Event End Times Feedback Request - Hulk 'Smash Hit'

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  • Wobby
    Wobby Posts: 286 Mover and Shaker
    DuckyV wrote:
    DuckyV wrote:
    Two of my alliance mates picked the same time slice, but ~1 day apart and they got into the same bracket. Working as intended?

    I picked the same time slice 8 hours later and STILL got put into the same bracket as they did. How the hell? Devs need to take away the gentle nudge! Or rather a push off a cliff is more like it!! icon_evil.gif

    I joined 4 hours before the end and was 495th in your same bracket. They reserved a special place for all of us there...
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    The idea is nice!

    low points target is nice too ! i perfectly support it! It is a strategy play. Mange your roster! Push player join the fight earlier and mange their roster. Player never climb top in last day join. They need to show themselves in the very beginning. More battle, more chance to get hit and more balance roster is required .
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    So....

    No debrief?

    What went right? What went wrong?

    Just gonna unsticky this thread and move on?
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    onimus wrote:
    So....

    No debrief?

    What went right? What went wrong?

    Just gonna unsticky this thread and move on?

    Nope.
    Stuff. Other stuff.
    Yup.
  • acescracked
    acescracked Posts: 1,197 Chairperson of the Boards
    All this has done is make all the top players and top alliances confine themselves into time slice 4. I personnally have tried time slice 3 (hulk PvP) and time slice 5 (gsbw PvP). I have no death bracket and easily finish top 5. But, the game just feels deserted and it just destroys my season score.

    I can really see how time slices can make PvE better. For PvP, it doesn't work for players who used to score 900 or higher. Yes, a percentage of the MPQ player base.
  • Spoit
    Spoit Posts: 3,441 Chairperson of the Boards
    hereinvegas wrote:
    I really like the option of picking my own end time. Overall scores might be lower than normal but I prefer that over the death brackets.

    This thread is about end times not how many ISO spent skipping and some of the other complaints.
    Have...you read the thread at all? The death brackets are worse than ever. It's taking days for some brackets to be gently nudged full
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Knowing that when I chose a start time I entered a bracket, meant I entered a bracket at the right time for me in Hollowpoint and it's working much better for me than the Hulk event. This has been a huge step forward for the game, please keep it. I'm going to get a reasonable score, similar to what I was getting before and I may even place a little higher than normal too. Haven't bumped into the wall of 166's yet, whilst it happened almost immediately in the Hulk event. Picked the shard that finished at midnight GMT, which was the same shard as I picked for the Hulk. Note that I got 1300 points in the Hulk pve. Will be aiming for 800+ in GSBW.

    Tl;dr great move, please keep. Seems to be working as intended.
  • Ryz-aus
    Ryz-aus Posts: 386
    For hollowpoint, I decided to go with the first end time - it's still like 1 am for me so I just pushed early and shielded at 975 - I couldn't find anyone with a high score to hit and drew a bunch of attacks after shielding, so I guess I am one of the higher scores in that time slot. That's around 100 lower then I usually consider shielding, and 200-300 below my normal finish.

    If I cared about my season score, I think the current implementation would force me into time slice 4 - even if I had to spend more on shields. Luckily for me, I don't care about the season - I am sure I can still hit all of the individual progression rewards and my alliance won't have trouble getting the 4* reward.

    It will probably push me to slice 4 when it is reasonable, even if another end time would be better - but for events like this that used to end during my workday, the better end time makes up for the loss of points.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    I hope they keep the system, even though it's hard to find targets above 1000. I'm in slice 4, just because it is better for me, but I am not seeing the big scorers.

    Season score does not matter much if you don't care about Top 5/Top 25/...

    I used to care, but seeing what it takes to make it to Top 3-5 for instance, I am no longer interested. My HP spending has dropped a lot (by half) from Top 3 to Top 10 (Alliance wise, I'm still Top 5 in PvPs).
  • Linkster79
    Linkster79 Posts: 1,037 Chairperson of the Boards
    acescracked wrote:
    All this has done is make all the top players and top alliances confine themselves into time slice 4. I personnally have tried time slice 3 (hulk PvP) and time slice 5 (gsbw PvP). I have no death bracket and easily finish top 5. But, the game just feels deserted and it just destroys my season score.

    I can really see how time slices can make PvE better. For PvP, it doesn't work for players who used to score 900 or higher. Yes, a percentage of the MPQ player base.

    Quite a few players like myself aren't overrly fussed by season score. I would imagine it is only those who are in or around the top 100 alliances that season score means a lot to them. Who knows, maybe I am in the small percentage of those who like to place high but having fun means more, and having events end at times other than 5am means I have lots more fun.

    Please keep this feature.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Well, maybe too many slices - perhaps 3 would work out better?

    At the end of the day, the community wanted this feature for PvE not PvP so fingers crossed we see the PvE version next week...especially after the pisstake of the current pve finishing at 5am for ALL subs and main.
  • dr tinykittylove
    dr tinykittylove Posts: 1,459 Chairperson of the Boards
    The gsbw event seems to have more points so far in my time slice (first). Could be that scores in general were just suppressed because boosted Hulk is hell to fight. Every match takes so looooooong.
  • acescracked
    acescracked Posts: 1,197 Chairperson of the Boards
    dr tinykittylove wrote:
    The gsbw event seems to have more points so far in my time slice (first). Could be that scores in general were just suppressed because boosted Hulk is hell to fight. Every match takes so looooooong.

    I'm in time slice 5 and only have 1057 points. The highest target I can find is worth 12 points. Glad you are finding targets. I'm quite certain I have the most points in this slice. I've burned so much iso searching I put up an 8 hour shield out of frustration.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    acescracked wrote:
    I'm in time slice 5 and only have 1057 points. The highest target I can find is worth 12 points. Glad you are finding targets. I'm quite certain I have the most points in this slice. I've burned so much iso searching I put up an 8 hour shield out of frustration.
    acescracked wrote:
    I'm in time slice 5 and only have 1057 points.
    acescracked wrote:
    only have 1057 points
    acescracked wrote:
    only

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  • user311
    user311 Posts: 482 Mover and Shaker
    In the 10am slot. I also "only" have 1050 pts but I can't find anyone equal or better than me. This really sucks. At this point with 30 minutes to go I should be able to find all the Xmen and Raiders for at least 35pts each. Now in order to hold top 5 I have to hop for 15 points and give away points to those who retaliate.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    user311 wrote:
    In the 10am slot. I also "only" have 1050 pts but I can't find anyone equal or better than me. This really sucks. At this point with 30 minutes to go I should be able to find all the Xmen and Raiders for at least 35pts each. Now in order to hold top 5 I have to hop for 15 points and give away points to those who retaliate.
    Pretty sure all the Xmen and raiders etc all are in the "traditional" time slice.

    And the 1200-1500 point players from other alliances are probably afraid to try the other time slices because they don't want to be in your position, wanting the 4 star cover at 1300 and not being able to get it because all the high value targets are in another time slice.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    My optimal play time is time slice 4, so I have not seen much of a difference except more difficulty finding worthwhile targets. From the "feedback" in the alliance and on the forums, it seems to me that dividing the population with time zone selection on top of the "roster sharding/nudging" is too limiting for anyone outside slice 4, unless you have a large alliance coordinated e I ugh to join with you.

    It is my opinion that time slices should be reserved for pve only, which is where most of the requests for this feature have been asked for.
  • DrNitroman
    DrNitroman Posts: 966 Critical Contributor
    BubBLeB0y1977 wrote:
    From the "feedback" in the alliance and on the forums, it seems to me that dividing the population with time zone selection on top of the "roster sharding/nudging" is too limiting for anyone outside slice 4, unless you have a large alliance coordinated e I ugh to join with you.

    It is my opinion that time slices should be reserved for pve only, which is where most of the requests for this feature have been asked for.

    I respect your opinion but I sincerely hope that time slices will be maintained for PvP and extended for PvE icon_exclaim.gif

    You're right, the general feedback from the forum is rather a concern about target scarcity and the difficulty to reach 1300 and beyond.

    But for a player who don't aim for such highscores this new feature is really nice. I'm such a player, choosing an end time allows me to play the last hour and defend my score without needing a 8h or even 24h shield... for a score under 1000! I think that this new feature is a good thing for casual and semi-hardcore players and thus should be good for the player base.

    Of course I don't want to prevent high scoring player to play their favorite game. I think it's possible to adapt time slices mechanisms to content both type of player, like you or like me icon_e_wink.gif At least, devs should manage to keep one time slice populated enough to find good target. Maybe by reducing the total number of time slices?

    Again I whish to keep an option to choose a convenient ending time icon_e_biggrin.gif
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    I'm in 4pm EST ending slice. It's 11 pm for me. I chose the same slice in the previous event as well. I don't think everybody in every big alliance are choosing slice 4. I see XMen, DeadpoolTacos, 5deadlies and what not. All in my slice, still scoring over 1000 and I still start seeing 166 around 400 points. So, the people who are pretty sure all big alliances using slice 4 are wrong.

    If this system is going to pull overall scores down, I'm all for it. Maybe they will restructure the rewards system then.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    In GSBW, I'm finding that there are a ton of targets in part because it is a brawl between Xmen, Django, Shiar Empire, and Kree Empire at the top, with scores over 2000 out there.


    I don't mind missing out on top 5 since I don't need the covers but I wish this was an Xforce or Fury event for the 1300 award.

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