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[martian]

TLBFestus, on 18 December 2016 - 12:15 AM, said:

PGI has a history of making Challenges that are mostly out of your control to complete.

Anyone else remember the fiasco when you had to win a certain number of games on all the maps but map selection was random so most people were battling RNG Jesus more than other mechs to complete the challenge?

That one was the worst by far.

This exactly.

Every single challenge that is:

• either absolutely random (such as that aforementioned map challenge, or this challenge when you have no influence if you will be Attacker or Defender)
  
• or that does not depend on you alone (such as the challenge when your lance had to stay together despite you having absolutely no control over other players who often had different classes of 'Mechs with completely different battlefield roles)

... is PGI's failure.

It only ends with frustrated players who are pissed off for being punished for something what they can not affect.

Edited by martian, 18 December 2016 - 02:11 AM.

[FallingAce]

Pretty sure PGI didn't put Escort on high rotation.
Went 5 matches in a row without escort even being an option.

[D V Devnull]

Also tired of the Event here, as well. I may be 5-for-5 on successes so far, but the chances to get what was necessary for two of the days almost sent me over the edge. I want to enjoy MWO, but part of enjoyment for me is being able to totally complete stuff, as I'm one of those kind of people. These next few days, I'm likely to miss something that's mostly beyond my control. It isn't even going to be my fault because of other people and RNG, but I'm going to fail anyway because of the rules in place making it impossible to complete. That's NOT a way for Events to be.

While I'm at it, somebody answer me this... WHERE THE HELL ARE THE PROPER 'MATCH SCORE'-BASED REWARDS FOR NON-MURDEROUS SUPPORT ACTIONS?!?!?!?

~Mr. D. V. "feeling a hellish rage grow under their skin" Devnull




[Edit by author for a missed thought.]

Edited by D V Devnull, 18 December 2016 - 02:07 AM.

[martian]

D V Devnull, on 18 December 2016 - 02:03 AM, said:

Also tired of the Event here, as well. I may be 5-for-5 on successes so far, but the chances to get what was necessary for two of the days almost sent me over the edge. I want to enjoy MWO, but part of enjoyment for me is being able to totally complete stuff, as I'm one of those kind of people. These next few days, I'm likely to miss something that's mostly beyond my control. It isn't even going to be my fault because of other people and RNG, but I'm going to fail anyway because of the rules in place making it impossible to complete. That's NOT a way for Events to be.

There is only one answer: "PGI wants it so."

D V Devnull, on 18 December 2016 - 02:03 AM, said:

While I'm at it, somebody answer me this... WHERE THE HELL ARE THE PROPER 'MATCH SCORE'-BASED REWARDS FOR NON-MURDEROUS SUPPORT ACTIONS?!?!?!?

~Mr. D. V. "feeling a hellish rage grow under their skin" Devnull

Russ Bullock used to have a mouthful full of "Role Warfare". However, he failed to actually implement it into the game.

One or two years ago, I used to take my fully-kitted scout Raven with ECM, TAG, NARC, etc. and I spotted, tagged and narced enemies. It used to be a great fun and unconventional way of completing challenges. Plus, I liked to actually play as a team player..

Today, it would be a stupid decision to take such 'Mech, since the majority of current challenges reward damage dealt, KMDDs, 'Mech kills, etc - you get the idea.

Role Warfare? Forget it ...

[Ovion]

Xetelian, on 17 December 2016 - 10:59 PM, said:

Turns out it is actually WAAAY less than 20%

Turns out that escort is only available for 4 or 5 of the maps meaning anytime a map that isn't setup for it comes up, which is quite often the case, it won't be available.

So, there's a roughly 90% chance of getting a relevant map. (4/15+4/14+4/13+4/12 for an overall 13.5/15 chance).

Then, there's a 22.2% chance (2/5+2/4) of domination appearing in that 90% for 19.98% chance of the mode.

Then if you have a 50/50 chance, it's roughly 9.99% chance of getting Escort: Attacker. _{(Defence seems to be twice as likely as attack (somehow), so if that is the case, it's 6.66%.)}

less than a 1/10 chance of getting the thing is utterly absurd.
Especially as you then have to win, in what seems to be at best, 50/50 odds - meaning a 4.99% chance of getting it on any given drop.

Which means an average of 20-21 drops, or roughly 3-4 hours to get it.

Or, if you're not entirely lucky - over 5 hours with all of 3 escorts.