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[MovinTarget]

Yeah, not super thrilled about these day-bound time sensitive dailies... I guess the good thing is few of the fp rewards "gotta have it" type rewards.

...and thank goodness for the stocking stuffers....

[Commander A9]

So, turns out I was wrong.

According to the War Log, the Conquest match window happened...when I was still at work...

So there was no way in hell I'd have been ever able to win the Kodiak head.

Thanks, PGI.

At least I won the Krampus tonight.

[tee5]

Amusing to see how the guy who made the rewards for the 12 days of Mechmas, had no idea how CW/FW/FP works.

To get a CW-Skirmish/CW-Conquest or a CW-Assault you need to be online at a specific time, and the timeframe how long it is available to play can be small.
So well done for making the community angry, because most of them didn't even had a chance to play that game mode.
But I don't care because the rewards for this aren't that great either.

The next challenges should be made by someone who understands how the fundamental game mechanics of this game are working. Maybe Stella Ku, because she is the only one I see playing.

[Aramuside]

tee5, on 23 December 2016 - 04:14 AM, said:

Amusing to see how the guy who made the rewards for the 12 days of Mechmas, had no idea how CW/FW/FP works.

To get a CW-Skirmish/CW-Conquest or a CW-Assault you need to be online at a specific time, and the timeframe how long it is available to play can be small.
So well done for making the community angry, because most of them didn't even had a chance to play that game mode.
But I don't care because the rewards for this aren't that great either.

The next challenges should be made by someone who understands how the fundamental game mechanics of this game are working. Maybe Stella Ku, because she is the only one I see playing.

Well in fairness the system has literally just changed over and hindsight isn't a luxury they had.

[Jay Leon Hart]

Aramuside, on 23 December 2016 - 04:29 AM, said:

Well in fairness the system has literally just changed over and hindsight isn't a luxury they had.

Although this issue was raised shortly after the announcement, so there was ample time to alter the Challenge.

[Desintegrator]

Now its time for the loots...

[NosehairOMO]

I am logging in all day trying to get to cw when conquest is on...haven't seen it yet. Kinda frustrating

[Commander A9]

Yeah, except PGI doesn't read their own forums, I'm pretty sure.

Our calls to Russ over Twitter about the issue of when game types were accessible compared to people's work and school schedules went unreturned by Russ last I checked.

What they should do is stick to challenges that are obtainable by direct player-controlled action (i.e., score 3000 damage in Community Warfare) versus challenges dictated by either the opposition or the map or game selector system (i.e., kill 10 heavy mechs or win on this map/this mode) so that the individual controls the means of completing the challenge rather than the opponent.

As we've currently seen, if your enemy doesn't bring said mech type, you dont get that game mode, or you don't get the map, you don't win the challenge. It's not fun being told "you can't even qualify for the prize because the only way to win is by playing at an ungodly hour or a time at which you are unavailable"

Edited by Commander A9, 23 December 2016 - 08:00 AM.

[Jeronimo25]

PGI seems to think that most of community are people who are playing this game all day 24/7 because they've got nothing better to do than wait for a bloody conquest in faction play....

[RazerThrone07]

Aramuside, on 23 December 2016 - 04:29 AM, said:

Well in fairness the system has literally just changed over and hindsight isn't a luxury they had.

Why must people always make excuses for business direction?
Make it happen, take responsibility for your actions.

Edited by RazerThrone07, 23 December 2016 - 08:37 AM.

[RCore]

I appreciate the 12 Days Mechmas event, but geez the conditions for specific FW modes AND a WIN are freakin' ridiculous when those modes are not available all the time. It's a recipe for frustration.

[Crashburn]

I have to say, I'm quite pissed about today's 10th day of Mechmas event. I never complain on forums about this game but quite frankly this one is quite rediculous. The vast majority of players IS/CLAN will not have a chance to get this reward. I was online right at the start of this 10th day...which was around 6pm CST last night, and at the time it was conquest. I dropped in one match and our team narrowly lost on point 1250-1220. It lasted a little more than 20 minutes. By the time the match was over, Conquest was finished for that 8 hour period...it never made it back. When the 8 hour window finished... I stayed up a little into the next window but it seemed by then faction play subsided because i didn't see the slider move from the middle. Since, I'm not a machine that can play this game 24 hours, I had to quit, and try again this morning. When I woke, which was in the last hour of the 2nd 8 hour window...the game mode hadn't made it past domination, so in that 2nd 8 hours it seems it never even made it to conquest. As we entered the 3rd 8 hour window, I waited for the first opportunity to play a CW - conquest match and that happened a few minutes before 10 am CST today. Ofc I got a group of EVIL, so that was a quick loss..less than 20 minutes....and by the time I was back to the Faction warfare screen conquest mode was finished.

At the moment the Faction slider is already at Invasion....which it will probably stay until this 8 hour window closes...the next window that opens at 4pm CST only give you 2 hours to get the slider from neutral to conquest and complete a match. From what I've observed....it takes nearly 2 hours just to get to conquest....seems like an average of 1 hour 45 minutes. Ofc you actually have to have the match completed before the 10th day cut off at 6pm CST today to get the reward...meaning unless you roll the other team the possibility of earning the reward for the day is already over. So the gist of this is....unless I just happened to be logged on for those 2 exact 30 minutes periods in a span of 24 hours for that day, you had no chance of earning this reward. Not to mention..if you were online at those times like I was; You only realistically had 1 shot each time to get a win.

Frankly PGI should just reward everybody who played w/ a score of 80+ the item.....or extend to day 12 for just that reward item, because maybe in 3 days....you might possibly have a chance to catch the 30 minute windows. Or just reward everyone who played FW that day the day 10 item.....as penance for their idiotic win scenario!

Edited by Crashburn, 23 December 2016 - 09:17 AM.

[The Unstoppable Puggernaut]

Come on PGI, please review the conditions to get the Kodiak item.

The Marauder challenge got Scruged, please don't do it with the 12 days challenge too.

[Commander A9]

The Unstoppable Puggernaut, on 23 December 2016 - 01:52 PM, said:

Come on PGI, please review the conditions to get the Kodiak item.

The Marauder challenge got Scruged, please don't do it with the 12 days challenge too.

What was the Marauder Challenge? Was that the Territorial Control business when the challenge was tied to the specific map and people got pissed when they never got the last map they needed?

[Osric Lancaster]

I'm close enough to having pulled all my stockings in normal game mode to give a basic rundown of what's in there.

500 MC
~2.5 M c-bills
2 days active premium time
8 assorted cockpit things, sans krampy
~ 1000 gxp
~15 assorted consumables

I may do some scouting if I continue to have trouble getting game modes that aren't skirmish or escort.

[tee5]

Stocking Stuffer Event?
What is with CW- Skirmish/Domination/Conquest/Assault?
Do they count for normal Skirmish/....? I bet no.
Do they count for Invasion? I bet no.
I bet they count for nothing.

I bet only CW-Invasion counts for Invasion Stocking Stuffer Event, so all this other CW-Game-Modes are played for nothing?

Can anyone confirm my assumptions?

[The Unstoppable Puggernaut]

Commander A9, on 23 December 2016 - 04:50 PM, said:

What was the Marauder Challenge? Was that the Territorial Control business when the challenge was tied to the specific map and people got pissed when they never got the last map they needed?

The pathetic Marauder challenge was get in the top 75 for that chassis and get another "flail" item which you already have 3 of.
They got rid of all the incentives for people to get into the top 10 etc. What they don't realise of course, this then skews the results of how the mech actually performs if someone finds a broken config. Doesn't take a smart *** to realize this

As for the FW challenges, I assumed if you dropped on conquest/assault/dom etc, it DID count towards that category. I am almost certain this is true as my rewards show only 4 items for Invasion. I've been playing more FW than QP and the other rewards went up.

Hope this helps.

[Dee Eight]

The Unstoppable Puggernaut, on 24 December 2016 - 01:58 AM, said:

The pathetic Marauder challenge was get in the top 75 for that chassis and get another "flail" item which you already have 3 of.
They got rid of all the incentives for people to get into the top 10 etc. What they don't realise of course, this then skews the results of how the mech actually performs if someone finds a broken config. Doesn't take a smart *** to realize this

It was all the cheating that was skewing the results.. taking the rich prizes out was about making life easier on PGI. It eliminated all the threads and emails about ridiculous game results of certain players that are never achieved except during leaderboard events, and over the fact that the rules in the event which covered gaming the matchmaker and disconnect farming and such weren't being enforced let alone actually investigated. The other day as it happens, I noticed a player in an HPG game with the "death star" title who after I looked up the name I found happened to win one of those leaderboard events, but their overall monthly season leaderboard results are well...like mine. So yeah.... totally plausible that a player of my level put in even a single death star game during an event with 1000MC and millions of cbills as the payout, let alone multiple ace of spade games (as that's what would have been needed to get that event result).

Edited by Dee Eight, 24 December 2016 - 09:07 AM.

[Commander A9]

The Unstoppable Puggernaut, on 24 December 2016 - 01:58 AM, said:

The pathetic Marauder challenge was get in the top 75 for that chassis and get another "flail" item which you already have 3 of.
They got rid of all the incentives for people to get into the top 10 etc. What they don't realise of course, this then skews the results of how the mech actually performs if someone finds a broken config. Doesn't take a smart *** to realize this

As for the FW challenges, I assumed if you dropped on conquest/assault/dom etc, it DID count towards that category. I am almost certain this is true as my rewards show only 4 items for Invasion. I've been playing more FW than QP and the other rewards went up.

Hope this helps.

I've been trying to track down the tournament page listing for that by going through all the tournaments and I haven't found it yet. :/

[Osric Lancaster]

Dee Eight, on 24 December 2016 - 08:53 AM, said:

So yeah.... totally plausible that a player of my level put in even a single death star game during an event with 1000MC and millions of cbills as the payout, let alone multiple ace of spade games (as that's what would have been needed to get that event result).

Players come up with 'creative' ways to pad their scores. During the challenge I had more than one fresh flamer Mara appear out of nowhere late match to toast me and pick my limbs off. One game I was down to structure in a blackjack-1X and had one of these shows up, take my leg off and start spit-roasting me. I knew he wasn't going to core me immediately so I just said 'screw it' stopped running, lined up a careful shot on his face and dropped a full alpha.

From Hell's heart I stab at thee. For Hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee.