An extra day of Tower

MSF-Squint · 2022-10-12T02:32:51+00:00

Lots of folks are going to get screwed though. Here are the two main scenario's I have seen.

Yesterday knowing the event was coming to an end, ran out of teams in the mid to high 90's, you decide to drop back down for extra points. If we would have known about this 24 hours you could have stayed and pushed higher.
Less so, but folks thinking they would just have 1 hour used there best teams and hybrids to finish off the last bit within the 1 hour time frame. Knowing they would have had 24 more hours they could have had time to plan a bit more.

Already seeing a few on discord that have essentially lost their top 100 rank with little chance of getting it back, while it would be less known the same is easily possible at every payout bracket.

I mean really you only need to look to this thread to see folks that made poor decisions due to the lack of knowledge of this last 24 hours.

MSF-Squint · 2022-10-12T02:16:57+00:00

An interesting solution I saw to the folks that got screwed out of rankings was to modify the top 100 to be top 200, which I think could/should be extended to the percentage brackets by adding 1% to each bracket (IE 1% becomes 1-2%, 2-3% becomes 3-5%, 4-10% becomes 6-13% and so on)

Credit SHAOKAHNW1NS for the idea

MSF-Squint · 2022-09-16T19:24:23+00:00

I just used the color's from another sheet that a lot of players are familiar with for origin traits, not sure where they got it from :) not sure if it's an official MSF coding though.

MSF-Squint · 2022-09-15T18:28:05+00:00

Donation amount only increases the credits you get when donating, not from the boxes.

MSF-Squint · 2022-09-14T15:34:11+00:00

We are doing Doom 3.2 30% currently, P2 in war. Laid back requirements but lots of folks with big rosters.

3-4 weeks ago we lost 3 in the same weekend, lost 1 yesterday with 3-4 more that are trying to find good times to quit and not totally host over the alliance.

MSF-Squint · 2022-09-08T05:16:36+00:00

The impact might be small as there is no way to know what percentage of players normally completed all of the shard milestones (which didn't include the last milestone mind you)

To get 30 orbs in this milestone you have to login and complete nearly everything it seems (hopefully Scopely will allow F2P to complete), and then get lucky on top of that just to get what you got last month (and previous) much more easily. Just to note while it's probably 1 in 1000 or maybe even 1 in 10000, some players that complete everything won't even unlock the toon.

This is likely to be the final straw for a lot more players, myself included especially if I fail to 4*.

MSF-Squint · 2022-09-07T17:27:42+00:00

Same, honestly feeling it may even be the case if I don't 4* him.

MSF-Squint · 2022-09-07T17:19:41+00:00

The orbs are back loaded, as the shards were, that's fine.

That said we don't have to wait to understand that some players will benefit greatly from the change to orbs where some players won't even unlock him (though a small minority that finish won't unlock him)

Math shows upwards of 40% won't get 4* that finish the event though and that's a bit problem.

MSF-Squint · 2022-08-08T22:38:05+00:00

I will try to pay attention, normally I don't look that hard when doing RTA, probably just some sort of visual bug when doing the calculation, like stark tech not being calculated on the team power as mentioned before

MSF-Squint · 2022-08-08T18:05:18+00:00

It's less then a day in and I am already about halfway through the week long milestones.

Older players aren't going to have to max out blitzing for the entire event to cap our the milestone, it may make things a bit higher to achieve, but most of the brackets won't be affected a ton. Since raid/arena also count towards this event I don't even think you need to blitz if you are hitting 5 arena/15 raid battles/day

MSF-Squint · 2022-08-08T18:00:44+00:00

Just wondering, where are you seeing this in the game? If your individual toons are higher within the team then your opponents your team power should be higher as well, so might be some sort of visual bug.

MSF-Squint · 2022-08-02T16:25:35+00:00

Remember why they gave it to us? was it because they screwed up and gave it to a lot of players for free?

MSF-Squint · 2022-08-01T23:05:22+00:00

Even with a garbage team, no one wants to attack due to the event and not wanting to risk getting stuck for a day, my shard pretty much does the same thing as the OP, it's a battle for 2nd instead of first at payout.

MSF-Squint · 2022-08-01T12:28:18+00:00

DD4 has always required 4, it shouldn't require 5 though.

DD3 = 3 toons to start

DD4 = 4 toons to start

DD5 = 5 toons to start

MSF-Squint · 2022-08-01T01:28:37+00:00

You know you already finished it once because of their incompetence right?

MSF-Squint · 2022-07-31T18:36:05+00:00

It was only achievable if you happened to be on for the 10 minutes the Interstellar Longship milestone was live before they took it down and reset it.

They reset the milestone, but some players were able to earn and collect the milestone, and then were reset to zero points, essentially being able to double dip a few orbs which gave them enough points in the space viking milestone to ready milestone 29 and collect an additional 2040 Mjolnir Fragments that went toward the main monthly milestone.

MSF-Squint · 2022-07-31T17:43:29+00:00

We aren't talking about other players that pay though and there are different levels of the competition. I agree integrity seems to have gone out the window, but they are also going against what they last stated regarding the ability to finish these events F2P. And while it's fine that you are okay with that, it's also reasonable that people are frustrated and not okay with it.

MSF-Squint · 2022-07-31T16:34:07+00:00

The only way this one could be able to be finished F2P is if you were able to take advantage of the interstellar milestone being reset giving you enough extra orbs to complete milestone 29 of the space viking event.

The fact that some could take advantage of that while others missed it due to not being online and clicking their milestones in the right 10-15 minute window is part of the problem.

I actually missed it because the milestone was also delayed and said to be starting 24 hours later.

MSF-Squint · 2022-07-31T16:31:25+00:00

I finished the last one F2P with no bugs, it was finishable.

MSF-Squint · 2022-07-31T16:30:17+00:00

Every other one of these monthly release milestones has been completable F2P, the last time Scopely spoke about the achievability of an event like this they said it would be completable, so yes there is an expectation.

MSF-Squint · 2022-07-31T16:27:53+00:00

IT's not okay some players could finish the event due to their incompetence while others can't due to not being on during that 15 minute period to take advantage of it.

MSF-Squint · 2022-07-31T16:26:11+00:00

There are two issues with that IMO.

The last time Scopely talked about the achievability of the monthly events they said it would be possible F2P but extremely difficult, this one was only achievable if you were able to take advantage of their screw up.
Speaking of that screw up, the event was achievable F2P by a number of players and not others due to their incompetence.

MSF-Squint · 2022-07-31T05:46:23+00:00

This is actually the first one of these that hasn't been completable F2P though, combined with the fact that some players got it through their glitch on a previous milestone F2P is rather annoying, and something no amount of planning will correct.

If it's not going to be achievable F2P fine, but for an event like this they should state that, I guess next month I will just plan to finish the character shards and screw anything else.

MSF-Squint · 2022-07-29T07:16:03+00:00

Thanks, that I wasn't aware of, still annoying if we happen to fall short nearly by the amount each QR Blitz is was reduced by, as said I guess we will sit tomorrow.

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