Luscious Dan, on 29 August 2016 - 07:11 AM, said:
I've said it before, but if you're going to farm all 6 leaderboards for a new mech, that's $60 spent on new mechs to earn up to 6,000MC, 30M C-bills and some other junk. Unless you're prtn, you're likely not getting anywhere near that much. Running an alt account just for the leaderboard farming doesn't make sense if you can't transfer the rewards to your main. And if you're that good, your alt account won't stay at low tiers without you wasting a lot of time throwing matches.
This event, yep. But the leaderboard events before that? You remember, those where the only requirement was „any (light|medium|heavy|assault)“? No need to invest real money there, only level up your training shills, equip them with some serious in-game value (aka MC) and off you go to the favourite sales plattform of your choice.
Transparency as a first step would be easy for PGI to implement. Everyone who wins additional stuff apart from the personal challenge (i.e. is in one the top 75) gets his or her match record for the tournament set to public scrutinization. Including of course the relevant data for the event scoring, as has been demanded by others. Heck I bet people would even go so far, taking over the job of sorting the suspicious accounts and report them to PGI.
Second step of course would be to not disallow rigged matches (apparently much more easy to achieve in group queue, if you got the numbers), but also to enforce that rule. One easy step would be to only allow PUG matches for leaderboards. Because, when you drop with 11 of your minions, you won't even need the opposing 12 to willingly participate in the farming. Just have your teammates shield you nicely, while they leg the opponents. The rest: Easy prey for you 9 out of 10 times.