PW Lock

qwweetrtr
qwweetrtr Posts: 101 Tile Toppler
edited January 2017 in MtGPQ Suggestions & Feedback
Can anyone tell me what the purpose for locking a PW is? Locking the color sure but the PW itself? It's.....unneeded. Especially because of their being objectives or if it accidentally selects the PW instead of scrolling to the next one or now we have PW's with the same names so you could confuse the two or...whatever. Why is it needed to lock the PW to a node? Color sure. Red node, pick freelly between Red, Red/white, Red/blue, etc.... but not "I want Koth...darn I accidentally picked Chaundra when I was trying to slide her away. I guess I'm stuck with her" or whatever.

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  • AettThorn
    AettThorn Posts: 125
    IT's because they're after your money. They locked it to a PW that you need to pay crystals (or money) for. It's a stupid decision, and not a lot of us agree with it.
  • qwweetrtr
    qwweetrtr Posts: 101 Tile Toppler
    No, I mean on a regular event like Nodes of Power or whatever. That is a whole other thing.
  • hawkyh1
    hawkyh1 Posts: 780 Critical Contributor
    it means you can't use the same planewalker for
    more than one node. not sure if this is part of the
    reason. also matching planeswalkers is easier if
    you have a fixed planeswalker locked down for
    each node.

    HH
  • AettThorn
    AettThorn Posts: 125
    hawkyh1 wrote:
    it means you can't use the same planewalker for
    more than one node. not sure if this is part of the
    reason. also matching planeswalkers is easier if
    you have a fixed planeswalker locked down for
    each node.

    HH

    You say that as if the game pulls opponents from those on other people's nodes. It doesn't. It just gives you a random deck from someone in your current bracket. Hence, why you can go up against a Koth in the current event, even though there are only white, green, and black nodes.
  • hawkyh1
    hawkyh1 Posts: 780 Critical Contributor
    AettThorn wrote:
    hawkyh1 wrote:
    it means you can't use the same planewalker for
    more than one node. not sure if this is part of the
    reason. also matching planeswalkers is easier if
    you have a fixed planeswalker locked down for
    each node.

    HH

    You say that as if the game pulls opponents from those on other people's nodes. It doesn't. It just gives you a random deck from someone in your current bracket. Hence, why you can go up against a Koth in the current event, even though there are only white, green, and black nodes.

    the fact that it doesn't always happen doesn't change the
    fact that they need a planeswalker with a level in order
    to stand any chance of matching battles properly. I've
    been matched with plenty of same node colour
    planeswalkers since the 1st inventors fair. I've also had
    mismatched koths too.

    HH
  • qwweetrtr
    qwweetrtr Posts: 101 Tile Toppler
    Yea, so my question still stands. If it's something like a black note you choose Sauron and then you go to the white node he shouldn't even be grayed out, he should just not be there as a choice
  • hawkyh1
    hawkyh1 Posts: 780 Critical Contributor
    qwweetrtr wrote:
    Yea, so my question still stands. If it's something like a black note you choose Sauron and then you go to the white node he shouldn't even be grayed out, he should just not be there as a choice

    it's simpler to grey out planeswalkers that are no longer
    available on that node. greying out means not available
    at this moment in time. are you able to choose the same
    planeswalker for more than 1 node?

    HH
  • qwweetrtr
    qwweetrtr Posts: 101 Tile Toppler
    No, why would you?
  • hawkyh1
    hawkyh1 Posts: 780 Critical Contributor
    then I don't see how it's not working as intended?

    HH
  • gulgoth
    gulgoth Posts: 73
    Because the system they use currently locks a pw level to a node. Start of event your opponent pw pool is created based on the level your pw is when first assigned to the node. It's probably also why some people see the same opponents all the time. The upside/downside to that is if someone assigns a pw at low lvl then levels them up, they are already assigned to your pool. Which is why sometimes you see really high ones vs your low one still. The upside is you can start with a low lvl one then jack is lvl up and you should face all low lvl opponents on that node. Obviously you can only do that once per pw so it's not all that abusable.
  • qwweetrtr
    qwweetrtr Posts: 101 Tile Toppler
    Not so much because the level is locked but because the PW itself is locked. Once you, say, select Gideon 1. You can't say "darn, I meant to pick Gideon 2." or, any of the other white PWs. you are locked for that PW for the whole event. Also, say you pick Garuuk for the Terror event not knowing that his wolf tokens no longer count towards the "summon 2 or more wolves" objective. you can't say, that sucks. All well, I'll just go to my good old wolf PW then." No, you're stuck as Garuuk for the rest of the event.

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