Nerf the 1-minute game

Nonce Equitaur 2
Nonce Equitaur 2 Posts: 2,269 Chairperson of the Boards
edited September 2014 in MPQ Suggestions and Feedback
One game strategy right now is shield hopping.

1. Get to 700 points.
2. Shield
3. Break shield
4. Play a 3 turn game with Sentry+Boosts in 1 minute.
5. Goto 2.

Adding a minimal time per game before reshielding after a shield break would eliminate a lot of the exploits. Perhaps 4 minutes per game. If someone breaks shield and plays two games in 2 minutes, then tries to shield, they'll get the message

"Your shield will activate in 6 minutes. Activate?"

Sentry is heavily overused by people trying to play as fast as possible. If the 1-minute game is eliminated, he won't dominate the upper game so much.

"Full Points in 40 minutes" -- this sort of thing from PvE could be borrowed for PvP. Each time a player starts a game, that starts a 3 minute timer. If they finish in less than 3 minutes, then subsequent PvP items wouldn't show full points, with the message "Full points in 2 minutes". If they didn't play a 3-turn game with Sentry+boosts, then that counter is likely expired before they finish the game.

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  • Unknown
    Unknown
    although this would be great to see and a real game leveller, the devs are more likely to just nerf sentry and then the next character that becomes popular, than upset the p2w crowd, i do agree this would stop the crazy score's you now see in pvp.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    One other approach I've used for the shield hop is Deadpool. Whales doesn't exhaust his Deadpool Points; it just uses 28k of them. What that means is - since I only bother to shield hop on those rare PVPs that I need a cover for - I've built up enough of a reserve to keep 2-3 Whaleses on hand and use them to shield hop. If I wanted to be really evil I think I could theoretically boost that to turn 1 or 2 (can't remember if I have any of the b/p retireds left).
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Agree...we have a bad score inflation situation with Sentry. Now everyone's hovering in the 1300+ in the top 5. Maybe the devs can be super nice and lower the progression reward requirements?
  • Nonce Equitaur 2
    Nonce Equitaur 2 Posts: 2,269 Chairperson of the Boards
    Use Sentry == get half points.
    Attack Sentry == get double points.

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