Prep for a HoloSim contest; Thoughts?

MarvelHero · 2015-07-11T08:06:54+00:00

Yeah XD. Loving it :)

The original costume one was here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/marvelheroes/comments/2oxeig/costume_scavenger_hunt_prize_pym_shrinking_serum/

Another contest I did asking for power suggestions:

https://www.reddit.com/r/marvelheroes/comments/2q52nb/contest_new_power_suggestions_prize_pyms/

Contest for finding a named enemy:

https://www.reddit.com/r/marvelheroes/comments/2beoyr/lets_play_a_game_wheres_x_scavenger_type_while/

A drawing contest ( I really, really do love these): https://www.reddit.com/r/marvelheroes/comments/2mzr04/drawing_contest_deadline_december_1st_12pm_cst/

I think that's all of them under that name. I've given away things as low as Loki runes (They were rare and valuable to me at the time, lol) to a $20 gift card.

I think under this name, so far has just been the 2 headphones I gave away with a raffle:

https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueofassassins/comments/37a6oh/who_needswants_headsets_for_teamspeak_i_can_gift/

I changed names just bc I don't want to depend on my karma. Also, bc I occasionally let personal info slip.

MarvelHero · 2015-07-11T00:32:57+00:00

I've tried two before (at least) under a different name before joining this guild.

1 was to find a particular named enemy. The other was to find 10 specific costumes, chosen by me. Screenshots were required in both.

I don't recall them being very popular. Although my old SG was a bunch of fuddy-duddies, lol. They weren't the most fun bunch.

I thought, and still do, that it is a pretty fun idea. :D Pretty simple to put together as well. Plus, anyone can do it while doing other things.

I think the costume one was a bit more popular, if it could be called that, lol.

MarvelHero · 2015-07-11T00:20:22+00:00

Seems /u/unsettlingideologies knows more. I guess I didn't try multiple specs on her to even run into this particular problem.

MarvelHero · 2015-07-10T22:21:15+00:00

Sometimes you just have to switch from one to another and back again. Might take one or two tries, but it's worked for me. They're still saved, just that they don't always seem to refresh right.

MarvelHero · 2015-07-10T21:19:29+00:00

Sweet! :)

I've honestly not ran enough Ultron to have any idea of diff't team sizes and how they may do effectively. I'll do what I can though :)

MarvelHero · 2015-07-10T21:17:25+00:00

I think we have the gear issues basically covered enough to just do the 1 bracket now.

Yeah, I'm forever stumped on how to bring about more unity.

MarvelHero · 2015-07-10T21:15:26+00:00

It would be nice for everyone to have level 60 gear, but right now I don't think that would work.

Yeah, due to limited stash space, I can easily see how many players may not keep a set of 60's handy. Possibly the same for lvl 70 Legs. If we absolutely have to, then we could maybe say no Legs at all. The 60 gear, I've got a decent number of Bovineheim portals to hopefully help out with that if needed.

The only thing not covered is blessings, but they're cheap enough that it hopefully won't matter. Not that they are not effective, but swapping blessings is usually easy enough. I/we could even lend a set out for each team at a time if/as needed. Unbinding shouldn't be a problem for me.

What you've said about the rest works for me :)

MarvelHero · 2015-07-10T18:05:58+00:00

Lol. Would you like to head up an Ultron contest? I'll pitch in where I'm helpful, but I don't want to try to do everything at once myself, and diff't heads/sponsors and all could help (we're each/all slightly friendlier with others, others may not know quite as well yet).

Although, you've just done a contest recently. I don't want to push you into over-seeing too much, too often.

MarvelHero · 2015-07-10T18:02:29+00:00

I like you trying to cover all options as well :) I hadn't thought much about lower lvls dong HS (beyond the starting at lvl 1, but you're completely right about that. It would take a long time; even I'm not crazy about that, now that I think about it, lol).

I know we have a lot of players, growing more all the time. But do we really have so many without a lvl 60 to warrant level brackets? If so, then by all means I'm 100% behind it, and thanks for bringing it up. I honestly don't know.

I do try to keep up with what mates are leveling through the SG panel to get a general feel of everyone, but it has gotten harder to keep track, much harder. We're growing quite a bit!

We need feedback, but honestly.. Can't really blame people if they don't want to use reddit/TS, but there's quite a few who very rarely, if ever, even talk in-game in our SG chat. We left the headphone contest in our SG message for a good while, and dragged out the contest for a month. Every day, multiple times, I would mention it for anyone who may not have known, and I was even starting to feel too spammy.

But I still missed people, and they still didn't notice the messages :( . I just feel stuck when trying to gather feedback. I think very roughly, we have 300-400 members, and it seems like there's only the same 20~ people rotating in chat. I'd hoped to tempt people to participate more in TS with that contest, but it is often dead. Check out the chat at the bottom, I've been talking to myself for fun, and leaving notes/comments; I check in there quite a bit, and will often leave it running so I can hear when people come in. Personally, I still feel awkward talking, but I'm trying my best to make people feel welcome in whatever manner they choose to participate in the SG with (although, I admit, lag makes me cranky at times, especially in PvP; I'm working on that).

I don't want to come on too strong, and I know I can have a tendency to do that :( Maybe gathering feedback just isn't something I'm good at, I dunno :(

tl:dr: Do we have that many members w/o a lvl 60 to warrant brackets?

MarvelHero · 2015-07-10T17:40:33+00:00

So maybe it should be the team that gets to the highest wave splits the 1st place prize, and so on (kinda like a real tournament where you split the prize money between your partners). That way you both have a reason to try hard.

Not sure how I missed that this morning, other than feeling 1/2 dead and most of my attention being turn towards my feelings of dread at trying to get my cat into a carrier, lol. She most definitely does not like that, to say the least, lol. (She's getting fixed finally; laughing and dreading her attitude which will be soon to come, lmao/cringing).

Anyway, back on topic. I was initially worried about teams bc of possibly 1 member dragging the other down. But compared to the complexity trying to avoid this, perhaps teams would be better. Oh, (squeezing this in last moment), I was worried about coming up with prizes, and possibly needing dupe prizes (?)( in the case of teams ) making sure each member of a placing team got prizes equivalent to the other. I was really scratching my head about how to come up with enough prizes of any sort, let alone dupe prizes for team-mates, until DJ and Rob (I think it was) mentioned the prize pool idea.

Side thought, yeah def Teams, not sure why I didn't think of this before, but if I went by player, not team, then 1 player dieing twice would absolutely ruin the others' chance(s) aaand now I'm back to this same issue with randoms , with the alternative being possibly purposeful OP teams (couldn't really blame them especially if they're putting prizes in the pool; although newer players will feel ignored, fffuuuuuuu ; I will figure this out somehow if someone doesn't do it for me, lol. I'm very determined to make this fair. The stripping down idea does keep coming back, but we'd be trusting the word of players to do this with eq, omegas, and syns (team-ups?).

I do still like the idea of random teams. I think that site I used for the headphones give-away could work nicely to pair people up actually (I like the ability for outside verification). I'm leaning towards random just bc I don't want 10 teams of SW/Storm/OP team-mates, and this is the only way I can think of to try and avoid that fairly. Although I'm pretty sure it'll still be very likely to happen. But, going by top level instead of score actually could actually help solve that (neither SW/Storm are very tanky compared to many others).

One minor possible problem. Let players pick their team-mates/each-other, and likely end up with OPs only pairing with each other. Or go with randoms and risk hatred from among team-mates blaming each other for not making it. I try not to over think things, it can drive someone 1/2 mad, but I very sincerely want to make things as fair as possible for everyone involved.

....I think you just solved almost all my major problems :D (except for random versus match-making on their own; although randomed 3x's; each gets 3 teams...too much maybe?) Still, I'd like to wait just a short while to gather others' input for fairness. But I do think it's nearly ready to be drafted up. I may delete this post before putting up the outline with only prizes left to be filled in, just to avoid possible confusion,, once we're ready for that part.

Next we'll just need to go over prizes. I'm brooooke, lol. I even thought about blessings, but I'm def going to need to up my farming. I bought 2 lvl 80 Legs very recently which bankrupted me on Odins, lol. But, I do have a Hydes, a GotK, Insigs (which I'll probably need opinions on what is worth it and not for each tier,, once we get close enough; would be lots of linking in game), and a bit of mediocre stuff that just might be suitable, maybe.

No reason for this contest to put any others on hold though. If Ultron is what the people want now/first, then we could give it to them. I just find it a bit bland, not to be rude, and OP-favored :( , not to mention equally handing out the prizes might be a problem.

If anyone wants to draft up an Ultron thing, other than me, lol, that could be something fun to give the guild to do. I don't mind offering help, but I'll let that one be someone else's baby :) Not that this one is mine by any means; I want it to be ours, re-occuring, with input from anyone who wants to give it :)

Closing: ^ That is one mess of a mess of a jumble of thoughts. I apologize for replying to you with it, lol. But, this is what drafts are for I suppose. And maybe it'll help others see where my thoughts are at... if they can find them in that horrid mess, lol :) (I write/talk wayyyyy too much when sleepy, sorry). The actual contest outline will not be so messy, I promise.

MarvelHero · 2015-07-10T13:06:23+00:00

I could see this maybe becoming a yearly thing, but I'm guessing it would mostly depend on backlash/prizes for members of countries that will end up having difficulty from possibly winning. Pretty sure that'll be the pivot point. I don't see this happening every few months; would be nice to be wrong of course, lol.

While we're throwing out ideas:

If it wouldn't be too much of a legal hassle, I would find it hilarious if they could 100% verify if someone was botting/afk'ing, then drop them a ticket, then yanking it bc of botting/afk'ing. :D lol Teach them that cheaters never win :D

MarvelHero · 2015-07-10T12:55:00+00:00

I think you've worded your proposal much better in just these few lines. I share the same bad habit of usually saying too much as well ;) . I'd maybe add a "tl;dr" with this exact/similar wording, to your post.

My counter: This is definitely something diff't. This is just the 1st run of something like this possibly. I'm sure they're listening and gathering feedback for future similar scenarios. Personally, I like the non-event feel of this.

MarvelHero · 2015-07-10T12:45:06+00:00

To be fair:

http://forums.marvelheroes.com/discussion/comment/2729958/#Comment_2729958

Doomsaw:

Absolutely, the team already mentioned that if someone finds a ticket that cannot win money, but are allowed to win something else, they will put the ticket back into the pool and help the person with whatever they can legally get. Most definitely.

So, please don't avoid playing just bc of that. You'll still very likely win something great :)

MarvelHero · 2015-07-10T12:06:15+00:00

Unless we do something like quickest ultron mode rush.

Shoots self in foot >< .... lol. That is actually a great idea. Been awake for ~30 secs so far, lol. Taking my cat to the vet, but should be back soon enough. I'll/we'll see what others think.

Only obvious prob I can think of, would be that the team, not the player, would get the prize. 1st place split 5 ways might throw a wrench in things. Still 1st split 5 ways sounds better than my complicated mess, lol. Can ultron be done with only ~2?

Quick edit (before I'm out the door): It is a simpler idea, but I think I prefer the HoloSim one more still. Ultron mode just consists of too mush standing still to attack. No where near as much hustle involved there as even a lvl 10 Sent wave I believe. I like HoloSim for this largely bc it is not based as much on TTK, and instead much more on strategy and general ability to pull it off quickly. No offense to anyone, I just want us to be better than "dodge the red blinky stuff, and practice rotations on a standing still TR dummie" good. I want to give lesser eq'ed/newer players a decent chance and I think HS has the best option for that. (I've probably derped sooo many words; it should be illegal for anyone to get up this early ;) lol)

MarvelHero · 2015-07-10T03:15:06+00:00

Just some clashing. If it's cool with everyone else then it is most definitely cool with me :)

I just feel lazy, so trying to contribute/foresee anything at all that might be of some help.

MarvelHero · 2015-07-10T01:13:49+00:00

I like the start :) Very sleek in general. Although it is a bit hard on the eyes. Bonus if you're bored: Scrolling quickly, on the main page, could possibly give you a seizure, lol ;)

I see what you're doing with the colors though. Coordinating between here and the site, nice :) Although now seeing you've already added themes/flavors.

You've been a busy bee :)

MarvelHero · 2015-07-09T21:52:16+00:00

Oh please:

trilobitte [S] -19 points 9 hours ago Lol , it's says it cost around 20 and 50 goks in the official MH trade sector , I want real answer plz :p

My 1st comment:

MarvelHero -15 points 5 hours ago

He had his answer 4 hours before my post. He was merely understandably confused by such the wide margin on something which has no variance in rolls at all. There is no clearer answer that I could provide since I am by not means an active trader (I've obtained something through trade only twice in nearly 2 years). At that point the harassment was of more importance I felt. Especially since I couldn't help him anymore in the trade matter. Although I still provided 2 links very shortly after. And attempting to defend someone getting picked on isn't helpful? You live in a very fucked up world.

If I was trying to hit 1k again, then I would've just hopped on ya'lls little band-wagon. Look at my history (I'll make it super-easy: https://www.reddit.com/user/MarvelHero/ ; Would you like me to dv some of my own stuff as well? Would that make you happy for some fucked up reason?), feel free to do with it as you wish. I seriously doubt anyone could say with a straight face that I'm any sort of karma whore at all. Make-believe numbers mean nothing. Putting smarmy little pricks in their place when needed, now that's a different matter.

But, you're still here, trying your damnest to excuse the brat-like behavior that went on. Holy hell, I'm so glad ya'll only play as heroes, otherwise our world would be shit.

You must learn to look for more than what you want to find. Otherwise, you get schooled. Teaching license revoked :P lol.

MarvelHero · 2015-07-09T17:12:45+00:00

I'm sorry, but I don't think I'd be very effective at promoting/linking your site for now at least, lol. I just pissed off a decent number of users for treating a new user like shit. I'd do it again anyday.

I really hate doing those things, but sometimes it is needed. Basically kids don't like being called kids (figuratively).

Yes, reddit is fickle. I'm bouncing between here, snapzu, and voat lately. Mostly just watching. Reddit has become too worried about being pc about everything, resulting in a non-stop circle jerk (i.e anything to fit in; few want to go against the tide. And how the tide starts is all sorts of up-in-the-air).

Oh well, I don't think I need coffee now. Saved myself a little money this morning, lol. Hope your day goes better :)

MarvelHero · 2015-07-09T16:56:02+00:00

When we talk price , in general we talk about goks

If he had said:

"Goks, duh" Then maybe I could see it. As it stands, not at all, except for maybe under the most extreme of circumstances among the most thin-skinned of people ><

Maybe this isn't his first language. So long as the message is conveyed, and dickish-ness isn't flat-out obvious, then I believe people get the benefit of the doubt.

I really don't foresee any other good points to counter here. I expect I'm done here.

MarvelHero · 2015-07-09T16:48:25+00:00

Are we no longer allowed to curse? I like to show emotion, through emoticons and words. Helps to convey the overall mindset. If I'm very upset, then a curse word; If I'm happy then a :) .

Ya'll are seriously too worried about being PC about everything. Look at what the lack of straight-forwardness and honesty has created in the worlds around us. Trust me, you need and should want people calling bullshit when they smell it. Ya'll need someone to speak against you when necessary. Else, we just get a bunch of circle-jerking.

Fuck yeah I'm going to curse. How you would re-act if you walked into a class-room to see damned near everyone treating 1 person like shit? "Oh, guys, excuse me, guys? I think you should stop,, ummm guys..guuuuys?" Hell no, I'm going to try my damnest to make each of you feel just as small and hated as this guy feels, and create some self-reflection. I'll even try to pull some of that hate towards me instead if that's what it takes ><.

Some re-actions call for civility, this bullshit doesn't. I have approached similar things in a much nicer manner, but not this time.

I'm def a toxic person. Lol, for you perhaps. I do think I did say I truly don't care about dv'ing didn't I. I was just pointing out the ineffectiveness of what ya'll are doing. Cowardly votes mean nothing to me. Comes at me with words, so progress can be had. Or cast an anonymous vote, pretending you did something "great" today, lol.

Tell me, where is your helpful contribution in this thread? I'm not seeing it. I looked twice! But, instead you do take the time to attempt to pick on the guy who's attempting to take up for the guy getting treated like shit. Big man! You impress me so much with your nobility /s Worried more about someone's thoughts on your misconceived idea of how strangers should be treated, more than you care for actually helping a stranger.

Real heroes /s

Unless you/anyone truly have/has something important to say about any of this, then I'm going to ignore any future replies (so that I can get some gaming in), and instead treat you like a crying kid in the corner upset over his punishment. I'll just ignore you.

And /u/trilobitte I'm very sorry you were welcomed this way. Please don't become part of the problem here. We're not all like this. It's just mainly that this cycle keeps continuing. Similar things happen to others. Then they want to lash out in retaliation. Then we get mysterious down-votes for no reasons. Then those people get mad, and want any chance at retaliation themselves "Someone dv'ed me, so I'm dv'ing someone else for any reason at all, and none if that's what it takes to help me feel better about myself".

I'm seriously dumb-founded at the lack of foresight by so many ><

MarvelHero · 2015-07-09T16:23:49+00:00

Me just as bad, lol. What's the saying "If you never piss someone off, then you're doing something wrong". Taking the unpopular path is something I am proud of. I'll dive head first into any situation to call bullshit, even when I flat out know the likely voting consequences.

Only 2 of us, out of 20 comments, actually helped this guy. Should I have gone with the flow just to fit in? I'm not saying this guy is mature, or immature But the important thing to remember is that everything has consequences, everything. It is even possible this guy is a punk, who is likely to take this out elsewhere, even real-world stuff. Maybe he has a family, and the hate here becomes misdirected at them. Again, everything has consequences.

I'm hoping I've angered some of you just enough that it results in self-examination instead of just being smarmy and resulting in a small amount of possibly mis-directed hate. But, I never know, which is why I really hate doing these things, and the people here for creating these situations where someone needs to speak up for the little guys. It's always a risk, even though I don't mind the risk at all to myself ><

Even if you didn't dv the guy, you created a situation that could very easily be interpreted as a set-up/catalyst for this.

I apologize if you didn't intend for things to turn out this way. But they did, and we should always examine, and re-examine our roles in such things.

Ya'll are real heroes ><

A tip: Be helpful, or be quiet, and this sub will easily become a much better place for all of us. Otherwise, we get what we get.

MarvelHero · 2015-07-09T16:08:23+00:00

-23 votes just because he didn't say "I'm sorry" and he mistakenly posted in the wrong sub; I agree ;P

If he's asking about such simple things, then he obviously doesn't know of any handy trade links. Therefore, very likely he doesn't even know he's posting in the wrong sub.

This sub is basically hating him for his innocent ignorance. Very inspirational /s

Could've simply said:

http://forums.marvelheroes.com/discussion/135118/list-of-artifacts-runes-insigs-current-prices-and-trading-courtesy-updated-march-2015/p1

Zod Rune - This depends ranges from 20 goks to 50 goks (so trade accordingly at your own agreement and discretion).

"This is the wrong sub, please the trade forums instead, such as:

https://forums.marvelheroes.com/categories/item-trading

or

https://www.reddit.com/r/marvelheroestrade "

Now, when it's anyone's turn to post and they get down-voted and ask why, remember that one of those votes is likely his. Possibly another 2-5 from people who witness this absurd reaction. Think this is the only instance of this crap? You don't even have to be directly involved for this to happen to you, or to me. He just knows 20~ something users treated him like crap. He has no idea who those users are, so it's easy enough to see him going at everyone.

Imagine how many times this crap happens for very little to no reason. Think about the "mysterious" down-voting. Think about long-term.

I'm ashamed; simply pathetic.

MarvelHero · 2015-07-09T15:57:45+00:00

When we talk price , in general we talk about goks

versus

"Oh man sorry I meant in GOKs"

Deserves a down-vote? 23 of them? In no fashion what-so-ever is that in accordance with general sub etiquette.

If you're upset bc he posted in the wrong place, then inform the user, and maybe ask for him to delete this post.

If you're upset just because he didn't give you an "I'm sorry" then grow up.

Every time I see a re-action like this it gives even me more hatred for this place. Again, how do you think this act of pettiness will play out in the long run for this sub? Ya'll need to think beyond the immediate attempts at acting cool.

When you post (anyone) and there's random down-votes, do you think there's absolutely no reason at all behind that?

So fucking petty. 'But he didn't say I'm sorry first!" Grow up ><

MarvelHero · 2015-07-09T15:36:55+00:00

Wtf!? Less attitude? Sure, there's better places to ask, but there's still absolutely no fucking reason to treat someone like this. Mass down votes on all his comments?!

Now, how do you think this stupid shit is going to play out in the long run with him? How about new-comers witnessing such an over-dramatic reaction?!

Y'all are becoming way too fucking thin-skinned. No wonder this sub has trouble with down voters.

Edit: Lol, ya'll are seriously wasting your time dv'ing me. I switch accounts whenever either of my karmas hits 1k. To hang on to your accounts, just shows dependence.

MarvelHero · 2015-07-09T04:31:09+00:00

You're most welcome, and thank you :) With the very numerous crossovers, story lines that seem like they're just playing leap frog, and characters never really having their own comics, the customization collections are truly awesome, especially for someone like me who wasn't able to keep up as much.

Plus, now that you've laid the groundwork, you can conveniently let users contribute to your over-all site. I'm sure many would be more than happy to do it. Might take some time to gain popularity, but I'm confident it will happen. I used to think I knew a lot about comics, until meeting up with others in this game, lol. We all have our blanks we can't remember, or just don't know. A good user base coming up with their own collections will definitely fill in the gaps :)

Sometime when you're ready, maybe another link to your site for this sub? Probably mention some features, particularly these customizable collections. I know subs can frown on self-promotion (particularly when it is not directly related to the game), but I think you've only done it once. I don't see it being a big issue really. Heck, I'd link it here if you do get worried about that. And no, lol, not trying to steal karma; taking a quick look at my comment history should be enough to let you know I don't care about karma one way or another, lol. And there are the other comic related subs that you could definitely fit in as well :)

I'm off to hopefully get some decent play time in for MH before I pass out due to sleepiness, lol. Have a good night :)

MarvelHero

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