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[Fox the Apprentice]

D V Devnull, on 28 March 2018 - 11:00 AM, said:

Would you please tell me what you were posting here? I can't read it.

~D. V. "It's all question symbols to me." Devnull

Often forums don't fully support UTF-16. UTF-8 is required for 日本語 characters (amongst others), but UTF-16 is usually safely ignored.

Some mobile devices can use UTF-16 emojis, so I suspect that's what happened - someone attempted to post emotes that the forum doesn't support.

[James Argent]

I love people blaming PGI for their unit leaders being either AWOL or unwilling to switch. PGI gave us the tools we need...it isn't their fault that some people won't use them.

[MrKvola]

James Argent, on 28 March 2018 - 12:59 PM, said:

I love people blaming PGI for their unit leaders being either AWOL or unwilling to switch. PGI gave us the tools we need...it isn't their fault that some people won't use them.

Not everybody is OK with the probation matches. Why did that not get removed?

PGI gave us like half the tools needed. That is the problem.

[I cant want to]

MrKvola, on 28 March 2018 - 01:01 PM, said:

Not everybody is OK with the probation matches. Why did that not get removed?

PGI gave us like half the tools needed. That is the problem.

surely PGI wouldn't just do half a job and then ship it to the live environment, would they?

and don't expect to see any fixes soon - as of the next patch, if it doesn't concern solaris then it doesn't exist for 3 months

[Marius Evander]

two and a half workdays, no reply from pgi to this issue disgruntling a lot of their players. Standard PGI practice, lose customers through no communication.

[Meppoy]

"Screw you, player. Go and do something else: we don't want you to play our game as long as you're not up to jump from one loyalty to other".

I was playing MWO, not some dirty swinger-mech-club =_____=.

[Arkhangel]

MrKvola, on 28 March 2018 - 01:01 PM, said:

Not everybody is OK with the probation matches. Why did that not get removed?

PGI gave us like half the tools needed. That is the problem.

No, they gave you the tools you needed. you're just whiny that a faction MIGHT want to ensure your loyalty is to them first

seriously.... if you guys spent half the time playing MWO that you do whining on the forums about it, the probation period wouldn't be a problem.

Edited by Arkhangel, 28 March 2018 - 03:34 PM.

[Marius Evander]

Arkhangel, on 28 March 2018 - 03:33 PM, said:

No, they gave you the tools you needed. you're just whiny that a faction MIGHT want to ensure your loyalty is to them first

seriously.... if you guys spent half the time playing MWO that you do whining on the forums about it, the probation period wouldn't be a problem.

Seriously if you read the thread you would realise that isn't a quarter of the issue.

[DFM]

Funny thing people complaining about the amount of probation matches, and lost loyalty, and blah oh wait, scouting works for the probationary matches? and you can get them done in the time it takes to do 2 well played invasions?

A whole lot of crying about 100 loot bags that were available for 4 days of normal FP. people complaining thats not enough to do enough invasion matches, because you know, they don't do scouting.

Basically, "I wan't all this free stuff, but don't want to step outside my norm and have to change anything for it to be given to me."

Sure, the "Fight Now" incident, but if that took you longer than a hour to work out, maybe playing games on something that isn't a table isn't for you...

[Dee Eight]

I already have all my loot bags on both accounts, and I'm not about to trade in a good 50% bonus diamond shark's contract just to get a couple million cbills and a couple horns... on my primarily clan mechs alt account.

[MrKvola]

Arkhangel, on 28 March 2018 - 03:33 PM, said:

No, they gave you the tools you needed. you're just whiny that a faction MIGHT want to ensure your loyalty is to them first

seriously.... if you guys spent half the time playing MWO that you do whining on the forums about it, the probation period wouldn't be a problem.

How nice of you to jump to conclusions. Seriously, if you gave a it little thought before you write up a spiteful and useless post the world would be a much better place.

But since you didn't I will assume that presenting any arguments would be just like playing chess with a pigeon.

[Dalberon]

It seems unanimous that this was a wildly unpopular decision. I hadn't played faction in months, got back into it because of the lucky charms event, was having a hell of a good time and then suddenly I can't play faction. My clan is small enough I broke contract and went IS, but I don't have a very good drop deck and drop times have been so long I haven't actually been patient enough to play even one match. I sincerely hope this was a miscommunication and not an intentional decision to suddenly block half your players in faction.

Dalberon, piloting mechs since 1984.

[Akillius]

EDIT: Redacting my original comments below even tho already at 100/100 loot bags simply because PGI did something instead of ignoring us, yes its not perfect but it is something at least.
https://mwomercs.com...event-extended/


----- Original Comments Below this are Redacted TY -----

FRUSTRATION is why I gave up on this "FW Event" Monday night because FW menu broken.
There was no indication of any clumsy "work around" on forum that night.
Phase 2 FW event was to run from March 23rd to 30th but that was a half-truth.
Hence why Loyalists only had 2 or 3 days to get enough lootbags.
But that's when I saw the dates for stiener/davion...
Broke contract to switch to stiener thinking that'd fix the interface, it did not.
In sheer frustration with PGI I did not log on the last night, and I'm normally on daily.

I expect PGI to do one of the following:
1. After PGI fixes interface, extend FW event (irregardless of "April fool's event" dates).
2. Credit everyone who logged in during event as completing FW part for both loyalty warhorns.
3. Credit everyone who started "phase 2" as fully complete, warhorns and 100 loot bags.

Possible qualifying criteria:
- Player had already obtained some (or most) FW event lootbags.
- Player simply logged into mwo (or clicked on faction play in game) during the event.
Do not choose player changed faction/unit during the event its a bad option for loyalists.
PGI wants loyalist to switch while leaving first 10 loyality matches for free penalty.

Full Disclosure:
- Mercenary with 89/100 lootbags before Monday night's broken FW interface frustration.
- I've no doubts I'll get the last 11 lootbags tonight.
- At least warhorn is impossible now because of broken interface.

I'm a daily player for years (formerly 2013-2016 ign: Akillius)
I don't use forums because PGI doesn't, and trolling same few fanboiz gets boring fast.
Like many others here I too also buy mech packs to support PGI.

We the players (your customers) just want to log on and play MWO without a bunch of friggin' hassle like this became!

Edited by Max Rickson, 29 March 2018 - 02:26 PM.

[mad kat]

D V Devnull, on 28 March 2018 - 11:00 AM, said:

Would you please tell me what you were posting here? I can't read it.

~D. V. "It's all question symbols to me." Devnull

Believe it or not it was a smiley face. Something's gone wrong.

[RheinGold1]

I do appreciate the diversity of events in the past Having some goals to chase every now and then is nice and keeps up the spirit between us players. However IMHO these events should be an additional bonus to the regular game-play.

The current situation I can only describe as a frustrating and unpleasant situation. The fact, that right now I can't gather any more loot bags (hoping for some sought for MC or prime time prizes) I can live with. However forcing me to play either some lobby match, or puggy rounds of quick-play is a rather unpleasant experience.

Yeah I won some prime time in the last couple of days and I'd like to use that to level my fresh mechs quicker. Don't we all? But somehow the matches in quickplay became rather ridiculous and tedious in the last days forcing me to rethink my ambitions and approach to this. After all a game should be fun and currently it's the furthest from it I've experienced in the last 1.5 years
So I guess I'm gonna let my prime time rot away, wait and see what the next event might be and if we get some nice matches due to that.

PS: still waiting for an event for the high score of most run over trees and/or street lights in a match

[Meppoy]

Remember that sound of swinging whip from "Big Bang Theory"? Well, even if you not, you can almost hear it while you're reading the event conditions and "explanation" in the beginning of this topic =_____=. Like "behave yourself, little annoying player. And thank you for understanding!" Sure...

Edited by Meppoy, 28 March 2018 - 10:39 PM.

[Marius Evander]

The problem is NO WHERE on
https://mwomercs.com/events/97
or
https://mwomercs.com...t=201803luckyfp
or
the in game FP loot bag event page

Does it say "only available for 3 of the 7 days unless you change factions because we will be turning normal i.s vs clan faction play queues off"

I got to 94/100 loot bags.
All I ask is you extend the event over the next weekend even it it overlaps a April fools / easter event.

Thankyou.

[Meppoy]

More and more requests, more and more disappointed players. A-a-a-and no reaction from PGI. Community management? Never heard about it.

It really feels wrong. Mistakes with these events combination is so obvious and so easy to fix that I can't understand why in the world developers did nothing about the whole situation? Just... why? Like they just decided to press their line no matter how many people will be frustrated about it.

Such a bad place for such a strong determination. And I have nothing more to say about it.

Edited by Meppoy, 29 March 2018 - 05:04 AM.

[MrKvola]

While the fixes may be obvious, they may not be easy once you committed to a course of action. I can appreciate that. But I'd appreciate more if even a faceless PGI post appeared explaining their position and at least possible next actions.

While putting name labels on messages is important to bolster the community, not delivering at least some kind of response from the dev team (even if anonymous) does the exact opposite, just with a 10x efficiency modifier. I am so very sad to see this happen.

[anfadern]

I certainly don't complain a lot... but this even simply is the worst thing ever...
I can't even play faction warfare, I'm stuck with QP....
Not fun, not fun at all.