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[Moon Master]

Getting in all these particular group sizes, seems very strange...

Why not just....

Ohlord....


And all for what 500 MC?


That's like 2 dollars worth....

Ill pass thank you.

[Juodas Varnas]

It's not hard to complete it, i did it in 4 hours after the start of the event and got the 1 mil c-bills, couple of hundred gxp, consumables AND the 500 MC.
I actually wish it was longer.

Edited by Juodas Varnas, 11 April 2015 - 12:33 AM.

[Quxudica]

MechWarrior0975971, on 11 April 2015 - 12:19 AM, said:

Getting in all these particular group sizes, seems very strange...

Why not just....

Ohlord....


And all for what 500 MC?


That's like 2 dollars worth....

Ill pass thank you.

Eh, yeah it does seem a little uninspired. Free stuff is free stuff I guess, and it's obviously just meant to encourage LFG use. But meh. I'm not sure how difficult it is to get all group sizes as a pug, if LFG is working well and its very easy then the rather piffle rewards make sense I guess.

[LordNothing]

i got that 500 mc in like 3 hours.

Edited by LordNothing, 11 April 2015 - 12:54 AM.

[Moon Master]

I'm not saying it's "hard"

I'm saying it's dumb.


There is not even a way to set a note when forming group.

"LF1M 2s Challenge"

LF2M 3s Challenge"

And so on....

So every time you join a group, or invite someone to your group, you have no Idea what particular number they are aiming for.

It seems like a very tedious set of goals.

Am I missing something, or is the point of the challenge..... Lord once again, I don't understand.

[Moon Master]

OH ok, after a second look, you can just do all the matches with 12......

I thought is had to be 1 match with 2, 1 match with 3..... and so on.

I feel dumb, but it is odd the way they did it anyhow.

[Satan n stuff]

Juodas Varnas, on 11 April 2015 - 12:33 AM, said:

It's not hard to complete it, i did it in 4 hours after the start of the event and got the 1 mil c-bills, couple of hundred gxp, consumables AND the 500 MC.
I actually wish it was longer.

It took me 2 hours or so with about 9 other players from my unit and a few from LFG.

[Tahribator]

I got it in about 90 minutes. One of the easiest challenges they've made.

[Satan n stuff]

Tahribator, on 11 April 2015 - 02:08 AM, said:

I got it in about 90 minutes. One of the easiest challenges they've made.

I started out with a 65kph Urbie, after a few fails I decided to use a slightly better Urbie, I haven't failed to get the required number of points after I switched.

[Koniks]

Was there free stuff to get? Did it get players to use the newest feature in the game?

[Juodas Varnas]

Satan n stuff, on 11 April 2015 - 02:03 AM, said:

It took me 2 hours or so with about 9 other players from my unit and a few from LFG.

Well, i'm not in a unit and i did it completely with LFG

[Insects]

It is chaotic trying to do it as a pure PUG grouper.
People want a specific group size so are in and out of lobbys, booting, dont know how to stop LFG when group size achieved so it ovrflows, people getting fed up with incompetant leader who cant launch when everyone ready so it goes from 12 to 2 in a few seconds.

In a coms group on mech-connect it is easy to coordinate though. Usable voice coms bitrate on there too.

[PurpleNinja]

Wanna group?

[Mad Strike]

Took a small break and when i comeback theres a challenge.....but only for urbies.......now that's stupid.

[RoboPatton]

Meh, two cammo patterns, or a mech bay... was worth it to me.

Easy with a Unit. I did it solo. My friends list nearly doubled.

I learned that LFG needs some work too. Like, the choice to limit its size ...

[MechWarrior3671771]

To determine whether its "smart" or "dumb", one has to look at the goal of the challenge.

Easy rewards that get players to try out the LFG system, and hopefully test it for feedback to improve it,

If that was the goal, then "smart"

[PurpleNinja]

MechWarrior0975971, on 11 April 2015 - 12:19 AM, said:

And all for what 500 MC?

Nope, I wanted the island cockpit item and got it in less than 20 matches, many thanks to the guys that helped.
Special thanks to Orion3025, he was the host of the last 5 matches.

P.S.: If anyone needs help with any group size, feel free to add me.

[Tristan Winter]

It was kind of dumb and kind of smart. I think a lot of people really got to experiment with the LFG tool in a way they wouldn't otherwise. And PGI probably got a lot of data. Whether they'll use it is up for grabs. I think the challenge uncovered a very important flaw in the LFG feature, namely the lack of ability to name your groups in order to make other members easily identify the point of your group (e.g. group size, game mode, etc)

For my part, I'm at the point where I've already spent hundreds of dollars on this game. I don't want to buy any more MC. And I'm really happy that PGI is following the footsteps of games like War Thunder and Star Conflict in handing out actual MC-equivalent currency instead of only C-bills, so people can spend their rewards on money-exclusive content like paint and camo patterns.

I'm happy I can now at least change camo on a few of my mechs without spending any more money. Even though it's just a small amount of cash, I don't want to spend any amount of cash on this game right now. I've spent enough. So thanks for the free MC.

[Sorbic]

MechWarrior0975971, on 11 April 2015 - 01:37 AM, said:

OH ok, after a second look, you can just do all the matches with 12......

I thought is had to be 1 match with 2, 1 match with 3..... and so on.

I feel dumb, but it is odd the way they did it anyhow.

Wait, so is this true? If so then yeah, I feel kinda silly.

[ibex230]

3 days of premium time isn't bad for finding a 9 man group.