Prodigal Sun brackets are now at _____ players

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  • Unknown
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    papa07 wrote:

    There are frequently a deep end and kiddie pool brackets filling at the same time. Take enough PvE events off and you can jump in the kiddie pool for the 4 star releases.

    And as all new players will be going into the Kiddie pool brackets the "Deep end" ones only get filled with people delaying because of play time or trying to score the rewards in the last sub or so. With 5 of these to choose from they going to fill really slowly. In fact I do not think Slice 2 gain a single player in the last 2 hours
  • Bowgentle
    Bowgentle Posts: 7,926 Chairperson of the Boards
    Sumilea wrote:
    papa07 wrote:

    There are frequently a deep end and kiddie pool brackets filling at the same time. Take enough PvE events off and you can jump in the kiddie pool for the 4 star releases.

    And as all new players will be going into the Kiddie pool brackets the "Deep end" ones only get filled with people delaying because of play time or trying to score the rewards in the last sub or so. With 5 of these to choose from they going to fill really slowly. In fact I do not think Slice 2 gain a single player in the last 2 hours
    I don't have time to grind this until Saturday morning, so if Slice 2 ever fills, I'll jump in.
    At _this_ rate though it's a possibility that it will _never_ fill, which would be... yeah.

    Luckily, I have AK in that very bracket so I get up to the minute information. Main "jumped" from 241 yesterday at 8:45 PM CET to 251 a few hours ago. Insanity.
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    Bowgentle wrote:
    Luckily, I have AK in that very bracket so I get up to the minute information. Main "jumped" from 241 yesterday at 8:45 PM CET to 251 a few hours ago. Insanity.

    It is still at 251. Its never going to fill at this rate.
  • hurcules
    hurcules Posts: 519
    Anyone has Slice 1 bracket status? Thanks.
  • Pats0132
    Pats0132 Posts: 146 Tile Toppler
    Any update on slice 4 or 5?
  • GrimSkald
    GrimSkald Posts: 2,640 Chairperson of the Boards
    Pats0132 wrote:
    Any update on slice 4 or 5?

    Slice 4 is currently at 853 as of 9:40am EST. Leader is still DuckyV with 43843 points. #10 is j12601 at 35263.

    So if it continues as it has been, it might fill today or tomorrow, but as the event goes on I would expect it to slow down.
  • Unknown
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    Pats0132 wrote:
    Any update on slice 4 or 5?

    Slice 4 is up to 826 players as of 9:40AM EST.

    Adding maybe ten players an hour currently.
  • Unknown
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    keep us posted. any slice that has a new bracket would be welcoming
  • Unknown
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    Slice 2 is at 269 it has added under 30 people in the last 8 hours so its still going to be running at the end. So you can count this slice out for joining late for rewards.
  • Unknown
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    silverrex wrote:
    keep us posted. any slice that has a new bracket would be welcoming

    Slice 5 started a new bracket 4 and a half hours ago.
  • vudu3
    vudu3 Posts: 940 Critical Contributor
    Slice 5 might be the best option now even if one or both of the end times isn't ideal for you. Slice 4 will *probably* will in the next day or two but no guarantees. Doesn't look like 1 through 3 will fill before the end of the event.
  • Bowgentle
    Bowgentle Posts: 7,926 Chairperson of the Boards
    Definitely not picking slice 4 since it's the 6am ending for me.
    Slice 5 will work since I have next week off from work.

    It's insane though - not only do I have to play every 3 hours, I have to grind for 7 days, too. Unless I don't pick based on end time, but on other people.

    Hopefully that's just growing pains, but based on PVP... yeah. Apparently Europeans are a very vocal minority in the player base, and 90% of the people really are ok with US friendly times.

    Although it would help to have 24hr subs to test this, not 12 or 36. Beating a dead horse here, I know.
  • vudu3
    vudu3 Posts: 940 Critical Contributor
    They need to reduce the bracket sizes by at least half--preferably cap it at 200 or 250 players. It's ridiculous that there were brackets open for 24+ hours before the first sub even ended.
  • DrNitroman
    DrNitroman Posts: 966 Critical Contributor
    Sumilea wrote:
    Slice 2 is at 269 it has added under 30 people in the last 8 hours so its still going to be running at the end. So you can count this slice out for joining late for rewards.
    Slice 2 is currently at 276. So 7 more players in 3h... I doubt it will be full before the end.
    Bowgentle wrote:
    Apparently Europeans are a very vocal minority in the player base, and 90% of the people really are ok with US friendly times.
    Even knowing Europeans are a minority in MPQ I'm still surprized by these numbers. Maybe we have to wait a season to draw conclusion... icon_neutral.gif
  • Unknown
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    Slice four is up to 842 players at 4PM EST.In the last six hours and 20 minutes we have added a total of 26 players. It looks like this may fill but at this current rate it's going to be at least another day.
  • lukewin
    lukewin Posts: 1,356 Chairperson of the Boards
    vudu3 wrote:
    They need to reduce the bracket sizes by at least half--preferably cap it at 200 or 250 players. It's ridiculous that there were brackets open for 24+ hours before the first sub even ended.


    Problem they have with this, they'll be giving out 2x the rewards if they reduce the brackets by half. They are already stingy with covers in PVE, they would be even stingier if they capped the brackets. If they could let us know what the bracket is at before we join, like how we could preview rewards, it would be awesome. Don't see that happening though.
  • vudu3
    vudu3 Posts: 940 Critical Contributor
    lukewin wrote:
    Problem they have with this, they'll be giving out 2x the rewards if they reduce the brackets by half. They are already stingy with covers in PVE, they would be even stingier if they capped the brackets. If they could let us know what the bracket is at before we join, like how we could preview rewards, it would be awesome. Don't see that happening though.
    They could adjust the rank requirements so the same overall number of players get the cover--if it's currently top 100 of 1000 get a specific cover they just change it to top 50 of 500 or top 20 of 200.
  • lukewin
    lukewin Posts: 1,356 Chairperson of the Boards
    vudu3 wrote:
    They could adjust the rank requirements so the same overall number of players get the cover--if it's currently top 100 of 1000 get a specific cover they just change it to top 50 of 500 or top 20 of 200.

    Using current pve as example, Top 1 gets extra Elektra cover and Top 5 get 3 colors. I would hate to see Top 2 or 3 get 3 covers. Top 5 is already tight/unfair.
  • vudu3
    vudu3 Posts: 940 Critical Contributor
    You're right that this PVE is a bit weird because it's for a 4* so the cover disbursement is a lot tighter than normal. But this is the exception, not the rule. Here's the reward structure for ISO-8 Brotherhood that ran at the beginning of the month:

    1-2 star.pngstar.pngstar.pngstar.pngicon_wolverine.pngyellowflag.png +
    3-10 icon_caroldanvers.pngyellowflag.pngblackflag.pngredflag.png
    11-50 icon_caroldanvers.pngblackflag.pngredflag.png
    51-150 icon_caroldanvers.pngredflag.png
    151-400 star.pngstar.pngicon_wolverine.pnggreenflag.png .
    401-1000 icon_redface.gif

    This could easily be changed to the following with a bracket size of 500.

    1 star.pngstar.pngstar.pngstar.pngicon_wolverine.pngyellowflag.png +
    2-5 icon_caroldanvers.pngyellowflag.pngblackflag.pngredflag.png
    6-25 icon_caroldanvers.pngblackflag.pngredflag.png
    26-75 icon_caroldanvers.pngredflag.png
    76-200 star.pngstar.pngicon_wolverine.pnggreenflag.png .
    201-500 icon_redface.gif

    This wouldn't change the total number of covers given out by D3. It wouldn't change anything for most players either--if you were in the two 3* cover tier when the bracket size was 1000 you'd probably be in the same tier if the bracket size were 500.

    All this change would do is reduce the amount of time each bracket is open which would greatly limit stale brackets. In this event the current bracket 4 has been open for at least the past 36 hours and it's likely it will be open for another 24 hours before it finally fills. This is utterly ridiculous.
  • Unknown
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    papa07 wrote:
    Slice3

    Joined 11am CST (208 people)
    Prior 2:30pm CST (246 people)
    Current 5pm CST (268 people) End Sub1

    Leader Actarus31 24k

    Will update 3rd slice at end of Subevents and if/when we ever close. Current close pace is sometime during Sub4.

    Current 5pm CST (398 people). Added 130 over past 24 hours. With 5 days to go, we have to add 120 per day to fill this bracket. Not looking promising

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