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[Javin]

Thanks for the new map. Please do more. Thank you.

[Steel Raven]

D V Devnull, on 20 May 2018 - 10:18 PM, said:

Sounds to me like you need to run the MWO Repair Tool. Upon Launch, please go to the Options and Uncheck the first 5 Checkbox items, leaving the last two checked. Then press "OK" and Uncheck the Checkbox on the initial dialogue, followed by clicking the "Start Scan" button. This will result in a Scan that enables you to do a Non-Damaging Repair, and dodge losing any/all MWO Profile Data. Hopefully, this finds something wrong and enables you to repair it.

Should this fail to find anything wrong, your only recourse may be to give up. (Micro$oft NEVER helps anyone... known fact.) Unless you're running your Graphics settings way too high, in which case you should really lower those a little bit. You might be pushing your computer far too hard since the last MWO Monthly Game Update Patch.

~D. V. "MWO... forever loaded with people missing things, and problems pushing computers over the edge." Devnull




[One Minor Edit by Post Author for a rather bad moment in formatting hiccups.]

Thanks for the advice though I also noticed others loosing their connection throughout the weekend, at least one teammate mention he also had to do a hard reboot as well which lead me to believe it was a server issue rather than a problem with my last Patch.

I'll double down on a both a Windows Diagnostic (because the last update did suck) and run the repair tool in the near future just to make sure, certainly can't hurt.

[D V Devnull]

PeppaPig, on 21 May 2018 - 07:37 AM, said:

Did exceptionally well with the uncommon/rare supply box - 1000CBills ! . . . . really?

Buenaventura, on 21 May 2018 - 08:36 AM, said:

Had one "ultra rare" supply box so far. The items in that were 1 rare item, the rest was below that in rarity.

The heck?!?!? Well guys, thanks for telling me that opening Supply Caches is now absolutely useless unless PGI fixes their designing work. Great, I knew that PGI likely messed this up with the fixes that they already had to do, but that's just worse! A given Rarity of Supply Cache should ALWAYS give things that match the indicated Rarity Level. If you're not getting Ultra-Rare things from a Supply Cache of that Rarity, then you're being short-changed!

~Mr. D. V. "What happened to you is just flatly wrong! You deserved better!" Devnull

[GamerPro4000]

D V Devnull, on 21 May 2018 - 10:36 AM, said:

The heck?!?!? Well guys, thanks for telling me that opening Supply Caches is now absolutely useless unless PGI fixes their designing work. Great, I knew that PGI likely messed this up with the fixes that they already had to do, but that's just worse! A given Rarity of Supply Cache should ALWAYS give things that match the indicated Rarity Level. If you're not getting Ultra-Rare things from a Supply Cache of that Rarity, then you're being short-changed!

~Mr. D. V. "What happened to you is just flatly wrong! You deserved better!" Devnull

I unlocked a random rare supply (yellow color) cache from leveling up from Quick Play. I received a champagne standing item and a Ghost Bear DNA hanging item. So The supply caches are okay. The rest of my prizes in the rest my caches including from this event are decals specifically the kill secured decal and the gold fish decal. If i kept track of my caches, I would say 9 times out of 10 the caches will give you a decal prize. I actually like this new system since the old caches could not be opened unless you spend MC. Now they can be opened and get free prizes in them probably because I love decals. Hope this helped and good luck on your prizes and may RNGesus smile upon you.

Edited by GamerPro4000, 21 May 2018 - 10:46 AM.

[mad kat]

D V Devnull, on 20 May 2018 - 10:18 PM, said:

Yes, there is. I'm highly disturbed that you missed it. Go to...

--->>> https://mwomercs.com/events/119

...and look at the first TWO parts of the Event Challenge Set. Like... seriously... HOW THE HELL DID YOU MISS THOSE?!?!? ]

Lol

High rotation map that's in testing that virtually never appears. Quality PGI antics. :-)

[D V Devnull]

GamerPro4000, on 21 May 2018 - 10:43 AM, said:

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I unlocked a random rare supply (yellow color) cache from leveling up from Quick Play. I received a champagne standing item and a Ghost Bear DNA hanging item. So The supply caches are okay. The rest of my prizes in the rest my caches including from this event are decals specifically the kill secured decal and the gold fish decal. If i kept track of my caches, I would say 9 times out of 10 the caches will give you a decal prize. I actually like this new system since the old caches could not be opened unless you spend MC. Now they can be opened and get free prizes in them probably because I love decals. Hope this helped and good luck on your prizes and may RNGesus smile upon you.

Caveat emptor, beware. I've been hearing that a Duplicate Decal doesn't even give a minor amount of (MC) in exchange, but instead coughs out the (C-Bills) amount equal to what selling the Old Supply Caches gave. Frankly, they should cough up (MC) on the order of at least 33% to 50% of what the given Decal was worth, should you keep getting a Duplicate, so after a few Caches then another Decal might be possible to earn.

However, in the case of getting an Ultra-Rare, there should be either a DEFINITE (MC) Reward (at least 400 minimum), or a shiny new Mech to pilot, or at least a Mech Bay to put one in. Heck, even a couple Bolt-Ons would be appreciated. But to get repeatedly short-changed with Weaponry/(C-Bills) is simply NOT right, and NEVER defensible as a Reward from an Ultra-Rare Supply Cache.

~Mr. D. V. "PGI has definitely forgotten what constitutes a PROPER Supply Cache Rarity..." Devnull

[Naitrael]

D V Devnull, on 21 May 2018 - 11:36 AM, said:

Caveat emptor, beware. I've been hearing that a Duplicate Decal doesn't even give a minor amount of (MC) in exchange, but instead coughs out the (C-Bills) amount equal to what selling the Old Supply Caches gave. Frankly, they should cough up (MC) on the order of at least 33% to 50% of what the given Decal was worth, should you keep getting a Duplicate, so after a few Caches then another Decal might be possible to earn.

However, in the case of getting an Ultra-Rare, there should be either a DEFINITE (MC) Reward (at least 400 minimum), or a shiny new Mech to pilot, or at least a Mech Bay to put one in. Heck, even a couple Bolt-Ons would be appreciated. But to get repeatedly short-changed with Weaponry/(C-Bills) is simply NOT right, and NEVER defensible as a Reward from an Ultra-Rare Supply Cache.

~Mr. D. V. "PGI has definitely forgotten what constitutes a PROPER Supply Cache Rarity..." Devnull

Talk about entitlement..

..oh, you already did.

[D V Devnull]

Naitrael, on 21 May 2018 - 09:00 PM, said:

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Talk about entitlement..

..oh, you already did.

You misread me, and rather far beyond severely. I'm just using the Old Supply Caches as a gauge for the New Supply Caches. I'm sure a fair chunk (doesn't matter if greater or less than 50%, as it's a chunk anyway) of the MWO Community would likely agree with my current gauge level. These new ones were supposed to be better than the old ones, or at least that's what I remember PGI telling us.

~D. V. "What a misinterpretation of me... But hey, we all know PGI falls down on the job, right?" Devnull

[FallGuy0815]

I like the new ones better, as they do not tempt me do waste MC. I even got MC out of one once. So far, at least for me, they give far more C-Bills than the previous system. Granted, if you stayed stubborn in the old system and sold every cache you got for 25MC, you might have gotten more MC than now.

But the added bonus of the Weapon Systems and the 50k for duplicate Decals make up for this in my eyes. The 1000 C-Bill item in the new caches has to go though, this is just adding insult to injury ;-)

[Fox the Apprentice]

FallGuy0815, on 21 May 2018 - 11:47 PM, said:

[...]
So far, at least for me, they give far more C-Bills than the previous system. Granted, if you stayed stubborn in the old system and sold every cache you got for 25MC, you might have gotten more MC than now.
[...]

Pretty sure you could only sell the old caches for C-Bills.

[FallGuy0815]

Fox the Apprentice, on 22 May 2018 - 04:01 AM, said:

Pretty sure you could only sell the old caches for C-Bills.

You are right, the Cache KEYS got refunded for C-Bills. So, i like the new system better without any restrictions ;-)

[Aidan Crenshaw]

FallGuy0815, on 22 May 2018 - 05:27 AM, said:

You are right, the Cache KEYS got refunded for MC. So, i like the new system better without any restrictions ;-)

FTFY

[RoyRogers McFreely]

I love events, it's a great part of this game, though the frequency of the new map is terrible. I had to play for 4.5 hours just to get the map 5 times, though it did pop up twice more than that but was not voted for. And on a side note I see that supply caches are still terrible. Out of the "rare" cache I got 3 SRM's with Artemis and a decal I already got through another event, so still a waste of time. Just want to reiterate that I love the events, these are just some grips I have with this one.

[Alan Hicks]

Seems this event is a push to get us to play more of MWO.

That's is to spend more time playing hoping the required map shows up.

[VXJaeger]

3hrs, Solaris appeared only once and PPL voted for Polar Lurmlands. FTS!

[Mighty Spike]

had it today 4 times, more then the last 5days together^^ seems they put it more often in the rotation today.. Finally i have that stupid event finished and done. And now??? Didnt buy the Blub asp. so waiting for the next
event.
How bout a "Urbie kicks the rest of mechs on Solaris map" event?? as first prize: win an engine cap of 300 for your Urbie

Edited by Mighty Spike, 22 May 2018 - 12:28 PM.

[BEARDOOM]

I'm not some video grafic geek. But this is grafic from 2000.
Why dont you make this game more popular? Go with better grafic, better introduction for beginners. And some Co-op campaign, road of destruction and surviving. 4 mechs i Left for Death mode...
Mercenaries can be that.
I got some feeling that MWO is on life support mode, stand by mode, becouse of Mercenaries. Mm?

[Spare Parts Bin]

BEARDOOM, on 22 May 2018 - 12:52 PM, said:

I'm not some video grafic geek. But this is grafic from 2000.
Why dont you make this game more popular? Go with better grafic, better introduction for beginners. And some Co-op campaign, road of destruction and surviving. 4 mechs i Left for Death mode...
Mercenaries can be that.
I got some feeling that MWO is on life support mode, stand by mode, becouse of Mercenaries. Mm?

We will see. I finished up the last 3/5 accomplishments in a 12 game binge today. Time Spent 1800 seconds, 5 games, 1 loss. Wow trying to finish this Challenge only allowed me to play 2 games of FP but I raised gobs of C-Bills. Still need 30 skills for my Mad Dog Bandit. Thanks PGI, I love their events.

[50 50]

Spare Parts Bin, on 21 May 2018 - 02:46 AM, said:

It is too bad we will need an inordinate amount of time to complete a relatively straight forward challenge.

Might have just been lucky but I played on and off for a couple of hours over Sunday/Monday and seemed to get the map quite a few times.
Challenge completed without really paying much attention.

Juan Cabrillo, on 21 May 2018 - 03:58 AM, said:

50000 CBills in total for this event... stingy money eaters...

You sure?
There were some multipliers there.
X20, x30, x50, x100, x10

PGI has never been stingy on the rewards for these events and have literally thrown the c-bills at us.

D V Devnull, on 21 May 2018 - 09:34 PM, said:

I'm just using the Old Supply Caches as a gauge for the New Supply Caches.

Old way
- Random chance of getting a supply cache from a match.
- Needed to pay MC for a key to open a cache
- Random chance of getting a single item
... normally just sell the things for the 50k in c-bills.

New way
+ Simply earn the Supply Caches as we play
+ Don't need to buy keys to open them
+ Get all 4 items from the Cache

Maybe the rarity of the caches and items is a bit off but probably getting more from them than before.

[Chatin The Skunk]

It'd be nice to see the map more than once every 2-4 hours of game play. I've managed to play it once over the last few days because a lot of people refuse to vote for it.

Kinda hard to do an event when left to RNG and spite.