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[Moadebe]

Ok PGI. I would love to say that I enjoy this event. I really would. However, there is one aspect of this event that is not enjoyable, and as much as I love yall over there at PGI...this hurts.

This current event is fine in just about all aspects except for the "Faction Play Mode Challenge." The requirements of winning one of each game mode is leaving way too much to RNG in the fact that you have to first have the game mode even pop up. THEN you must win it.

I get that this is a "challenge." I get that. Yet how can one complete a challenge if I have been playing for a couple of hours at a time since the event started and I have yet to see an Assault match as of this writing? I have seen more Siege matches than anything else, and if this trend keeps up I wont even see an assault mode....thus not even having a chance to even complete this challenge.

I especially feel sorry for people who play casually. Who only have say an hour or two each day to play.

I love you guys and gals in PGI for what you have done with this game so far. I love it. However, this RNG factor is one thing that does not make it enjoyable in the least. If it were wins in any game mode I would understand that....id accept that, but each game mode...I am sorry...its frustrating beyond belief.

I hope this finds ground, and above and beyond I hope everyone's day is going great.

[A Really Old Clan Dude]

just not even bothering with this event. The MC would be nice but the random game means I will not get enough games in to even bother trying let alone win one of each.

PGI needs to understand the average hours each person plays and who they are trying to market an event too. If you make an event that only the hardcore players have a chance to get then you alienate the casual/ any new players.

[Marquis De Lafayette]

Yep. If you don't get a match on the mode you need during the part of the cycle where your chances are the greatest (40% during that part of slider bar vs. 5% the rest of the time?...I think that's what the patch notes said...I haven't re-read them) you are in trouble. If the slider bar moves fast it can even appear to skip over what you need....if say the Clans won a bunch of matches while you were playing a 30 min Siege match. I have been playing a bunch and haven't seen domination yet....much aless won it.

They need to just make it a certain # of different mode wins ....not a win in each and every mode as the event isn't necessarily long enough to see each and every mode with how their rng is set up to stack certain modes.

[Appogee]

If only someone could have predicted this problem and alerted PGI in advance!

(Dozens of FP matches played, haven't seen Domination or Assault once.)

[Jackal Noble]

Appogee, on 02 October 2017 - 02:36 PM, said:

If only someone could have predicted this problem and alerted PGI in advance!

(Dozens of FP matches played, haven't seen Domination or Assault once.)

Yep, saw that. That was some rapid response on PGIs part on fixing it and such.

[arcana75]

Just focus on the mech ones and move on... no point getting frustrated over a single challenge, there's more to come.

[Dr Cara Carcass]

Needed Conquest since yesterday evening. Today i had a day off and decided to get that done. 9h straight - not a single conquest match.

**** this ****.

[LordNothing]

needs to be 25 total victories OR one of each mode, whichever comes first.

and i bet their shiny new event tracker makes it impossible to make changes to a running event.

Edited by LordNothing, 03 October 2017 - 01:15 PM.

[Rick T Dangerous]

Cara Carcass, on 03 October 2017 - 12:29 PM, said:

Needed Conquest since yesterday evening. Today i had a day off and decided to get that done. 9h straight - not a single conquest match.

**** this ****.

It's incursion for me, had one match of it that we lost.

Frell this dren.

[LordNothing]

i haven't had conquest once since the event started. i also need a domination with a team that is smart enough to hold the objective. had a great attempt last night, competent team (only 3 potatoes), close score at the end but zero coordination on my teams part. i was so desperate even tried calling targets.

Edited by LordNothing, 03 October 2017 - 01:37 PM.

[Arnie1808]

Ok I’ve been reading quite a few posts and threads about this event and it seems like 98% of people feel the same way it’s an unreasonable event that is very difficult to complete fully which I totally agree with BUT I don’t understand why we haven’t had a single response from PGI, do they not read their own forum or do they just not care?
With this much agreement on how crap part of this event is and how it’s making people really unhappy I would have thought they would have at least tried to help make things better.

[LordNothing]

Arnie1808, on 03 October 2017 - 01:49 PM, said:

Ok I’ve been reading quite a few posts and threads about this event and it seems like 98% of people feel the same way it’s an unreasonable event that is very difficult to complete fully which I totally agree with BUT I don’t understand why we haven’t had a single response from PGI, do they not read their own forum or do they just not care?
With this much agreement on how crap part of this event is and how it’s making people really unhappy I would have thought they would have at least tried to help make things better.

the untold side of the 'shiny new event system' is that its automated and pgi can run events without any effort on their part now. have a feeling the thing was designed so it would be impossible to make changes once an event started.

[LordNothing]

finally bagged my conquest, now i only need one potato-free dom game.

if the thing would stop spinning.

20 minutes later still spinning, wow i thought it was peak about now.

Edited by LordNothing, 03 October 2017 - 04:13 PM.

[Arnie1808]

LordNothing, on 03 October 2017 - 02:13 PM, said:

the untold side of the 'shiny new event system' is that its automated and pgi can run events without any effort on their part now. have a feeling the thing was designed so it would be impossible to make changes once an event started.

Ok well if that’s how it is then they could at least tell us for sure and say something like “yeah sorry we cocked up but from now on things like this won’t happen anymore but we can’t change this event” then at least week is they are listening to us and trying to please the people that keep them in a job.

[FallingAce]

6 straight siege maps tonight with the slider stalemated in phase 1

https://mwomercs.com...26-18-jul-2017/
"Adjustments have been made to the weighting method used for determining which Game Mode is chosen for a Faction Play match. As a result, Siege now has a much greater chance of being selected within each Phase of a Conflict Tug of War. It's greatest chance of occurring still falls within the final Phase of the Conflict."

Phase 1
Skirmish 40%
Domination 5%
Conquest 5%
Assault 5%
Incursion 5%
Siege 40%

Edited by FallingAce, 04 October 2017 - 12:57 AM.

[Roadbuster]

Waiting for a Conquest match since the start of the event...

If I'd like gambling, I'd go to a casino. Don't need that in MWO.

[Davegt27]

I've seen conquest a lot

as IS we only lost 3 times

[Tiewolf]

Now the Event is allmost over and its for certain that this kind of challenges make me only angry and quit this game soon. Dropped 30+ matches and never ever only once got am Assault mode match. Requirements that you can`t meet with skill are stupid. PGI plz set up a lottery next time. That would be more honest.

Edited by Tiewolf, 04 October 2017 - 06:59 AM.

[Appogee]

I spent 4.5 hours today refreshing the FP tab, trying to catch the predominantly Domination Phase.

However, it stayed in the first phase throughout.

Then, I had to go work for 45 minutes. During that 45 minutes, the tug of war went through and past the Domination Phase.

FML. And PGI for that matter. I warned them prior to the Challenge starting that this would happen. Just like it happens every time they create a Challenge that relies on the random availability of a mode.

But there was no response, of course.

Edited by Appogee, 04 October 2017 - 06:31 AM.

[Big Tin Man]

Yup, I share the frustration with the RNG and the time of day I have to play. Only played one domination match out of 15 (we lost). I still need 6 more assault kills to complete the rest of the mech challenges.