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[Tahawus]

Have now completed 25 matches today without the option to vote for HPG.

26...

Edited by Tahawus, 23 September 2018 - 09:30 PM.

[DarkFhoenix]

Tahawus, on 23 September 2018 - 09:20 PM, said:

Have now completed 25 matches today without the option to vote for HPG.

I had plenty of options to vote the maps I needed .."................... thy just never got picked .

It's fine , part of the fun . Event is not over yet .

Edited by DarkFhoenix, 23 September 2018 - 09:30 PM.

[Aidan Crenshaw]

Horseman, on 23 September 2018 - 08:54 AM, said:

Eventually did And no problem, it happens.

Out of curiosity, how did you two end up in the same match?

[pacifica812]

Aidan Crenshaw, on 23 September 2018 - 09:30 PM, said:

Out of curiosity, how did you two end up in the same match?

Matchmaker OP, please nerf

The sad fact however, it's probably due to low player count...

[Horseman]

Aidan Crenshaw, on 23 September 2018 - 09:30 PM, said:

Out of curiosity, how did you two end up in the same match?

If I recall, I was running on my recently started Clan alt. It was still in T4 at that point, I believe (now barely T3)

Edited by Horseman, 23 September 2018 - 10:33 PM.

[D V Devnull]

Horseman, on 23 September 2018 - 10:31 PM, said:

I was running on my recently started Clan alt. It was still in T4 at that point, I believe (now barely T3)

I'll have to run into your alt on the opposite team, just so I can blast it back down into T4 so you'll get more matches with the other guy.

~D. V. "obviously joking around a bit" Devnull

[BrunoSSace]

Hope they extended this event just noticed there were missions going.

[ZortPointNarf]

Mining Collective, Mining Collective, my kingdom for one match on Mining Collective

[Rodrigo Martinez]

How many times people have asked to do not use map/mode specific challenges? Or else it should be like in the last FW events, where you can click special event button to play needed mode.

[ZortPointNarf]

@PGI

Suggestion: When updating a previous post, please create a new post pointing to the old post, I very nearly missed the update, which would have been a pity.

Except for not getting the final map I need (will keep trying), I really liked this event, nothing too try-hardy in it. Its a purely happenstance event, where regular play will reward you. It seriously reduced the kamikaze potatoes in comparison to the previous ones.

[Reposter]

I got all the Mech Credit map challenges done through quickplay. I used my Roughneck Powerhouse Hero and bought 1 day Premium time to complete the 5 Million C-bills challenge.

I have won more than lose trying to get most of the challenges complete with my Roughneck Powerhouse hero mech. I am not going for the 50,000 GXP challenge as my premium time has expired and I do not like Faction play. Basically if you do not do faction play you would best get a hero mech for quickplay and buy 1 day premium time and keep playing to complete most of the challenges.

[Ninjah]

It was kinda easy to get all the maps needed. We used ALL CHAT to figure out which maps were needed so we voted together in the next few matches. It was possible due to low population and same people dropping over and over. Got them all in only one hour. Communication OP.

[BumbaCLot]

Ninjah, on 24 September 2018 - 07:00 AM, said:

It was kinda easy to get all the maps needed. We used ALL CHAT to figure out which maps were needed so we voted together in the next few matches. It was possible due to low population and same people dropping over and over. Got them all in only one hour. Communication OP.

So can anyone verify how group play map voting works? If you have 4 players you get 4 votes together (so 1/6) and multipliers of 5x would yield 20 votes to 20 assuming all other players / teams had 1x multiplier, correct?

[Horseman]

D V Devnull, on 23 September 2018 - 10:34 PM, said:

I'll have to run into your alt on the opposite team, just so I can blast it back down into T4 so you'll get more matches with the other guy.

Good luck, you'll need a lot of it when staring into the barrels of Horseman IIC.

[C337Skymaster]

Reposter, on 24 September 2018 - 03:51 AM, said:

I got all the Mech Credit map challenges done through quickplay. I used my Roughneck Powerhouse Hero and bought 1 day Premium time to complete the 5 Million C-bills challenge.

I have won more than lose trying to get most of the challenges complete with my Roughneck Powerhouse hero mech. I am not going for the 50,000 GXP challenge as my premium time has expired and I do not like Faction play. Basically if you do not do faction play you would best get a hero mech for quickplay and buy 1 day premium time and keep playing to complete most of the challenges.

If you have a champion 'mech (and I happen to know everyone was recently gifted a Uziel and Nova champion 'mech, and we had the option of choosing our own Champion 'mech from a list after opening 150 loot boxes), then the 50,000 GXP challenge is much easier to complete.

[C337Skymaster]

I'm in the same boat with Mining Collective. I've seen it ONCE in the previous three days, and it got out-voted by Viridian Bog. It hasn't even been an option, since. It's usually a popular map, so I'm not worried about it losing, now that most folks are done with their challenges, but I play match after match after match, and no luck. And it's not a faction map, so I have to play QP.

[D V Devnull]

ZortPointNarf, on 24 September 2018 - 01:10 AM, said:

Mining Collective, Mining Collective, my kingdom for one match on Mining Collective

I know the feeling. As it is, still running one short for Polar Highlands here.

Rodrigo Martinez, on 24 September 2018 - 01:26 AM, said:

How many times people have asked to do not use map/mode specific challenges? Or else it should be like in the last FW events, where you can click special event button to play needed mode.

PGI could also have just done a Temporary Cycle-Out of Non-Event Maps. That way, only the Maps required for the Event would appear for Vote Options and keep cycling around.


~D. V. "This whole Map Vote Madness is driving me insane. PGI could have done better." Devnull

[D V Devnull]

BumbaCLot, on 24 September 2018 - 11:52 AM, said:

So can anyone verify how group play map voting works? If you have 4 players you get 4 votes together (so 1/6) and multipliers of 5x would yield 20 votes to 20 assuming all other players / teams had 1x multiplier, correct?

No, the Group Leader's Multiplier will be all that applies. The size of the team does NOT matter at all. So when a Vote is done on Group Queue, it is only just the Group Leaders who are Voting, and only theirs count. It does NOT get a boost because of Group Size in any way.

~Mr. D. V. "PGI did NOT set up secondary amplifiers for Group Queue Vote." Devnull

[Ryllen Kriel]

Dear PGI,

Thanks for the event, they are always welcome. Please never have another event prize qualification hinging on a random property such as playing on a certain map however. It is terribly annoying to try all day long and not get a chance to vote to play on a map to complete a challenge. After twenty-or-so games I get a chance to play the match I need and I get out-voted, even while intentionally saving up vote multipliers. These are the worst even qualifications ever. I know you want to try to have us playing all day to bolster the numbers of people playing this game but you are just making the remaining fans of MWO pissed off. Sure you get a surge of players during the active event but then those same players take a longer break when it's over because they are burnt out on playing three or four hours a night to get a chance of a playing a particular map. In future events please make goals achievable in most drops. It should be performance based rewards, not chance based rewards for the players.

Thanks,
Your friendly neighbourhood Spider-mech

[arcana75]

My map stats for what it's worth:

Mining - 6
Terra - 3
HPG - 3
Polar - 2
Forest - 2
Frozen - 1
Bog - 1
Caustic - 1

Getting Caustic was actually the very last challenge I needed to complete all the Anniversary challenges.

Edited by arcana75, 24 September 2018 - 07:31 PM.