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[pwnface]

Deathlike, on 06 July 2015 - 02:35 PM, said:

Congrats to everyone who participated.

I will have a writeup on how this terribad event was terribad.

This event was pretty ******. Ghost dropping a planet takes more than 2 hours. Losing your tags on a planet to another unit in your faction because they successfully defended ONCE is beyond ********.

[Nainko]

StUffz, on 06 July 2015 - 02:40 PM, said:

Fanatic, on 06 July 2015 - 02:08 PM, said:

IS

TRIPLE FIRST!

Tripple First as STEINER unit against the CJF and CW! Every day, all 3 timezones!

Edited by Nainko, 09 July 2015 - 09:01 AM.

[Warchild Corsair]

I think we lost hundreds of hours in Ghostdrops this weekend which was btw the hottest in Germany this year. This mechanic must be replaced. It sucks the meaning out of CW and the will to play out of each player. Being forced to use this to be able to compete is just terrible.

Please PGI, at least give us AI garrisons to beat. Ghost Drops are killing CW.

[ScarecrowES]

Warchild Corsair, on 06 July 2015 - 02:48 PM, said:

Ghost Drops are killing CW.

PGI is killing CW. Ghost drops are just the buttercream icing on the **** cake. If the mode were even equal in gameplay overall to standard pub queue, more people would play. And if the tourneys and events were actually thought out at all, more people might actually care.

Alas, CW is still the red-headed stepchild of MWO game modes.

[Nainko]

pwnface, on 06 July 2015 - 02:44 PM, said:

This event was pretty ******. Ghost dropping a planet takes more than 2 hours. Losing your tags on a planet to another unit in your faction because they successfully defended ONCE is beyond ********.

We had exactly the same problems. I feel with you...

[Wild_Alaskan]

Nainko, on 06 July 2015 - 02:47 PM, said:

Tripple First as STEINER unit against the CJF and CW! Every day, all 3 timezones, many CW Teams of -MS-, SWOL, 228th, BMMU, KCOM, CWI etc.
We got ghosdropped by NS & Davion (WTF? NAP!)

Many good fights, many very easy wins, some epic battles with 40+ Kills on both sides, last second wins etc.

Congrats, 12th Donegal Guards. We in Night's Scorn put in a lot of hard work to try to catch and/or keep ahead of you. The challenge was exciting to say the least, and I hope it was for all of you as well!

Edited by wfischer, 06 July 2015 - 02:59 PM.

[Nainko]

it was, many extra night shifts and some hours spending in a stupit queue...

[Wild_Alaskan]

Nainko, on 06 July 2015 - 03:00 PM, said:

it was, many extra night shifts and some hours spending in a stupit queue...

Likewise. I personally played 18-19 hours on both Saturday and Sunday almost non-stop, including several consecutive hours of ghost dropping.

[StUffz]

Warchild Corsair, on 06 July 2015 - 02:48 PM, said:

I think we lost hundreds of hours in Ghostdrops this weekend which was btw the hottest in Germany this year. This mechanic must be replaced. It sucks the meaning out of CW and the will to play out of each player. Being forced to use this to be able to compete is just terrible.

Please PGI, at least give us AI garrisons to beat. Ghost Drops are killing CW.

No personal offense now but you still think on a tactical level instead of a strategic or operational level. Further, it was not only your unit who had to fight with the warm weather on the weekend.

Speaking of the game mechanics.

Ghost Drops also takes resources of a faction and it needs some coordination that faction members go out and do boring drops undefended. However, this is actually a necessity to bait defenders.

Anyhow, there are a few options to prevent attackers from slowly capturing a planet by such tactics.
a) send some defenders or b
organize faction members to attack undefended planets.

a) is something every faction could do but instead of defending, everybody tries to fill up a 90+ A/D planet.

Consider it as a lesson in the future: In CW it counts how many planets you have taken or defended.

Edited by StUffz, 06 July 2015 - 03:07 PM.

[Reitmeier]

Good job guys!
Unfortunately no games against bigger Steinerunits and just a few against MS

[Deathlike]

Oh BTW.

If the winning units aren't able to submit pictures for the dogtags (just the unit pic), there will be hell to pay!

[Crotch RockIt]

Deathlike, on 06 July 2015 - 03:50 PM, said:

Oh BTW.

If the winning units aren't able to submit pictures for the dogtags (just the unit pic), there will be hell to pay!

You mean this isn't good enough?

[Wild_Alaskan]

Deathlike, on 06 July 2015 - 03:50 PM, said:

there will be hell to pay!

You mean you'll talk them to death?

[mp00]

Just to clarify

Actual Ghost Drop time

10 minute countdown wait time assuming you are only group ghost dropping
30 seconds with various vid/animations ie dropship, destruction explosions of omega and showing planet/mode before battle starts
2 minutes running killing omega and/or gens/beacons
15-75 sec readying up screen while can be done quicker every so often there is a DC that takes it beyond a minute
30 sec - 1 minute battle summary and everyone readying up again for next drop
30 sec to find a new person to join and ready up unless 12 man is fully dedicated to ghost dropping entire time
plus any other time spent I missed


How about we just round it all out to 15 minutes per ghost drop

[McHoshi]

tee5, on 05 July 2015 - 05:41 AM, said:

No I have to disagree. As I stated earlier, something like page 6 or 7, most of the players in my unit, can't see the position of our unit (we are not in top 5) BUT there are some players who can see the position of our unit.

So it is clearly a bug, and leaderboard is not working correctly.
Please PGI fix this for the next events.

It´s something with their databases...

[Ulvar]

StUffz, on 06 July 2015 - 03:04 PM, said:

No personal offense now but you still think on a tactical level instead of a strategic or operational level. Further, it was not only your unit who had to fight with the warm weather on the weekend.

Speaking of the game mechanics.

Ghost Drops also takes resources of a faction and it needs some coordination that faction members go out and do boring drops undefended. However, this is actually a necessity to bait defenders.

Anyhow, there are a few options to prevent attackers from slowly capturing a planet by such tactics.
a) send some defenders or b
organize faction members to attack undefended planets.

a) is something every faction could do but instead of defending, everybody tries to fill up a 90+ A/D planet.

Consider it as a lesson in the future: In CW it counts how many planets you have taken or defended.

of course ghost dropping needs ressources. mainly time which could be spent on much more rewarding and fun things like to tidy up or cleaning the toilet.

but as long as there is no event no one cares who owns a planet because it has zero impact on the game.
and yeah i know its beta. cw beta 2 and mwo beta 37.

Edited by Ulvar, 06 July 2015 - 04:58 PM.

[Kinski Orlawisch]

Rewards?

[Wanderingpaws]

Marc von der Heide, on 06 July 2015 - 08:51 PM, said:

Rewards?

The rewards might drop with tomorrows patch maybe hopefully?

Edited by Wanderingpaws, 06 July 2015 - 08:58 PM.

[Ranger Dave]

Simple suggestion to make ghost drops and CW in general more rewarding: Make damage to turrets and gen's count towards total damage.

The current system of rewarding last hit on a turret, tough luck for the player(s) who may have done the other 99%.
And damage for shooting gen's - being the lone pug game enough to take out a gate gen on Boreal while facing a ERLL gun line, whole lotta fun for no reward.

Won't add many C-Bills, but at least it's some recognition that you are helping the team win.

[Rebel Ace Fryslan]

Still no info on tournament for allot of people.

HAS THIS BEEN LOOKED INTO.



BTW: I'm looking forward too a full listing of player numbers and he whole sjebang* of stats.


PS: make clans 10-man, this will cool them off en fight amongst them selfs more.
Or maybe we could have the 20 ton difference back those Whining litle clanners couldn't stop complaining about, sry that came out quickly.

Edited by Rebel Ace Fryslan, 07 July 2015 - 01:17 AM.