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    Are we starting the slaughterfest early?
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    I spent a little too much time outside of a shield and got smacked by jachdo, but I smacked him back. Then all these other guys started popping up. Gotta wait a bit for things to cool down.

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  • Twysta
    Twysta Posts: 1,597 Chairperson of the Boards
    I had a little bit of a tussle with Jachdo in a lightning round once.
    He just keeps coming at you that one.
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    Josemartins is having some trouble

    Canatian too

    Nemek, did you do that?
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    You were shielded Bugpop, no harm, no foul. I always check the standings before attacking a crafty vet like you.
  • Nemek
    Nemek Posts: 1,511
    Bugpop wrote:
    Josemartins is having some trouble

    Canatian too

    Nemek, did you do that?

    I hit Jose while unshielded. Didn't hit Canatian, though I have him queued up...
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    I can only imagine how slow Canatian's team is.
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    Canatian ought to be thanking me.

    My goodness, I'm thankful I only lost 24 points. Am I the only one that thinks that Thor was UPGRADED? Wow, AI got some nasty cascade and tore me up with Thor.
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    Nemek wrote:
    Bugpop wrote:
    Josemartins is having some trouble

    Canatian too

    Nemek, did you do that?

    I hit Jose while unshielded. Didn't hit Canatian, though I have him queued up...

    Canatian did it to himself i think. He attacked me and lost, gave me 22 points extra which is a great help indeed. Thanks!
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    walkyourpath wrote:
    From all we can tell, seeing shielded opponents in the fight queue has been removed from the code for all tourneys, elite or not. This was because there was a gold rush on Shield Training and regular tourney progression rewards when shields were first introduced, and removing shielded peeps served to keep the point ceiling lower.

    I personally think that making PvP rewards entirely placement based, or more like lightning rounds, where everybody gets a few low value progs would be best. That way they can tweak matchmaking in PvP without worrying about giving away the farm. They're already moving towards making PvE more progression based, so it seems like a natural move to stop dangling prog rewards out of reach in PvP.

    I definitely got in on the shield training gold rush. I knew it would not last when I went from 0-3000 points using only one 50hp shield. Actually, it was largely is to your tank team WalkYourPath that I was able to do that. When My shield had ended, i saw the "You Were Attacked" popup and realized that you had attacked me several times then put in a tank team, lost to me and put up a shield so I could attack you. It was brilliant.

    I think mostly Progression in PVE and mostly Placement in PVP would be a good way to go. I would like it if they reset the Prologue rewards every few months. Now that boosts are more expensive, it would be nice to have the prologue to use for emergency boosts and iso when there is not a pve running.
    jozier wrote:
    The issue with shields was never tank teams. It's that people can bounce off shielded people and rise up the leaderboards in a crazy fashion. It pulls points out of thin air which the devs don't want.

    Oh. Pulling points out of thin air. Now it makes sense. Thank you.
  • Twysta
    Twysta Posts: 1,597 Chairperson of the Boards
    I managed to get the red and yellow thor in SHIELD training, I pushed to get those as my Thor was still lacking 2 reds and a yellow then. Those were plenty helpful.

    Then I saw the 500 HP rewards and really wanted to get that.
    Then they changed to 100 HP and I lost all incentive icon_e_sad.gif
    That said I think that's also when they got rid of the SHIELDS for training so getting there would've been impossible anyway.
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    You almost pegged me Nemek. Whew!
  • Nemek
    Nemek Posts: 1,511
    Koolbiird wrote:
    You almost pegged me Nemek. Whew!

    I thought I could do it, too.
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    Nemek wrote:
    Koolbiird wrote:
    You almost pegged me Nemek. Whew!

    I thought I could do it, too.

    I was lucky the board was in my favor...oozing green.
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    I got nailed by Shikimaru1990 and lost 50 points. Why are players under 400 points able to queue players in the 1300+ range?
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    Seriously? My matches. . .

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  • Nemek
    Nemek Posts: 1,511
    Yeah, I too just hit 'everybody is a seed team' matchmaking...

    Especially irked because I gave up a node with josemartins in it to look for Koolbiird, and now that node is useless...
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  • Mawtful
    Mawtful Posts: 1,646 Chairperson of the Boards
    Wah! Just watched that Koolbiird play to push past 1500. Refreshed the ladder to see unshield, then point increase, then re-shield. It was nerve-wrecking even for me, I'd love some kind of spectator mode to see those key battles.

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