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[Tier5 Kerensky]

ShooteyMcShooterson, on 26 November 2017 - 10:02 PM, said:

So nobody wins the cbill bonuses?

I was in a position to complete the requirements for both sides, and the event screen told me the event was tied and I could claim both 4,000,000 cbill rewards. But when trying to claim, the game froze and gave me an error code 95. Then after clicking the error code notification away, the game showed the rewards as claimed, but my cbill balance did not change.

Is that what happened everyone?

That's correct, neither side "won". Though it seems Clans lost more as they complain about it.

Being able to try to claim the price is just a glitsh.

[Arkhangel]

pretty sure, we don't even know what the results are. gotta remember the end of the event is just when you're unable to get INTO a FW match for it. you wouldn't even be able to start figuring out totals until after a half hour, just to be sure matches were over.

we'll find out tomorrow or tuesday. that should be good enough for all of you.

[Pihoqahiak]

Arkhangel, on 26 November 2017 - 11:38 PM, said:

pretty sure, we don't even know what the results are. gotta remember the end of the event is just when you're unable to get INTO a FW match for it. you wouldn't even be able to start figuring out totals until after a half hour, just to be sure matches were over.

Not sure where you're getting that from. The most likely case is that the event will be like normal Faction Play attack cycle resolution. If a match is in progress when the phase ends, it will not count towards the phase that just ended, or any other for that matter.

[Vellron2005]

Errrrr.. so who won?

Did the Clans take Tharkad?

I got a "victory reward" redeemed, but I didn't get my 4 million cbills, and when redeeming, I got an error message.. Can someone explain what happened?

My Fiancee also got the same error and no 4 million cbills?!

[arcana75]

Vellron2005, on 27 November 2017 - 12:12 AM, said:

Errrrr.. so who won?

Did the Clans take Tharkad?

I got a "victory reward" redeemed, but I didn't get my 4 million cbills, and when redeeming, I got an error message.. Can someone explain what happened?

My Fiancee also got the same error and no 4 million cbills?!

Same here, clicked REDEEMED on the website, ingame later says REDEEMED, but no actual payout. I think it's a bug, wasn't meant to be redeemable since no side achieved Victory condition.

[Kamikaze Viking]

Pihoqahiak, on 26 November 2017 - 11:56 PM, said:

If a match is in progress when the phase ends, it will not count towards the phase that just ended, or any other for that matter.

Oh boy that needs to be fixed.

So they used to have 30 minutes gap between phases to allow for matches to end. Meaning that all matches counted.
Nothing worse than knowing your match is on the wire, having a hard fought victory and finding out it ended 67 seconds too late and it counted for nothing.

How hard can it be to let the matches keep rolling on, and update the results 30 minutes later? Especially now in a 1 bucket world where actual planets are completely irrelevant.

[6r33dy]

InnerSphereNews, on 17 November 2017 - 04:05 PM, said:

Ties are extremely unlikely!

Did I ever tell you what the definition of insanity is? (c)

[Pelmeshek]

Time for whine and cry. Sosnuley vse again

[Nickolay Boychev]

Me and my group of Mariks won 7 matches holding the line against the clans in the final minute of the event. I hope the Steiners do repay us the favor when Artreus gets attacked eventually.....

[Bishop Six]

Nickolay Boychev, on 27 November 2017 - 01:51 AM, said:

Me and my group of Mariks won 7 matches holding the line against the clans in the final minute of the event. I hope the Steiners do repay us the favor when Artreus gets attacked eventually.....

Sure we will o7

It was a good event and we had many good matches. Also i want to say thank you to everyone who shared his blood with us on the battlefield! It was a honour to die side by side with you all o7

The OSOs managed to constantly drop with full 2 companies of pilots from all over Steiner territory and we did a really good job, we won about 80 % of all matches and did our part as good as we could

[DarkFhoenix]

Why is it so difficult to name a winner based on who won the most matches ?

Just because MWO has huge amount of lore to fall back on , it is still a game . Why can a clan not take a home world , especially when a homeworld is added to the loot . Are the DEVs trying to avoid a LOREsuite ?

If this is about keeping lore intact why not have the events , but without winners or losers , let the lore stay intact . Let the players get their grinding pay outs . I won't take too much offense taking part in historic famous battles and having what really happened story time afterwards.

If you gonna offer up a carrot as a prize , let us have our carrot assuming we earned it.

[MovinTarget]

Nickolay Boychev, on 27 November 2017 - 01:51 AM, said:

Me and my group of Mariks won 7 matches holding the line against the clans in the final minute of the event. I hope the Steiners do repay us the favor when Artreus gets attacked eventually.....

I think steiners-n-green turkeys were in their own queue for the event, i could be wrong, but only they could affect Tharlad...

[Vellron2005]

MovinTarget, on 27 November 2017 - 02:52 AM, said:

I think steiners-n-green turkeys were in their own queue for the event, i could be wrong, but only they could affect Tharlad...

Neg, cose' that would make no sense.. since everybody's 4 million cbill prize depended on winning..

I just want a clear statement as to the results, cose' it says my prize redeemed, bank acc is 4 million short, error appeared on redeem, and no winners are announced?

P.S.

it's Tharkad, not Tarlad.. ;-)

Edited by Vellron2005, 27 November 2017 - 03:03 AM.

[TWIAFU]

MovinTarget, on 21 November 2017 - 04:02 AM, said:

Doesn't matter which mode, fastest way will be to group up or get rekd

Best part, winning the match and seeing the whole enemy team not make match score, 150 or 250.

Another mini game to play...

[Rebel Ace Fryslan]

A Tie no surprice, since the victory situation is so strange.

And there is also not a convincing visualization of a WAR.

Not even the systems or region has a emerging story to it.
You'll just have to make things up.

Not even 1 of the systems has any info on them, FP CW FW Invasion Siege, what ever it is now. IS being reworked on and on.
But not improved, build upon a base idea. !!!!!!!!!!!! Tweak twist and turn, it's the way this game is being managed by R Bullock.

[Racerxintegra2k]

There is no point. It didn't feel like a war for Tharkad. The winning conditions are so silly that it made winning or losing pretty much worthless. I'm a competitive person by nature, but i really didn't care at all if i won or lost as long as i got 250 match score. That's what this event accomplished.

[Nema Nabojiv]

Racerxintegra2k, on 27 November 2017 - 05:45 AM, said:

There is no point. It didn't feel like a war for Tharkad.

Wait, what? This was a war for a mechbay and we won it.

[Guile Votoms]

If these events would give you massive rewards on a victory or something unique that you can't get anywhere else
AND if there was Rearm&Repair for faction play so there'd be something at stake, maybe then people would actually care.

[Marquis De Lafayette]

Many players saw a tie as the most likely outcome (despite PGI's words)....purely, based on what happened with Luthien and the fact that PGI went the opposite way, in that they made a tie easier to achieve this time. A sky-high capture threshold (for an event) and wins/losses causing more than triple the bar movement than they did for Luthien made this nearly inevitable.

I get that PGI doesn't want a tuk-style event where there is potentially little participation at the end, due to one side being so far ahead that it can't be overcome. However, this system makes early participation not very meaningful and risks less partication at the early stages of the event. Plus it just makes the whole thing a joke as the last couple of hours just determine things, no matter what has happened before.

Options (that I can see) for change:
1. Go back to tuk-style events. 51% capture bar (or 60% if you want a small window for ties) or just total wins.
2. Make it an daily event with daily challenges. A 5 day event that requires 3 out of 5 days won. Make the daily rewards for participating in day 4 and 5 good...so that even if the event is won/lost that players have motivation to play it. Spin it however PGI wants, losing units covering evacuation of the royal family, etc....winning units racing to the capital. But if you make the individual rewards good enough, people will keep playing those days. This mitigates flipping effects as well. Where if a unit flips sides on day 4 or 5 it doesn't cost the side that was dominating the event. If they won the first 3 days with that unit, well they have it in the bag

Edited by Marquis De Lafayette, 27 November 2017 - 07:35 AM.

[KlLLJOY]

PGI robbed me of the opportunity to play this event by scheduling it over Thanksgiving week, when family was visiting. I was able to steal a few hours to game on 1 day, but it didn't amount to anything.

So I don't care who won.