Faction Challenge 3

Regarding your points: You don't need to go for the 10Mil. But still get a nice bonus for every Match you make AND achieve the requested points. The Cap is only interesting for us weirdoes that manage to do twice or triple the matches in 2 days.

Your second point..... it's your choice. You could of course leave your unit for the weekend in order to level your clannies and regroup on tuesday, I bet a lot of players will. But that's not the point in havion a factionbased challenge. I wonder what you will do once CW starts and you are still stuck in your IS-unit... no clanners for you anyway.

Sorry if I bash you a bit. But, really? Dude! You get rewards for playing and still complain about it? You will have to do NOTHING if you don't want to, don't blame PGI, it's your choice and your choice only!!! Thinking of it... no, I'm not sorry for posting my opinion.

 

I still need C-Bills for the third Mad Cat and the upcoming Warhawks. So yeah will join and collect some bonus cbucks. But expecting some Lurmageddon Hell again..

 

ugh, wtf
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.)

Guess I'm a Clan Loyalist this weekend since the only mechs I'm playing are the 6 I have left to master - 3 ferrets and 3 warhawks. Glad I made the cutoff (by 35 minutes) to change my faction. At least my lrm warhawk will fit right in for this weekend.

 

Don't know if I'll be able to stomach 100 games+ in two days (I can't play before things end Sunday) for the full 10 million, but I'll take all the bonuses I can. I have 'Mechs to tweak, and three Assaults to buy. (Though to be fair, I have time before two of those are available.) Plus I have 12 mechs that will need modification coming in January, ish. I think.

 

I kinda like the twits - no more MetaCats, Direshits and StormRage spam by those IS Factions - also im guessing this is to test something or gather data on stuff maybe?

 

Sure it is... but you know the crowd... they get free stuff and still complain instead of seeing the bigger picture.
Nothing but egomaniacs in here.....

 

Gotta be a comparison for clan vs IS. It's set up like this so they can easily compare the two factions in an in-game environment, I'd wager.

 

The only way 'faction mechs' actually matter is if they do a full clan vs IS test or take it a step further and actually have faction vs faction test (with release valves obviously). Otherwise, stipulating IS/Clan to match up to your made-up faction is pointless.

 

Its testing the balance between the chassis imo.

 

Wow the calculation behind the tournament is awful....

Getting a lot of damage, kills and mostly very little friendly damage.......

None of my scores are enough to place me in the top 15 for Davion as you need 12 assists and damage.

Utterly bizarre scoring system.

I'll give you an example of my battles:

486775522977061010 DRG-1N 5 680 3 5 155 2014-11-15 09:15:50

5 Kills (Stalker, Atlas, Direwolf, Dragon and Firestarter), 3 assists and 680-5 damage (lots of components but that doesn't factor in) score.... 155 ?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Seriously?

Then watched people like Twinky Overlord going around and waving erll's over people then only shooting non critical locations to farm damage.

So basically the tournament just logs the least effective pilots (always wanted to call Twinky that ).

 

The least effective pilots, or at least the pilots willing to play the least effectively possible in order to "win".
I haven't play this weekend yet, but on paper this is the worst scoring formula they ever done. I hope it doesn't affect the games too much but don't really believe it, so I'll probably play ten games to get the hula-girl and then play something else and hope the mercs win.

 

I played some games last night. The Lurmaggedon Hell is horrible. Several games i was obliterated within the first 3 minutes and in Spectator Mode i saw almost half of the enemy team was running LRM40+ Boats. I hope PGI will change the score formula to get less points from Assists. This doesnt make fun at all, when you get on the battlefield and instantly hundreds of Missiles flying upon you.

 

yeah that's what I meant, this is like the 4th week end in a row with unbelieveable Lurmageddon and it's really starting to offend me. Sorry but I think the problem is not the players, but LRMs in general need a re-vamp. Can you blame players for using the most effective tool for the job?

 

I think LRMs are ok, I mean, in the regular game.
But the score formulas make them the weapon to grind challenges and ladders. Formulas are the problem.

 

Strange I've barely had any LRM's. Most of the people in my battles are using lasers for precision damage.

 

As you saw, I'm running my poor Jenner F with 2 ER LLAS and an XL 280, this already shows how wrong the formula is.
A scoring system that makes you spread damage and not want to kill, yes, worst scoring formula they ever done.

Having to leave the unit for a challenge is dumb.
When CW is on, I can use clans in the normal matches.And anyway that's CW, not a challenge, so I feel I'm locked on IS mechs for no reason.
I'm not sorry to express my opinion too, the formula and this unit locking from playing clans, both suck.

 

I haven't had much problem with LRMs (Firestarter with Radar Derp ftw!), but the formula is definitely killing me this time around. I caved and made a Super SPL Firestarter A, and it's tons of fun now that I have it speed tweaked...but it is a killer mech. I play to win, and doing that has actually gotten me under the 130 limit, even on great games. I'm getting 3-4 back kills per game (hence, lower damage), and thus getting stuck around 90-100 points. Had a 6 kill game (!) that didn't make the cut, since all 6 kills came from behind mechs with paper thin armor. Most team damage in any game so far is 4, but I have only gotten 5 valid wins...and I'm not even breaking the top 250 this time. Making kills worth more may make people play like mongs in order to kill farm, but at least with that I'm not punished for playing the game well, and taking out half the enemy team in the span of 3 minutes.

 

I wish I only had that little team damage......

Had one shocking one when I must have fired on one of ours thinking he was an enemy as did 81 pts damage...

Most I'm 0-5 pts, but I also have 2 x 26 pts.

 

Struck me could have been an ammo explosion from a stray round?

 

Where are you seeing your points at? I have been looking.