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[Apollo777]

ShooteyMcShooterson, on 19 July 2018 - 08:12 AM, said:

What's wrong with the EBJ? lol

It's messed up! you lose a big portion of your sight when you walk. Aiming is almost impossible!!

[MrKvola]

Dee Eight, on 19 July 2018 - 06:21 AM, said:

Pretty much why I don't bother with solaris outside of events now. But also... why I question why the hell PGI doesn't replace psr with an elo system so Tier 1/2/3 wouldn't have so many crap players with crap builds floating to the top of the pool. I can think of a large # of players who've never managed a kdr above 0.something in 18-24 months of play, yet have been promoted to Tier 1 & 2.

We had ELO before we had PSR. It did not work. Why? Because it is a ranking system designed for 1v1 matches and brings with itself lots of flaws if you try to use it for group drops. ELO is not a good system for QP and other group queue rankings.

PSR could be fixed if it would be converted into a zero sum system. Now it is not zero sum and it is set up as convergent to T1.

Also, KDR is not a good performance indicator, really. Working with match scores is a better way to go (which PSR kinda does).

[Neeko Deetrix]

Event flop, won't waste my time there. Cya next event, y'all

[Dee Eight]

MrKvola, on 19 July 2018 - 10:55 AM, said:

We had ELO before we had PSR. It did not work. Why? Because it is a ranking system designed for 1v1 matches and brings with itself lots of flaws if you try to use it for group drops. ELO is not a good system for QP and other group queue rankings.

PSR could be fixed if it would be converted into a zero sum system. Now it is not zero sum and it is set up as convergent to T1.

Also, KDR is not a good performance indicator, really. Working with match scores is a better way to go (which PSR kinda does).

Quite a few of the ones I was thinking of who've never managed a kdr equal or above 1, also have avg match score below 200 as a whole over 18 to 24 months of play, even when they're dropping mostly assaults. One particular who does primarily assaults each month (only in 5 out of 24 months were heavies used more) and he's never finished a month with a higher avg match score than 197. One month it was 100% assaults and he got 177 as the average. I mean I'm not more than average, but for the past 14 consecutive months i've been over 200 match score average each month. And yet I'm left to carry players who over the same time frame simply are NOT getting better. The above assault jockey was a T2 when I first started encountering him regularly enough to notice how bad he was, and now he's dropped to a T3... yet I'm still being sorted into matches with him (as recently as a couple days ago) and I've been T1 for about six months now on this account.

[Maruku Meshima]

i´m out! sorry but thats lame... King crab with ac2 and 140ct in division 2???? Kodiak goes to Div1?? play alone!

[DarkFhoenix]

If I might make a wee gripe , are there no sucky clan mechs for division 6 and 7 in the table top lore ? I have no intention of spending a few million cbills on an IS mech just for division 6 . Psst that Osiris trial mech needs serious work heck I now have so much more respect and appreciation for my Uziel champ mech . XD

And how did black lanner not end up in division 6 or 7 ?

[FatBabyYoshi]

I will say persistance is the name of the game. Eventually after about an hour you should be able to get half of the rewards. The trial mechs are doable as well.

[His Mistress Voice]

NO thank you for this Sh*t-event PGI.

Try to make some points in Div 6 and 7 when you only own Clanmechs. The IS-Trials are sh*t, that crap Rocket-Launcher Osiris in Div 6? That sh*tty Uziel in Div 7?
I never complained about any other event-goal i wasn't able to reach because i had neither the time nor the skill to reach it.
But this "get 1 win in each div" is impossible for a pure-Clan account owner.

FatBabyYoshi, on 23 July 2018 - 03:43 PM, said:

I will say persistance is the name of the game. Eventually after about an hour you should be able to get half of the rewards. The trial mechs are doable as well.

Try that trial-mech against someone with an Elo 800 points higher in a META mech.

[Akillius]

Okay so against my better judgement and against the general consensus found in the posts on this topic........
I gave Solaris a try, and decided it would be worthwhile to do all the 1v1 event stuffs.
a. Solaris seems glitchy, had 1 unknown mech completely invisible to me, my radar and seismic (& I took screenies).
b. Solaris appears to lag greatly from time to time, I just was in a match with my piranha vs atlas and atlas was shooting after I moved, my ping 53, their ping 248+. Other matches I'd tab and see that I had 53-62 ping, but could not hit enemys so IMO I believe its a Solaris-server side issue.
c. Solaris interface is more kludgy, awkward and (imo) totally non-intuitive then most alpha/pre-beta games...
d. Long wait times often I'll queue up and it'll go from 1 to 2 in queue and it'll count down to 0, I still see 2 or more in queue yet nothing happens except the count starts all over again.........
e. Long wait times... hey here's an idea if the mechs are close to whatever magical ranking/weight measurement system PGI uses then start the match ffs.

PGI don't bother wasting time with another Solaris event, at least not for me!
Yeah I did the 1v1 event but.................. Solaris is dead to me and I've no interest in ever participating in it again.

Edited by Max Rickson, 28 July 2018 - 07:19 PM.

[Horseman]

Max Rickson, on 28 July 2018 - 07:12 PM, said:

a. Solaris seems glitchy, had 1 unknown mech completely invisible to me, my radar and seismic (& I took screenies).

Invisible to your visual? Radar and seismic could be explained by stealth armor.

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c. Solaris interface is more kludgy, awkward and (imo) totally non-intuitive then most alpha/pre-beta games...

Agreed. A Solaris-wide chat and ability to queue in multiple divisions at once would help.

[Dee Eight]

stealth armor doesn't affect seismic detection.

[Akillius]

Dee Eight, on 28 July 2018 - 11:17 PM, said:

stealth armor doesn't affect seismic detection.

Correct

And yes "Invisible to me visually". Could only see where the shots originated from.
Haven't seen that in MWO before... nor in any game for years & would've been a few PCs ago. But I restarted mwo just in case it was some graphical glitch.


NOTE: And FYI this PC/GPU doesn't have a problem running old MWO.
Afterall it can run RSI's SC since v3.0 just fine on highest settings.

Edited by Max Rickson, 29 July 2018 - 03:28 PM.