jozier wrote: If you're getting fights at those levels, you're obviously placing higher and winning above your objective "level."
Pawkeshup wrote: level 24 Iron Man, a level 22 Storm and a level 6 Moonstone. Right now my matches are: 30 Iron Man 20 Black Widow 38 Storm 35 Iron Man 6 Storm Classic 16 Black Widow 31 Iron Man 25 Storm 25 Black Widow 30 Black Widow 22 Storm Classic 25 Venom 26 Black Widow 20 Iron Man 16 Storm Again, if I get totally, utterly perfect matches and can just stomp through the fight using Storm's and Iron Man's powers near continuously as I can when I get super lucky with Lightning Storm, Mistress of Storms and cascades, I could take a couple of those matches. However, if even one thing goes wrong, any of those matches can smash me to pieces, forcing me to lose. I don't mind taking on groups of low to mid 20's, but I don't have the points to level any of my other covers up to join my other two 20's right now. I was getting it from grinding the first scenarios but it's ridiculously long.
MarvelMan wrote: Phantron wrote: That's because there are likely very few players who have comparable points as you. Whenever I start playing I hit a point where I'm top 5 in my bracket very quickly. Assuming my bracket isn't some kind of aberration compared to the norm, that means I have more points than 99% of the players. Of course it'd be pretty hard to find guys even close to your points when you're already above 99% of the players. Good point. I feel (I dont have hard data) that this starts well before I get to the top 10, maybe somewhere around 50-20. Plus, I generally start late (the night of/before the end) so I would expect other brackets to be more advanced than mine. I find my brackets top out lower than what I see others on here talking about as well.
Phantron wrote: That's because there are likely very few players who have comparable points as you. Whenever I start playing I hit a point where I'm top 5 in my bracket very quickly. Assuming my bracket isn't some kind of aberration compared to the norm, that means I have more points than 99% of the players. Of course it'd be pretty hard to find guys even close to your points when you're already above 99% of the players.
Eddiemon wrote: Apart from the fourth they all seem like really easy fights. Though I would be using whatever Black Widow I had in preference over Moonstone. You should have enough Blue covers from Prologue that you can lock up Iron Man once you have taken down his buddies. The computer player is dumb. Really dumb. And you can tank with Iron man while targetting their low HP Storm and Widow and focus on denying Iron Man's colours. The computer has to hit your tank.
champion9782 wrote: Perhaps they should reset everyone mmr.
Tannen wrote: champion9782 wrote: Perhaps they should reset everyone mmr. uh... Are you really sure that you want the people with 6+ 141s with the same MMR as newbies (or for that matter, yourself)? That seems like a disaster in the making for me.
Kelbris wrote: Why can't we bring the points system back to what it was in November/December I see no reason why that wasn't working. We don't need shields. Shields are stupid. They're a knee jerk reaction to people disliking good round tinykitty which had become the norm a couple weeks before shields came in.
Eddiemon wrote: Kelbris wrote: Why can't we bring the points system back to what it was in November/December I see no reason why that wasn't working. We don't need shields. Shields are stupid. They're a knee jerk reaction to people disliking good round tinykitty which had become the norm a couple weeks before shields came in. Shields are terrible if you don't have a job/family commitments or are in a really accommodating timezone. They remove your ability to prey on people who can't fight back because of the above reasons in the last 2 hours of any event.
gamar wrote:Yeah, the problem isn't shields, the problem is that, between the time/reward tradeoff and the risk of a huge retaliation, you're penalized so severely for attacking down the ladder.
Kelbris wrote: Eddiemon wrote: Kelbris wrote: Why can't we bring the points system back to what it was in November/December I see no reason why that wasn't working. We don't need shields. Shields are stupid. They're a knee jerk reaction to people disliking good round tinykitty which had become the norm a couple weeks before shields came in. Shields are terrible if you don't have a job/family commitments or are in a really accommodating timezone. They remove your ability to prey on people who can't fight back because of the above reasons in the last 2 hours of any event. The only reason people get preyed on is because of how many upper point valued people use shields which limits the search pool. This was never brought up as frequently as it is now that we DO have shields. One win could easily negate three or four losses, and I don't remember ever getting hit 26 times in one hour just because I had 600 points. Tournaments also went for 5 days instead of 2.5. Might have been a factor since there was a lot more people getting to 800-1000 points. Double Shot was a unique thing (and not just the name of the IM40 tournament) which became the norm to accomodate time zones (which is fair). I don't know. I remember things working smoother and there being less panic at the end of a tournament. It was more of a "Man, I hope I don't get hit twice in the last couple of minutes. Better do one more fight to make sure I keep my rating where it is now." atmosphere compared to "tinykitty tinykitty GOTTA UNSHIELD ATTACK AND RESHIELD tinykitty I GOTTA DO THIS FAST tinykitty I MIGHT GET HIT A BUNCH tinykitty IDK IF IT'S EVEN WORTH IT"
Nemek wrote: Kelbris wrote: Eddiemon wrote: Kelbris wrote: Why can't we bring the points system back to what it was in November/December I see no reason why that wasn't working. We don't need shields. Shields are stupid. They're a knee jerk reaction to people disliking good round tinykitty which had become the norm a couple weeks before shields came in. Shields are terrible if you don't have a job/family commitments or are in a really accommodating timezone. They remove your ability to prey on people who can't fight back because of the above reasons in the last 2 hours of any event. The only reason people get preyed on is because of how many upper point valued people use shields which limits the search pool. This was never brought up as frequently as it is now that we DO have shields. One win could easily negate three or four losses, and I don't remember ever getting hit 26 times in one hour just because I had 600 points. Tournaments also went for 5 days instead of 2.5. Might have been a factor since there was a lot more people getting to 800-1000 points. Double Shot was a unique thing (and not just the name of the IM40 tournament) which became the norm to accomodate time zones (which is fair). I don't know. I remember things working smoother and there being less panic at the end of a tournament. It was more of a "Man, I hope I don't get hit twice in the last couple of minutes. Better do one more fight to make sure I keep my rating where it is now." atmosphere compared to "tinykitty tinykitty GOTTA UNSHIELD ATTACK AND RESHIELD tinykitty I GOTTA DO THIS FAST tinykitty I MIGHT GET HIT A BUNCH tinykitty IDK IF IT'S EVEN WORTH IT" You and I have very different recollections of those times. The last 15 minutes of a tournament were brutal, you had to play as many matches as you possibly could as fast as possible. With shields, tournament end times are way less stressful, you don't even have to be playing at all.
dlaw008 wrote: Do people really skip opponents because they are too hard? I've never had that issue. I skip opponents because they are not worth many tournament points. Now I have to risk time unshielded to earn fewer points or spend iso. I kinda thought that was everyone's issue with the skip tax. I DO see teams that are ahead of me in levels, but not all three nodes and not repeatedly. I guess I have just been lucky managing my MMR.
Malkavian wrote: wouldnt know, dont have a psylocke...
NorthernPolarity wrote: It wont completely solve the problem but it will mitigate it. While you're still going to skip the fights that you really really don't want to face (high level hulks), there is significantly less incentive to skip teams that you know you can fight, but don't want to because you want to be lazy and stomp on even lower level teams. There is a far greater incentive to not skip and just fight the teams that you get matched up with.