No Holds Barred - Elite

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  • Unknown
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    Psykopathic wrote:
    Crazyeyeskiller wrote:
    NorthernPolarity wrote:
    The interesting thing about this tournament is that I'm not even sure if I would want to win it: cover progression is a big part of the game, and if you don't need any more covers, then you would just be playing to grind iso, which isn't as entertaining for me.
    Has it been determined for certain that the reward is EVERY power meaning maxed characters, or does it mean ONE cover of every power?

    Has to mean 1 cover of every color. No question.
    so winning top three doesn't end the cover hunt, just helps quite a bit.
  • Unknown
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    edited February 2014
    Look out! The Panda is loose!
    (I joined the tourney) icon_e_biggrin.gif

    And if anyone is curious how many people have entered so far, after my first victory I am #5809
  • Unknown
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    Psykopathic wrote:
    Koolbiird wrote:
    Psykopathic wrote:
    24 hour shield. I'll stay where I'm at for a day or so. icon_e_smile.gif

    That was an impressive push. I thought Josemartins would peg you mid stride

    He did. 2-3 times.

    He took 14-18 I took 32-36. He helped me right along.

    Oh! That's why he shielded up so quick. Gotcha.
  • Unknown
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    edited February 2014
    I get popped for 46. OBW, M.Storm, Thor. *shakes head* No such thing as a defense win in the Elite class.
  • Unknown
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    Koolbiird wrote:
    I get popped for 46. OBW, M.Storm, Thor. *shakes head*
    Man i i cant stand that team..Id rather face strong 3 stars than them three.. theyre a cake walk unless M.Storm gets on her spamming ugh!!!
  • Unknown
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    deano128 wrote:
    Koolbiird wrote:
    I get popped for 46. OBW, M.Storm, Thor. *shakes head*
    Man i i cant stand that team..Id rather face strong 3 stars than them three.. theyre a cake walk unless M.Storm gets on her spamming ugh!!!

    Offensively, the team is strong. No doubt. On defense...it's a joke...if you screw up...jokes on you.
  • Unknown
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    Haha, watch out! Just crept into the top 150 or so before shielding for the night. Still ways off, just aiming for something respectable with a nice ISO bonus. After giving up almost immediately in the last elite tourney, this one is proving to be much more... fruitful.
  • Twysta
    Twysta Posts: 1,597 Chairperson of the Boards
    You know the prize for this would be a lot more valuable if they rerun it when they implement the respec option.
  • Unknown
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    I entered late after tanking beforehand to get my MMR down, made it to 900 or so without anyone retaliating at all, made it as close as 4th place with around 1100, floundered around making headway and then getting a random hit for -40 several times for about 2 hours just now, finally made a few big retaliations and shielded, in 5th right now with around 1070. Don't care at all about getting first, but really want at least third (just like probably every other person in the top 10.

    I'm really sad, I was Morphy's (currently in third) punching bag for a bit there, while he was doing the queue up juicy targets, attack, shield, wait a bit for retals to hit, rinse and repeat, and I was less than a minute late from hitting him during one of his unshielded moments. I'll be making major efforts tomorrow, but I do have work on Monday, so unless I have a good size cushion, I think I might be out of luck.
  • Unknown
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    RangoFett wrote:
    I entered late after tanking beforehand to get my MMR down, made it to 900 or so without anyone retaliating at all, made it as close as 4th place with around 1100, floundered around making headway and then getting a random hit for -40 several times for about 2 hours just now, finally made a few big retaliations and shielded, in 5th right now with around 1070. Don't care at all about getting first, but really want at least third (just like probably every other person in the top 10.

    I'm really sad, I was Morphy's (currently in third) punching bag for a bit there, while he was doing the queue up juicy targets, attack, shield, wait a bit for retals to hit, rinse and repeat, and I was less than a minute late from hitting him during one of his unshielded moments. I'll be making major efforts tomorrow, but I do have work on Monday, so unless I have a good size cushion, I think I might be out of luck.


    Sorry about that Rangofett, nothing personal icon_e_smile.gif I am very impressed you lasted so long unshielded , I thought you would have been majorly struck down but you were relatively untouched. the luck of the Irish mist be with you!

    Yeah work awaits me as well. Can we not have a elite tournament that ends on a Sunday?
  • DD-The-Mighty
    DD-The-Mighty Posts: 350 Mover and Shaker
    question for some of you guys who entered the 300HP tournies (as well as this one):

    If they had a few more large brackets or an single overall larger bracket. Same rewards, but no HP entry fee. (free or maybe 1k io or something) every other week or so next to the regular pvp.
    Would you see this working as a way to create "weight class" based pvp using reward incentives and natural selection as a way of grouping like leveled players?

    I know pay entry seems to be doing that as from what i've read, no one in the premium tourneys is running any second rate characters. ie: Are the rewards the driving factor for you or the ability to play people on your level for an (relatively) equal shot? Both?
  • Twysta
    Twysta Posts: 1,597 Chairperson of the Boards
    There is absolutely no way they'd give out these kind of prizes if there's no entry fee.
    Guaranteed.

    Pretty sure MMR is still in affect here as well.
    Otherwise I'm not sure what you're asking.
  • DD-The-Mighty
    DD-The-Mighty Posts: 350 Mover and Shaker
    would a more open entry tournament catering to players prioritising lots of io, 3* and 4* rewards, draw more hi leveled players. as you that's what i see alot of you hi level forum folks desiring over more 2* covers. possibly freeing up the regular pvp (full of 2* rewards) to those that desire them more than 3* characters. hopefully keeping the different "weight classes" from stepping on each others toes. as i see that is an ongoing issue on the forums.
  • Twysta
    Twysta Posts: 1,597 Chairperson of the Boards
    I honestly don't think it would affect other tournies too much as people will always try play all the competitions - which is made easier by being able to shield - because some people are just competitive, covers are a premium, ISO and HP rewards.

    I can see the point you're trying to get at though.
    Some mechanics would have to be changed if you want to start dividing people into groups/classes I think. Like a registration process or something.
    I'm not really sure how well that would work though and people entering into tournaments late would/could/should still get thrown into a big mix of a bracket or get shut out completely which I don't think is in peoples best interests.
  • Unknown
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    This prize system is evil really. If you aim for top 3 and get a 4th or lower (I have the feeling it's about skill AND luck really) you will have wasted a metric crapton of HP in shields.

    Too much of a gamble for me, until I can get a 141 team that makes players at least ponder those few precious seconds if to attack or not, before my shield is up back again (or not).

    In retrospect, having some progression prizes would not have hurt, really.
  • Unknown
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    Yeah, I really regret signing up for this. At first I told myself I'd shoot for top 100, recoup my costs and then some. Instead, I'm locked into a battle for top three and I've spent an obscene amount on shields. Totally not worth it, but I'm too invested to stop now.

    At least the one saving grace is that even though I work on Mondays, I'll still have access to the game so I can try and keep up. But never again, never again. :p
  • Unknown
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    Optimates wrote:
    Yeah, I really regret signing up for this. At first I told myself I'd shoot for top 100, recoup my costs and then some. Instead, I'm locked into a battle for top three and I've spent an obscene amount on shields. Totally not worth it, but I'm too invested to stop now.

    At least the one saving grace is that even though I work on Mondays, I'll still have access to the game so I can try and keep up. But never again, never again. :p

    I see you Optimates ... icon_e_smile.gif

    Yeah never again till the next event? Haha... Work tomorrow would be rather interesting. Dont think I have the time to keep this up icon_e_sad.gif
  • Unknown
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    Optimates wrote:
    Yeah, I really regret signing up for this. At first I told myself I'd shoot for top 100, recoup my costs and then some. Instead, I'm locked into a battle for top three and I've spent an obscene amount on shields. Totally not worth it, but I'm too invested to stop now.

    At least the one saving grace is that even though I work on Mondays, I'll still have access to the game so I can try and keep up. But never again, never again. :p
    Well looks like Im out for now all my opponents are worth 0 at the moment.
  • Unknown
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    I have encountered very strange situation in this tournament. I have been attacked 4 times (and maybe more, it only wrote "...and others") in a row by the same player Fodder2009 within 7 minutes. By an accident after these attacks we had the same number of points so I have checked the scoreboard and guess what ! He wasn't there. I checked it several times for 20 minutes and it was still the same. Based on the information from above there shouldn't be more groups in this Elite tournament, so I have been attacked by some kind of secret hidden super player able to beat my pretty strong team 4 times in 7 minutes. This player than stayed without any movement for more than 10 hours (I haven't removed him from the retaliation offer). I have never been offered a player with higher rank so quickly repeatedly. Let me also say that I remember all players I attack and this couldn't be a retaliation. I'm getting a suspicion, that devs created these "players" which attack us when we advance too much to force us to use shields more. I already saw this kind of strange multiple attacks from the same player in a very short time period, but this time the player is not even ranked in the scoreboard, how is that possible ?

    Just wanted to say, there must be something wrong with the PVP if I fight intensively for 5 hours and instead of advancing I'm only loosing points even if I win every single battle without any loss of health (of course using healing power of spiderman) and I'm winning quickly (3-5 minutes per battle). So what should I do better to be able to reach at least top20 ? Pay more or what ?
  • Unknown
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    once you reach 800 or so you're going to have to shield, fight 2-3 quick battles, then shield again to make progress. everybody has good teams up here, and you can't leave yourself exposed for more than a few minutes at a time. I mistimed my shield last night and lost 100 pts in 3 mins. It's ridiculously expensive but for three determined players worth the expense.

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