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[Aramuside]

arcana75, on 07 October 2018 - 05:50 PM, said:

RACs don't count for "Tag Damage" battle bonus afaik. I meant that you needed to train the tag laser on an enemy and get an ally to hit the enemy with a lock-on weapon. If you're training the tag on an enemy, you usually put the tag together with a missile build of your own. Therefore if you're not a fan of missiles and need to tag someone, you're looking at him anyway and that's what you're doing with RACs.

Plus as a weapon platform, RACs + Tag means extra bonuses including other tag-related bonuses like Tag Stealth, since you're face-timing the enemy anyway.

EDIT: https://mwomercs.com...-get-xp-and-cb/ granted it's a 2015 post, but all 3 Tag descriptions don't mention that the weapons have to be lock-on types. TBH I was using Tag with RACs and I do get Tag Damage bonuses, and was using it to get my 50, but I obviously can't say for a fact if my allies were or were not also hitting my tagged enemies with lock-on weapons.

Yeah suspect it was allies as I don't think any of my weapons except lock on have worked - I just farmed mine in a quad 6 streak with tag HB IIC I threw together as it generated 6-9 self tag damage awards a match even if I died fast - luckily there were lots of lights so at least I felt reasonably effective.

[Aramuside]

DarkFhoenix, on 07 October 2018 - 02:28 PM, said:

Done most of the challenges , now onto my IS account . That tag challenge is not so terrible if you have a streak boat .

Great idea about heads shooting DC mechs .

Genuinely curious - why do people have separate IS and clan accounts? FTP MC restricted so a lack of mech bays/drop decks?

Edited by Aramuside, 08 October 2018 - 12:19 AM.

[Pain G0D]

Aramuside, on 08 October 2018 - 12:18 AM, said:

Genuinely curious - why do people have separate IS and clan accounts? FTP MC restricted so a lack of mech bays/drop decks?

Two heads are better than one.

8 mechbays in 2 accounts is a pretty good reason but not the only one . Understand I did not make both accounts at the same time , probably made this account six months later .

A person with oodles of time gets doubly rewarded on events . An IS vs Clan FP event , means a player will score the winning prize on one of his accounts . Last years Halloween had two exclusive mech main prizes for slogging through 200 loot bags . Basically a hunchback and stormcrow with phranken skin that was technically champion mech build but gave bonus cbills like a loyalty or hero mech . Single account folk had to choose , I did not , I got both.

I like both IS and Clan mechs and yet I don't want to even quick match a timber wolf under house kurita,s banner . These days we can jump factions as we like but in the good ol days you had a huge penalty dumped on you for doing that . Two weeks with your thumb up your butt.
When you have played this game for a year , you start collecting mechs at a hideous pace .Two accounts double that . Feels like last week you only had 16 mechs but now it's friggin 200. It's very easy to sift and sort through your mechs if you have two accounts dividing up that 200 . I can use one account to experiment with MWO , without risking my other account .

Some of PGI,s events seem to suggest they don't approve of multiple accounts of exclusive clan or IS mechs . I have reached a point where I have three or four mechs of the opposing faction . When funny events like that show up .

Sometimes two accounts are annoying . You buy Solaris bundle for your IS account well you are stuck with revenant the mad dog hero which would be awesome on your clan account but you not buying Solaris bundle again with six is mechs , nor a single revenant cause well , you technically already have one . Meh

For the most part I find separate accounts to be most convenient ? Maybe it's just an OCD thing ?

Edited by Pain G0D, 08 October 2018 - 05:09 AM.

[caseysrevenge]

exactly 500 damage wauw thats almost impossible hehehehe very evil off you PGI but i can appreciate the joke.

Edited by ceesje, 08 October 2018 - 05:40 AM.

[Horseman]

Aramuside, on 08 October 2018 - 12:18 AM, said:

Genuinely curious - why do people have separate IS and clan accounts? FTP MC restricted so a lack of mech bays/drop decks?

I'm one of the higher-ups in my unit, and we run separate in-game units for Clan and IS. Hence I run a F2P alt with only Clan stuff in it.

Edited by Horseman, 08 October 2018 - 05:47 AM.

[Captain Caveman DE]

can we pls change the tag-thing..?

I've run more tag the last days than my stomach can.. well.. stomach. and it's still not enough for the event...
it's not good for my (or anybodies, but mainly my^^) health to run laserpointers and the according weapons too much.

[ZortPointNarf]

Captain Caveman DE, on 08 October 2018 - 06:42 AM, said:

can we pls change the tag-thing..?

I've run more tag the last days than my stomach can.. well.. stomach. and it's still not enough for the event...
it's not good for my (or anybodies, but mainly my^^) health to run laserpointers and the according weapons too much.

Target switching is your friend, lock a target, fire a volley, wait for hits, switch target, rinse repeat. May feel like you are mucking about, but its actually quite effective as a suppression method. Should get about 3-6 per match this way. Still a grind, but just play, don't fixate on it, else it will drive you insane
You can also paint a target if you see locked weapons heading their way, should work the same I recon.

[Pain G0D]

Captain Caveman DE, on 08 October 2018 - 06:42 AM, said:

can we pls change the tag-thing..?

I've run more tag the last days than my stomach can.. well.. stomach. and it's still not enough for the event...
it's not good for my (or anybodies, but mainly my^^) health to run laserpointers and the according weapons too much.

I find the components thing a bigger grind than that . Streak and Lurm boats with tag is all you need bro .

[Captain Caveman DE]

ZortPointNarf, on 08 October 2018 - 06:51 AM, said:

Target switching is your friend, lock a target, fire a volley, wait for hits, switch target, rinse repeat. May feel like you are mucking about, but its actually quite effective as a suppression method. Should get about 3-6 per match this way. Still a grind, but just play, don't fixate on it, else it will drive you insane
You can also paint a target if you see locked weapons heading their way, should work the same I recon.

the point was that it is too much of a grind. I have ALL of the rest together before I have that in another account, and I'm running (to bring that damn tag) a streak, atm, or god-forbid-lurm mech every 2nd to 3rd game. not doing shabby in them, but it's just WAY too much tag-stuff to stay sane.

Pain G0D, on 08 October 2018 - 08:06 AM, said:

I find the components thing a bigger grind than that . Streak and Lurm boats with tag is all you need bro .

sure. but too dull, you know? imagine you're a kid with a BIG lego-treasure chest; and all you are allowed to play with are the blue bricks. that's what it feels like atm

components fly off like a charm with enough ballistics pointed onto some unlucky git, and that's actually more fun from my point of view

Edited by Captain Caveman DE, 08 October 2018 - 08:11 AM.

[DarthHias]

Took me 8 games with my ATM 24 Mad Dog to do the Tags...

[Captain Caveman DE]

DarthHias, on 08 October 2018 - 08:46 AM, said:

Took me 8 games with my ATM 24 Mad Dog to do the Tags...

see.. that's more than I can suffer.

[DarthHias]

Captain Caveman DE, on 08 October 2018 - 09:37 AM, said:

see.. that's more than I can suffer.

Allright, for me it was a nice change from the usual

Edited by DarthHias, 08 October 2018 - 09:40 AM.

[Shanrak]

Anyone still in need of headshot? Send me a PM here or in game and we can set something up in solaris

[Zodie]

BAP helped me a lot in TAG challenge. Targets acquire less then 1 sec in average, without BAP it was pain in the arse.

[BumbaCLot]

Taymorr, on 06 October 2018 - 10:00 AM, said:

Forcing us to get a head shot makes this event impossible to get all 12. Usually PGI does a great job at making the event complete able but not this one. Completed everything but the head shot and 500 match score, even after over 12hrs of play. The 500 match score should be more like 425 or 400 also.

This isn't the first 500 match score event. They had it 2-3 events ago as well for 5M cbills.
I completed that one on 2 accounts, but I'm not playing very well at the moment so I will have to keep trying until I get it for that paint! I'm not doing the tag event, as 11/12 is needed only for the paint, and I already have all of those cockpit items.

[DeadWeight18]

Good that I am a humble man 9/12 is good enough an reachable for me.

[Dee Eight]

I only ever bother with 2 accounts for events, and i got all 12 on this one in 2 days and i only need a headshot to complete it on the other one currently. Between the two I've had the 500 match score about nine times now.

[Kalimaster]

C-bills, MC, and cockpit items. It's like a triple hot fudge sunday. Yum and thank you.

[Buenaventura]

Thanks to Matt reducing the pick a prize to 11 required, I got 2 patterns (Thanatos, Marauder) and a color.
The super star still eludes me, no luck so far with the 500 match score, so not even trying for a headshot.

[WiNNiep00h]

500 match score is not that hard, but i can not get a headshot^^ i play more than 1000 hours MWO now and i had just one or two headshots in this time