new mechbay challenge

Nice way to end.

 

I`ve bought the ON1-VA with this C-Bills-Sale Offer - my 4th Orion and this is my Highscore (not even Basiced):



Might buy the Protector one day..

 

The protected is a sweet sweet mech

 

just looking again on the tournament tables... and wtf Clan Assault Top1 got 2993 Score. If i calculate his average game scores it's freaking awesome!

Score Formula:
(Kills × 20) + (Kill Assist × 10) + ((Damage Done - Team Damage) ÷ 15) + (Wins × 20) + (Loss × 5)

Imagine in all 10 Games you had in Average 7 Kills, 7 Assists, 1000 Damage, 0 Team Damage, 0 Loss:

(70 x 20) + (70 x 10) + ((10000 - 0) / 15) + (10 x 20) + (0 x 5) = 2,967

That's even below what he has. OMG!

 

Blagg, more like 1350 dmg, 7 kills, 5 assists = 300 pts. Theres only 12 enemies to kill

I ran into Twinky a couple of games. He was playing a metawhale. He is a fantastically deadly shot.

 

He was also playing an Adder.

 

[member=3871]e92[/member] Thx, haven't thought bout that..

[member=4235]Remarius[/member]
But it's Assault Class. Ow you mean he is also in Top of the Clan Lights?? Dafuq!

 

Calling it at 14th - 2437. Hope it holds up.

I saw Twinky in his gausswhale again today. I think he was trying to push 3000 as a personal challenge. He hit me ~800m away while moving sideways inbetween the various obstacles and sharp edges at HPG (from sigma to kappa exits of the bowl, inbetween the gamma overpass) His shooting is unreal. In 5:27 he does 1185-6-5 while the next highest on his team was 327-2-6.

 

He is at 3,025 guess he succeeded his personal goal! Really unreal

You say he played a Direwhale with Snipergunz? Can't believe it. To score such high you need to constantly deal damage nonstop whenever a target pops up in the minimap. Snipers need direct visual line, so it's difficult. And Direwhales are pretty slow to join every Engagement. Sure he didn't also have some LRMs in his loadout? Otherwise he had many rounds where his whole team was doing nothing but waiting for him to beat up the enemy team.

 

I am pretty sure he didn't have LRMs. They are generally not very good for tournament top scores. Especially because he was playing in skirmish where mechs are generally tightly clustered, making loading small amounts of LRM not very good for even tagging mechs.

You hit it on the nail though. You want a useless team that is good for nothing other than soaking damage. That actually means a high elo is not disruptive and does not make your time harder. The matchmaker is only interested in balancing the average elo. What ends up happening is a top player's premium ELO gets balanced with a team full of very bad players. They might be against two or three above average players, but it most likely means in many matches they aren't getting a second good player on their own team.

Here is an example of the type of game the metawhales are after: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng9J8zqlyRg

 

In fairness I'm not sure thats how Elo works. There was a very good explanation on the main forums I read yesterday fromone of the statisticians so I'll try to find it. Theres also a max +/- Elo rating variance anyway.

I had at times 2-3 people including Twinky in my matches who were holding top slots ... always on the other side weirdly. Other times none of them thank god but I wasn't in the tournament anyway so only cared about kills/assists. It just made it very hard when your team totally collapsed.

 

New challenges for today :
10 Victories : 1 Mechbay
20 Victories : 7 days of premium time
50 Victoires : 6,5 M C-bills

 

That's an interesting tweak .... not sure I want to drop 50-100 battles this weekend to get the 6.5m bonus as not around this evening (particularly as I'm levelling up new mechs) but 20 victories for a mechbay and 7 days premium is interesting.

 

6.5 million CBills.

That's enough to get me to burn myself out on MWO this weekend and then leave until I can spend the money I got in the challenge on the Thor in a month. ;D

 

I'd have preferred they ran the victories challenge on tournament weekend.

Maybe I am biased because I managed to go 70-42 that weekend, which would have secured the cbills. That and I had an incredibly tough time with the tournament scores as my kills per match was significantly down from my regular 2.472 to 1.607.

Post a leak of the mech list if you come across it. I hope theres an SHD-2D or SHD-2K on there!

 

The thought of doing it with some of the kill glory hounds that were active in the tournament and just logged even before dying as soon as they realised they weren't going to get a ranking score... no thanks.

At least this way people have an incentive to play well together.

 

On the Premium time, does anyone know, if you already have some banked and activate it, does adding new time like this go into the bank, or just extend your premium time that is already on?

thanks

 

Is this a for sure thing? I don't see it announced anywhere.

 

Look at your stats page on the MWO site under the challenge tab. Look particularly at the URL of the challenges' images.

EDIT : Solo queue only :whacko:

I was hoping for the Atlas RS to be on sale but it's the K, damn it i need a third Atlas for the basics.

 

Hmm, looks like we have 4 days for this challenge. 50 wins in that timeframe is definitely doable without having to play constantly all weekend.