Faction Challenge 3

Starts: FRIDAY NOVEMBER 14th 10:00:00 AM (PST)
Ends: SUNDAY NOVEMBER 16th 11:59:59 PM (PST)

EVENT HIGHLIGHTS:
Greetings MechWarriors!

This weekend we're bringing back the Faction Challenge Tournament!

Prepping for the event:

• Step 1: Sign-in and choose your House or Clan Faction on our website at https://mwomercs.com/profile/faction.
• Step 2: Opt-in before FRIDAY NOV 14th 10:00 AM (PST) on this page.
• Step 3: Compete against your fellow MechWarriors for a chance to win glory for your Faction and MC prize packages!
• The contest period lasts from FRIDAY NOV 14th 10:00:00 AM (PST) until SUNDAY NOV 16th 11:59:59 PM (PST)!

Scoring Details:

• Only your best 10 matches that are victories over the course of the event will be counted
• Solo and Group Queue matches will be counted
• Private matches DO NOT count!
• You must play in a mech appropriate for your Faction/Clan
  • Clan Mechs only count for players aligned to a Clan Faction
  • Inner Sphere Mechs only count for players aligned to a Inner Sphere Houses (including Mercs and Lone Wolves.)
• Score formula: (Kills × 10) + (Kill Assist × 20) + ((Damage Done - Team Damage) ÷ 15) + (Wins × 20)
• 1st Tie-Breaker: Number of Matches Played (Fewer is better)
• 2nd Tie-Breaker: Team Damage (Less is better)

Prizes:

• All participants who play 10 matches will receive a free Hula Girl cockpit Item manually injected at the end of the tournament!
• All players who have opted-in and are members of the winning Faction (calculated by the combined score of the top 50 players in each Faction) will receive their House or Clan Banner or dog tags as a cockpit item!
• The top 10 player scores in each House or Clan Faction will be awarded an MC prize package.

SPECIAL C-BILL AWARDS!
Players who opt in can earn 100,000 C-bills per match when they score above 130 points. The maximum C-bills a player can earn for this event are 10,000,000.

You must play in a mech appropriate for your Faction/Clan

• Clan Mechs only count for players aligned to a Clan Faction
• Inner Sphere Mechs only count for players aligned to a Inner Sphere Houses.(including Mercs and Lone Wolves)

We'll display your match scores so you can see which matches have qualified.

Match points special formula:
(Kills × 10) + (Kill Assist × 20) + ((Damage Done - Team Damage) ÷ 15)

C-bills are injected into accounts after the event ends.

 

The following info jumped out: 130pts nets you an extra 100k x 100 max. Solo and group count. Faction appropriate mechs.

 

Is that a typo, or are Assists worth more than Kills now? You can get an easy 140 points by grazing 7 enemies with ERLLas.

 

It's the same formula they've been using

 

So every player competing on this ladder will refuse to kill. Maybe it's the moment to grab that death star achievement.

(I really don't understand why they don't reward kills and assists with the same amount of points, it would create way less behaviour distortion... last challenge was painful)

 

The last individual tournament was the Chassis Challenge which used Kills x 20 + Assists x 10 + Dmg/15 + Win x 20

I didn't really pay attention to the Lance challenge, so I didn't notice the change there. For Tonnes of Fun they used Assists x 20, but that was just for people to set a baseline qualifying score, not a ranked score like here.

 

Won't hurt me much. I intend on using my Ember, Oxide, Jenner F, and Raven 3L for this. They're practically assist magnets

 

Yay... hula girrrrrrl!

 

Just a reminder - you need to opt in asap even if only to get your free 100k per match.

Even if you don't care about the tournament its FREE MONEY for doing what you're doing anyway!

 

I have given up on leaderboards since it implies giving up my life besides blowing up mechs. The 10 mil c-bills on the other hand is much appreciated. See you all on the battlefield in a couple of hours!

o/ Zot

ps. having kills worth less than assists will aid me in beefing up my K/D ratio that took a HUGE hit last weekend,... don't let PGI change that

 

Basically it transfers like this:
5 Kills, 1 Assist, 300DMG: 90p Better luck next time killstealer!
1 Kill, 5 Assists, 300DMG: 130p BLINGBLING! You just got paid!
Also... if you Opt-in you get a hula girl after 10 matches, no matter the outcome. So, yes. Opt-in just for the bonusses.

 

Only downside is any mech that performs exceptionally gets nerfed.

 

My guess is, metas are discouraged, lights and LRM's will be the preferred Mechs (again). Just for the sake of assists.

 

it's okay now I have a good reason not to play too much this weekend and get stuff done. Stupid, dumb challenges are getting obnoxious now

 

Well, see it like this: the challenges provide input for the upcoming changes.

 

Yeah its blatantly a well paid balance test.... note the well paid as 100 decent matches +10m is a lot of c-bills.

 

It's like 20m+ cbills, just that you have to play 100 matches in 3 days, to get the additional cbills.

They like unhealty challenges.

On top of that, I was levelling timbers but I will have to drop in IS mech because my faction won't change thanks to the unit, so I will waste levelling time too.

 

Yeah quite often I avoid the tournaments/challenges but as I have no mechs to level but have a "liquidity shortage" I'm happy to drop in one of my farming builds.