bonebreak wrote: Phantron wrote: Additionally one can consider using HP for shields for a top 5 finish as a way of spending HP for iso. It might not be an efficient usage of HP but if he's already buying HP in the bulk then you might as well use some of it to get the 5000 iso for top 5. While for most people it'd be a losing proposition (better off saving the HP than getting an extra 3000 iso), this is not a losing proposition if you were always going to buy that Stark Salary anyway. I've finished top 5 or better in 99% of pvps for the last 9 months. A majory of thattime it was a first place finish and often selling the 1k iso 4star cover that came with it. The majority of that time I was in the alliance finishing 1st in almost every pvp and getting 5k bonus iso as that reward for a total of 10k per pvp between my own finish and my alliance one. I play many lighting rounds most of the time just to 100 rating for the 1k+ iso it comes with. I sometimes but rarely will go all in on a lighting round to finish in the top 2. I play every pve and get large node payouts. I have played the game for 340 days. Never bought ISO. I have 15 characters capped including 3 4 stars. I have only 3 other characters above 100. I have only 2 2 stars capped. I dont generally partially level characters they are either base level or capped. The rest of my 37 characters on my roster are are base level 40, 15, 1. With all the time I've played and with all the bonus ISO I have received for placement I'm at roughly 25% of the roster leveled.....
Phantron wrote: Additionally one can consider using HP for shields for a top 5 finish as a way of spending HP for iso. It might not be an efficient usage of HP but if he's already buying HP in the bulk then you might as well use some of it to get the 5000 iso for top 5. While for most people it'd be a losing proposition (better off saving the HP than getting an extra 3000 iso), this is not a losing proposition if you were always going to buy that Stark Salary anyway.
Colognoisseur wrote: Here is what I have been doing since about the middle of last December. I play at least 20 out of 24 Lightning Rounds to 300. That nets me an average of 4,500iso/ LR for 90,000 iso/wk from LR as a minimum. There are weeks I play all of them I finish top 5 in three PvP per week in a t50 alliance where I sell the covers for 9,000iso/PvP for another 27,000iso/wk from PvP PvE is variable but it tends to run about 7,000-10,000 iso/wk from Pve. In a bad week I make 124,000iso/wk In a good week like when seasons end I've made 140,000iso. There a few others I know who aggressively mine the LR's as I do. It is the key to my iso flow. I buy a Stark Salary every two weeks that's the source of my HP. As Phantron correctly surmises there are moments when I will use an extra shield or two to insure t5 so indirectly some of the HP I buy is turned into iso.
RefinedBean wrote: Colognoisseur wrote: Here is what I have been doing since about the middle of last December. I play at least 20 out of 24 Lightning Rounds to 300. That nets me an average of 4,500iso/ LR for 90,000 iso/wk from LR as a minimum. There are weeks I play all of them I finish top 5 in three PvP per week in a t50 alliance where I sell the covers for 9,000iso/PvP for another 27,000iso/wk from PvP PvE is variable but it tends to run about 7,000-10,000 iso/wk from Pve. In a bad week I make 124,000iso/wk In a good week like when seasons end I've made 140,000iso. There a few others I know who aggressively mine the LR's as I do. It is the key to my iso flow. I buy a Stark Salary every two weeks that's the source of my HP. As Phantron correctly surmises there are moments when I will use an extra shield or two to insure t5 so indirectly some of the HP I buy is turned into iso. How do you play 20/24 lightning rounds and still get enough sleep?
Colognoisseur wrote: Lr's start at Noon in my time zone. I play the Noon, 2PM, 4PM, 6PM, 8PM, 10PM, and Midnight rounds. sleep until 5:50AM and play all of them between 6AM until Midnight again. Then sleep and wake up again at 5:50AM and finish with the last three at 6AM, 8AM, and 10AM. Now I am restless sleeper and if I wake up while the 2AM or 4AM ones are running I have gone in and played one of those. The answer to your question is I usually get about 5hrs on the two nights that LR's are running.
RefinedBean wrote: Okay, thanks for your response. I have follow-up questions but they're pretty personal and I doubt you want to answer them. Thanks for your time.
Ben Grimm wrote: You're wondering how he eats and sleeps, and other science facts? Just think to yourself, "It's just a game." You should really just relax.
Ben Grimm wrote: RefinedBean wrote: Okay, thanks for your response. I have follow-up questions but they're pretty personal and I doubt you want to answer them. Thanks for your time. You're wondering how he eats and sleeps, and other science facts? Just think to yourself, "It's just a game." You should really just relax.
Koko81 wrote: I'm a F2P player here and at day 87. Thanks to this forum I was lucky enough to not make the mistakes that some of the vets had made during the beginning of the game and hence was able to save up both ISO and HP for what was really important. I currently have 6 level maxed 2*s and could have another 3 of them but I'm quite hesitant... I'm not sure whether I should be pumping more ISO in these 2* characters. I love seeing new characters to be honest because I feel like the game is developing. What I don't like are the following points: A) Players are forced to picking up the new characters as they are ESSENTIALS to subsequent events (which in D3's case were the unlocking of newer characters) (basically becoming a never ending cycle) The vaulting of old characters: I don't think it's fair to force someone to play with only a certain amount of characters IF they really want to play with someone else. For example, I currently have a BP that has 7 covers and for me is considered the one of the strongest on my roster. I WOULD LOVE to see him max covered cause I can only imagine the chaos it could create. Unfortunately, BP has been placed in the vault and will be out of the reward token cycle... This essentially means that my dreams of having a level maxed BP have gone down the drain for the foreseeable future. (And no, I don't plan on spending 1250HP per cover for BP) The amount of time I spend on this game has turned my lifestyle to an unhealthy one. My sleep pattern has gone down the drain and my work does get affected. All of this would be worth it if at the end of the day the rewards I get are actually GOOD. Unfortunately, having a Gamora with 2 covers alongside Grocket at 3 and a Mystique at 4 isn't what I consider "Rewarding". All of this being said, I could only imagine the frustration that the Vets are going through. Hopefully the devs do consider all of this and might actually find a way to make it interesting for all of us! PS: Love the MPQ community *Sheds a Tear Drop*
sc0ville wrote: Ben Grimm wrote: RefinedBean wrote: Okay, thanks for your response. I have follow-up questions but they're pretty personal and I doubt you want to answer them. Thanks for your time. You're wondering how he eats and sleeps, and other science facts? Just think to yourself, "It's just a game." You should really just relax. Well now I have to go home and watch MST3K. I'm thinking Laserblast... I love me some Laserblast.
dearbluey wrote: Or Space Mutiny. Space Mutiny is my "go to" MST3K when introducing it to other people.
"David wrote: Moore"] Colognoisseur wrote: The devs should think about returning to the one new character every two weeks model which seemed to be working before the Anniversary ignited this flood of new characters. Definitely! We will be returning immediately to the usual pace of one new character approximately every two weeks. After Gamora we are now back to the "normal" schedule. The extra characters added in recent weeks was really a perfect storm of our Anniversary week and the debut of Thor (Goddess of Thunder) on top of our usual schedule. You'll see one more new character arriving a few weeks from now and that character will be the last one of the year. We didn't anticipate that some players would feel overwhelmed or experience "burn out" with the extra characters and we're sorry for that. We'll be factoring this knowledge into our scheduling as we move forward.
Colognoisseur wrote: The devs should think about returning to the one new character every two weeks model which seemed to be working before the Anniversary ignited this flood of new characters.
"David wrote: Moore"]We didn't anticipate that some players would feel overwhelmed or experience "burn out" with the extra characters and we're sorry for that. We'll be factoring this knowledge into our scheduling as we move forward.
noone_ wrote: Then I see they released a NEW cover for Loki (gotta keep the hamster wheel going) before they released any character revisions to characters they are supposedly rotating out to work on. I mean, they did revise Daredevil but what, are you really gonna tell me they rotated out the other 9 or whatever to work on them? No. Don't think so. They just want to delay you from getting the covers for better characters as long as possible.
Shadow wrote: Please D3, if you read this, do consider releasing 4* in pve as a replacement of one of the 3* instead of squeezing it in between. It really helps resolve multiple issues with just this being done.