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[Davegt27]

I would recommend dividing IS and Clans along lines of allegiance

1) Northern IS alliance would fight southern IS alliance

that means players from Steiner, FRR, Kurita would join forces
and fight Marik, Liao, Daviaon

2)Clans Wolf, Ghost Bear, Diamond Shark
would fight Clans Jade Falcon, Smoke Jaguar, Nova Cat and Steel Viper

something along those lines but whatever the faction numbers dictate

GLHF

[Rhialto]

Flanking Boy, on 29 October 2017 - 07:37 AM, said:

i just think that the people that whine most, is the ones that want most for free.
not to say that he is one of those types, i don't know him...

I've bought a few times and Sarah's Jenner, that's about it. I know it's not that much but it's better than zero so sometimes I drop my opinion here and there.

[SmokedJag]

Can we get the event page itself updated to reflect the new end date? Pretty big difference in daily play requirements for someone looking at it for the first time.

[Rhialto]

Anyone got chandelier and gravestone warhorn? I only have 8 chances left to score any.

Halloween won't be Halloween without those. :-(

[NocturnalBeast]

Marquis De Lafayette, on 29 October 2017 - 09:01 AM, said:

You had better ask Santa for a FW playerbase 20x as large (at least) as we have now...

I hate to be a downer, but players (in general) need to try to push for things that PGI could actually do with the playerbase that they actually have.

You must have skipped over the part where I suggested merging Quick Play into FW.

[Marquis De Lafayette]

Ed Steele, on 29 October 2017 - 06:25 PM, said:

You must have skipped over the part where I suggested merging Quick Play into FW.

Ok....sorry didn't get what you were saying about Qp

[Van mw]

Davegt27, on 29 October 2017 - 04:39 PM, said:

I would recommend dividing IS and Clans along lines of allegiance

1) Northern IS alliance would fight southern IS alliance

that means players from Steiner, FRR, Kurita would join forces
and fight Marik, Liao, Daviaon

Davion with Marik and Liao?! Hell NO!!!

Edited by Van mw, 29 October 2017 - 06:48 PM.

[XDevilsChariotX]

I tried doing the Wolf vs Diamond Shark having a merc contract with the Sharks. I could not get 1 stinking game in 2 days. One can only sit in que for 30 mins at a time before ya say screw this. Shame as I really wanted the Shark rewards.

I don't think we have the population to do things like this to be honest. Especially, when people are running the 100QP and the 50 scouting. If these events are done, it should be a stand alone event where scouting does NOT count towards the rewards so people actually play Invasion and have scouting as it's own event in the future.

[ZortPointNarf]

So I Smashed 50 FW games this weekend, only in scouting (as there is no reason for me to bother with invasion for the same additional reward, i.e. loot bag).
I played all but aprox 3 as Clan Diamond Shark vs Rekt Wolves.
CET time zone, and the hunting was good, only had a single ghost drop.
Kept playing Shark Games as I knew there would be Wolf Players looking for a matchup.

All and all a fun event, just a pity about the contracts, with mine fixed to Diamond Shark for the next round I won't be a body that can drop into scouting to assist other players.
On to quickplay 100 it is for me now.

Great event Matt, yes there were some stumbling blocks, but I like that you guys are willing to roll the dice and explore, the moment that happens then we can start to worry. SO A BIG THANKS FROM ME.

Update:
As for the loot bags.
Please up the win amount for both MC and CBill, the amounts are quite tiny, the more I get of these in particular CBills the more mechs I buy, and others use the MC to buy bays. GXP is rather meh, as I am sitting on just shy of 600k. The other items were pretty cool.
Win score for scouting should equal 100, winning the game doesn't get rewarded, but doing damage does. Not your baby, but all and all the scoring system is a bit meh, especially for light mechs.

Edited by ZortPointNarf, 30 October 2017 - 12:58 AM.

[Kinski Orlawisch]

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[NumberFive]

How can I get FW games if I'm contracted to the Sharks and there's no Clan battles running now?

[Crispy Chicken]

OK, I was not home this weekend, the unit is diamond shark. I come back from the weekend and see diamond shark had time for the 'adjusted event' exactly on the weekend I was not home.

So now I am getting SERIOUSLY upset, because the 'fix' was worse for me then the original. I will try to abstain from ranting about too many broken events happening, but what are you guys planning to do for people who have no chance to get the prizes due to way too short notice for the changed events and/or no ability to actualy play in the alloted time slots?

A no sweet at all very sour instead Chicken

PS: if you point me at customer service then Iwould like to mention that I am stil waiting for a replay to my last ticket (about 3 months now) other than the automated response stating they experience higher than usual traffic

Edited by Crispy Chicken, 30 October 2017 - 04:24 AM.

[D V Devnull]

Kinski Orlawisch, on 30 October 2017 - 12:29 AM, said:

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The main page is not updated.

https://mwomercs.com...nts?t=201710tot

Heh... You got to mentioning this before I could. Let's hope Matt Newman reads your post and takes notice. In fact, just so he can see it, even though it's just a reference from mine...

Matt Newman said:

<<<pinging so they can see this>>>

...I'll do that. It should make it easy for him to catch up with this now.

~D. V. "Making a friendly cross-connect..." Devnull

[BEARDOOM]

With this you motivated only SCOUT mode. DMG is BASE to motivate FW.

[Genesis23]

SmokeGuar, on 29 October 2017 - 02:52 PM, said:

Do you know what IS got in exchange for "constantly" loosing?

Stronger mechs and greater quirks, and now bigger benefits from skill tree. Clan mechs repeatedly nerfed in name of balance.

How do you think Clan side feels about all this?

PGI managed to anger both sides and create decline on player base.

you must be joking. the numbers on all the big events clearly show that clan is still more powerfull than IS. yes, you could argue that this is because of the playerbase, but think about the reason for that: clan mechs still offer more power in pretty much everything while facing minimal risk, everything you want to do is much easier in a clan mech, so obvioulsy its THE choice for mercs and grinders.

so yeah, go ahead and continue complaining about getting high reward with no risk and barely any efford needed.

not even a 300t dropdeck value would change the fp to the favour of the IS for once.

[GamerPro4000]

Rhialto, on 29 October 2017 - 06:21 PM, said:

Anyone got chandelier and gravestone warhorn? I only have 8 chances left to score any.

Halloween won't be Halloween without those. :-(

I finished the Halloween event yesterday. I saved up 175 loot bags and opened them all at once and got:
7days-Active Premium Time
1100-MC (estimated values)
4million-C-Bills (estimated values)
12000-GXP (estimated values)
7-MC Cool Shot
6-MC Artillery Strike
6-MC UAV
5-MC Air Strike
3-Cockpit Standing - Pumpkin
1-Cockpit Hanging - Stitched Pumpkin
1-Cockpit Hanging - Smiling Pumpkin
1-Cockpit Hanging - Skull Pumpkin
3-Cockpit Hanging - Scared Pumpkin
3-Cockpit Hanging - Nuke Pumpkin
1-Cockpit Mounted Warhorn - Halloween Lights
2-Cockpit Standing - Skull Halloween 2017 (skull with a lit candle on top)
1-Cockpit Hanging - Chandelier Halloween 2017 (hanging skull with a flame inside)
3-Cockpit Mounted Warhorn - Gravestone Halloween 2017

You are welcome since it took me 30minutes to post this on my smartphone.
MAJOR THANKS TO MATT AND PGI FOR HOSTING THIS EVENT!!!!

[Marquis De Lafayette]

Post-mortem from wolf v. shark:

1. Scouting was fun and queues generally worked...as everyone who did the event did it in scouting. That is what PGI motivated people to do by doing it during the grab bag event.
2. Despite the Sharks winning +10...only 3 actual matches happened invasion....The rest were ghosts. Again, little incentive to do invasion based on the time it takes vs. rewards.
3. The shark win seems to have torn a hole in space around the planet (visual bug on the map all of last night)....either that or a giant Borg Cube has entered the Inner Sphere.

[Dee Eight]

I took a sharks contract with a bit over 5 hours to go (for the wolf/shark conflict) on this account, and got my six 100 match score scout matches in only about 2 hours to pickup another shark horn. Just couldn't say no to 140% cbill bonus. My current drop deck for invasion is an cheetah(S), cougar hero, mad2c(S) and MCII hero. Scouting its the Pakhet huntsman.

Edited by Dee Eight, 30 October 2017 - 08:17 AM.

[Bobby Jubraj]

Kinski Orlawisch, on 30 October 2017 - 12:29 AM, said:

Starts: Oct 26th 10:00:00 AM (PDT) / Oct 26th 5:00:00 PM (UTC)
Ends: Nov 6th 9:00:00 AM (PST) / Nov 6th 5:00:00 PM (UTC)

The main page is not updated.

https://mwomercs.com...nts?t=201710tot

Hey sorry about that as this has now been updated. Thanks for pointing this out

[Appogee]

Yuri Kovalesky, on 27 October 2017 - 07:10 PM, said:

The only people who dares play CW most of the time is the famous premades ( 228, KCOM, MS, EMP, MJ12, 420, DW and etc )

Except for the part they NEVER (Thats right! NEVER ) play in opposite factions, makes the rest dead.

Well that's simply not true for MJ12.

We oscillate between Clan and IS on roughly 2-week rotations. We might extend a third week in the same faction if some kind of event requires it (eg. the last FP event required the achievement of a target number of wins in the same faction, so we stayed an extra week to give our members enough time to meet the target) or (very rarely) if a critical mass of us are leveling some newly-released Mech.

But we never talk to (in fact, we barely even notice) which faction other units are with until we bump into them in matches... which we quite frequently do, and enjoy doing.

Edited by Appogee, 30 October 2017 - 12:14 PM.