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[Yosharian]

"You QQ'd so much over the last event..."

With good reason, the last event was ******* shite. It's not asking too much to have regular events that aren't designed by a lobotomized monkey.

That said I don't particularly mind playing without events.

I would like events that encourage people to play different mechs. Like a Catapult weekend where dropping in Catapults earns you 2x the income or something. Or Atlas weekend, 50% off all Atlases and you get 50% more XP when dropping in Atlases.

It doesn't take a ******* genius to come up with some simple but effective weekend events that don't require dramatic "COMPLETE ALL THE MAPS!!!1"-style objectives.

Just my opinion.

[STEF_]

MrJeffers, on 09 October 2015 - 01:45 PM, said:

Too much crying about the past two events probably has PGI a bit gun shy...

Too much?
Nope.
Seriously, I'll never try an event again if it includes obligatory maps... I found Grim Portico for an entire day.
The same for solo/group que, waitng for maps and full of disco.
Worst event eva.
Period.

[Vellron2005]

You know, I was just gonna start a thread about this very question..

It struck me as odd that we have not had an event in 2 weeks.. I guess we got spoiled, and didn't know how good we had it until PGI took it away..

But here's a direct result:

Now, understand I'm not mad or anything.. This was completely spontaneous.

But since there was no event... I was like "oh well, since I wont miss out on anything".. I went ahead and player XCOM all weekend instead..

Why is this significant?

Its the first game I've played other than MWO in the last six months since I got my new computer..

[Chemie]

There was an event; it was the Buy MC weekend event.

[KodiakGW]

Don't know about you, but it's been 4 weekends without an event for me. First two weekends of that purposely avoiding the game.

Everyone likes the grab bag events. Most even liked the one requiring you to take each weight group, or can only do solo play. I think they should focus on that. Maybe they are holding off to do another big Halloween grab bag event. Maybe they are focusing on getting another PTS server up.

Then again, maybe not.

[Lugh]

Screech, on 09 October 2015 - 01:54 PM, said:

I am going with the theory that the Star Wars open beta weekend scared them off of doing anything.

What a COD kiddie ID10T fest that was.

Run from spawn, kill die, run from spawn... so much run, so little fun.

[Palor]

Two weeks no event, just makes me think they have something epic cooking.

[Goose]

We all got seeded with the last event challenge, and now we have two weeks, or so, of regular game-play to see how far we move from said seeding.

"No events to skew behavior" dovetails with "calibration attempt" …

[Water Bear]

MrJeffers, on 09 October 2015 - 01:45 PM, said:

Too much crying about the past two events probably has PGI a bit gun shy...

If they're taking a break to think about their event design, that'd be OK. From what I read of the last few events (and given the changes they eventually made to them) it sounds like those events were poorly thought out and had some 'unintended consequences.'

[Jman5]

What PGI needs to do is have someone in their office actually sit down and complete one of their challenges while recording the time it takes. If he wants to uninstall the game afterwards or can't complete it, you tone it down. If he had fun, you release it. There is no way PGI plays their own events because the ones like the map ones are unbelievably frustrating.

[Goose]

You saw how they dropped both levels by 100 points come Monday, right?

Edited by Goose, 12 October 2015 - 08:20 AM.

[MrJeffers]

Goose, on 12 October 2015 - 08:18 AM, said:

You saw how they dropped both levels by 100 points come Monday, right?

And you saw they put it back up to 300 points for the event after that, right?

Stefka Kerensky, on 10 October 2015 - 12:48 AM, said:

Too much?
Nope.
Seriously, I'll never try an event again if it includes obligatory maps... I found Grim Portico for an entire day.
The same for solo/group que, waitng for maps and full of disco.
Worst event eva.
Period.

Totally agree it was the worst planned/designed event ever. I hope the post below is correct.

Water Bear, on 12 October 2015 - 07:43 AM, said:

If they're taking a break to think about their event design, that'd be OK. From what I read of the last few events (and given the changes they eventually made to them) it sounds like those events were poorly thought out and had some 'unintended consequences.'

I hope this is true.

[Goose]

MrJeffers, on 12 October 2015 - 08:27 AM, said:

And you saw they put it back up to 300 points for the event after that, right?

Yeah: The same way they thought 30 was legit in the previous system …

[Charronn]

RoboPatton, on 09 October 2015 - 01:55 PM, said:

A good reason to have an event, actually.

I played it...

It was awful,more like a death simulator.It was just so so very bad.

[MrJeffers]

Goose, on 12 October 2015 - 08:34 AM, said:

Yeah: The same way they thought 30 was legit in the previous system …

You realize that 30 points in the old system is like 150 points in the new system, right? Not 300.

[Goose]

I don't see it: No …

[3xnihilo]

MrJeffers, on 12 October 2015 - 08:36 AM, said:

You realize that 30 points in the old system is like 150 points in the new system, right? Not 300.

Yeah, this. 30 in the old system meant your team won and you shot somebody a couple times, or if your team lost you at least shot a couple people and did a little damage. I have never gotten a 300 match score with less than 300 damage and usually closer to 400. This might not be too bad in a heavy or assault but it is hard to do it consistently in a light or medium. Which means don't take a light or medium. But I am not sure what The motivation really is to push people towards dropping heavier mechs.

[Roadkill]

Levi Porphyrogenitus, on 09 October 2015 - 02:08 PM, said:

If they tried another Match Score Qualifier event, I have three suggestions. First, put the minimum MS at 200. Second, allow MS rollover (got 400 in a single match? you get two credits). Third, allow MS accumulation (got 150 and then 100? you get a credit).

I agree with 1 and 2, but 3 turns the event into just another grind.

I like 1 because it makes the match score needed a real goal for a lot of players. 200 is an actual skill challenge, albeit a reasonably low one. I don't get 200 in every game, so needing a score that high would probably encourage me to concentrate a little more.

I like 2 because it means that players for whom 200 is trivial also have a goal - they can try for 400 to get double points or 600 to get triple.

But 3 just makes it a cumulative match score event, and that's just an endurance grind. Supposed to get 20 x 200 match score? Well now that's really just needing to get 4000 total match score. Some people will do it quickly while others will chip away at it 80 points at a time all weekend. Meh, no skill needed, just endurnance to run enough missions over the weekend.

[Goose]

3xnihilo, on 12 October 2015 - 08:44 AM, said:

Which means don't take a light or medium.

[Mechwarrior Buddah]

Im happy. Events make ppl play like ****