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[Magik Jack]

Dear PGI,

Many of us love events, it is true. We appreciate them.
Many of us want all that stuff, it is true.
We like playing this game. (shocker!)

But when you said you were setting up a month long event, somehow I thought I would have a month or at least a couple good chunks of time to complete the event details. I think most people play the game this way, with longer sessions with many matches, rather than 3-7 matches a day, which is what this event seems to require. At that point it becomes a true grind; you are forced to play only when you have time everyday (when your spouse goes to bed without you, when you finish that all-nighter essay, or when you get off work at 6am). Basically, it won't happen. I get it, you want to reward the dedicated players, but I seriously doubt those that put in that many hours everyday are in the majority.

Edited by Captain Hawkins, 07 June 2017 - 12:13 AM.

[Marius Evander]

Tsukimi, on 06 June 2017 - 08:51 PM, said:

The Faction Participation being set at 2 is nice and all if the matchmaker can find you matches fast enough that you don't spend all your available playtime waiting for the matches.
24 hours to do 2 Invasion Faction play matches when you spend 30+ minutes waiting to try to find one match plus do the other tasks for the day when you are on a limited window of time to play each day especially during a weekday. Seems like the average player trying to do this challenge will spend most of the time sitting around doing nothing while waiting still.

Captain Hawkins, on 07 June 2017 - 12:01 AM, said:

But when you said you were setting up a month long event, somehow I thought I would have a month or at least a couple good chunks of time to complete the event details. I think most people play the game this way, with longer sessions with many matches, rather than 3-7 matches a day, which is what this event seems to require. At that point it becomes a true grind; you are forced to play only when you have time everyday (when your spouse goes to bed without you, when you finish that all-nighter essay, or when you get off work at 6am). Basically, it won't happen. I get it, you want to reward the dedicated players, but I seriously doubt those that put in that many hours everyday are in the majority.

NOTHING IS FREE, PAY WITH TIME OR PAY WITH MONEY.

They are not rewarding the dedicated players, the "dedicated players" will play whether there is rewards or not. This is to get people playing more than usual to keep queue times down / make the people that pay to play happier that their queue time between games is shorter. And make people happy that they get rewarded stuff for playing more than usual if they decide to make that commitment.

You dont want to spend more time playing ? then dont , and spend money instead of time to get the items.

ZortPointNarf, on 06 June 2017 - 10:08 PM, said:

I am loving the look of this event.
The prizes are amazing, the only potential problem I see is the Kill UAV one, I rarely see 30 UAV in a week (from both sides), let alone be able to kill that many in 4 days. I seriously doubt I will be able to achieve this one, all the others are quite achievable, even if it means I have to group up.

The kill UAV one is at the same time as a launch uav's to spot enemies one (Although I usually spot 20 enemies with 5 or less uav's not 30) so it will be a LITTLE easier than usual to find uav's to shoot.

CaeruleusWolf, on 07 June 2017 - 12:13 AM, said:

This is nice! Play a F2P game, get free stuff constantly! Why do people complain so much?

Coz Greed is gud.

Edited by Cadoazreal, 07 June 2017 - 12:44 AM.

[Bolter01]

Give those ditry clanners a free GARGOYLE

[D V Devnull]

Bolter01, on 07 June 2017 - 12:56 AM, said:

Give those ditry clanners a free GARGOYLE

Or better yet, give EVERYONE an option to pick between a choice of Mechs... One choice would be Inner Sphere, and the other choice would be Clan...

~Mr. D. V. "I think this really would have been the best way to do it." Devnull

[Simulacrum]

Nice one PGI. Seems like you had a change in understanding of how to keep your player base active in game.
Your players will spend their money if your game makes them happy and rewards them; this is what you do with events and with incentives you give away. Well played!

Btw, I dont understand how ppl can complain about that mega event. It is a summer event, nearly one month where you can get something every single day and week. With emphasis on can. No one forces you do give up your life and play all day long to achieve every possible reward. If you dont want to pilot your 'Mech at day X dont do it.

[Magik Jack]

Cadoazreal, on 07 June 2017 - 12:42 AM, said:

NOTHING IS FREE, PAY WITH TIME OR PAY WITH MONEY.

They are not rewarding the dedicated players, the "dedicated players" will play whether there is rewards or not. This is to get people playing more than usual to keep queue times down / make the people that pay to play happier that their queue time between games is shorter. And make people happy that they get rewarded stuff for playing more than usual if they decide to make that commitment.

You dont want to spend more time playing ? then dont , and spend money instead of time to get the items.

Your rationale makes sense for the base game (want cbills faster? buy premium time and/or hero mechs). But you are confusing that issue with the "fun" and "free stuff for all" that is supposed to be an event. Plenty of said events in the past were scheduled properly that everyone could get the majority of items AND have the time (usually) to do so. Why should we view this event any differently? Cause reasons?

And suggesting that PGI is desperate to get the F2P crowd playing more in order to make the paying crowd happy seems like backwards logic. [And are you really suggesting that PGI really intends to troll its paying players and frustrate them enough to buy all those items? I refuse to believe any company could think that is a good idea]

You could make the case for FP matches being underpopulated, but that is a separate issue. I don't see how this event is a silent conspiracy to just get more people playing in order to make "the people that pay" happier. I think you would find that the laundry list of items that would make paying players happier has more important points of contention than player population. (See new maps, etc.) If anything, paying customers might feel annoyed that F2P grinders get it all while very little consideration was given for their casual playing in the spirit of an event for all. But whatever, it is what it is.

Edited by Captain Hawkins, 07 June 2017 - 02:25 AM.

[Iron Lemur]

Something has been bothering me: Oh Canada! Why is a Battlemaster a particularly Canadian mech? And the cockpit items? Where's the hanging poutine?

[Magik Jack]

Iron Lemur, on 07 June 2017 - 02:30 AM, said:

Something has been bothering me: Oh Canada! Why is a Battlemaster a particularly Canadian mech? And the cockpit items? Where's the hanging poutine?

Poutine would be too distracting in a cockpit

[meteorol]

PSA:

use the LFG function for 2 quick groupqueue matches if you are a solo player. When i just did it, there were 4 groups up.

[Rodrigo Martinez]

I've completed all 3 day challenges but in the tab "Number of Daily Challenges Completed" I see 4 completed. Can't get how it works.

Great event, btw.

[chucklesMuch]

Tina Benoit, on 06 June 2017 - 10:57 AM, said:

Hey guys!

Thanks for the reports and feedback. We changed the Calendar appearance to be clearer and easier on the eyes with color coding each challenge rather than week.

We also fixed the typo's with the Zap! PPC's requirements and oh my god I know, Wub Wub should have been pulse lasers!!! What was I thinking?!?! Do you guys have a better sound effect to change it to? Please don't say "PEWWWWW"...

And last note, I realized the first day of challenges was pretty heavy, so we changed the Faction Player Participation Challenge to "Play 2 Faction Play Invasion Matches" instead of 5.

Thanks for reducing the invasion quota...

if they were just cerll then the lightsaber sound would be appropriate...

[ERescue]

@Rodrigo Martinez: That counter seems to be slightly buggy, on the web page only. Mine also reads 4 completed and 800 000 C-bills, but it IS supposed to show 1 and 200 000 as this is the first day.

"Achieve a Match Score of at least 80 in 1 Match through the day and receive a prize of 200,000 C-Bills (limit once per day)." Because that is what the description says. Also, I only got the correct 200 000 in game, so the error only affects the web page.

[Rodrigo Martinez]

ERescue, on 07 June 2017 - 05:51 AM, said:

@Rodrigo Martinez: That counter seems to be slightly buggy, on the web page only. Mine also reads 4 completed and 800 000 C-bills, but it IS supposed to show 1 and 200 000 as this is the first day.

"Achieve a Match Score of at least 80 in 1 Match through the day and receive a prize of 200,000 C-Bills (limit once per day)." Because that is what the description says. Also, I only got the correct 200 000 in game, so the error only affects the web page.

These bonus MC and C-Bills will be given at the end of the event?

[Kaethir]

ERescue, on 07 June 2017 - 05:51 AM, said:

@Rodrigo Martinez: That counter seems to be slightly buggy, on the web page only. Mine also reads 4 completed and 800 000 C-bills, but it IS supposed to show 1 and 200 000 as this is the first day.

"Achieve a Match Score of at least 80 in 1 Match through the day and receive a prize of 200,000 C-Bills (limit once per day)." Because that is what the description says. Also, I only got the correct 200 000 in game, so the error only affects the web page.

I have the exact same issue. I got the 200k cbill account injection after my first match last night (because PGI runs on UTC, which means wednesday for me lasts from 8pm tuesday - 8pm wednesday), but the web page is currently showing 4 'number of daily challenges completed' for 800k cbills.

[Terrastras Rex]

Kaethir, on 07 June 2017 - 07:05 AM, said:

I have the exact same issue. I got the 200k cbill account injection after my first match last night (because PGI runs on UTC, which means wednesday for me lasts from 8pm tuesday - 8pm wednesday), but the web page is currently showing 4 'number of daily challenges completed' for 800k cbills.

2 of 2, + 2 of 2 = 4

[ERescue]

@Rodrigo Martinez: No, as I said, I correctly received my 200 000 in game. Only the web page is buggy.

[Tiger Dad]

Not to sound stupid, but I am. For this week, Match Score challenge is June 7, June 8, June 9, June 10. Does this mean you have these 4 days to complete the challenge OR does this mean you can complete this challenge 4 times this week and get 4x (Combat Radio Warhorn and $500,000 c-bills). If it's the duration of the week for the challenge, should you stretch the bar over the duration of the timeframe? It's an excel OCD of mine, apologies, but less confusing to me.

[Kaethir]

Tiger Dad, on 07 June 2017 - 07:37 AM, said:

Not to sound stupid, but I am. For this week, Match Score challenge is June 7, June 8, June 9, June 10. Does this mean you have these 4 days to complete the challenge OR does this mean you can complete this challenge 4 times this week and get 4x (Combat Radio Warhorn and $500,000 c-bills). If it's the duration of the week for the challenge, should you stretch the bar over the duration of the timeframe? It's an excel OCD of mine, apologies, but less confusing to me.

you have four days to complete the challenge. This is obvious if you read the challenge details:

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Match Score Challenge (Back to Top)

Starts: Jun 6th 5:00:01 PM (PDT) / Jun 7th 12:00:01 AM (UTC);
Ends: Jun 10th 4:59:59 PM (PDT) / Jun 10th 11:59:59 PM (UTC);

Edited by Kaethir, 07 June 2017 - 07:48 AM.

[Kaethir]

Terrastras Rex, on 07 June 2017 - 07:12 AM, said:

2 of 2, + 2 of 2 = 4

No.

This is the daily challenge:

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Daily Challenge
Achieve a Match Score of at least 80 in 1 Match through the day and receive a prize of 200,000 C-Bills (limit once per day).
The Daily Challenge is achievable once per day every day, running from June 7th at 12:01 AM UTC until July 2nd at 11:59 PM UTC!

Since this is still day 1, there is no reason for 'Daily Challenges Completed' to be able to be higher than 1.

Plus, I received the appropriate award (200k cbills) for this challege, plus the appropriate awards for the two different non-daily 2/2 challenges (100 MC and 2x Warhorns).

This is a bug in the webpage display, pure and simple.

Edited by Kaethir, 07 June 2017 - 07:52 AM.

[Ronald McDonald]

so with this event you updated your rigged matchmaker to 3min max battles........