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  • noobprime
    noobprime Posts: 403
    I think i have hit 900 just once. This last round, was pretty brutal in terms of 141s. I just started shield simulator season 2 and after the seed teams it's pretty much 2 141s and obw. I'm due for some serious tanking methinks. I still don't have critical mass for 141s, and I just run obw with a couple of other 2*s. It's such a slog. People are dropping like flies from alliances. I honestly don't know what they are thinking.
  • mytisbrewin
    mytisbrewin Posts: 439 Mover and Shaker
    Its not fun fighting 141s all the time even if you have 140s. icon_e_wink.gif I understand you don't want new people constantly beat down by veterans, but they need to find a better balance. This latest PVE is more casual in terms of difficulty, but then that makes it super grindy and now I can't grind because it tells me to check my internet connection. You check your internet connection.
  • Unknown
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    Hi everyone,

    Since I'm knew I thought I would just officially say hi and thanks for having me.
  • noobprime
    noobprime Posts: 403
    Greetings Neodyminium! I hear you have a magnetic personality icon_lol.gif

    Anyhows, it's all 141s for me now. Which is rather strange since I have zero characters above 85, and so I'm just fighting WAY above my roster. And I am getting completely annihilated. In shield simulator occasionally I'll get 141, 128, 128 instead, or 141, 141, obw. If I win it's a fluke. I've never tanked before so maybe now is the time. So I'm literally going into Starfall and killing off my entire low level roster. mohio said that LRs are better, but I am working with what I have. In this 'meta' it's actually useful to have level 1 chars as they regenerate from death faster. This game ... icon_neutral.gif
  • mytisbrewin
    mytisbrewin Posts: 439 Mover and Shaker
    Welcome Neodyminium. We are mostly a load of old fogies or at least we were, I am not so sure about Sapphire and yourself.

    While the server was down I was having a look through this forum and the number of alliances looking for players to replace burn outs is crazy.
  • noobprime
    noobprime Posts: 403
    I just opened 23 heroics or better (thanks to the Season 2 10 pack).
    I got 1 gold, red xfarce.
    In my rage I opened my stash of regular recruit tokens ... I had 123. 2 gold chars, green pun and red hulk.

    Man. I thought having so many tokens to guarantee at least a couple of good pulls, but 1 gold out of 23 is incredibly unlucky ...
    Sigh.
    *Oh and I just realized the progression rewards for TaT is a red hulk. Winner winner.
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    That is terribly unlucky.

    I keep thinking I should save my tokens but I always feel a tug to open them each time.
  • mohio
    mohio Posts: 1,690 Chairperson of the Boards
    yeah I usually just open them as they come. makes the disappointment less when it's all spread out instead of 20 at a time like you just did. I have been saving my 10-pack, partly cause I don't think it'll be any good and partly for "optimization" to wait for daken, sentry, whoever else they add to them next since I will definitely need those covers.

    Seeing so many people leave lately is pretty crazy. I'm sure it's just par for the course for the game, but this time it's more "high-profile" forumites instead of just random people we never knew of or heard of so it feels different.

    Also welcome Neodyminium. Good to have you on the team icon_e_smile.gif.
  • noobprime
    noobprime Posts: 403
    I don't know. I'm waiting for regression to the mean, but it hasn't happened yet. This journey through the valley of death is just killer.

    People are leaving en masse ... it's all a money grab. Games grow from word of mouth, that's the value of the F2Pers. I guarantee that they're retention rate is putrid at this point. And I bet their daily installs are dropping as well.
  • mohio
    mohio Posts: 1,690 Chairperson of the Boards
    I really hope so - maybe then they'll listen and start making some more player-friendly changes, like adding the cover drops to PvP matches. Something to make it more EU friendly wouldn't hurt as well.
  • mytisbrewin
    mytisbrewin Posts: 439 Mover and Shaker
    To be fair we do at least get a PVP a week and a sub or two ending at a reasonable time compared to the early days. They could do definitely do more though. The rubberbanding on TaT means if you are not playing at the end then you are going to be stuffed. I thought the previous PVE was a step in the right direction, but this one is just really poor.
  • noobprime
    noobprime Posts: 403
    I think pretty much if you are not playing at the end of any PVE you are done, in almost all of the current ways they calculate points. So the ending times should be modulated, or better yet, 'personally' set. This issue with the player base in that they pit everyone against everyone else. By definition the game no longer becomes casual when everything is PVP. And no offense, but a match 3 (!!) game shouldn't be this way.

    I just can't understand the lack of communication, I just can't. They come in and have a Q&A and then disappear for the week. For every 1 right thing, they seem to do or ignore 5 other wrong things.
  • Unknown
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    mytisbrewin wrote:
    Welcome Neodyminium. We are mostly a load of old fogies or at least we were, I am not so sure about Sapphire and yourself.

    Welcome to the alliance Neodyminium, I am fairly new to the alliance as well. Yeah I would say I am an old fogey or at least have the mentality of one!
    noobprime wrote:
    I think pretty much if you are not playing at the end of any PVE you are done

    I know this is going to annoy me when TaT ends. Last night I was ranked around 150 and woke up to be around the 500's. I've played the two 2,000 nodes a couple of times and I'm back up to the 200's but I know the same thing is going to happen when there is only 7 hours left. I might try and grind into the top 50 and just pray that I stay in the top 200 for the Storm cover.
  • mytisbrewin
    mytisbrewin Posts: 439 Mover and Shaker
    We finished 54th in the second running of Starfall even with only 19 players taking part so well done. PVPunisher seemed to take up most of the slack with a really good effort.
    • Afroless 653
    • Awood227 749
    • Brain D 585
    • CeeEssGee 728
    • Danimal87 810
    • Darknite 697
    • Dinobot77 654
    • Dubsatron 302
    • Kithgar 898
    • Lavs23 398
    • Limee 923
    • Mgmoehn 299
    • Mohio 877
    • Neodyminium 494
    • Noobprime 615
    • PVPunisher 870
    • Sapphire 718
    • Telis 229
    • TY7586 0
    • XKobaltX12 639

    The world cup starts later this week so I will not be playing quite as much as usual for the next month. As always if you have any problems or suggestions then feel free to contact me.
  • mytisbrewin
    mytisbrewin Posts: 439 Mover and Shaker
    If they are going to vary the end times of subs then the early subs need to be just as important as the later subs. They should almost be like little tournaments within the overall tournament with each having equal weighting. That way Euro based players should be able to build up something of a lead which doesn't get obliterated in a couple of hours of the last sub. This would be a fairer way of doing things, but I guess they probably make more money by having every tournament being a mad scramble at the end.
  • Unknown
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    Thanks for the heads-up, Limee - just glad I could chip in a little more than usual this time... things have been nuts at work lately. Since it's been a minute from my last post, a) a laurel & hearty handshake to our new team members - you have ROCKED it since coming on-board! And b) a little morning cheer:

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  • noobprime
    noobprime Posts: 403
    edited June 2014
    PVPuns strategy was been to tank all the previous events and then cruise home in this event. I'm gonna be embracing tanking now icon_lol.gif

    I think Season 2 will be the barometer for me. If no significant changes are made by the end, or at the start, I might have to step away. I just don't understand the devs decisions at all.

    Yeah WORLD CUP time!
  • Unknown
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    noobprime wrote:
    PVPuns strategy was been to tank all the previous events and then cruise home in this event. I'm gonna be embracing tanking now.

    *lol* Well, moreso I was tanking SHIELD consistently... my relatively poor performance on prior events was mostly a) prior to May, super-high MMR & b) recently, life taking a stranglehold on my precious MPQ time. Which SUCKS, since real life doesn't give me ANY ISO for ANY event... but yeah brother, tank away - it actually works better than I initially thought it would!
  • noobprime
    noobprime Posts: 403
    Yeah I think that was the signal for me to start tanking when I entered SHIELD and far as the eye could see was 141s. I'm gonna try at the start of events, and also the next set of LRs. Tank-a-palooza.
  • mytisbrewin
    mytisbrewin Posts: 439 Mover and Shaker
    Having similar discussion in game at the same time as writing this. I expect at the end of Season 2 will be the start of Season 3. If this alliance collapses then I don't see myself joining another one and I am not sure if I would continue playing it solo. The only thing that makes me hopeful is the ask thread where it seemed IceIX and the dev team are aware of the issues people have with the game by the end of season 2 they will have had some time to come up with something.

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