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[DarthHias]

Ramrod AI, on 16 March 2015 - 09:16 PM, said:

Yay. Meta-builds for a week! Way OP Ultra AC Dire whales galore! Point and shoot for the win! Though I myself have a few meta-builds...but they are all lights . I'm not whining. It's just what's going to happen. Brings out the idiot players and the meta-builds.

If someone needs a pure meta build to earn 30 points...

[Gylfie]

is it invasion and counter-attack different game modes with 25 for each?

[Kinski Orlawisch]

Nice Event chain. 1. the cash for the mechs. 2. release of 6 mechs..3. Bonus while I Level them..I LOVE IT. Thx.

[Xione87]

Yay free stuff! Just like halloween, which was a nice event as well. I'm hoping to get a few mechbays out of this just like last time

Let's see how far I can get in 1 week before I have to dip into CW...

[Sean von Steinike]

Wooo! Another cool event!

[Der Hesse]

Too bad those events damage CW population even more.

[Soy]

Holy ****, I suggested a couple weeks ago that a challenge should be random gifts so that way people aren't just aiming for one thing and stopping. Nice.

[SnagaDance]

Juodas Varnas, on 16 March 2015 - 09:42 PM, said:

Mhm, can't wait to get 50 single heatsinks from the event.

Don't sell yourself short, you could get up to 100 SHS if you really try hard!!

In addition, great event PGI, especially appreciate the week long duration, thanks for thinking about all the people with jobs and family that also play your game! (and while it would totally ruin the BattleTech atmosphere I can't help but find that Leprechaun hat on that mech so cool......)

[Winddancer]

Thanks for these tournaments. It is greately appreciated!

[Navid A1]

Lets see if i can win a mechbay this time around.

haven't been lucky for the past 2 similar events.

[Karl Streiger]

First nice event not as nice at the Zeus but anyhow nice
Although can't understand "little" love for CW.
Given the chance to make GhostDrops and the "huge" Matchscore you get for this - the risk of participating in the event while playing CW does not trade off.
Shouldn't be 3-5 poins per CW match be more sufficient?

[Demos]

PGI, I hate you! Now I have to play MWO during the week and the weekend!

Just a joke. Thank you very much! Pot of gold was a nice event and this gift event is great, too.
I appreciate that the match score is used as measurement. IMHO much more better than the win/kill/assist thingy...

As some people mentioned before: As paytimes are much more longer in CW (with ghost drops preventing any prize), I would suggest to incresase the number of gifts to e.g. two for a succesful CW match.

[Tom Sawyer]

The grab bag events are the best ones. It is just FUN to open a bag and go yippie for a day of free time or oh kaka when you get that single heat sink.

Not to mention shooting other mechs in the face with the daka crab

[Nemytis]

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"Unlucky items"? C'mon Russ please stop with the IS victimhood. If they are so unlucky seems like the game needs some serious corrections. It's already bad enough that Clan mechs don't work the way they are supposed to because they don't have single shot AC's, ghost heat, etc. Now you are talking about hosing clan mechs when losing a side torso (loved the timing on that too right after people pre order Wave 3 that was a real "bait and switch/swindle") but I digress. When you say unlucky items that makes the IS mechs seems weak and uncompetitive even after all the quirks they have gotten. Just seems like to me this game is getting more broken than better and labeling IS gear as "unlucky items" makes it seem like we are playing the victim card a little too hard.

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[Hayashi]

The 30/80 point requirement is much better than 1 kill - 1 assist reqs that led to more squirrel chasing than there already was.

That said, the CW/Normal mode reward scaling doesn't make as much sense though. In the past event, an 8 minute normal match could earn 150k, while a 25 minute CW match (with or without a 10 minute wait) earns at max 100k, or possibly 50k. In this, equalising the rewards makes this somewhat less absurd, but we're still talking about 3-5 times as much time spent to earn something through CW.

It heavily incentivises players to not drop in CW until they already complete the normal drop rewards, which can be problematic for other players in CW to get games at certain times of day.

[Gedankenlaser]

Very nice. Thanks, team MWO.

[ThisMachineKillsFascists]

better now 7 days challenges. loosing population in mwo is a real thing due to no content and boring arena shooter matches

[Boaz Roshak]

Can we please, please, please change the MC consumables to CB ones, Let me explain why. If you equip one and tell it to auto replenish after a match it buys a new one... not use one of them that you have in inventory already. Since there is no way of getting rid of them aside from using them in a match and to sadly do that with out getting charged MC for new ones you must manually load them. Considering theses are the premium consumables you would think they would be easer to use but are not and I have no interest in spending my MC on more of them.

[Odanan]

Finally hats made it to MWO!








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[SnagaDance]

Nemytis, on 17 March 2015 - 03:51 AM, said:

"Unlucky items"? C'mon Russ please stop with the IS victimhood. If they are so unlucky seems like the game needs some serious corrections. It's already bad enough that Clan mechs don't work the way they are supposed to because they don't have single shot AC's, ghost heat, etc. Now you are talking about hosing clan mechs when losing a side torso (loved the timing on that too right after people pre order Wave 3 that was a real "bait and switch/swindle") but I digress. When you say unlucky items that makes the IS mechs seems weak and uncompetitive even after all the quirks they have gotten. Just seems like to me this game is getting more broken than better and labeling IS gear as "unlucky items" makes it seem like we are playing the victim card a little too hard.

• and 'Unlucky' Items, such as IS weaponry and Single Heat Sinks
  

Talk about victimhood...... Have you played the previous 2 grab bag challenges? The IS equipment will simply consist of stuff like AMS ammo, machine guns, SHS (who uses those) and at the absolute top of the line there's the chance to win a whole Medium Laser. Which any IS player already has loads of, and which every Clan player just sells for a few C-bills. It's a fun event with goodies. If you really can't handle recieving such overpowered IS equipments then I suggest you skip the whole event.