What's going on with the 1K covers?

CrookedKnight
CrookedKnight Posts: 2,579 Chairperson of the Boards
edited December 2015 in MPQ General Discussion
Is anybody tracking how the 1K covers in PvP cycle over the long term? Because it sure seems like since the addition of a 1.3K reward they're no longer rotating through each color for each character, instead "skipping" colors that just so happen to be important ones like HB red (which has only been available at 1K once since the points boost).

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  • Polares
    Polares Posts: 2,643 Chairperson of the Boards
    CrookedKnight wrote:
    Is anybody tracking how the 1K covers in PvP cycle over the long term? Because it sure seems like since the addition of a 1.3K reward they're no longer rotating through each color for each character, instead "skipping" colors that just so happen to be important ones like HB red (which has only been available at 1K once since the points boost).

    Every time is random, so yeah they skip colors A LOT. We still have to see a FalCap red in the 1000 PvP reward for example.
  • simonsez
    simonsez Posts: 4,663 Chairperson of the Boards
    Polares wrote:
    Every time is random
    No, it's not. If it is, whoever compiled and posted the upcoming prize chart needs to get to a casino...
  • Polares
    Polares Posts: 2,643 Chairperson of the Boards
    simonsez wrote:
    Polares wrote:
    Every time is random
    No, it's not. If it is, whoever compiled and posted the upcoming prize chart needs to get to a casino...

    Well I dont know for sure, but IceIX has stated repetedly that the sequence of 4s is alphabetical for order, and random for the cover selection.
  • Lemminkäinen
    Lemminkäinen Posts: 378 Mover and Shaker
    Polares wrote:
    simonsez wrote:
    Polares wrote:
    Every time is random
    No, it's not. If it is, whoever compiled and posted the upcoming prize chart needs to get to a casino...

    Well I dont know for sure, but IceIX has stated repetedly that the sequence of 4s is alphabetical for order, and random for the cover selection.
    Yeah, the order of the colours is random but it features all three and stays they course. Meaning that the first colour can be anyone of the three, the next one is any of the two remaining and then the third one is the last one. And then the pattern repeats.
  • vudu3
    vudu3 Posts: 940 Critical Contributor
    There was a problem with the first prize cover for the event before X-23's event that caused cover colors to shift by one for every event after. The devs forgot to put an X-23 cover as the first place reward for the prior event. They caught the error before the event went live and corrected it. If memory serves the first place reward was originally Falcap blue which would have meant Falcap red for the next 1,000 progression reward. During the X-23 event the devs made the first place cover Falcap red instead of Falcap blue so all covers from that point forward have been "shifted" one position from what you'd expect them to be. I believe The Thing red was expected as the 1,000 point progression reward a couple events after X-23 but instead we got The Thing yellow. Basically, everything is messed up now so any covers that got skipped due to the error aren't going to show up anytime soon.
  • Unknown
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    HB red as 1k I remember, was on She-Hulk PvP and it was the last one in that season and it sucked hard, the only 1k I missed in 6+ seasons.

    The color could have been random at some point but as stated the upcoming prizes were compiled and the list is somewhere out there and it has been right until now.

    Also, the reward colors follow a pattern, the character's color order. If HB red is at #1, next event it will be the black as 1k. If it was black as #1 then the color at 1k would be blue, 1-2-3-1 order.

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