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[Looming Dementia]

D V Devnull, on 17 October 2016 - 10:42 PM, said:

There shouldn't be any incompatibility between the Event items and Faction Warfare. Risking your Huntsman Chassis in Faction Warfare should still come with rewards, just as there will be for those hunting the Huntsman. PGI should not take it away from those doing either LeaderBoards or Piloting. Like, didn't PGI recently demonstrate that they had managed to track most elements of matches better than before, or was I daydreaming?

~D. V. "Great... I missed something... Now I'm confused!" Devnull

The big issue, what ended up happening (now that the event is over), is that once the Halloween event started, people had to do at least FIFTEEN matches a day, to get all of their goodie bags. You're not going to do Invasion, while you're getting those, since a single Invasion match only gets you a single goodie bag. Plus, you weren't going to necessarily run into many Huntmen in Invasion, since people were still learning them, and you can't do Terra Therma.

And I don't know about everyone else, but after 15 matches a day, every single day, I was a little burned out for doing any Invasion matches, after the Quickplay grind.

[Entropy11]

For comparison sake, here's what I got from 120 bags:


3,237,500 C-Bills
6700 GXP
460 MC
2 Mech Bays
5 Days Active Premium Time
1 Halloween Lights
2 Nuke Pumpkins
2 Halloween Pumpkins
2 Scared Pumpkins
1 Skull Face
1 Smiling Pumpkin
1 Stitched Pumpkin
1 Lava Lamp
3 Advanced UAVs
8 Improved Cooling Pods
6 Priority Air Strikes
6 Priority Artillery Strikes
6 Tricks


No zombie mech, and now I'm pretty burned out.

Anyway I'd like to see how this compares to other peoples takes, especially in the area of cbills/GXP/MC. I also feel like I got way more cockpit items than expected.

Edited by Entropy11, 01 November 2016 - 07:42 PM.

[Tiberius Reynolds]

Got the Zombie mech 1st day out of the 8th loot bag, other than that got 3 tricks, 8 hanging items, the lights x2 but no lava lamp, meh. Either way the Zombie mech looks cool.

[Belkor]

Entropy11, on 01 November 2016 - 07:36 PM, said:

For comparison sake, here's what I got from 120 bags:


3,237,500 C-Bills
6700 GXP
460 MC
2 Mech Bays
5 Days Active Premium Time
1 Halloween Lights
2 Nuke Pumpkins
2 Halloween Pumpkins
2 Scared Pumpkins
1 Skull Face
1 Smiling Pumpkin
1 Stitched Pumpkin
1 Lava Lamp
3 Advanced UAVs
8 Improved Cooling Pods
6 Priority Air Strikes
6 Priority Artillery Strikes
6 Tricks


No zombie mech, and now I'm pretty burned out.

Anyway I'd like to see how this compares to other peoples takes, especially in the area of cbills/GXP/MC. I also feel like I got way more cockpit items than expected.

Honestly the zombie mech standing item is overrated. I won it but I never got any mechbays. The mechbays are much more valuable in my opinion as they actually do something.

[YUyahoo]

795 mc
5.0875 mil Cbills
6700 gxp
5 days PT
3 mechbays
14 cockpit items
25 consumables
6 tricks
1 grand prize

In all 40 bonus picks and 120 daily picks...the only thing that seemed a little unusual was that the mech bays didn't start coming until the last 2-3 days of the event but otherwise a fairly good haul this year

[B0ll0]

140 bags

0 bays
390 mc

didn't count the rest

[D V Devnull]

Looming Dementia, on 01 November 2016 - 07:03 PM, said:

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The big issue, what ended up happening (now that the event is over), is that once the Halloween event started, people had to do at least FIFTEEN matches a day, to get all of their goodie bags. You're not going to do Invasion, while you're getting those, since a single Invasion match only gets you a single goodie bag. Plus, you weren't going to necessarily run into many Huntmen in Invasion, since people were still learning them, and you can't do Terra Therma.

And I don't know about everyone else, but after 15 matches a day, every single day, I was a little burned out for doing any Invasion matches, after the Quickplay grind.

I see your point, which I already picked up on as the Event went on. +1 Like to your post. I must admit, I also feel a little let down by PGI that they didn't make the New Terra Therma compatible with Scouting. It really would have added a new dimension to battle options. And yeah, 15 battles a day without recovery options for previous days is kinda harsh, as I came to find out myself.




Oh, that reminds me... Even though I've clicked to redeem my 120 Loot Bags, I haven't signed in to receive them as of yet, due to not wanting my Active Premium Time to auto-trigger. If the MWO Servers crash some time in the next few days, it might have been my fault, because I tried to accept 120 injections all at once. Although, I hope I don't cause that upon the player base.


~D. V. "Hopefully PGI fixes all this before the next Event... And hopefully I don't cause a crash!" Devnull

[Aramuside]

People obviously did a lot better than I did...

139 bags (80 of those were bonus as I missed most of the period with work).

2 MG's
2 SHS
2 SL's
3 Day Active Premium Time
3,625,000 C-Bills
1 Halloween Lights
1 Halloween Pumpkin
2 Halloween Skull Face
1 Halloween Smiling Pumpkin
3 Halloween Stitched Pumpkin
5 Advanced UAV
5 Improved Coolant Pod
7 Priority Air Strike
5 Priority Artillery Strike
Grand: Zombie Mech Standing Item
460 MC
10,000 GXP exactly!

For freebies I guess thats ok.

I confess the last four days I voted TT at every opportunity (despite running pure energy mostly) and almost exclusively ran huntsmen I was leveling to give people a chance to get their kills. I even let one desperate person 1 to 1 me right at the end of the competition for the kill.... I may or may not have allegedly tried too hard but he got the kill. Thanks to my team who held off and let us do it.

Overall it was a fairly awful tournament (excluding the always popular bags section) as it was so reliant on voting or people choosing to be hunted. I'd like to think PGI have noted the weaknesses of that tournament and will tweak it next time as at least they're trying to be more inventive recently.

Edited by Aramuside, 02 November 2016 - 12:50 AM.

[C E Dwyer]

They need to drop the kill new mech X option, and I guess to make it fair, KMDD with X mech also.

Other than that, I think the event had a good format

[D V Devnull]

Looming Dementia, on 01 November 2016 - 07:03 PM, said:

You're not going to do Invasion, while you're getting those, since a single Invasion match only gets you a single goodie bag.

Looming Dementia, on 01 November 2016 - 07:03 PM, said:

And I don't know about everyone else, but after 15 matches a day, every single day, I was a little burned out for doing any Invasion matches, after the Quickplay grind.

Argh... I forgot to note one thing in my last post when I was quoting you. You're right about Invasion rounds giving less than enough Loot Bags. They should turn it up to 3 or 4 Loot Bags for a single Invasion match. There's only so many rounds of that which a Pilot can do within a reasonable time period, and PGI didn't provide proper compensation for those. We'll have to hope they adjust that before the next Event, in order to keep Faction Warfare from becoming a desolate and unused area.

~D. V. "Otherwise, they're looking at more complaints..." Devnull

[Groutknoll]

Thanks for the free stufz PGI

140 pulls
no grand prize
no mech bays (guess I could buy 1 with the mc won OR 3 during 50% off mech bay sale HINT HINT )

5,225,000 cbills

480 mc


1 Cockpit Items: Halloween Lights
6 Cockpit Items: Halloween Nuke Pumpkin
2 Cockpit Items: Halloween Pumpkin
1 Cockpit Items: Halloween Skull Face
1 Cockpit Items: Halloween Smiling Pumpkin
3 Cockpit Items: Halloween Stitched Pumpkin
3 Cockpit Items: Lava Lamp
17 Cockpit Items


3 Trick: 1 Flamer
2 Trick: 1 Single Heat Sink
3 Trick: 1 Small Laser
8 Tricks

would like to trade/swap these .. don't really need them. so they are more like 'tricks' for me

5 Premium Time: 1 Day Active Premium Time (have lots of banked time)


3 Consumables: Advanced UAV
5 Consumables: Improved Coolant Pod
4 Consumables: Priority Air Strike
5 Consumables: Priority Artillery Strike
17 Consumables


7,400 gxp

[Kylere]

58 Matches
Zombie Mech Standing
Flamer
Small Laser
2600GXP
270 MC
1,450,000 Credits
Halloween Lights
Halloween Scared
Halloween Skull
Halloween Stitched
5 Advanced UAV
2 Improved Coolant Pod
2 Priority Air Strike
5 Priority Artillery Strike


All for games I would have played regardless. I have no issues

[Dee Eight]

All the trick items, are sellable. Think of them as small c-bill wins.

[D V Devnull]

Anybody else tried triggering 120 injections all at once? I'm getting close to when I'll do mine at the latest, because being away is wearing on my mind, and I smell another Event inbound. Lemme know if you want to see the list before I fire it off.

~D. V. "Yeah, I'm not a gloater... Just a concerned nut." Devnull

[Dee Eight]

D V Devnull, on 03 November 2016 - 03:51 PM, said:

Anybody else tried triggering 120 injections all at once? I'm getting close to when I'll do mine at the latest, because being away is wearing on my mind, and I smell another Event inbound. Lemme know if you want to see the list before I fire it off.

~D. V. "Yeah, I'm not a gloater... Just a concerned nut." Devnull

I triggered 160 at once.

[Alexander of Macedon]

Lol. I opened maybe 30 bags and got the zombie 'mech in the first ten or so. Poor luck, folks.

[D V Devnull]

Dee Eight, on 03 November 2016 - 05:03 PM, said:

D V Devnull, on 03 November 2016 - 03:51 PM, said:

Anybody else tried triggering 120 injections all at once? I'm getting close to when I'll do mine at the latest, because being away is wearing on my mind, and I smell another Event inbound. Lemme know if you want to see the list before I fire it off.

~D. V. "Yeah, I'm not a gloater... Just a concerned nut." Devnull

I triggered 160 at once.

No crashes, huh? That's good to know. Thank you for the heads-up. I'll look forward to seeing a royally long list of things dropping into my account, and to seeing the rest of you out on the field.

~D. V. "Feeling some level of relief..." Devnull

[ball0fire]

looks like everyone got better stuffthan me

oh well i didnt open as many bags

[Ithilid]

Nov 1st redeem is missing on page... I hope to get some premium time for this weekend

Oh I'm on a tablet at the moment.. Will try on my comp in a few

All is good... tablet didn't like the layout apparently

Edited by Ithilid, 04 November 2016 - 01:23 PM.

[General Pete]

I always have my kid click all the buttons at once after the event is over so I always trigger all the stuff at once- never crashed anything. Kinda bummed I didn't get the Zombie mech, but I did get a mechbay and 6 days of Premium time... I wonder if the zombie mech will be for sale regularly...