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[30ft SMURF]

lol... and while your at it put out a tier 4, 5 and 6 too. screw those people who got 800+ match scores though

[Asterios]

The only one thing make me sad...i can't get only one map named Vitric Forge for 3 days. In fact i've got Grim only once yesterday. I like event coz there is some kind of challenge, especially after removing broken disc counter, despite the strange scoring system in CW.
Extending event would be great for me

[no one]

Match etiquette suggestion: When launching into a match with one or more disconnects, say in the open channel what 'Mechs / weight you're down by. If you're on the opposing team in an equivalent 'Mech on a map you have a score for, say that you're standing down for the match. Only re-engage if your team's down by a few more than the discos. Say if you're joining the fray.

Eg:

A: ****, our Warhawk booked.
B: Atlas here. I'll stand in reserve.
A: Thanks.
B: Damn, we just lost two, I'm rejoining.

Edited by no one, 21 September 2015 - 11:10 PM.

[Lunatic_Asylum]

What the hell?! The values have changed from 300 and 400 to 200 and 300. This is the worst change ever...

[trajan331]

Argh, just realized that they changed the requirements I would have played more.

[sisu303]

Tywren, on 21 September 2015 - 09:50 PM, said:

This is the equivalent of a doctor "fixing" his patent with a broken leg by giving them morphine for the pain, but not setting the broken bone, and applying a cast. The match scores may have been painful, but having maps on an RNG was the real problem.




Ok, well then here is some feedback, and it's even going to be constructive feedback, and not the "U SUX PGI!!!1!!1!" kind.

If you want to hold an event like this in the future either give the players the ability to choose the maps they play,

OR

set up a flagging system on the maps so that once a map has been played it's pulled from that players random pool until the flag is cleared, which would happen once a predetermined amount of time had passed, or all maps had been flagged, in which case all flags would auto clear.

Both of these methods would curb the "I only had map X come up 3 times all weekend" issue, as you would be guaranteed to get every map once every 9 drops (or however many maps you have in the event rotation).

In fact you may want to use both methods; map selection (via vote) for CW, and flagged map rotation for public que.

I couldnt agree more.
I didn't get a drop in any of my two maps left yesterday. And i played for 5 hours... really pisses me off tbh.
And I've had 2 shots at them before yesterday (failed cos our team got *****). I've probably spent 15h in this event and only played Tourmaline and mining twice.

[Docta Pain]

This is secretly an attempt to let players adjust their PSR tier down via all of the disconnects prior to Tier Tuesday...

Edited by Docta Pain, 21 September 2015 - 11:28 PM.

[BlaineCraner]

I'm surprised over all the rage. People are going waaaay too serious to this game.

Edited by BlaineCraner, 21 September 2015 - 11:42 PM.

[Sagamore]

A little sad I threw away a good part of my weekend getting my 400 on each map. I think I had 300 on the first day. I didn't even have time to jump on CW. A TIer 3 would have been nice.

[Naryck]

Havyek, on 21 September 2015 - 08:17 PM, said:

I found (that until PGI lowered it from 400) getting a 400+ match score needed minimum of 1 kill, 4 assists, 600 damage. That's a lot.

ew... great! what was wrong with that?

[Thorqemada]

Still try to get 400 at Viridian (~380 reached) and Canyon (~280 so far) in my Cicada 3M (AC10 + 3x ML)

The PUGs in Canyon are either to good or to bad and my lack of JJs and very long range weapons makes me struggle to keep up when they are good and when they are bad...well...it does not help either...

[Fulgar]

What a fun event!

[Inflatable Fish]

Fulgar, on 21 September 2015 - 11:50 PM, said:

What a fun event!

say no to drugs

[sierra gulf]

I think it could have helped to combat the disconnect problem if they offered some sort of bonus reward for having below a certain threshold of disconnects during the event. Maybe some small incremental rewards for each individual map you get the map score on. Something to help dull the pain if you just...cant....get the last map you need in the rotation.

[Fulgar]

Inflatable Fish, on 22 September 2015 - 12:00 AM, said:

say no to drugs

Legal where i live

[The Great Unwashed]

sierra gulf, on 22 September 2015 - 12:01 AM, said:

I think it could have helped to combat the disconnect problem if they offered some sort of bonus reward for having below a certain threshold of disconnects during the event. Maybe some small incremental rewards for each individual map you get the map score on.

That won't work because people DC when they already have that map in their list at the required score; adding an incentive to stay does nothing for them.

What would have helped, and is actually very simple, is to make the map rotation score for each player inversely proportional to the score on that map. Or, low score, better chance of getting that map.

The main gripe with this tournament is map selection. Getting the 400 points is a matter of time, provided you get the map. Fortunately, I did no CW and had no problems with the map selection whatsoever.

Edited by The Great Unwashed, 22 September 2015 - 12:17 AM.

[DarklightCA]

All these people spouting about compensation for completing the event with 400 points just make me cringe. You did the exact same event everybody else did, you grinded in the same ****** games everybody else did. You dealt with all the ****** disconnect teams (most likely were some of those people) that everybody else did. Only difference being is that you got the maps you required and you played well on those maps. PGI lowered requirements to help out people struggling with the event so they too can get there rewards. Nothing more, nothing less.

Edited by l)arklight, 22 September 2015 - 12:22 AM.

[Saobh]

Its nice that they lowered the bar for people, but also kind a hurts for all of us who put some extra effort to get those last damn 2 maps to 400. As its really not the same effort, I had pretty much reached the 300 mark for all maps (except forest colony I only got 3 times the whole week end /) middle of Sunday afternoon. I thus would have either stopped playing or switched to doing some CW maps if the bar had been lower by default.

So its nice they lowered the bar for everyone but a little appreciation for those who reached the initial goal would be nice. Just 10 MC or 2-400 thousands credits would be enough.

And frankly don't just do a top 10 or 20 reward system leader board as only the die hard / "no life" players are going to be on there. Make it a top 100 (out of literally thousands of people playing) and have the last places be 5-10 MC
And I'm not saying this for myself as I only reached at best 147 place with 5047 points (the MAL-MX90 4 x UAC-5 is a beast)

[Delta1262 Scorch]

Well i've tried public games - but with all those discos it was so frustrating, that i just have focused on CW part. The thing is - i've managed to get on Portico, well only 1 time. And Emerald Taiga - 2 or 3. And that's when in total - there were like 25-30 matches played. But still was unlucky so the highest score there is something like 280.

It is ok if you must play considerably and have some skill and luck with teams and game in total to make those points, that's fine. But not when you even don't have a chance to do that, because you'll never going to get the map you need. So you're dropping Boreal and Hellebore again and again until you'll be sick of all this game. So in the total - after more then 3 days - nothing have changed. I needed those 2 maps only, I still need them, and i think i'm not going to get on them in time, so all the tier 2 efforts, and all the time spent on it - were in vain.

[1 21 Giggawatts]

Matt Newman, on 18 September 2015 - 09:09 AM, said:

Hello everyone

We will be removing the disconnect condition from the event.
Remember though even if you are qualified as Tier 2 for a Map you can always try and get a higher match score and climb the ranks of the leader board.

And that is a screen from the Caustic Valley update.

Im very dissappointed to read this. I thought it must be the case though when I am seeing 4 - 5 disco's in nearly every game now. Not a good move!!! So each game win is now determined by how many players bail on each team rather than the skill of the team...