Should we have a regular PVE running alongside Boss Events?

TimGunn
TimGunn Posts: 257 Mover and Shaker
edited 2017 12 in MPQ General Discussion
Well, I thought this other thread would be people discussing this topic, but it turned out to be 3-pages debating F2P and whales.

But my question for discussion is whether there should be a regular PVE running at the same time as a Boss Event? I know a lot of rosters are already finished with ULTRON (or some players are outscaled by R8) and twiddling their match-3 thumbs until Meet R&G starts on Sunday.

Also, I recall that Oscorp Heroic ran at the same time as the first iteration of ULTRON, and people freaked out. There was a serious storm of small felines all over the forum.

Personally though, now that it is 2017, I miss having my regular PVE grind today. Haha, well specifically, I miss the ISO train of regular grinding. I never understood why everyone was so upset before. If Ultron plus PVE plus PVP is too much MPQ for you--don't play all the events!!! lol

What do y'all think? (and congrats to everyone that completed Ultron!)

Comments

  • smkspy
    smkspy Posts: 2,024 Chairperson of the Boards
    Season gauntlet.
  • Magic
    Magic Posts: 1,199 Chairperson of the Boards
    No. If an alliance does it quickly all can focus on personal progression and have some time off.

    And if it's civil war people will play till the last clear to get maximum rewards.

    I don't need more events at the same time and I doubt majority of players does.

    If you need to grind - use simulator and grind all you want. This is iso gold mine if you have time and will.
  • D3P2K5
    D3P2K5 Posts: 32 Just Dropped In
    Definitely like having time off from the game. That said. I don't think it would be such a bad thing to have Lightning Rounds running 7 days a week. That will give something for people to play while in between events.
  • Andre_Leca_89
    Andre_Leca_89 Posts: 92 Match Maker
    edited 2017 11
    No Tim just no my brain needs rest.

    PVE is long as it is I've said it before in other posts they need to cut down on nods I spent about 3 to 4 hour's a day on PVE alone I do seven clears witch will land me in top ten, but it would be nice if they could cut one node for each pod witch would make six clears the maximum.

    Then you have PVP/simulator.

    Now maybe a seven days gauntlet wouldn't be a bad idea a along side PVE i can go with that or have small events like the Coulson one we just had a different one every three days.

    Lightning rounds everyday would be great to.
  • jredd
    jredd Posts: 1,387 Chairperson of the Boards
    no. between pve/pvp there's always something to do if you don't want a rest.
  • TLCstormz
    TLCstormz Posts: 1,668
    smkspy wrote:
    Season gauntlet.

    That is one of THE LEAST player friendly game modes in existence.

    Why can't you old timers see that? lol
  • astrp3
    astrp3 Posts: 367 Mover and Shaker
    I'm sure I'm the only one, but I actually wish they had like 100 PvEs and 100 PvPs running simultaneously all the time, along with season gauntlet, a sandbox (where you could play against any characters you wanted, but with no rewards and no permanent loss of health), a REAL RPG-like story mode (where you actually played through a multi-week story and made story-changing decisions, recruited characters etc. rather than just looking at dialog balloons and fighting dark avengers and goons over and over), and several other things.

    Plus, they don't have anywhere near the player base (not to mention content) to support it and would probably have to completely redo rewards (like getting rid of progression entirely - else I for one would be doing full progression on a dozen PvEs at a time).

    Then again, I also wouldn't mind if they had like a thousand characters in the game (maybe every character in the Marvel universe).

    Not that any of this has any chance whatsoever of happening.

    Scornful replies about how clueless I am expected.
  • justsing
    justsing Posts: 512 Critical Contributor
    No. There are still plenty of alliances who are playing up through the last day.
  • snlf25
    snlf25 Posts: 947 Critical Contributor
    Yea, always. I can do my turns in less than an hour and then I have to wait a full third of a day before I get more opportunity to earn iso. PvP doesn't provide enough.
  • granne
    granne Posts: 852 Critical Contributor
    Having more stuff available is always nice, but for the love of all that's holy, nothing with a timer or any kind of optimal clearing schedule, please.

    My mostly casual alliance is still plugging away. We should clear round 7 today, and I and a couple of others should get maximum personal progression, but there are plenty of alliances who will be slogging down to the wire. The last thing they need is to know that they're missing out on more rewards by not hitting optimal clears on a normal PvE.
  • blargrx
    blargrx Posts: 150 Tile Toppler
    smkspy wrote:
    Season gauntlet.

    Would love to see this started. The best part of gauntlet is I can play when I want. A season gauntlet would let you do it when you have free time after your normal clears or hops
  • zodiac339
    zodiac339 Posts: 1,948 Chairperson of the Boards
    The big issue with Heroic running alongside Ultron was they were using the same characters. To me anyway. That's one of the problems with PVP: you lean on your required character and whatever you have boosted enough to get through enemies, requiring constant healing. (After getting through the last couple weeks with the massive power of Iceman and Red Hulk, being stuck with XF Wolvie and incomplete other legendaries, paired with the constant damage of Exquisite Technique is a wake-up call).
  • Daiches
    Daiches Posts: 1,252 Chairperson of the Boards
    Yes.

    Boss events are on an 8h timer.
    PVE on a 24h timer.

    There's almost no overlap anymore.
  • Crowl
    Crowl Posts: 1,581 Chairperson of the Boards
    They don't need to do one for the entire time, but they might as well increase the overlap of when the next one starts, on the last day people will have probably either finished it or will have stopped playing due to the time-based scaling pushing things into the not worth the hassle range.
  • GrumpySmurf1002
    GrumpySmurf1002 Posts: 3,511 Chairperson of the Boards
    There should be. And Gauntlet along side those. And one of those weird nothing events like Inside Job. And prologue should refresh every week. And 2-3 PvPs running at a time. With lightning rounds every half hour every day. And Shield Sim should go to 5000 instead of 2000.

    Just to end these threads where people want to play the game 25 out of every 24 hours.
  • Piro_plock
    Piro_plock Posts: 287 Mover and Shaker
    TLCstormz wrote:
    smkspy wrote:
    Season gauntlet.

    That is one of THE LEAST player friendly game modes in existence.

    Why can't you old timers see that? lol
    Why do you think it's not player friendly? No competition, all prog rewards, no timers, a lot of fun, challenging teams to try out different combos than usual... This is a lot more player friendly than any other PVE.

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