 qualifiers this morning @ 1 AM local time. I'd had enough. Kills weren't the issue, it's was getting the win that sucked. I managed to raise my K/D ratio, so I was getting kills. Have many matches with 2 or 3 kills and still lost the match. It was very frustrating. I'll just buy a regular 3D with the winnings and call it good.

[Triordinant]

Jody Von Jedi, on 19 January 2015 - 08:40 AM, said:

Have many matches with 2 or 3 kills and still lost the match. It was very frustrating.

These tournaments really make me wonder if it's better to be lucky than to be good...

[Carthoo]

As usually - PGI brings something cool, yet people wont just play for it, they want to have it ASAP aka BE CARRIED. These two days were pretty rough. I am under average player id say, but when playing assault I play the lead role. Leading rush, defending chokepoints etc. And dont expect much from the team - I am pretty happy when one light watch out a few times per match if i am not beeing butchered by another lights, or when some med/ heavy plays a sidekick for me. Assault + med can do so much more than solo assault.

Yet after first 20 or so games, where i had it nicely 55% w 45% l, i took some brainless coward team streak. Lasted to this afternoon - like 40+ games. Assaults camping BEHIND everyone else, hardly near enough for their close/ med range guns to have any effect. Lights camping back, waiting for cored enemy so they can jump in and finish him with their srms... . Med guys running like headless chicken.

Trully terrible - i never quit like quit, but when i say that im tanking so we can rush enemy half of our numbers and NOBODY hopes in, all just camp behind, watch me getting shot to shreds...well, i am not trying to survive when seeing this.

These events need punishment for disconnects (there can be some safety aka scan if the player quit the game, or the battle only) and gms watching the game.

I really dont know, whats up with people going totally dumb by each action. Had only ONE beatifull game, where assault lance communicated and worked together - 2 lights joined us and asked for orders (= "where do you need me to look"). 12:0 victory, 9 kills for assaults 2 for lights and rest of the team did join us when already 9:0 (one guy wrote "I didnt even see the enemy yet" - enemy answer "Your assaults did"). After we took out enemy assaults, we let even enemies to bite us a bit, so everyone in our lance got a kill. All it took was a little bit of communication, two smart light pilots realizing assaults need help from little guys. Didnt need the rest.

Why ppl dont understand this? Why do they think, that camping one one spot, letting enemy flank both sides will bring anything else than loosing? Why do they think, that somebody will carry them in PUG? Why do they killsteal (not shooting unles enemy cored red = heavy damage to their teammate) instead of playing?

So for me: PGI thumbs up for events, thumbs down for you still not realizing punishments are in dire need here.

[Mechanical Dragon]

Got 24 points and one hour to go. Idk If I can get it but hey I still had fun trying!

Edited by Mechanical Dragon, 19 January 2015 - 09:13 AM.

[Sonny Black]

Triordinant, on 19 January 2015 - 08:46 AM, said:

These tournaments really make me wonder if it's better to be lucky than to be good...

Yes it is. In WWII the head of COMSUBPAC said "If you're not lucky I can't use you".

[Gattsus]

Could we have an extension... missing two points T_T

[Triordinant]

Sonny Black, on 19 January 2015 - 09:39 AM, said:

Yes it is. In WWII the head of COMSUBPAC said "If you're not lucky I can't use you".

Admiral "Uncle Charlie" Lockwood?

[LT. HARDCASE]

Challenge complete. Took 67 matches. Pug queue only.

Edited by Kevjack, 19 January 2015 - 09:52 AM.

[Soldryn]

thanks SO much for not running this event through tuesday like most all the others PGI. those of us that work weekends didn't want to complete it anyway.

[Void2258]

Against my better judgement my OCD pulled me back in to try again this morning. With not-enough-time-to-queue left on the clock, with 141 matches since Friday night, only 61 of them wins (far below my normal W/L ratio although the 23 team kills didn't help), I stand at 28 points. I don't think I am going to play this game for a while. PGI needs to learn the meaning of teamwork and progressive rewards.

Edited by Void2258, 19 January 2015 - 09:58 AM.

[WonderSparks]

After much time and frustration caused by my dying computer, I finally got the 'Phract, and now I am happy.
Although until I get my network issues fixed, I am done playing this game for now, desyncing every half minute (sometimes more, sometimes less frequently) and occasionally losing the server connection entirely is NOT a fun way to play.

Triordinant, on 19 January 2015 - 08:24 AM, said:

Aha! If you exit the game before you go back to the UI and get the "adding new stuff" message it doesn't start ticking away. It'll start the next time I login to the game. If I don't play MWO for a week or a month and start playing at that point, that's when the premium time starts. I've done it before and it works like a charm.

...Amazing! Genius! How did I not think of that one?

[Mechanical Dragon]

I got 24 points in but hell I got a helluva lot more kills than I normally do during this challenge. (Possibly some Kill steals)

[Matt Swan]

Managed 27 off 30 would have made it iff people only played as normal but last 2 days i have had maybe 1 good/decent team in 5 games the other 4 dont even ask

[Links432]

I just barely made it to 30 today. Thanks for the free Mech!

[Kraytox]

Started match in river city with 10 mins left and got my 30th kill assist win and did not count because it was 2 mins after when match ended...ty pgi

Edited by Kraytox, 19 January 2015 - 10:19 AM.

[Neres]

Kraytox, on 19 January 2015 - 10:18 AM, said:

Started match in river city with 10 mins left and got my 30th kill assist win and did not count because it was 2 mins after when match ended...ty pgi

Well, **** happens.