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  • The Finn
    The Finn Posts: 272 Mover and Shaker
    Aellos wrote:
    I on the other hand, couldn't/wouldn't wake up at 5am for the end of the event and landed a Classic Storm cover, haha.

    On the bright side, today is X-Force Wolverine day! Okay, not that bright...

    I liked the last simulator event, but it depends on scaling and rubber-banding. I wish they would do like, weeklong events -7 days is nice. So Captain America is a variant and not Gold?
    IceIX confirmed he's gold but they have tweaked his abilities. E.g maxed Peacemaker drops a 291 protect tile. icon_e_surprised.gif

    Compelling enough for you? I think i want him!
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    Does that protect tile come before or after the countdown?

    sounds good but I'm barely keeping up with the 3star characters =( most of my 3 star cap under 50 at the moment. As you can tell from my roster, the only ones that are really competitive are im40 and punisher. I also need to respec gsbw's red for green but that still won't make her better.

    I hope the Simulator event throws up some good twists... All matches must use bagman o.O not.
  • The Finn
    The Finn Posts: 272 Mover and Shaker
    Haha while you guys worry about your 3*, i am still 5 levels from maxing my first 2*! Wolverine's almost there! I hope the simulator keeps giving lazy thor some love- but mostly just glad to be able to fight more varied crews. If i see OBW, thor or C storm one more time....
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    edited March 2014
    ILikeCheese wrote:
    What are your thoughts on the captain america simulator event? It'll be an alliance event, but 9 days is a big time commitment. IceIX has made it sound like new cap is kinda worth having though so it has piqued my interest. And at minimum i need to raise some ISO so will likely go for it again. MPQ is a harsh mistress. icon_twisted.gif
    It depends. If I really really care about the rewards I usually join in the last 2-3 days so I join a bracket that started late and no one has an advantage over the other players. The play time is also ok; 2 days playing is actually enjoyable compared to the 9 day duration of the tournament.

    If I don't care about the rewards, I enter early and I focus on the sub-missions in order to win as many tokens as possible. In most cases you have better luck pulling covers you need from the tokens than spending so much time on the event and risk losing everything if you miss a sub. I think it was in the Psylocke event (the one with the daily subs) where I got 24-25 tokens, but sadly I found only 2 3*. Terrible luck with that one. However I am not doing again the competitive 9 day strategy. It sucked all the fun out of the game and it was exhausting.

    If the alliances are unbracketed, and I assume they will be, the last 3 day strategy won't work since we will be too low in the final ranking unless the rubberbanding can help the late teams catch up to the early players.

    The alliance rewards will probably be 1 cover anyway if they are similar to the last one. Since this is a 9 day event though they could give a full set to the top teams, but the competition will be fierce. It would be fine to get 3* Captain, but even if I don't it's not a big deal. I will be able to get some covers in the following tournaments or a heroic event like the recent Jugg. He just isn't a character that is high on my priority list, so I have no strategy at all. icon_e_biggrin.gif Everyone do their best and hope for a decent ranking in the alliances and some ISO and HP.
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    ILikeCheese wrote:
    IceIX confirmed he's gold but they have tweaked his abilities. E.g maxed Peacemaker drops a 291 protect tile. icon_e_surprised.gif

    Compelling enough for you? I think i want him!
    Do you mean Sentinel of Liberty drops a protect tile? Or did they change Peacemaker to add that effect?
    I never though the strength of the protect tiles for SoL was the problem. It was the ridiculously high cost.

    I really hate this lazy attitude. They don't fix the characters we already have which were bad or OP because they won't make them money, but they tweak abilities to make the gold versions way more powerful than the original. So instead of fixing their product they force the players to win the balanced covers again. If it is that easy to fix a character what is holding them so long from fixing Magneto and Spiderman? Zero respect for the players. Another cash grab with minimal work from them.
  • The Finn
    The Finn Posts: 272 Mover and Shaker
    I thought he said Peacemaker dropped it--would need to find that thread to confirm.

    I hear your pt on rebalancing but can we focus on spiderman? I don't have a usable obw and zero spideys so magneto is the only super cheesy guy that i can abuse--don't take that away from me! icon_e_biggrin.gif

    I will push on this marathon event for all the progression awards but no expectations on how we do as a team. But on that note, do you guys have anyone in mind to add if we had an extra slot? I have 24 covers so could always add more, but I like the idea if adding some more muscle to the team. Not quite at 600 hp saved yet but getting close and happy to spend it on expansion. Thoughts?
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    ILikeCheese wrote:
    I hear your pt on rebalancing but can we focus on spiderman? I don't have a usable obw and zero spideys so magneto is the only super cheesy guy that i can abuse--don't take that away from me! icon_e_biggrin.gif
    icon_e_biggrin.gif I feel for you. I hope they don't make him another Wolverine 2*. I used him for 30-40 days before the nerf and he was a boss. The only reason to use him now is if he is required for a mission or tournament, although he is only 5/0/0 at the moment and I am notable to find his other covers. Not to mention dropping all that ISO on him feels like a waste.
    ILikeCheese wrote:
    I will push on this marathon event for all the progression awards but no expectations on how we do as a team. But on that note, do you guys have anyone in mind to add if we had an extra slot? I have 24 covers so could always add more, but I like the idea if adding some more muscle to the team. Not quite at 600 hp saved yet but getting close and happy to spend it on expansion. Thoughts?
    I will also do my best, most likely playing at the end of each sub and going for a 1 rotation strategy. Last time I used it it worked fine and got me several tokens and a top 10. However I used so many boosts that I barely made 10k ISO from the event.

    Right now I have 1250 HP. Hopefully, I will get 150 more from Divine Champions since I will not shield this time. I considered opening one slot and having whoever join buy the next one so the alliance keeps expanding, but there are some problems with this logic. In 2-3 weeks the top 100 in alliance ranking will be occupied by 20/20 alliances, and even then I am certain some of them will stay out of top 100. So even if an alliance gets 10-15 members it will hardly matter because they will only get some ISO and 50 HP (if the rewards are identical to the last event).

    Problem #1: Since I have decided to take it easy from now on and not spend 4-5 hours each day as I did 3-5 weeks ago, how can I ask someone to spend 600-1500 HP for a slot on an casual alliance? And as I already mentioned, even if we get more serious and decide to be more competitive, we could still not get a top 100 with all the crazy people out there who are on their phones all day.

    Problem #2: Right now, in order for someone to spend HP for a slot he has to be made a Commander. Once he gets the rank there is nothing stopping him from not spending the HP which means the alliance can't expand any longer unless the other commanders pay for that slot. Even worse, when someone is made a commander you can't kick him out so you are stuck with him for eternity.

    Problem #3: This is similar to #2, but eventually some players will lose interest and stop playing the game while they still occupy a slot in an alliance. If they are commanders, they can't be kicked out so the performance of the alliance will decline and there is nothing the other players can do to fix that.

    This is why I posted some days ago that the system they use with only 2 ranks (Commander/simple member) is flawed. The fact they were surprised by how the alliances started "selling" slots to members shows they don't know much about alliances in other games. Like all other things in the game it was poorly executed. Additionally, I doubt the format and the rewards of tournaments and events is finalized, so I will give it some weeks to see what they decided to do with it.
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    Since Blue Cap is given to the top 250 alliances I may try a little harder than I had planned. It will still be difficult for a 5 person alliance, but it will depend on how many alliances have 6+ members and how hard they try. I will try for a top 10 in all subs and hope for the best. Progression rewards are bad though. Daredevil? Really? I don't see myself buffing this hero any time soon and I already have him 4/2/1. I will probably just sell his purple cover for the ISO.
  • The Finn
    The Finn Posts: 272 Mover and Shaker
    Lazy cap looks pretty compelling--i like what i see.

    Also next tier down from cap is... Blue mn mags. Pretty big drop off in my mind.
    Top alliances are already at 250k pts on day one. Geez. I am going to see how far i can go before i burn out. Trying to pace myself this time.

    Hear you on the alliance issues and im ok to wait. Have some hp burning a whole in my pocket and wanted to contribute is all. But true that there are many problems to fix. F2P players look to have an increasingly difficult time...
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    Trying to place high in my bracket as well. Working out well so far.

    Ares is MVP for Round 1 because I can keep throwing Green the AI's way with Onslaught, and steal it back with OBW... Not that the surviving AI needed green anyway =)

    Not thrilled that the sub-events are restricted to top 100 for Alliance wins but I'm not that hung up about that anyway.
    Not thrilled there's a No Holds Barred going on as well, which means it will take time from this event - only because I'm competitive for the HP, and not because I really want to play DD.

    Well, at least the game is still fun.
    You know Bagman is hilarious when he extends the countdown for his teammate - consistently.
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    I have not started playing yet. I want to know how high the points go in these subs while I use different strategies. So far the missions that give the most points are Simulation 8 + 9 in Hard with 3400 points and Simulation 10 with 3000. I will wait until tomorrow to see if they go higher. If they go, I will play only the last rotation and make a full clear. If they don't go higher, I will make a pass 15-16 hours before the end and another pass before I go to bed for the last rotation. Hopefully this will give max points. For the next set of subs I will probably try an early start, but it will depend on the enemy levels. If it's anything like the last event, the levels will be too high for me, so use of boosts will drain significant amount of ISO.

    If I am not mistaken, the points refresh every 12 hours and you can clear each mission 5 times giving 100-80-60-40-20% of the current max points, right?
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    Actually, no idea about the points scaling. But looking at the progression rewards, it is not possible to reach the 1st DD at the moment.

    I'm simply targetting the node with the highest points for each simulator. The node with the highest value start at 1700 and while I have not gone through 5 rounds for any node, they appear to hover in the 200s region now. I don't really see the points refreshing (that or they don't refresh to as high as the original numbers or it's rubberbanding).

    The enemies start at Easy for me, and have only gone to Hard, and it was still okay with no boosts needed, granted I take Spidey or OBW for the heal + stun/steal. My max-level 4-green Ares is chomping down everything so I'm really pushing hard for this round.

    Fun fact: Looking at the Main event, and the 2 sub-events, you kind of have an idea which are the hyper-competitive alliances. The same names again and again.
  • The Finn
    The Finn Posts: 272 Mover and Shaker
    Im tempted to aim for obw tier of reward to get my 5 cover obw (w/ zero blue) to usable... But i just know the next few events after this will require the Capt...
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    ILikeCheese wrote:
    Im tempted to aim for obw tier of reward to get my 5 cover obw (w/ zero blue) to usable... But i just know the next few events after this will require the Capt...

    This is difficult. It may hurt the alliance score a little, but I think you should go for the OBW since she will see more use than the Cap and you have very few covers right now (2/0/3), so even if you get some from tokens they will still be useful. My suggestion is to go with with 3/5/5. Also, we will most likely get the Blue Cap cover so you will still be able to play the missions that require him.

    So far I have have only played on the Hard, but haven't made yet a full clear of the missions. The problem with repeated clears is that the enemy levels go way up. Even now, with 24k from 10-13 wins the levels went up 50 levels since the beginning, so I am waiting for them to max points and do a final pass 4-5 hours before the end. I entered an Easy bracket a while ago, but I only did 1 mission (just to enter a bracket with mostly EU players) and I will finish this one as late as possible, hoping for a good placement. Although since both subs end 6am for me and rubberbanding benefits those who play late, I doubt I will be in top 10 for the 2 tokens. Still, I think I can get 30k+ from the hard and half of that from the easy. I just hope the next subs won't keep the high enemy levels from this one and they will drop to the original levels.
  • The Finn
    The Finn Posts: 272 Mover and Shaker
    Hehe thanks for the support even though it may hurt the team performance. But given my amount of play and competitiveness i dont think ill be able to tank it. Currently #1 on my hardcore bracket, #2 overall event at 46k. Beyond the psylocke only nodes the others are almost double my team's level now--getting pretty rough! But still managing to hang in there, just having super long matches to win or super short matches when they wipe me with uber cascades.
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    I am done, both physically and mentally. icon_e_smile.gif After 4 hours I finished both subs. Currently, #1 in Easy with 21370 and #1 in Hard with 31460. Our alliance is also doing great in #175.
    I also pulled a blue Hood from a Standard token so I am super excited. Lately I was very lucky with Standard tokens. I think I have found 4 *** in the last 30 I opened.
  • The Finn
    The Finn Posts: 272 Mover and Shaker
    Just collected spoils from the three events. Top 10 in both simulator (ended up getting overtaken in the last bits as i had RL things to do) and top 100 in no holds barred where i wasnt tryingn and really only wanted the sweet sweet hp.

    All in all not bad! Hope my two tokens pay off...
  • The Finn
    The Finn Posts: 272 Mover and Shaker
    Oh and as of now, im sitting at 54600 pts, only good enough for 21 in my bracket.
  • The Finn
    The Finn Posts: 272 Mover and Shaker
    Oh and i look to be totally useless in the lone star event as i only have modern storm. icon_cry.gif

    I guess i can trot her out there and see if i can tank this one...
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    Narkon wrote:
    I am done, both physically and mentally. icon_e_smile.gif After 4 hours I finished both subs. Currently, #1 in Easy with 21370 and #1 in Hard with 31460. Our alliance is also doing great in #175.
    I also pulled a blue Hood from a Standard token so I am super excited. Lately I was very lucky with Standard tokens. I think I have found 4 *** in the last 30 I opened.

    Is it possible to start the Simulators late and have a lot of points waiting?
    Round 1 for me, unfortunately, ended just before lunchtime on a working day so it was hard to keep my position any higher than 50 =(

    I have more luck pulling 50HP from my Daily Rewards, than from Std tokens -.-"
    ILikeCheese wrote:
    Oh and i look to be totally useless in the lone star event as i only have modern storm. icon_cry.gif

    I guess i can trot her out there and see if i can tank this one...

    I don't really like 1-star tourneys because with the limited options, cascades leading to AP windfall tend to be very crucial for victory.

    In this case, you have the best 1-star to trigger it already =) Jugg is good too but with conflicting colours on M.Storm and him, they tend to perform rather unexpectedly on the defence.

    I'm not particularly excited about The Hood covers but this Alliance event seems to be awarding more HP than the last so it's an incentive to play it somewhat.
    Did I mention I get more lucky pulling 50HP from Daily Rewards, haha?

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