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[GreyNovember]

Kira Onime, on 27 September 2015 - 09:49 AM, said:

And that's where you should be complaining.

And I am.

Again. My issue is that for the Match score being asked, you're being given trivial rewards. For doing something difficult in every weight class. 20 times each.

Hence, it might as well be a participation trophy. Hence the 150 match score.

[Kira Onime]

GreyNovember, on 27 September 2015 - 10:03 AM, said:

And I am.

Again. My issue is that for the Match score being asked, you're being given trivial rewards. For doing something difficult in every weight class. 20 times each.

Hence, it might as well be a participation trophy. Hence the 150 match score.

They could also give out nothing, but then people would ***** about them doing nothing.

[GreyNovember]

Kira Onime, on 27 September 2015 - 10:13 AM, said:

They could also give out nothing, but then people would ***** about them doing nothing.

Honest question. Was that you digging at me personally, or was that a dismissal of the topic?

[Kira Onime]

GreyNovember, on 27 September 2015 - 10:20 AM, said:

Honest question. Was that you digging at me personally, or was that a dismissal of the topic?

None of the above.
Mostly aimed at the people that ***** for bitching.
Pretty sure we can have a discussion on a subject we agree/don't agree on.

[Kraftwerkedup]

I dont mind challenging events that almost no one completes.

I mind events that are hinged on RNGs, massive play time, specific Paywall stuff, or are otherwise terribly designed.

A high matchscore is what it is. I dont care about that. It could be 500 for 1 MC and you only get 5 match rewards, I dont care. I just am sick and tired of events that seem specifically designed to sell me crap I refuse to buy, or require me to play so much im sick to death of the game by the end of it. Events bring out some of the worst. We all know that. WE ALL KNOW THAT. So please god try and design them well.

[TLBFestus]

Helorn, on 26 September 2015 - 09:24 PM, said:

Haha, yeah, I hear that! Ever since the last event, which I spent almost all weekend on and still failed the CW challenge, I've barely touched MWO.

Doing the occasional game for 2x XP but that's about it. That last event really, really discouraged me... it was the proverbial last straw, I suppose. I still love MWO but PGI has disappointed me completely. Too many things have been done to disappoint me in too short a period of time. I haven't even been playing MWO all that long, lol. But that's a whole other story. MWO is still lots of fun, despite everything!

OH LOOK! A NEW PLAYER EXPERIENCE.

Pretty much just as most of us have been warning about since about FOREVER.

This guy really sounds like the kind of positive new player response that will feed a free to play game.

[Crosell]

I dont see whats wrong with participation trophies. I get leader board rewards but strict denial of the player base from rewards just makes it an epeen. I havent played this event much cause people become passive because thry might get shot. The events dont encourage great play just lame play.
As a vet i can pass this up. As a new player id love this and think it waa great but wiuld never get the score to get the rewards. So sonething that would excite me would just disenfranchise me.
Of course coukd be the salt from the last event still coursijg through my viens

[MechWarrior5152251]

Jesus Effing Christ. 3 kills 4 assists and I got a 174 match score. Dual Gauss may kill too efficiently for Events...

[bad arcade kitty]

eh, i forgot to take a screenshot of such a nice game today, would be a good example how ****** our current match score is

so, our team killed like 3 enemy mechs, may be 4 but afaik 3, 2 of them were killed by me and i think at least one of those kills was kill most damage dealt, but it's like nothing interesting, here is the fun part, enemy killed 10 our mechs but due to my capping and because me and some light mech survived we won by cap, i basically carried hard the whole team which died uselessly storming the caldera on terra terma, robbed enemy of what was like their flawless victory... and i didn't get 300 match score (:

well, i wasn't mad since 300 score isn't hard, i just got my 20th 300+ game in my silly crow and will return to cw to level up my timbers/jags and to grind loyalty while there is a some movement there, but it was pretty funny

[Lugh]

Homeskilit, on 26 September 2015 - 08:38 PM, said:

I think 250 pts even would be reasonable, super frustrating having a good game and getting in the 290s

Your accuracy is overrated and your efficiency in killing opponents is not deemed fun. You have been PGI'd

(Tested with the ACH this weekend 3 kills all damage from the rear match score 280)

5 Kills only two kills from rear and the rest picking off parts one at a time 589 damage match score 400something...

[Soultraxx]

Its the new players who are missing out.

Its all well and good when people say "its supposed to be challenging - its a challenge duh", but most of these players have lots of Cbills, bays, mechs etc already. Poor old newb who really needs the prizes to buy upgrades is missing out.

I wonder how many of the skillful players would be so happy if they scaled the requirements based on Tier so that it really became a challenge for them as well?

Personally I ignore the challenges as I buy Mech packs as they are released so I have plenty already

[bad arcade kitty]

Soultraxx, on 28 September 2015 - 07:07 AM, said:

Its all well and good when people say "its supposed to be challenging - its a challenge duh", but most of these players have lots of Cbills, bays, mechs etc already. Poor old newb who really needs the prizes to buy upgrades is missing out.

the rewards for the current event are so ridiculously low, even the greenest noob wouldn't be very glad to get like 1 mln for the effort which already will bring you more than five times (it's a generous estimation) as more

well, mc is always nice though, but you should have a marauder pack for those

Edited by bad arcade kitty, 28 September 2015 - 07:13 AM.

[Greyhart]

I have to agree with 300 not being a good idea for new players.

Events should give rewards for new players primarily because these are the people that need to get hooked and feel rewarded by the game.

A veteran player generally does not need more c-bills or consumables or MC as they have bought what they want already and likely have money they need.

What I would like to know is assuming a stomp win and each player on the winning team getting one kill each for minimum required damage what would their score be?

because that would be perfect team work surely.

[Idealsuspect]

There is an event ? kidding?

[Tatula]

It's pretty funny that some people will spend 80,000 c-bills on consumables to try to get that 50,000 c-bills "reward".

As proven with the last event, the scoring system rewards high damage, and more people play LRM boats to farm damage. I'm not against LRMs as a weapon, but 4 LRM boats on each team isn't much fun, especially when some of them don't usually play LRMs and are not good with using them.

[MechWarrior5152251]

Aloha, on 28 September 2015 - 07:28 AM, said:

It's pretty funny that some people will spend 80,000 c-bills on consumables to try to get that 50,000 c-bills "reward".

As proven with the last event, the scoring system rewards high damage, and more people play LRM boats to farm damage. I'm not against LRMs as a weapon, but 4 LRM boats on each team isn't much fun, especially when some of them don't usually play LRMs and are not good with using them.

LRM assaults are fine, but I am seeing whole teams of mediums boating 3-4 LRM5s... and LRM lights, how much effing ammo can you really take?

[stocky0904]

I dont play the event, i play mwo. if i get over 300 its ok, if not, who cares

I have no time to do 40 cw-matches (about 30 hrs. or so lol). 80 pug-matches? Thats about 15-20 hrs., again without break. And thats only for matches that count for the event. in my case thats every 2nd to 3rd match. that makes about 90-100hrs gameplay for the time of the event. ...for 6.ooo.ooo cbills? (+MC)

its nice to get some extra money but 50k for 300 matchscore seems a bit low.

[Screech]

They requirements of the event were fine, it was the reward that was off. They were too low.

[bad arcade kitty]

Aloha, on 28 September 2015 - 07:28 AM, said:

It's pretty funny that some people will spend 80,000 c-bills on consumables to try to get that 50,000 c-bills "reward".

As proven with the last event, the scoring system rewards high damage, and more people play LRM boats to farm damage. I'm not against LRMs as a weapon, but 4 LRM boats on each team isn't much fun, especially when some of them don't usually play LRMs and are not good with using them.

i saw some pro lrmers too
sniping with dumbfired lurms is hard~