Simulator Basics part 2: Electric Boogaloo (Mar 21-30)

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pasa_ wrote:

KaioShinDE wrote:

I find the fights in the current subbracket much more managable than the ones before. No more goons + thor utter cheese combo.

The Iron man with the yellow and red producing goons made short work of my party, and was quite early on, since then he grew a lot...

Though fortunately no need to touch him really. The essentials are easier this round indeed. Interesting I saw the desert one scaled to 210 while the other remained at 120-140.

That fight is fodder for Spiderman. The red generating goon only does 1 red AP per turn, so you have quite a few turns to get ready before he does a Repulsor Blast. The Armored Assaults are hard to stop but they're also things you can tough out.

fedlex20

Phantron wrote:

ichijuan wrote:

So, quick question...

The best time to play would be last hour right? Thats when the nodes get their maximun refresh value? Or is it now?

You can play the hard missions earlier if you want. Based on the simple observation of the point totals in both brackets and that hard missions are supposed to worth twice the points, you can see that hard and normal brackets have almost the same total points so far. This means hard is benefitting very little from the rubberbanding compared to normal, and the less the rubberbanding, the less of an effect to play later. That should hardly be surprising since hard is hard enough that nobody would want to play and the rubberbanding doesn't go up if no one is playing besides whoever was the overall sub bracket leader.

Im the leader on the hard sub bracket. I'll resume playing late at night, when someone leapfrogs me

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ichijuan wrote:

Im the leader on the hard sub bracket. I'll resume playing late at night, when someone leapfrogs me

Problem is everyone else is probably thinking the same thing. Hard bracket should have twice the points as normal and it's clearly not, precisely because everyone is avoid playing it. At least you started off in the best place though!

hex706f726368

Phantron wrote:

ichijuan wrote:

Im the leader on the hard sub bracket. I'll resume playing late at night, when someone leapfrogs me

Problem is everyone else is probably thinking the same thing. Hard bracket should have twice the points as normal and it's clearly not, precisely because everyone is avoid playing it. At least you started off in the best place though!

So that discouraging people from playing the game thing seems to be working out pretty well.

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hex706f726368 wrote:

Phantron wrote:

ichijuan wrote:

Im the leader on the hard sub bracket. I'll resume playing late at night, when someone leapfrogs me

Problem is everyone else is probably thinking the same thing. Hard bracket should have twice the points as normal and it's clearly not, precisely because everyone is avoid playing it. At least you started off in the best place though!

So that discouraging people from playing the game thing seems to be working out pretty well.

Well, I was actually pushing the hard bracket numbers higher in R1 (I got them to a point where I had no rubberband bonus) but after they hit 230X3, I can't do it even if I wanted to.

They really need to reexamine what's going on with the lack of activity in hard (nearly identical total points despite missions worth twice base) and how the PvE scaling + rubberband affects that. It's one thing to not encourage grinding, but grinding shouldn't put you in a worse position than not grinding, which is what is happening right now.

Eddiemon

Phantron wrote:

Well, I was actually pushing the hard bracket numbers higher in R1 (I got them to a point where I had no rubberband bonus) but after they hit 230X3, I can't do it even if I wanted to.

They really need to reexamine what's going on with the lack of activity in hard (nearly identical total points despite missions worth twice base) and how the PvE scaling + rubberband affects that. It's one thing to not encourage grinding, but grinding shouldn't put you in a worse position than not grinding, which is what is happening right now.

It's rigged against hard though.

Hard missions are worth twice as manypoints, but Hard's rubberband extends out to 18000ish points for 10x. Whereas Easy mode hits 10x points at just 9000 points. Hard also then hits 1x points at 1800 points while Easy hits it at just 900 points behind. When I come to do a refresh my Easy mode rubberband is generally at 10x while my hard mode is around 5x. This means I would get about the same amount of points per mission in either mode until I pass the global leader.

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pasa_ wrote:

Though fortunately no need to touch him really. The essentials are easier this round indeed. Interesting I saw the desert one scaled to 210 while the other remained at 120-140.

The desert one is easy if you have a decent level Ares and a maxed Modern Storm. I can annihilate the enemy with Onslaught.

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Well, this is it for me. Run out of healing packs after Hood decimated my team (with 2xTwin Pistols. BW followed with 2xRecon ) and then Hulk/Storm/Daken finished the job. I am currently top1-2 in subs and main but I left unclaimed 3-4k points in Hard and ~2k in Easy so I will definitely drop. I hope I get at least top 5-10 for some tokens.

They should take a look at the scaling system because it is completely broken. The levels are crazy now that the event is almost at the end. Most missions went to 200+ and I didn't even try some like the Wolverine one. At least the ISO reward for Simulation 04 is only 1000 so I don't feel like I missed something important. I hope the levels drop a little for the final sub because it's getting ridiculous. Good results should be rewarded and not punished by the game. It is the most **** system I have ever seen in a game. It's like saying to you "Stay away from me. Go do something useful with your life"

fedlex20

Narkon wrote:

Well, this is it for me. Run out of healing packs after Hood decimated my team (with 2xTwin Pistols. BW followed with 2xRecon ) and then Hulk/Storm/Daken finished the job. I am currently top1-2 in subs and main but I left unclaimed 3-4k points in Hard and ~2k in Easy so I will definitely drop. I hope I get at least top 5-10 for some tokens.

They should take a look at the scaling system because it is completely broken. The levels are crazy now that the event is almost at the end. Most missions went to 200+ and I didn't even try some like the Wolverine one. At least the ISO reward for Simulation 04 is only 1000 so I don't feel like I missed something important. I hope the levels drop a little for the final sub because it's getting ridiculous. Good results should be rewarded and not punished by the game. It is the most **** system I have ever seen in a game. It's like saying to you "Stay away from me. Go do something useful with your life"

Im waiting to start my run in an hour. its 20:51 here and my wife comes from work around 00:30 (00:45 if im lucky) and the event finishes at 01:00 am, so i dont want to let anything good left for the very end, because when she comes, its over.

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#1 in my bracket in Easy Mode:

MBW 22
IM35 22
CMags 15
Hood 15
Thor 8
AXW 8
Jugg 6
Mawkeye 6

And that's it. I'm kinda lost for words...

fedlex20

Emeryt wrote:

#1 in my bracket in Easy Mode:

MBW 22
IM35 22
CMags 15
Hood 15
Thor 8
AXW 8
Jugg 6
Mawkeye 6

And that's it. I'm kinda lost for words...

Well, he got some buffed characters. On the juggernaut event, all my available characters were below lvl 30, and the enemies scaled acordingly. Maybe some smart rubberbanding... i dont know, im trying to make some sense

HairyDave

I've had to bow out of this round early - no BP so no easy essential nodes to hit. All the regular nodes in both subs are well over 150 and just flat out murder my dudes with 3 and 4 matches.

My boosted level 80 Wolverine can take a bit of abuse but not the amount he's been taking.

Frubzy

Emeryt wrote:

#1 in my bracket in Easy Mode:

MBW 22
IM35 22
CMags 15
Hood 15
Thor 8
AXW 8
Jugg 6
Mawkeye 6

And that's it. I'm kinda lost for words...

Well done

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Frubzy wrote:

Emeryt wrote:

#1 in my bracket in Easy Mode:

MBW 22
IM35 22
CMags 15
Hood 15
Thor 8
AXW 8
Jugg 6
Mawkeye 6

And that's it. I'm kinda lost for words...

Well done

That's not Emeryt's roster, rather the roster of whoever has #1 in his current easy mode bracket.

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I suspect the guys with weak roster might've just entered recently so they'd have a very low personal scaling since that roster doesn't even take advantage of the buffed characters.

Right now it feels like you're fighting one of those epic battles to climb some legendary tower, and then some guy just took the villian-only elevator and is like 'hey guys why took you so long to get up here?'

Jathro

Emeryt wrote:

#1 in my bracket in Easy Mode:

MBW 22
IM35 22
CMags 15
Hood 15
Thor 8
AXW 8
Jugg 6
Mawkeye 6

And that's it. I'm kinda lost for words...

Unknown

I just beat the Patch Doom Punisher board with a random team of OBW ARES and DD. DD crotch kicked everyone. They were lvl 230 also.

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I had 169,000 at the end of the last round. That's about 10,000 more than I thought I would get, but that 8,000 ISO reward looks tricky.

fedlex20

I cannot belive it. As the last sunder struck down Ironman giving me the points that could put me in the top ten of the easy bracket, the **** clock ticked 1:00 am. 300 points that didnt count. ****.

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162936, first is at 165414, how are other brackets looking?