November MPQ Developer Q&A - Submit Your Questions

Unknown

I'm sorry if this is the wrong forum....
I'm a newer player and I have a small alliance.
My friends in my alliance have requested help( ie sending them a character from my roster)...
What I'm wondering is how can I ask them to send me there characters? What do I do?

black_mantra

The Dark Reign story has been part of the MPQ for a couple of months, hence been present for the whole year now. Really really wondering what story will be next. Maybe devs can give a spoiler on this, say if it will be House of M, Civil War, AvX, Age of Ultron, Infinity, Original Sin, AXIS or any new Marvel event?

(pardon for being pushy, really desperate for the feed! )

Dayv

Will Facebook reward-sharing ever be extended to Steam users? If yes, when, and if no, can you tell us why not?

edit: Just noticed someone else asked, but it bears repeating.

Unknown

Did you guys ever take the time to playtest Beast's Mutagenic Breakthrough? The overwhelming view of players is that it's worthless, and almost every time it gets cast, the result is a colossal flop - if the countdown tile doesn't get matched, the tiles it create almost always do, often at the very moment they come out.

turul

Q) Will enviromental tiles reapper in some fights? Would be nice to see them...
It could be implemented as a permanent, re-usable teamup.

Ducky

1) Are there any plans to make it so that there is a primary commander for alliances, with the other commanders acting as assistants so that commanders can be demoted if necessary?

2) Is there any plan to make messaging from player to player available in game?

GothicKratos

MJC46 wrote:

I'm sorry if this is the wrong forum....
I'm a newer player and I have a small alliance.
My friends in my alliance have requested help( ie sending them a character from my roster)...
What I'm wondering is how can I ask them to send me there characters? What do I do?

There should be a little yellow button next to the request for Team-Ups, if you hit that, you can select up to three characters (total/overall) and it will send a random Team-Up from that character for an ability you have at least one cover for.

Sleepy72

Have been hit after I have shielded last 2 times gotten points reward shielded then lose points a minute later what's the cause and how can it be avoided

_RiO_

Sleepy72 wrote:

Have been hit after I have shielded last 2 times gotten points reward shielded then lose points a minute later what's the cause and how can it be avoided

It's a race condition between you activating a shield, other players attacking you, the server processing all that and the client receiving the actual data for display.
There's nothing you can do to avoid it.

Unknown

Sleepy72 wrote:

Have been hit after I have shielded last 2 times gotten points reward shielded then lose points a minute later what's the cause and how can it be avoided

Try this :

Once you have shielded go quickly to the players' rankings to check your current ranking. It should update your shield status more quickly.

This tip was given to me a long time ago, and it worked for me ever since.

Unknown

One other question.

How many other ways can you tick off the player base? Irt the alliance change that is taking place in the next patch.

Unknown

arktos1971 wrote:

Sleepy72 wrote:

Have been hit after I have shielded last 2 times gotten points reward shielded then lose points a minute later what's the cause and how can it be avoided

Try this :

Once you have shielded go quickly to the players' rankings to check your current ranking. It should update your shield status more quickly.

This tip was given to me a long time ago, and it worked for me ever since.

The player's ranking status is always current but it doesn't change the outcome of a 'hit through shield' event. They happen due to a sequence of events like this:

T=0, you have 950 points, queue up a guy worth 50 points
T=1m, someone hits you for 50 points, but the server is lagged. This victory is timestamped at T=1m.
T=2m, you win your game, server is still lagged, so you appear to have 1000 points.
T=2m, you shield at 1000 point
T=later, server finally processes the victory at T=1m, and since this occured before you using a shield, it'll deduct 50 points and you go back down to 950.

If you check your player ranking at T=2m you'd see that your point is indeed 950. That said, it's still a good idea to check your player ranking first to ensure you really have the points you thought you did before shielding if that's going to have an impact on whether you want to continue playing or not, perhaps because you're trying to pass someone up for #1 and it'd do you no good to be shielded at #2.

Unknown

hurcules wrote:

Is there any chance of running Lightning Rounds on weekends? Either instead of or in addition to weekdays'.

Any chance of running Lightning Rounds infinitely?

Will we ever be able to choose from our Facebook friends list who WE want to send rewards to?

Unknown

MJC46 wrote:

I'm sorry if this is the wrong forum....
I'm a newer player and I have a small alliance.
My friends in my alliance have requested help( ie sending them a character from my roster)...
What I'm wondering is how can I ask them to send me there characters? What do I do?

I have already posted 2 questions, and the above question is similar, but I wanted to forward an email I received from my parent-in-laws (that I hooked on MPQ) about cover exchanges and alliances. Thanks for reading.

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Brendan and Sarah,

Anzolette and I have a question on this game.

For a long time I have had the capability to add two heroes. I have been looking for a three star cover so I can add them. All the covers I win are one star or two star wimps.

Anzolette has two three star covers she wants to give me because she does not have enough hero points and will not earn enough before they expire.

Anzolette wants to know since we are in the same alliance, can she do this?

Thank you.

Mom and Dad

Moon Roach

Madmanami wrote:

hurcules wrote:

Is there any chance of running Lightning Rounds on weekends? Either instead of or in addition to weekdays'.

Any chance of running Lightning Rounds infinitely?

If you mean indefinitely I suspect not. If you join right at the beginning you can play 10 or so easy matches against the seed teams to gain 2000+ ISO at the cost of nothing but time. It's effectively a free level (or so) for a character per LR, and I can't see that well of ISO being available all the time.

Unknown

OrangePoser wrote:

MJC46 wrote:

I'm sorry if this is the wrong forum....
I'm a newer player and I have a small alliance.
My friends in my alliance have requested help( ie sending them a character from my roster)...
What I'm wondering is how can I ask them to send me there characters? What do I do?

I have already posted 2 questions, and the above question is similar, but I wanted to forward an email I received from my parent-in-laws (that I hooked on MPQ) about cover exchanges and alliances. Thanks for reading.

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Brendan and Sarah,

Anzolette and I have a question on this game.

For a long time I have had the capability to add two heroes. I have been looking for a three star cover so I can add them. All the covers I win are one star or two star wimps.

Anzolette has two three star covers she wants to give me because she does not have enough hero points and will not earn enough before they expire.

Anzolette wants to know since we are in the same alliance, can she do this?

Thank you.

Mom and Dad

In every game I have ever played, being able to trade resources has ended badly. Black markets, increased P2W, etc. So I hope it doesn't happen here.

Unknown

Sentry bombing is obviously an exploit that devs didn't forsee. Will it get fixed or is D3 happy with it due to the extra revenue from boost sales?

yogi_

The devs have previous stated they are not going to do trading of stuff, given the possibility of farming, etc etc.

HailMary

MJC46 wrote:

I'm sorry if this is the wrong forum....
I'm a newer player and I have a small alliance.
My friends in my alliance have requested help( ie sending them a character from my roster)...
What I'm wondering is how can I ask them to send me there characters? What do I do?

As an addendum to GothicKratos' answer, what your friends are requesting are Team-Ups. Any character you send is unusable for the displayed period of time, and the recipient will receive one of that character's active powers, selected at random, as a Team-Up Power.

Here's how you request Team-Ups:
- Go to any event page in the game (including the unranked Story events)
- Select a node, i.e. a battle
- Enter your character select screen
- Go one screen past it to your boost selection screen
- Select one of the "Add Boost or Team-Up" spaces.
- In the Team-up selection pop-up window, If you have fewer than 20 Team-Ups in storage, then you'll see a yellow button at the bottom that lets you request Team-Ups from your alliance.
- If you have 20+ Team-Ups already, delete enough of them to dip below the 20 mark, and the button should appear.

P.S. - Your question would be much more at home in the Tips & Guides subforum.

Unknown

Paintsville wrote:

In every game I have ever played, being able to trade resources has ended badly. Black markets, increased P2W, etc. So I hope it doesn't happen here.

That is very true. But I doubt it will really work with MPQ for 2 main reasons.

1. The only thing to be traded are covers.
2. Covers expire after some time so they cannot be stockpiled.

There might be some small exchanges here and there, but I doubt there will be a whole black market for this game.