Church of Patches (Ace of Blades) members lounge 20/20

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qtquazar wrote:

After reading the Arktos thread, I learned that, apparently, other alliances use these things called 'strategy' and 'planning'.

I'm not quite sure what these things are or how they work, so if someone could message me with some pointers, please do so.

Hey, don't even think about this! Our plan is no plan. Everyone do what and then, when it's comfortably for them. And it's work! From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.

qtquazar wrote:

For the meantime, I will continue my current technique for alliance success: being accused of male prostitution by AB and bear-baiting OTERSEY. If anyone has any issues with this, I suggest you poke OTERSEY with the communal stick. We're all curious to see what he eventually transforms into.

Oh yeah, my special trained bears will... Poke me with any stick is a very bad idea. The only things in that it transforms is someone broken fingers and serious injuries. It's my RED passive ability. You don't like it.

qtquazar wrote:

That would defeat the purpose of a COMMUNAL stick.

Then already COMMUNIST stick. Let's call a spade a spade.

fritejay2 wrote:

So...you think about what beast ?
A wolf ?

A bird? A plane?

fritejay2 wrote:

qtquazar wrote:

On est presque certain qu'il sera un ours. Un ours Russe.

Ah ouais quand même ! Ours brun ou blanc ?

Atomique.

Pour vous, il peut être une surprise, mais à l'école je étudié deux langues étrangères et le premier d'entre eux était français. Maintenant, j'ai un peu de pratique pour lui, mais comprendre ce que vous dites que je peux.

P.S. qt, tu êtes du Québec ?

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In terms of strategy, maybe we could discuss what position we could easily reach for a better prizing. I think the main focus is prizing, the rest is not so important (unless the prizing is outstanding).

Example : Being Top 3 in the current PvE brings more ISO. So, as we are not far from this goal, couldn't we put a little more effort to reach that goal ?

Also, when it comes to final season standings, if we see that we are not far from the previous Alliance team, we could discuss and see how we could each improve our personal ratings ?

Example : if some of us haven't done much in the shield, working on the shield could improve our final ranking dramatically ?

I guess it's just "working a little more to reach the next step higher".

What do you think ?

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arktos1971 wrote:

What do you think ?

I think you need calm down. And it strange to hear from a man who was against forceful play style in one alliance, appeals to this **** in another. Just play and have a fun, bro. Nobody of us doesn't want turn own game in MMR Hell or wall of 400 for few bonus iso or HP.

P.S. Look like S.H.I.E.L.D. simulator is some obsession for you, lol. Man, our goal is Fury cover. And we all get it. If you so much want this yellow Spidey, it completely depends on you. Even if we finish Season 1 in Top 5, you will not get this. So, stop wreak havoc in our beloved Church. Thanks.

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OTERSEY wrote:

qtquazar wrote:

That would defeat the purpose of a COMMUNAL stick.

Then already COMMUNIST stick. Let's call a spade a spade.

It's ok if I bring my toothpick ?

OTERSEY wrote:

fritejay2 wrote:

qtquazar wrote:

On est presque certain qu'il sera un ours. Un ours Russe.

Ah ouais quand même ! Ours brun ou blanc ?

Atomique.

Pour vous, il peut être une surprise, mais à l'école je étudié deux langues étrangères et le premier d'entre eux était français. Maintenant, j'ai un peu de pratique pour lui, mais comprendre ce que vous dites que je peux.

P.S. qt, tu êtes du Québec ?

No. Not a Bear...From now on you're a Unicorn !
White & pink running through the plains ,hills ,mountains & forest, irradiating his flashy rainbow on animals and transforming them in...Bears.

Non. Pas un Ours...A partir de maintenant tu es une Licorne !
Blanche & rose courant à travers les plaines, les collines, les montagnes et les forêts, irradiant son arc-en-ciel tape-à-l'oeil sur les animaux et les transformant en...Ours.

Edit: I'd never think I'd could speak in a forum in french, besides, not even in mine !
Je n'aurais jamais cru pouvoir parler dans un forum en français,en plus, même pas dans le mien

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I'm all for trying to gain places but TBH you can end up paying a LOT individually for those places. PvE is a great example because the Dev's in their infinite retardation allow your PvE MMR to go WELL above the level for 395 enemies then the reduction between events is an absolute ammount rather than a %. So if you have a lower end roster your personal MMR is pretty much wiped out between events but if you grind super hard you can end up facing 300+ bad guys again at the START of the next event.

So IMO we can share tips about how to get as many points as possible while managing your MMR (in PvE and PvP) but I wouldn't ask anyone to grind a PvE event to death to try and gain an extra place knowing it would hurt them (and by extension all of us) in the next event.

As far as current events go it would be hard to get 3rd in PvE unless main bracket scores and rubber banding are so high as to wipe out the value of the subs so far (not impossible on D3's track record). 5th in PvP is a bit more achievable but depends heavily on how much effort each alliance has put into shield training so far. If someone above (or just below us) has all their members tanking shield to push last 3 days then we'd have no chance but if they've all been gaining SHIELD points steadily we might overtake them with a final burst.....

Since we can't know what we would need to do for sure dunno how we could even "strategize" what to do about it......

Sooooo.... everyone gets as many points as they reasonably can and we'll see where we end up? If we were close enough to an extra place that it would make a difference for me to do more then I probably would though.

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OTERSEY wrote:

arktos1971 wrote:

What do you think ?

I think you need calm down. And it strange to hear from a man who was against forceful play style in one alliance, appeals to this **** in another. Just play and have a fun, bro. Nobody of us doesn't want turn own game in MMR Hell or wall of 400 for few bonus iso or HP.

P.S. Look like S.H.I.E.L.D. simulator is some obsession for you, lol. Man, our goal is Fury cover. And we all get it. If you so much want this yellow Spidey, it completely depends on you. Even if we finish Season 1 in Top 5, you will not get this. So, stop wreak havoc in our beloved Church. Thanks.

I was asking for your opinion, and you gave it That is all I wanted to know

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bonfire01 wrote:

I'm all for trying to gain places but TBH you can end up paying a LOT individually for those places. PvE is a great example because the Dev's in their infinite retardation allow your PvE MMR to go WELL above the level for 395 enemies then the reduction between events is an absolute ammount rather than a %. So if you have a lower end roster your personal MMR is pretty much wiped out between events but if you grind super hard you can end up facing 300+ bad guys again at the START of the next event.

So IMO we can share tips about how to get as many points as possible while managing your MMR (in PvE and PvP) but I wouldn't ask anyone to grind a PvE event to death to try and gain an extra place knowing it would hurt them (and by extension all of us) in the next event.

As far as current events go it would be hard to get 3rd in PvE unless main bracket scores and rubber banding are so high as to wipe out the value of the subs so far (not impossible on D3's track record). 5th in PvP is a bit more achievable but depends heavily on how much effort each alliance has put into shield training so far. If someone above (or just below us) has all their members tanking shield to push last 3 days then we'd have no chance but if they've all been gaining SHIELD points steadily we might overtake them with a final burst.....

Since we can't know what we would need to do for sure dunno how we could even "strategize" what to do about it......

Sooooo.... everyone gets as many points as they reasonably can and we'll see where we end up? If we were close enough to an extra place that it would make a difference for me to do more then I probably would though.

Yep, I guess you're absolutely right

I updated my signature. How do you like it guys ?

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bonfire01 wrote:

+1

My results are always high as much as I can afford it.

arktos1971 wrote:

I updated my signature. How do you like it guys ?

MAAnish. Patchless.

fritejay2 wrote:

It's ok if I bring my toothpick ?

Yes. Of course, if you don't mind that then it will be in any vital striking points of your body. And yes, please, make sure that yours toothpick will be from natural ecological materials. We all love our bears here and not let them eat something nasty.

fritejay2 wrote:

No. Not a Bear...From now on you're a Unicorn !
White & pink running through the plains ,hills ,mountains & forest, irradiating his flashy rainbow on animals and transforming them in...Bears.

I think you watch too many MLP, lol. Or play in too many modern indie games. Or both.

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OTERSEY wrote:

fritejay2 wrote:

It's ok if I bring my toothpick ?

Yes. Of course, if you don't mind that then it will be in any vital striking points of your body. And yes, please, make sure that yours toothpick will be from natural ecological materials. We all love our bears here and not let them eat something nasty.

Acupuncture...ok, I should try...but mind you if I ask you to lend me your claws, instead of the toothpick ?

Otherwise, how do you want to protect each bear from nasty things ?
Sounds quite impossible...

I mean there is the weather, first of all, unpredictable...the fishes, who could be poisoned, for example...Bear in zoo who wanna kill themselves because of...

Oh I found your bird, finally...don't know how it end for him...

Also, we know some of nasty behaviour which could make them burnout, a lot !

At least, it's not from MPQ.

OTERSEY wrote:

fritejay2 wrote:

No. Not a Bear...From now on you're a Unicorn !
White & pink running through the plains ,hills ,mountains & forest, irradiating his flashy rainbow on animals and transforming them in...Bears.

I think you watch too many MLP, lol. Or play in too many modern indie games. Or both.

Neither of the two... Just my crazy fertile mind.
But, maybe I should start to watch some of My Little Poney or play Robot Unicorn, or things like that ?

TheHueyFreeman

It's quite astonishing how well our alliance has worked out given our current strategy. We are a pretty laid back group and I m a big fan of it. Sure, I think if we put our minds to it we could place top 3 in most things but I get the sense that we would burn out quickly. Qt has only needed to light the fire under our tinykitties once and we still generally get top 5-10 performances.

The absolute lowest thing we accept going for are the covers or pve tokens and after that, the rest is gravy. It just turns out that the group has the players to compete for the better prizes and are really good at final pushes. I''ve also noticed that we do our best when we are in the same subs and competing with each other.

We generally give advice on builds and heads up on things but don't feel the need to coordinate much. If I had to guess (and I could be off here ), we''re quite similar to the Djangos.

HailMary

TheHueyFreeman wrote:

If I had to guess (and I could be off here ), we''re quite similar to the Djangos.

You are the Robin to our Ecstasy-infused Batman.

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TheHueyFreeman wrote:

we''re quite similar to the Djangos.

pfffft think again. you are the Ben Affleck to our Christian Bale

Dreylin

TheUnwiseOne wrote:

TheHueyFreeman wrote:

we''re quite similar to the Djangos.

pfffft think again. you are the Ben Affleck to our Christian Bale

Weird, I had pictured you more as Adam West than Christian Bale...

TheHueyFreeman

HailMary wrote:

TheHueyFreeman wrote:

If I had to guess (and I could be off here ), we''re quite similar to the Djangos.

You are the Robin to our Ecstasy-infused Batman.

That's odd. I thought you were the Deadpool to our Wolverine.

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DON'T YOU DARE INSULT DEADPOOL

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OTERSEY wrote:

P.S. qt, tu êtes du Québec ?

Non, mais je parles anglais, francais et chinois (普通话)

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qtquazar wrote:

OTERSEY wrote:

P.S. qt, tu êtes du Québec ?

Non, mais je parles anglais, francais et chinois (普通话)

Peut-être que tu vas pouvoir parler avec DanMan notre nouveau venu alors ^^
Il est Canadien mais il habite en Chine...je dirais même très certainement aussi avec HailMary (mais j'ai peut-être tort)

Maybe you could talk with DanMan our last member so
He is Canadian but he lives in China...Also I would very certainly say with HailMary (but I could be wrong !)

HailMary

fritejay2 wrote:

Maybe you could talk with DanMan our last member so
He is Canadian but he lives in China...Also I would very certainly say with HailMary (but I could be wrong !)

Heh, nah. I almost moved to Beijing a year ago, but the rapidly worsening urban pollution I experienced scared me away. I'm in Boston. I do go to China fairly regularly, though.

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HailMary wrote:

fritejay2 wrote:

Maybe you could talk with DanMan our last member so
He is Canadian but he lives in China...Also I would very certainly say with HailMary (but I could be wrong !)

Heh, nah. I almost moved to Beijing a year ago, but the rapidly worsening urban pollution I experienced scared me away. I'm in Boston. I do go to China fairly regularly, though.

I did 8 years in Southern China (Guangzhou). Couldn't hack (pun intended) the pollution by the end of that. Loved the experience, until I didn't. Then I came back to Canada.

HailMary

qtquazar wrote:

I did 8 years in Southern China (Guangzhou). Couldn't hack (pun intended) the pollution by the end of that. Loved the experience, until I didn't. Then I came back to Canada.

I'm just impressed that a Great White Northerner survived multiple summers in GZ. What did you do in GZ, if I may ask?

P.S. - By "experience", I assume you mean "food."