D V Devnull, on 18 February 2016 - 08:53 AM, said:
While I'm in 'Tier 4', a second MechWarrior who uses the same computer as myself happens to be down in 'Tier 5'. This person has had far worse trouble playing the game than I have, and has only rarely (like once, maybe twice) completed an event in the few months since we both started playing. They usually struggle to have enough time and good rounds played, even though they take most of the time on the computer. I have done all I can to tutor them along, but to not much avail. They have become my proverbial "measuring stick" on needed time for the highest reasonable percentage of players to complete an event.
That basically sums up 95% of why I keep chiding PGI over how little time they give for events. The other 5% is myself and a third MechWarrior who get squeezed for time in the process, because of PGI making the time limits too short even for us to be able to finish, due to that second one taking up so much time. (
As you can imagine, I just really don't like talking about this issue in that much detail.)
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BTW, if you're going to reply back, note this... Causing that second MechWarrior to give up on the game is NOT a solution, and I won't be tolerating that kind of mentality. 
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~D. V. "
I'm generally not even thinking really about myself, but for those who need time even more." Devnull
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Edit by author for a missed thought.]
Quite frankly, you are not describing a "general Tier 5" problem then but your usual personal scheduling problem. I have a hard time seeing that as something that affects the majority or even a sizable minority of players on a regular basis.
30 games take about 7-8 hours to complete and it takes really, really ineffective play to not manage the event in those games unless in addition to getting bad results you also play Lights exclusively. I think for nearly everyone outside your very specific scheduling issue it is a very reasonable time investment over four days that include the weekend. And this is the worst case scenario in time required.
At reasonable stats in a heavy or assault (W/L around 1, average scores around 150, average damage over 300, 1-2 KMDD and 3-4 Assists per game) I am guessing it will be done in 10-15 games. So maybe 2 or 3 hours.
And the point of these events is to incentivize people to play over the specified timeslots rather than the rest of the week. Trying to concentrate the player base to part of the week makes matches and waiting times during that time better. It is a rather clever way of making sure that even a small community has a good experience most of the time.
Extending the event dilutes that effect and the small player base spreads more evenly over the week.
None of the rewards are more than "nice extras" or some vanity items. I am just assuming that you all enjoy playing the game for the sake of playing the game, rather than for the joy of grinding out extra rewards.
And that joy is still there even outside the events and their rewards.
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