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[Darth Xanther]

Matt Newman, on 21 September 2015 - 02:39 PM, said:

We have lowered the requirements for the Public Queue Reward Tiers From 300/400 to 200/300.
However we have decided not to extend the event due to players disconnecting from matches.

With all events we want to bring something new and challenging and this event was no exception.
We do use data to determine these thresholds to make them a challenge. Apologies to those who had a tough go of it.
We also want the reward to reflect the effort so we made the prize packs reflect the level of challenge.

We are listening to player feedback and it will be refected in future event.
If you have a specific event issue affecting you, your best course of action is contacting support http://mwomercs.com/support

Still disappointed you won't extend after changing the rules mid way through the tournament. But I hope if anything positive can come of this is: DON'T change the rules mid-way through a tournament.

[Commander A9]

It was more of a challenge because of the idiotic condition of having your scores be tied to the specific MAP rather than the MATCH!

Primarily because we have zero control over what map we get!

[Nerdboard]

I finished the challenge with the old threshold yesterday. And I have to say I am glad you guys decided to lower the values. Sure, somewhere in a corner of my mind I am annoyed that I grinded so much for something I had on the first day.

Then again I am happy that more people get rewarded for their efforts. Some people in my unit and friendlist were really frustrated and that is obviously not what a game should make you feel like. Hope both we as players (in terms of attitude and positivity) as well as PGI learned something from this.

Also I am hoping for lots of bans (or at least denial of any rewards) for those people who were griefing by disconnecting whenever they did not need a map.


Now how about you lower the cw matchscore about 50 points? ;p (Hope we also learned that CW matchscore values make no sense and should not depend on number of mechs at all)

[MaxFool]

aniviron, on 21 September 2015 - 02:55 PM, said:

I just realized why it's been so hard to get matches on Grim Portico, the only map I still need.

CW matches occur in a randomly-selected territory- there are 13 territories, and each one has a specific map assigned to it. Portico and Taiga are the two maps that are left off at the end of the 13, which means the odds of getting those maps is lower.

That is incorrect. 6 maps, 13 sectors. Boreal is only map with 3 sectors (first, middle, last), all others have 2.

[aniviron]

MaxFool, on 21 September 2015 - 03:20 PM, said:

That is incorrect. 6 maps, 13 sectors. Boreal is only map with 3 sectors (first, middle, last), all others have 2.

Ah, you're right, I forgot about Vitric.

Haven't been playing much CW lately...

[ThatGuy539]

I just logged in to get my last 400 for Canyon Network, and it's all green checkmarks. I don't mind, but it would have been nice if ya had done it yesterday, before I busted my hump and ditched my friends to try and get 400 on all the maps. I suppose I could have been trying for the CW instead too.

But...on the other hand, at least I don't need to chase that one map this evening. I suppose I can chase the CW maps tonight. Got two already.

[yeshim]

This is starting to feel ludicrous

I have dropped 36 solo matches now without seeing caustic even once. I counted them.

How am I supposed to get a score if the game actively keeps me away?

[Wild_Alaskan]

If you're going to change the rules DURING the challenge, you should really offer something extra for the people that finished the original goal. Make a Tier 3 for people with 400+ match scores.

[FerretboysRevenge]

You reduced the point requirements for the Public challenge by 100 each after I worked to get 400 on each map, but, didn't reduce the Community Warfare point requirements?

[masCh]

Can you please display how many times we got certain maps in the entire event duration? You'll see i only got 1 chance at Mining Collective over 50 games played. Display it please PGI.

[Greyhart]

ok i had caustic valley come up once the entire weekend got 191 and hasn't come up since. Midnight here and work tomorrow means I wont be back before the end of the event.

I know that this has been a problem for a lot of people.

How about they drop the lowest scoring map for the purposes of seeing if you get a prize?

Or do it by an average over all the maps

[Cox Devalis]

wfischer, on 21 September 2015 - 03:32 PM, said:

If you're going to change the rules DURING the challenge, you should really offer something extra for the people that finished the original goal. Make a Tier 3 for people with 400+ match scores.

Agree.
Current situation is entirely unfair.
It's good to see many people can get their rewards for 300ms instead of 400. But I feel myself deceived.
I won't cry about to stop playing or donating - I will continue, of course. MWO became my lovely game very shortly.
But that's really unfair.

[WVAnonymous]

wfischer, on 21 September 2015 - 03:32 PM, said:

If you're going to change the rules DURING the challenge, you should really offer something extra for the people that finished the original goal. Make a Tier 3 for people with 400+ match scores.

I'm conceptually agreeing with wfischer.

BUT I was only at 6 of 9 maps for Tier 2 and now I'm at 8 out of 9 for Tier 2 and done with Tier 1.

Thank you PGI!

[LordLosh]

this is not going to end well. best thing they could have done is stick head and sand and forget they ever tried this. now they lower it and piss everyone off that grinded their ass off to get it. They yet again fail to even attempt to listen. it WAS NEVER ABOUT THE SCORE REQUIREMENT. the god damn RNG map choice is the problem & will continue to be the problem. DO NOT give in and EXTEND this event, just move on and never do a dumb per map event again

[DarklightCA]

ThatGuy539, on 21 September 2015 - 03:28 PM, said:

I just logged in to get my last 400 for Canyon Network, and it's all green checkmarks. I don't mind, but it would have been nice if ya had done it yesterday, before I busted my hump and ditched my friends to try and get 400 on all the maps. I suppose I could have been trying for the CW instead too.

But...on the other hand, at least I don't need to chase that one map this evening. I suppose I can chase the CW maps tonight. Got two already.

By bust your hump you mean disconnect from every match you had that was not your map? I remember your name and you disconnected from more than 3 of my games. It "would have been nice" if players played out there matches for the event instead of completely messing over there teammates. That is what really made this event unplayable.

Icantswim, on 21 September 2015 - 01:52 PM, said:

And mine is: I'm ok with people getting tier 2 for the score of 300. But.
I demand something extra for what they made me come through to get my 400+ on every damn map.
And I can't believe they pulled that dirty trick like 15 minutes after I got my last 400+ on mining collective.

I did all my max points in Pug que and CW, I did so without ever having once disconnect from my games because it was not the map I required. I played out all my games like a normal human being and I still disagree with you. You don't deserve extra rewards for playing the event like it was meant to be played. They are dumbing down the requirements so more people can get those same rewards.

EVERYBODY had to go through the same stuff you had to go through to get those 400 points, including those people who couldn't get the 400 points. Only difference is PGI was nice enough to help out those players and make sure they had a chance to get there rewards as well.

Edited by l)arklight, 21 September 2015 - 03:54 PM.

[Viges]

[KursedVixen]

Darth Xanther, on 21 September 2015 - 02:30 PM, said:

The minimum scores have been lowered from 300 to 200 and 400 to 300. If this was not intentional please correct it. If this was intentional, please extend the tournament as changing the rules part way through is not fair. Some people have spent many hrs trying to get over 400 when they already had above 300. This time could have been spent working on improving their CW scores had this been posted from the start. These people are now at a disadvantage having wasted their time trying to increase a score for a prize that they would have won had the rules been set clearly from the beginning.

This also means if you previously qualified for this new reduced point you automatically get it. so you don't have to redo if you already have 300 And Cw is still 200-300

[Khobai]

why didnt they just change it to total score

like to get the T1 prize pack you need 1800 total points (1200 for CW)
and to get the T2 prize pack you need 2700 total points (1800 for CW)

Then the ridiculous RNG wouldnt matter as much. Making people play hunt the map is NOT fun.

Edited by Khobai, 21 September 2015 - 03:59 PM.

[DarklightCA]

Khobai, on 21 September 2015 - 03:57 PM, said:

why didnt they just change it to total score

like to get the T1 prize pack you need 1800 total points (1200 for CW)
and to get the T2 prize pack you need 2700 total points (1800 for CW)

Then the ridiculous RNG wouldnt matter as much

Matt Newman, on 21 September 2015 - 02:39 PM, said:

We are listening to player feedback and it will be refected in future event.

[Khobai]

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We are listening to player feedback and it will be refected in future event.

thats great for future events

what about THIS event?