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[InnerSphereNews]

Greetings MechWarriors,

ComStar Communications Officers have picked up transmissions from Clan Jade Falcon and House Steiner leadership.

Clan Jade Falcon has 24 hours to take Planting from Clan Wolf

• Starts September 16th at 3:00 PM PDT / 10:00 PM UTC
• Reward: 4,000,000 C-Bills

House Steiner has 24 hours to take Epsilon from House Marik

• Starts September 16th at 3:00 PM PDT / 10:00 PM UTC
• Reward: 4,000,000 C-Bills

All ComStar Intercepts can be found in the ComStar Intercepts sub-forum.

Clan Jade Falcon Transmission

House Steiner Transmission

[K19]

neee need mc plz

[Javenri]

Steiners will have an easy 4M C-bills...

[BSK]

Javenri, on 16 September 2015 - 08:19 PM, said:

Steiners will have an easy 4M C-bills...

If Steiner cared about Marik planets ..

*edit: As the planet will be taken in the first attack phase, its not easy to get the money for Steiner pilots from other timezones. Unless defending it afterwards gets rewarded as well ..

Edited by BSK, 16 September 2015 - 08:40 PM.

[bad arcade kitty]

09/16/2015

i read it as 9th of.. what? ><

[Docta Pain]

Steiners in first time zone will have the ghost win & bonus, others... well... planning these days just isn't what it used t be.

[McHoshi]

EPSILON isn´t attackable at all ... damn it !

[Appogee]

I think these are great incentives, please keep them up PGI.

[Kinski Orlawisch]

@MCHoshi: Its already taken by Steiner in the first phase.

[McHoshi]

I´ve watched the first Hour of the first Attack Wave @Marc von der Heide and Epsilon wasn´t on the Attack List

[McHoshi]

That´s realy pissing me off! Damn you PGI for keeping the european players out of this EVENT !

[John1352]

McHoshi, on 17 September 2015 - 03:07 AM, said:

That´s realy pissing me off! Damn you PGI for keeping the european players out of this EVENT !

Yeah, as an Oceanic player I keep missing out on these as well. Should be divided into 3 timezones with 1.3m for holding the planet at the end of each. It also should pay whichever side wins, only paying one side is causing excessive waiting for the players who are in the right part of the world.

[Deadead]

so i found out about this event last night but wasn't able to log in before i had to sleep due to work obligations. logged in early this morning in the hopes of getting a drop or two in, only to find that the planet is already ours. While i commend our guys for taking it and am glad to see events and rewards being experimented with by PGI, it seems rather unkind to me that only a small window of people from the correct time zone get to participate. Less so for me as i at least live in the US and could have made it had i stayed up later, but for say oceanic or other time zone players, by the time they can take part it's all over.

Perhaps in the future you can either put multiple successive planets up for grabs (say 3 for 3 phases?) with the prize being non-cumulative (ie if you take any of the planets you cant double up by attacking the next phase as well) in order to provide some fairness to overseas players,

or maybe if the faction planet for contention is captured in the first cycle, continue unlocking all planets for attack as per currently done but give the attack bonus to anyone who successfully participates in a raid on those planets as well.

Too many players who want to participate are being squeezed out through no fault of their own with the current setup and i think you may risk alienating some players with the current setup, possibly making these events counterproductive for generating more interest in CW (speculation but it seems possible)

[Kmieciu]

WTF? Every timezone should be allowed to fight for Epsilon.

Had it been conquered in the third phase, everyone would get 4 mil!

[ActiveHate]

A few thought about these events..


1) It should always be possible to join these event during the whole time frame,not until conquered. And with the ability to reconquer a lost planet.

2) Considering the general prize tags on MWO stuff / mechs, and the general income from matches, 4 mill is a lot. And if events lasted all 24 hours or whatever like i suggested above, making it possible for all time zones to join, its a lot of money going into the game. To much maybe

3) For me, its also about having a goal in-game. If its 4 mill or just game-mechanics in form of a more complex CW, i would still enjoy it. Just saying

Edited by Evol LovE, 17 September 2015 - 06:54 AM.

[Michal R]

Another great joke PGI. One of the best in this week.
Only one timezone? Really ?
Please say us who is so FK brilliant?

[Arkhangel]

SROT is a European unit, though i do agree telling Steiner players to take ONE planet for a reward is a little too easy, considering we make up a lot of the IS player base, not to mention the merc units who swap allegiances just to get the bonus C-bills (which my unit may well start doing now).

[Kmieciu]

Michal R, on 17 September 2015 - 07:09 AM, said:

Another great joke PGI. One of the best in this week.
Only one timezone? Really ?
Please say us who is so FK brilliant?

https://mobile.twitt...395550108880896

Do you even have to ask?

[Necromantion]

Kmieciu, on 17 September 2015 - 08:09 AM, said:

https://mobile.twitt...395550108880896

Do you even have to ask?

He sure is a twit :3

[Iain Black]

two Fails in one:
1.) timezone agony. Event is only worth someting to People in fist timezone because of
2.) misbalance in rewards ( something to Zero - thats about the same amount of interest you are generating in there)

outcome of those is People in TZ 1 earn 4million for boring ghost Drops, everyone else is going to go pug Queue General Drops.
CW rewards Need to figure in damage to non-mech stuff and some Long-term interest besides the achieveable mech bays (at 2 and 6th rank of every faction).