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[Quintus Verus]

May we please have a sale on Mech bays or mechs for Cbills to go along with this event! It's been all MC for 2 months.

Edited by Quintus Verus, 29 April 2016 - 08:39 AM.

[WVAnonymous]

Count Zero 74, on 28 April 2016 - 03:32 PM, said:

You can't pay me enough to play even 1 of those silly scout missions as IS pilot. Nice job giving the Clans their own little private gamemode.

Stick your rewards where the sun doesn't shine PGI

Then scout on an IS vs IS match, silly person.

Bud Crue, on 29 April 2016 - 02:49 AM, said:

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So does this mean for this event that PGI is again actively working/planning with "the largest Mercenary unit in the Inner Sphere" (MS I presume) in order for this even to take place or is this just something PGI observed and is attempting to incorporate into a story? Either way, it is interesting and at least shows a bit of effort on their part to actually pay attention to the game as it is being played and I can't help but think that is a good development.

The pay plus/minus system is more than enough for MS to switch to whoever is paying the highest bonus on the day their contract expires. It's a good system.

[Morggo]

Monodominant, on 29 April 2016 - 06:34 AM, said:

How about trying FW then? I am not saying commit to doing all the matches but give it a try. Maybe just scouting, maybe just invasion. Nothing to lose really

Also, I will say it once more... scouting does NOT take 15 minutes a match. Lets be honest... it takes at MOST 10. I have yet to see a match that ended on the timer... most of them take 5-7 minutes of game time and its midday in Europe and I still get insta drops.

As for invasion... last night was packed and again ALSO doesnt take full 30 minutes except in rare cases... usually takes around 20-25 minutes per match... some times less but almost NEVER more.

And again... you dont HAVE to do all of them. Play like you would normally play and get some bonuses for it. Thats all it is.

Honestly, for me and my play group (8 of us) it's not really so much the time commitment since we drop for hours at a time anyhow. It comes back to the whole Unit vs. not Unit thing. None of us really want a unit tag, couple are pretty set against it for a variety of reasons. Coupled with the issue that none of us can agree on a single Faction to support just further complicates all this when combined with the now very heavy desertion penalties. Believe it or not, this has actually created stress amongst our play group this week trying to come to some sort of agreement.. stress! from a game!

All that said, couple of them are going to give it a go tonight since they are free swag loving types (and who can blame them, PGI gives out loads of quality goodies). Depending where they shake out, I may put down my salt shaker (the whole botched Solo queue just left a really bad vibe with me) and put my white knight hat back on and at try at least the scouting. Who knows, or I may just keep on happily pugging it.

[Tom Sawyer]

Well I plan on playing with my teammates anyway. IF I play enough to get some free stuff then salutes to PGI because hey free stuff.

If other events preclude me from getting anything then so be it. Spending time with my family or working a job are part of life.

Maybe I will the lotto then I will buy everyone in MS a champion Myst Lynx

[Rogue Jedi]

unwary, on 29 April 2016 - 05:19 AM, said:

You forget that you have 10 days to do what you want. You even get some participation awards like free premium time and warhorns.

yes, 10 days but if you want the Mech that is literally going to take at least 3 hours a day, 60 Scouting missions at 15 minutes a piece is 15 hours, 30 invasion matches at 30 minutes a piece is again 15 hours, for a total of 30 hours over 10 days, so 3 hours a day, that is assuming matchmaking is relatively quick or matches are short, and on at least half the matches you manage the score requirements.

All I was saying is that this is going to require too much work to be fun, and therefore I am not going to put much effort into it because getting all the rewards would be hard work, not fun and putting in all that effort would burn me out on MWO for a month or more.
I play MWO for 6-10 hours a week, that is fun and sustainable, 20 hours a week is not fun or sustainable for me

[avenger cannon]

This event is garbage, if it meant having no evens just to balance the mech load outs finally I'd be perfectly happy with this.

Edited by avenger cannon, 29 April 2016 - 08:55 AM.

[4EVR]

So something like 30 - 60 hours over 10 days depending on success and queue times?

[Luscious Dan]

I am concerned that 30 and 60 KMDD challenges may have given DV Devnull a heart attack. He hasn't commented yet.

[Sopistan]

Minimun damage and KMDD on scouting missions? no thanks, thats the best way to kill the game mode...

[ThomasAH]

I'm here for the 2 days of premium time. Everything else will be a bonus to the bonus.

[John Stryker]

How about making it a month long event so I can keep my job and my wife? Haha

[WVAnonymous]

Wow, so much complaining over the labor cost of playing a free game to get free stuff.

ForumWarriors for the win.

[Randy Poffo]

p4r4g0n, on 28 April 2016 - 09:15 PM, said:

I also wonder how players in less populated factions/time zones and freelancers are going to be able to have any chance of doing all of the challenges?

Nobody cares about freelancers or whether we have any chance to finish the challenges.

[TheSilken]

I assume that we have to play as an IS faction to be able to choose their grand prizes and vice versa correct?

[lavamor]

I had 2 drops since event started..

https://snag.gy/Wn8BTi.jpg

Worst event ever... completely unplayable for Jade Falcon clan...

[Aylek]

lavamor, on 29 April 2016 - 11:39 AM, said:

I had 2 drops since event started..

https://snag.gy/Wn8BTi.jpg

Worst event ever... completely unplayable for Jade Falcon clan...

This. Ghost drops after horrible waiting times. WTF?

Any way to level out faction populations?

[Xoxim SC]

Steve Pryde, on 28 April 2016 - 04:00 PM, said:

Well, 9k dmg in 60 matches in an 4vs4 battle? Hello Streak Crow armada. o/

Between this and the SRM Griffins I just completely stopped playing FW because of how piss poorly this game is designed.

[Avenger 1337]

Count Zero 74, on 28 April 2016 - 03:32 PM, said:

You can't pay me enough to play even 1 of those silly scout missions as IS pilot. Nice job giving the Clans their own little private gamemode.

Stick your rewards where the sun doesn't shine PGI

centuion ah for the blam. better than any clans

[lavamor]

https://snag.gy/meB6QS.jpg

[Groutknoll]

Tom Sawyer, on 29 April 2016 - 08:35 AM, said:

Maybe I will the lotto then I will buy everyone in MS a champion Myst Lynx

Make sure you buy them when there are on sale!