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[Liveish]

30 Mins for a game + 30 Mins finding a match, then someone leaves the group and you go from group 2 to 20.


Open up the mech bay so we can do stuff why we wait

[Navid A1]

May i say that i'm sorry for asking for an extension to this "event".

PGI, can you revert back the duration to 2-3 days again.... please.!

[That Dawg]

Knight2416, on 23 April 2015 - 07:15 PM, said:

I have to agree that 50 points in 3 days not possible.

Bull, the requirements are simple.
You can NOT have a life outside sitting in a chair, in some room, in front of your best friend, the computer.
Relentless fixation on some prize that requires 30 hours hard core mode playing, that..sure, you could actually buy with the proceeds from working for an hour or two at a real job that.........wait....who am I kidding....
even with the new stretched out to a week, its unlikely.
spring is here, yard work, kids, women..."life"
I got some consumables yay, I'm cool with that

[Docta Pain]

Serious question. Why does my place in the Defend Queue skip backwards in line from time to time? i.e. "You are number 4 in line to deploy" becomes 16th? What mechanism causes this / what is the trigger?

[PPO Kuro]

Docta Pain, on 25 April 2015 - 04:31 AM, said:

Serious question. Why does my place in the Defend Queue skip backwards in line from time to time? i.e. "You are number 4 in line to deploy" becomes 16th? What mechanism causes this / what is the trigger?

As far as I know it has to do with a whole team (12 players) getting first drop. And you the loner don't count for PGI, so you are thrown back in the queue. This is not exactly what happens, one of those PGI persons posted something about this way back.

Edited by PPO Kuro, 25 April 2015 - 04:47 AM.

[Av4tar]

We should get points for waiting in queue each 30 mins as well...

[Docta Pain]

That would explain an incremental increase in the Queue, i.e. "You are 4th" and then "You are now 5th". But that is not what's observed. Thank you for your hypothesis, but it is incorrect. Does someone have an explanation consistent with the observations or definitive quote?

[totgeboren]

My place in the queue was 11, so I figured I would go in the next drop. Nope, suddenly my number in the line is 22. You should definitely get a point per ½ hour waiting in the queue.

[John McHobo]

At the current state of things I am uncertain if I even can make it to 5 Match Points.
I am not happy.

Waiting for half an hour and up to 45 minutes at the risk of getting stomped by a well organized
bigger group means that getting a point is all but certain.

The games themselves were interesting so far, but it just takes SO loooong.

Edited by John McHobo, 25 April 2015 - 05:08 AM.

[UrbanUK]

Every damn match, queues up ok, goes in, dropped back to garage with a server disconnect and a "Mode/ ui_mechlab_HoldTerritory" message and that's it. Every rejoin, samething, and with no other CW Matches available, that's me out until I get my drop deck back at the end of the match..

Edited by UrbanUK, 25 April 2015 - 05:04 AM.

[Ridir Semii]

I doubt I will try too hard on this after last night and today, its averaging (both pug and in a group) at least 10-20 minutes for me to get into a match, I am searching now for 10 minutes and counting AS I am typing this.

Given that a match consists of 30 minutes, with a wait time like that, over the 6 days the event has been increased to, still leaves me unable to do anything but play this game if I want to get any of the real rewards. I just don't have that kind of time to simply waste away on this game.... I kinda want to keep my family....

I even picked up a new mech for this but.... should have waited until they released all the event details or they wouldn't have gotten that cash from me...

make that wait 15 minutes.... le sigh
22 minutes
27 minutes

30+ minutes then a 10 minute countdown to a ghost drop... we will see....

5 minutes wait, no ghost drop, we won, but it took the entire 30 minutes to do so, that translates into a single match time involved of 70+ minutes, multiply that by 40 (or 50 if you try to get to the top) and you end up with 46.6666667 hours to get to 40 points, and 58.3333333 hours to get to 50... seems a bit over the top to me

Edited by Uminix, 25 April 2015 - 06:05 AM.

[Insects]

Docta Pain, on 25 April 2015 - 04:31 AM, said:

Serious question. Why does my place in the Defend Queue skip backwards in line from time to time? i.e. "You are number 4 in line to deploy" becomes 16th? What mechanism causes this / what is the trigger?

Use LFG to get into a 12 man, once in the proper 12 man the queue wont suffer from going backwards so it is the quicker method.
Should get snapped up in LFG pretty quick, plenty of teams desperate for that last one or two so they can launch.
Dont bother joining any small group though, wait for a 10 or 11 to come in or grab you.

[PPO Kuro]

Docta Pain, on 25 April 2015 - 04:47 AM, said:

That would explain an incremental increase in the Queue, i.e. "You are 4th" and then "You are now 5th". But that is not what's observed. Thank you for your hypothesis, but it is incorrect. Does someone have an explanation consistent with the observations or definitive quote?

Read this post from Russ Bullock, to be honest, TLDR ;p (well I skimped it..not really read it in depth)

http://mwomercs.com/...e-how-it-works/

[happy mech]

at first i was like, impossible
then, 8 matches a day, lets try
now, trying to find a single match, impossible, gates are closed

[Inveramsay]

joelmuzz, on 25 April 2015 - 05:09 AM, said:

Use LFG to get into a 12 man, once in the proper 12 man the queue wont suffer from going backwards so it is the quicker method.
Should get snapped up in LFG pretty quick, plenty of teams desperate for that last one or two so they can launch.
Dont bother joining any small group though, wait for a 10 or 11 to come in or grab you.

But the LFG lobby is almost empty. No groups looking for players and when I made a group there were a grand total of two people who we both deployed.

[Redoxin]

Yeah waiting for 45 mins in queue now because it resets again and again. Still no game for me.

[WeekendWarrior]

So i tried.
Waaaiiiiit, get stomped by a Clan premade. 69 points.
Now, considering how much time we have, how long it takes to get a match, how long the matches can be if its not a one-sided slaughter, how much i struggled last time to get the required 20 (which only gives 1.5m CB this time?!? ), i have a 10h job, i need sleep...
Well, i could try playing Clan, except that i can't switch, and i don't have enough Omnis anyway to build a deck without resorting to Trials. Bad idea.

I'm out. Have fun.

And please give us some numbers when its over. Like how many IS players actually made 40 or even 50.

[Asmosis]

Igorius, on 24 April 2015 - 10:11 PM, said:

To chime in from the Clan pug point of view, I haven't had any waits for matches tonight. On the contrary, it's pretty much a "click to play now" sort of feeling, which is nice. However, the IS opponents that I've come up against have, in all but a single match, been 12 man teams, or some combination of two teams together. The one exception had a four man with eight pugs. I don't have to go into how deep the level of unfun is to drop against large teams, so breaking even on the 80 match points has proven a frustrating effort. Glad the whole thing's been extended to the end of the week, because as of right now I'm so far beyond burnt out that I'm making charcoal look pale and clammy.

Theres a good reason for that. 12-man teams skip the initial MM that puts teams together then throws them into the queue, so they are kinda in a VIP queue while non-12-man's are in the normal persons queue.

That explains why your facing organized teams more often.

FYI IS PUG PLAYERS:

If your serious about competing in this, you need to use the LFG feature. you'll still just be random pugs at you'll be a 12-MAN team of random pugs so you wont keep getting kicked back to the end of the queue.

FYI CLAN PUG PLAYERS:
there is no queue, continue to go about business.

Edited by Asmosis, 25 April 2015 - 05:50 AM.

[Redoxin]

Yay found a game after 60 mins of waiting. I am sure I will get those 50 points in no time.

[Drakuba]

you have quirks and cooler mechs, we have games