volos wrote: In my mind, TaT only stumbled on 2 points: 1 - scaling was introduced -poorly. people were sending in their rosters to suicide-tank. it was stupid. 2 - when the 'main event' in TaT opened up, the points and rubberbanding went insane, rendering all previous points completely irrelevant. usually, in other events, your prior lead was at least slightly useful. not so here. also - too many missions on screen
beemand2g wrote: Thick as thieves if memory serves me right
locked wrote: I believe this event is under Max Rubberbanding flag again, just like the Sim too.
RichHurtz wrote: Okay, I'm still trying to grasp the Rubberbanding thing... if I wanted to do it, when the next "round" of Missions starts, I should just do them once and then don't revisit the missions until much later on? Is that how it works?
pasa_ wrote: RichHurtz wrote: Okay, I'm still trying to grasp the Rubberbanding thing... if I wanted to do it, when the next "round" of Missions starts, I should just do them once and then don't revisit the missions until much later on? Is that how it works? In practice it means you get 10x points for each mission if you're behind so can catch up with the lead at any time except the very last period. IOW there's no tinikitty point playing the 7 day event in the first 5 days. Another good example of .... design.
Ben Grimm wrote: pasa_ wrote: RichHurtz wrote: Okay, I'm still trying to grasp the Rubberbanding thing... if I wanted to do it, when the next "round" of Missions starts, I should just do them once and then don't revisit the missions until much later on? Is that how it works? In practice it means you get 10x points for each mission if you're behind so can catch up with the lead at any time except the very last period. IOW there's no tinikitty point playing the 7 day event in the first 5 days. Another good example of .... design. When there are subs, people are at least trying to place in the subs, but I get the feeling everybody is doing these once or twice and waiting for someone to build up a big lead.
RichHurtz wrote: Ben Grimm wrote: pasa_ wrote: RichHurtz wrote: Okay, I'm still trying to grasp the Rubberbanding thing... if I wanted to do it, when the next "round" of Missions starts, I should just do them once and then don't revisit the missions until much later on? Is that how it works? In practice it means you get 10x points for each mission if you're behind so can catch up with the lead at any time except the very last period. IOW there's no tinikitty point playing the 7 day event in the first 5 days. Another good example of .... design. When there are subs, people are at least trying to place in the subs, but I get the feeling everybody is doing these once or twice and waiting for someone to build up a big lead. And Subs are like... when there are the little 1 day Sub-Events like in the Hulk one? So to do it, I should just do the missions once, then wait until there's about an hour left in the "round" to do them and try to get more points? Or should I just wait until near the end of the round totally?
Ben Grimm wrote: RichHurtz wrote: And Subs are like... when there are the little 1 day Sub-Events like in the Hulk one? So to do it, I should just do the missions once, then wait until there's about an hour left in the "round" to do them and try to get more points? Or should I just wait until near the end of the round totally? Question 1 - yes. Question 2 - Rubberbanding will matter the most at the end of the tournament. Do whatever you feel like until the last refresh, and make sure you're in shape to make a big push the last few hours of the event, and you'll get the most benefit at the end as people make their first actual pushes to win this thing. Keep in mind, scaling may go completely insane when that happens.
RichHurtz wrote: And Subs are like... when there are the little 1 day Sub-Events like in the Hulk one? So to do it, I should just do the missions once, then wait until there's about an hour left in the "round" to do them and try to get more points? Or should I just wait until near the end of the round totally?
ichijuan wrote: Well, i hope points start to ramp up cause the difference between the top ten in my bracket is very very little.
ichijuan wrote: Well, i hope points start to ramp up cause the difference between the top ten in my bracket is very very little. Edit: Got confused, i thought this nodes would last until tonight
Ghast wrote: ichijuan wrote: Well, i hope points start to ramp up cause the difference between the top ten in my bracket is very very little. Edit: Got confused, i thought this nodes would last until tonight Difference in my top ten is 1. 18,402 (me) 10. 16,677 (not me) That might not seem like much, but everyone in the top 10 is looking at missions worth a bit more than 100 points. I finished this "round" with 700 more points than the guy below me. Considering the number of matches he would have to win to beat me, that is an insurmountable lead going into the last minutes of an event. Of course, all of this depends on me actually being around during the final hour.