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[tailgunner]

Really? That one time a "challenge" was actually challenging (as in not everbody can win it) and you fall over and give in to the crybabies. A real challenge would be nice for a change. Something like "get 10 kills or 2000 damage in 3 subsequent matches". That is challenging.

Edited by tailgunner, 25 April 2017 - 01:12 PM.

[Nick Drezary]

UGHM... how exactly did you got 25% completion of all done(pre change) while deliver failed it requires is 22% ???

[Virlutris]

Matt Newman, on 25 April 2017 - 12:15 PM, said:

Hello all!

We hope everyone enjoys the Consolation Prize as things return to normal in the Quick Play Queue.
Our next event will target Faction play....
Rally your Units and Lock in your contracts...

Eep!

I need to switch my contract!

I hope I've got time

[ZachMan119]

Last night I had 7 or 8 matches in a row with NO incursion. It was sad

[Matt Newman]

@repete

SinceI have answered simular questions before... Here is a Copy Pasta about Event planning from a post last year.

"Trust me event planning isn't easy.
Some folks earn rewards at a high rate due to either high scores and high volume play.
Some folks earn rewards at a slow rate due to lower scoring matches and less play time
We try to cater our events in the middle of the bell curve using match telemetry.
Planning events based on "Medium" Match scores and "Medium" play time.
Some people blaze through that and others never complete it.
These are the folks that may say "too EZ" or " I have a family! How can I complete this?" (I know I have a family too)
They believe their experience is the norm. When in fact, they may be the outliers on the edge of the play experience bell curve.

Hope that give you some insight."

In this case:
I was able to use 1 day of Incursion match data to gain some understanding at what rate pilots were completing the in-game actions and plan the challenges accordingly.
However, I didn't take into consideration the rate at which you would get the opportunity to vote for the game mode.
And once the issue became apparent I was unable to increase the Frequency of the mode.

We also do an informal internal review of event ideas with various disciplines to get feedback.


Hope this helps.

Matt

[Anhydrite]

Thank you PGI for extending the event and working to make it up to people. Thank you for the MC.
I know people will still complain about things.....

You have listened to valid complaints and in my opinion have made a good faith effort to atone.

Thanks

Looking forward to seeing the new tech in the future and the Skill tree.

[Matt Newman]

Also
The injection is done for the Consolation Prize.

[Kali Rinpoche]

Thanks for the adjustment.

[Kodyn]

Matt Newman, on 25 April 2017 - 01:18 PM, said:

Also
The injection is done for the Consolation Prize.

That was a pleasant surprise. A lot of us complain a lot, myself included, but I gotta say, that was a real nice thing to do, and totally unexpected.

[Teenage Mutant Ninja Urbie]

thanks @pgi

I'm sure you made lots of ppl happy with the changes. and with 'lessons learned', I look forward to fun events
(how 'bout UrbieMania pt.2-223 )

[ShooteyMcShooterson]

As a regular player who was fortunate enough to complete the challenge before the requirements were changed, I've been a bit oblivious to the angst many players have felt over this contest.

I realized right away it would be a difficult challenge, and adapted my mech/build choices and play style explicitly to pursue goals in the contest. This meant stat killing in other pug matches I was ill suited for. I also got explicit help from other players. I could not have completed the contest without their help. So I spent the rest of the contest time trying to help others complete it.

The main issue seems to have been the Incursion match not being offered very often. I myself had some stretches of several hours where Incursion only popped up a couple of times. Early on, it was even voted down on occasion. Glad to hear that issue will be resolved in the next patch.

I think it's great that PGI threw basically everyone who played some extra goodies. Combined with other MC given away and earned in Faction Play, that 200MC can rather easily be turned into a mech bay.

[Hawk819]

Matt Newman, on 25 April 2017 - 12:15 PM, said:

Hello all!

First:
I want to say sorry for the frustration this event caused everyone. It was not my intention at all.

Second:
We very briefly extended the event to adjust the "All Done" Challenge to only require 7 of 9 challenges complete.
This change allowed players to get the Mech Bay without having to complete the dreaded "Failed Delivery" or "Necessary Roughness" Challenges.
The "extension" was to give the script the chance to run one final time. and the Mechbays were injected.


However, that is not all we are doing.

As a Consolation Prize anyone who completed 1 Match of Incursion with a minimum Match Score of at least 80 (during the Event) will receive the following rewards as our way of saying sorry for the frustration caused by this event.

Consolation Prize -
Anyone who completed 1 Match of Incursion with a minimum Match Score of at least 80 during the event will receive 250,000 C-Bills, 200 MC, and 2 days of Active Premium Time (activates on your next log in).
That covers 99.5 % of the people who played this weekend!

In the interest of transparency...
Here are some additional Completion Stats
First Foray 86.3243%
I've Got The Power 28.1888%
Powered Up 26.2549%
Rock'em 67.9991%
Sock'em 60.2637 %
Delivery Failed 22.1744%
All Your Base 26.0837%
Raid Complete 55.9565 %
Necessary Roughness 57.6313%
All Done 25.3528% (before we changed the requirements)

Lesson Learned:
I based the Actions in the Challenge off 1 days worth of stats from the new Game Mode. More Data would clearly have been preferable.
We needed a way to increase the frequency of a particular Game Mode as a voting option. Currently, we can only adjust Map weighting. However, Mode weighting functionality should arrive with our May patch, so in future mode-related events we won't have this particular issue again.

We hope everyone enjoys the Consolation Prize as things return to normal in the Quick Play Queue.
Our next event will target Faction play....
Rally your Units and Lock in your contracts...

Well, I completed the whole thing before the deadline on Sunday, but never look a gift horse in the mouth as the saying goes. So I will say, thank you!

[Ertur]

Classy.
(Meant seriously, not being sarcastic.)

edit to add: also very good to see 'lessons learned' as being a consideration.

Edited by Ertur, 25 April 2017 - 01:35 PM.

[orcrist86]

very cool of you guys. i appreciate it.

[Catalina Steiner]

Thanks a lot, Matt! It was my thought to reduce the challenges to 8 or less. And that's what you did. Very nice, I really appreciate it.

[Rhaezor]

Thanks for the consolation prize.

But is it really that hard to plan events? having some decent goals like 10 or 20 kddm or launching uavs like you did before.
and THEN (if you want) have some '2000 damage in one game' for those who come crying for "actual challenges". But if you have a grand prize, the sum of the doable objectives must be enough.

The major problem with this one is that incursion wasnt even showing.
In the VIP event the same happened, escort was not showing and people wouldnt vote for it when it did.
During the event all games should have the mode as fix option! (to vote for)

I swear there will always be people taking the time to come and say "oh i got incursion 9 out of 10 you are just unlucky" it doesnt matter if you are getting it! some arent and everyone should.

Edited by ShinRazor, 25 April 2017 - 01:43 PM.

[Alreech]

The Event was pretty Easy if you don't give a dam on your team and just going solo to get the goodies.
Only the Fuel Cell carrier kill wasn't easy, because Fuel Cells have been only collected during the first minutes of the match... got some cheap kills by killing those players who follow the Fuel Cell carriers blindly...

[Steve Pryde]

I really love the game mode and will still vote for it. But yeah, more frequency for incursion game mode would had been better.

Edited by Steve Pryde, 25 April 2017 - 01:46 PM.

[QuePan]

i will come forward to say Thanks for putting Effort in to this additional part to the event to help those that "missed it by that much" i hope you take the player input of this event to the implementation of the next one .

[repete]

Matt Newman, on 25 April 2017 - 01:14 PM, said:

Hope this helps.

Matt

It does. Thanks for taking the time to answer, and apologies for the already answered question...