The Addiction Has Begun..

Tromb2ch2

I can see it now...

Brigby: man I have a bunch of iso I don't know what everyone is complaining about!

2 months later

Brigby: hey anybody got some of dem iso? I seem to have a high deficit.

Edit: brigby please do not spend 500 iso on standard tokens, it is a bad idea.

HaywireII

broll wrote:

that early in the game rostering them is a waste of HP

I wonder what Brigby's hero point budget is. In the early game I don't think you should be spending them on anything but roster slots. We don't know if all hero points have to be earned in game or if some are being purchased or provided as part of employment.

More information is needed!

DeNappa

carrion pigeons wrote:

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I wasn't talking about scaling. I was talking about cannibalizing your roster to make room for new characters with highly limited use. I can't tell you how often I see someone with a roster consisting entirely of 3*s and 4*s and 5*s with 1 cover, and not one single character with all of their abilities.

This. With limited roster space, and almost 100 characters that are 3* or higher, you will run into roster space problems when starting out (if you're free to play or cheap to play, to make up a new label). If you don't have a veteran's knowledge of the game's progress bottlenecks, it may get very hard.

smkspy

One of us! One of us! One of us!

fmftint

DeNappa wrote:

carrion pigeons wrote:

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I wasn't talking about scaling. I was talking about cannibalizing your roster to make room for new characters with highly limited use. I can't tell you how often I see someone with a roster consisting entirely of 3*s and 4*s and 5*s with 1 cover, and not one single character with all of their abilities.

This. With limited roster space, and almost 100 characters that are 3* or higher, you will run into roster space problems when starting out (if you're free to play or cheap to play, to make up a new label). If you don't have a veteran's knowledge of the game's progress bottlenecks, it may get very hard.

With Shield Intercept and/or VIP roster slots shouldn't be much of an issue for a new player

StarScream

HaywireII wrote:

carrion pigeons wrote:

don't roster anything higher than a 3*.

You really can't build your 3* roster without pulling a few 4* characters here and there. They are only level 70 so you should be able to roster them but not level them. Some of them make good meatshields for your 2* characters as well.

Oh yeah, Brigby. Play the Lightning Rounds! Speed up your 2* roster building. Join it right when it starts and beat all the seed teams.

Also, my four star Cage is far better than any maxed one star not named Iron Man, Black Widow, or Juggernaut. Probably Bucky too. The rest of the one stars are utter garbage.

JVReal

fmftint wrote:

With Shield Intercept and/or VIP roster slots shouldn't be much of an issue for a new player

With the exception of having to be able to play enough actual PVE matches to activate those Shield Intercepts... and assuming he's playing mobile and not Steam.

Dormammu

I've decided to be nice and give you some tips that should help manage your life in spite of this addiction. Hope they are helpful.

1. Play when you're going #2, and don't rush things while you're in there.
2. Play while you eat. If you eat with others, eat near a television so they're distracted and don't bother you with things like conversation.
3. If you have kids, task them with handling your light work. Let them take care of DDQ and easy nodes in PVE.
4. Play while commuting, as long as you're not behind the wheel.
5. Let your spouse/significant other drive more often. Even if they are a terrible driver, you won't notice because you'll be playing MPQ
6. If you're not married, don't get married.
7. If you are married, get your spouse addicted to MPQ as soon as possible. (This will be essential to avoid a potentially painful separation.)
7a. If you are married, and the above isn't possible, put a small but comfortable folding chair in a closet your spouse rarely uses.
8. Eliminate any other time-consuming hobbies or interests.
9. Play during commercials, movie previews, and any time you're dragged to the opera, playhouse, or concert hall.
10. If you're a sports fan, stop.
11. Always forget to make dinner reservations; then when you're waiting for your table you have an excuse to play MPQ.
12. Play at work. If someone asks what you're doing, tell them you're texting this week's 'tps reports'. They won't have any idea what you're talking about and will stop asking questions to avoid sounding ignorant.

dsds

Get a swear jar. You can either put the money towards mpq hero points or a badly needed vacation. In any case, it will fill up very fast.

Brigby

thisone

Brigby wrote:

Boss rush 2 confirmed!

Dragon_Nexus

metallion wrote:

For reasons I find really hard to explain, I'm really growing to like this guy more and more as time passes. Have fun while the scaling lasts

I think it's because he talks to us just generally. He doesn't wait for official announcements to appear here.

Not saying there's a right or wrong way to do it, I'm simply saying shooting the breeze with us wasn't really David's style, I don't think. He was the man-behind-the-curtain most times

smkspy

Yeah, it's that he both interacts with us and it is also the perspective of a red shirt going through the game building experience.


He'll be quick to learn all the thingsthat aactually frustrates the customer base rather than being on the outside.

BigRussian

This is my new favorite thread.

I love the 12 steps listed earlier from Dormammu.

spectator

Actually I feel brigby should open and roster 4/5*
It may give valuable feedback to the dev teams the effect this has on scaling and for them to act on it

blargrx

it's not too late to run away!

As everyone mentioned, find a mpq/life balance!

And still... run away!

Suddenreal

Well, so much for a red that talked to us. Was nice knowing you, Brigby. Do try to drop by when your healthpacks are refreshing, you know, once in six months or so.

DapperChewie

metallion wrote:

For reasons I find really hard to explain, I'm really growing to like this guy more and more as time passes. Have fun while the scaling lasts

He seems genuinely interested in fostering a positive relationship with this community. He was open with us in his first post about how he hadn't played the game yet, and then he started playing it, from scratch, no less, to get a better handle on what he was talking about.

Brigby, if you read this (and I genuinely hope you do), this thread here is a prime example of how to get in well with this community. We understand that this is your job (or at least an important part of it) and that you're new to the game. Ask us anything you have questions about, many of us are day 1000+ and have plenty of advice that we'd be happy to give you. There's lots of mistakes that are easy to make in the early or mid-game, (especially the 1-2 and 2-3 transition phases) and not only do we want you to know what they are and how to avoid them, (so you can go to the devs with a clear understanding of these problems), we don't want to see you make the same mistakes that so many new players make.

You're off to a great start here, and I hope to see you grow to be a great community manager that has earned the love and respect of this community. It can get pretty salty here, but the biggest thing to remember is to not take anything personal. Good luck with the job and with the game, you're one of us now.

Alsmir

Interesting.

I guess being a Steam player has some advantages.

Dekliko1978

Brigby wrote:

When I should have been taking advantage of the extra hour of sleep before coming into work today, I found myself lying in bed playing the Simulator story until 1 AM

Stop now while you maybe still can!

Soon it will take over your whole life, the game is just that good. Anyway it's nice to see you are enjoying it, now go get yourself a monster roster so you can give that insight to the dev team.