The Simulator: April 29 - May 6

daveomite

Viorala wrote:

daveomite wrote:

Viorala wrote:

Wait, you guys think there is a conspiracy theory to scale high all the accounts with a high level Spidey, is that the gist of what I'm reading here...?

Aw, I love you, Forums. Hehe.

hardeeharhar.... lol. I didn't say "conspiracy"... but, now that you said it - I'm sure someone will run off with that theory and post some video's on YouTube about the "Conspiracy of MPQ" or something.

I don't think it's any type of conspiracy, just think it happens with this scaling system. It must take certain things into account. I was mainly thinking that maybe because I spent HP to buy covers for both HT and Spidey to have 5 in red/green for HT and 5 in blue for Spidey, that the auto-scaling system was triggers thinking that I'm more leveled than maybe I really am, if that makes sense.

We are, after all, talking about Skynet controlling the gameplay and scaling of MPQ here... right? When does the Arnoldanator become a character?

I'm not going to rule out a glitch in the coding accidentally eliminating the taking into account all other characters, which customer service wouldn't be aware of, so...I have a 92 Spidey and a 41 Human Torch, add together, divide by 2, equals 66. I've only run through both subevents once and starting out the easy mode was in the 30's and the hard mode was in the 60's. (You don't want to know how they've scaled for me, let me just say that I'm smiling right now. This is almost as hilarious as six months ago when if I played an event for an hour around 1 pm EST, every node was at level 16 and all prizes were Modern Hawkeye covers. I always thought that was weird and I've never seen anyone else mention it.)

who knows? Only the devs do I guess. Muhahahaha. Seriously though, I know they are saying "roster plays a part" - but as several of us seem to have noticed, even if two people have similar rosters, like Dreylin and I, we are getting completely different levels of baddies in both easy/hard. So, even with similar rosters, apparently some people get those higher nodes, some have 40-50's instead of 150-200's or even 300+.

Oh... and I just now got the exact same canned response that others posted in here from D3p, which they immediately closed the ticket after sending the reply.

daveomite

Dreylin wrote:

daveomite wrote:

Dreylin wrote:

So our rosters are fairly equal. I've put a bit of money in on occasions and bought a handful of covers (last 2 OBW Black & a BP Black), so really the only difference has to be in playstyles and maybe the use of Spidey. Sad that that's where the game is.

I'm guessing so. I mean, I joined the forum early in my playing, so I learned very quickly not to grind, etc. I'm currently on day 69 of my MPQ journey. But I'm guessing it's all related to how either you or I play, what we've played, how often we played, what characters used, etc, etc. I understand that.

But, in the last few events - I was 21st in my bracket in the Hunt, top 10 in Hot Shot, #2 in Doctors Orders, #1 in Top Gun, have over 5k in Season 1, and top 8 in Season 1 right now, and have 811 in AoO as well. So, I do generally play a few hours each day, and try to spread out what I play between events as best as I can, but focus on what is ending soonest, etc. For instance, I'm a little behind right now in the Sim, have almost 22.5k in it.

So, I also think it must have to do with how frequent of a player I am, my placements, etc. At least, some of that must be being applied to my overall MMR. Speaking of which - it might not be an overly bad idea for there to be a box/tab in the game that would show us what our current MMR is. Probably won't happen, but at least then we could actively see what causes it to go up/down, etc.

Day at least 115 here - I'm sure the daily rewards never quite caught up with me after the glitch.

Top100 Hulk (L.Thor release), T2 Unstable Iso, 3rd in Hunt. Usually t10 and regularly #1 in PvP (including HotShot & Doom), but am trailing so far in the Season as I have <1000 in the Simulator.

I guess we play a similar amount, but maybe you've developed a bit faster. TBH it's hard to see much difference other than the Spidey....!

This is why I guess I'm just confused about it. I know someone else in my alliance has a similar roster, similar leveled characters, etc - but he's getting easy nodes in the 30-40 range, and hard in the 50-70 range. Compared to mine, SIM04, for instance, is now all 195's, when it was 160 approx last night, and 140+ when I first started the sub. For the alliance mate, that same sub has them all at 68. So, big difference. But then, he doesn't have Spidey at all.

Of course, this sub is about to close out in a few hours - and these are still manageable for the most part - I'm more concerned about where's it's going to wind up in the next subs and over the next few days of the PvE.

Unknown

I hope they make us use DD vs goons again.

We always need more DDs bouncing around.

Unknown

wel back to the simulator i got. I got google play credit but i accidentally put one on the wrong email that isn't linked to my main account for MPQ so now i dont know how to switch emails so i can use the 10$ credit on my main in game account. Least i used my 25$ one on the right one now i can get thor to 85 and wolvie close to 85 but now .-. i got to spam the hell out of iso to make that happen.

anyway does anyone know how i can find a way to use my 10 dollar credit. I tried to make a backup user on my andriod account to find a way to make my backup saved of my main game account be moved to that account but it didnt work

Unknown

Recently I've been just throwing my B team at the nodes. They usually die fine on their own which seems to lower the scaling, and sometimes they accidentally win and that's okay too.

morgh

Great tactic but not when you have 1 hour before both brackets end, and you haven't even started

Unknown

Phantron wrote:

Recently I've been just throwing my B team at the nodes. They usually die fine on their own which seems to lower the scaling, and sometimes they accidentally win and that's okay too.

I have quite low scaling and I do this too. And then I also play matches without special powers, just matching tiles till the opponent dies, even if I have enough colours to do attacks, just save them to the end, when my heroes are seriously damaged I launch them and kill all opponents at once. Matches take longer time then too.

Unknown

im almost at number 1 in the easy node, but still at like 20-23 in the hard. Wonder if i should wait until the last hour to grind at the hard node to make it to at least the top 10.

Unknown

First The Hunt and now The Sim... oh yeah i love been scaled out of events and must count on a poop-tonne of luck too win. Maybe after this event D3 will be really really nice to us and give us The Hunt part 2 straight after......or during the middle of this one. That would be tremendous. Indeed.

daveomite

Pamizard wrote:

im almost at number 1 in the easy node, but still at like 20-23 in the hard. Wonder if i should wait until the last hour to grind at the hard node to make it to at least the top 10.

How far behind are you point wise? To me, placement comes second to separation of points between you are where you want to be, as there may be 10 people all within 100 points of each other that you could hop over in one match.

Unknown

daveomite wrote:

Pamizard wrote:

im almost at number 1 in the easy node, but still at like 20-23 in the hard. Wonder if i should wait until the last hour to grind at the hard node to make it to at least the top 10.

How far behind are you point wise? To me, placement comes second to separation of points between you are where you want to be, as there may be 10 people all within 100 points of each other that you could hop over in one match.

well the player in the number 1 slot is at 10797 points. I'm at #4 with 10478. All my nodes are under 200 points now so i have to like beat them all if i want to reach the top, but the thing is i dont want to waste my remaining hero points on health packs when i want the number to charge up 30 minutes. And i also keep using my buffed up falcon and thor, with either M storm, IM 35, A wolvie, or my bffed Cap or Ares (even though they need to be improved)

oh and this part is on the easy node haven't looked on the hard node

daveomite

TheUnwiseOne wrote:

First The Hunt and now The Sim... oh yeah i love been scaled out of events and must count on a poop-tonne of luck too win. Maybe after this event D3 will be really really nice to us and give us The Hunt part 2 straight after......or during the middle of this one. That would be tremendous. Indeed.

why not just go ahead and have Unstable, Brotherhood, Hulk, the Hunt, and the Sim running at the same time, with all subs ending in the same 2 hour block each time? Then, they can toss in some really high leveled 395's in there for some spice, and make the only required/buffed character in all subs be .... Bagman.

Oh, that would be so fun. ... .... wait, nevermind.

daveomite

Pamizard wrote:

daveomite wrote:

Pamizard wrote:

im almost at number 1 in the easy node, but still at like 20-23 in the hard. Wonder if i should wait until the last hour to grind at the hard node to make it to at least the top 10.

How far behind are you point wise? To me, placement comes second to separation of points between you are where you want to be, as there may be 10 people all within 100 points of each other that you could hop over in one match.

well the player in the number 1 slot is at 10797 points. I'm at #4 with 10478. All my nodes are under 200 points now so i have to like beat them all if i want to reach the top, but the thing is i dont want to waste my remaining hero points on health packs when i want the number to charge up 30 minutes. And i also keep using my buffed up falcon and thor, with either M storm, IM 35, A wolvie, or my bffed Cap or Ares (even though they need to be improved)

oh and this part is on the easy node haven't looked on the hard node

I'd say let some health packs renew, and wait a little bit. Not too long, but heal up, get at least a health pack back, and push more in that last hour, that's when it will matter the most.

also, don't forget that 1st is the same reward as 2nd, And the only difference from 1-2 and 3-5 is one token, it's the same amount of iso and hp for all.

Unknown

daveomite wrote:

Pamizard wrote:

daveomite wrote:

Pamizard wrote:

im almost at number 1 in the easy node, but still at like 20-23 in the hard. Wonder if i should wait until the last hour to grind at the hard node to make it to at least the top 10.

How far behind are you point wise? To me, placement comes second to separation of points between you are where you want to be, as there may be 10 people all within 100 points of each other that you could hop over in one match.

well the player in the number 1 slot is at 10797 points. I'm at #4 with 10478. All my nodes are under 200 points now so i have to like beat them all if i want to reach the top, but the thing is i dont want to waste my remaining hero points on health packs when i want the number to charge up 30 minutes. And i also keep using my buffed up falcon and thor, with either M storm, IM 35, A wolvie, or my bffed Cap or Ares (even though they need to be improved)

oh and this part is on the easy node haven't looked on the hard node

I'd say let some health packs renew, and wait a little bit. Not too long, but heal up, get at least a health pack back, and push more in that last hour, that's when it will matter the most.

also, don't forget that 1st is the same reward as 2nd, And the only difference from 1-2 and 3-5 is one token, it's the same amount of iso and hp for all.

yeah i really want to get enough tokens to see if i can improve my two covers (although My Marvel Now Thor is offically maxed he just need to be leveld to 85.) The ISO and HP is worth it though. I'm hoping the tokens can help me with Cap and Ares.

HailMary

Pamizard wrote:

well the player in the number 1 slot is at 10797 points. I'm at #4 with 10478. All my nodes are under 200 points now so i have to like beat them all if i want to reach the top, but the thing is i dont want to waste my remaining hero points on health packs when i want the number to charge up 30 minutes. And i also keep using my buffed up falcon and thor, with either M storm, IM 35, A wolvie, or my bffed Cap or Ares (even though they need to be improved)

oh and this part is on the easy node haven't looked on the hard node

Keep in mind that there's a balance that should be struck when timing your fights: the later you do them, the more points they're worth, but also the higher their levels will be.

I would strongly advise against spending HP on health packs, because the extra couple of encore fights that one health pack will let you do really doesn't matter in the long run. If your nodes are all under 200 points, definitely don't bother buying a health pack. People will still be pushing right up to the last second (because nodes generally get more valuable as time goes on), so your bracket leaders will almost certainly gain even more points in the next two hours.

P.S. - Congrats on getting Thor fully covered! He and AWolv carried me through my entire 2* phase pretty much by themselves.

Unknown

Thanks!

Yeah I never bought health packs with HP never will so i just let the timer regenerate them, while my heroes heal as well.

I just hope i can just do as much as I can in the final hour and the half. I have never been in the top 10 ever before. I really want to stay up there I'm currently charging my andriod since this laptop is old and I can't have the steam version on it.

morgh

Every damn time I get out of fights and my scaling goes up I go "duh" and think to myself that this is the only game where winning feels worse then losing :S

HairyDave

Pamizard wrote:

daveomite wrote:

Pamizard wrote:

im almost at number 1 in the easy node, but still at like 20-23 in the hard. Wonder if i should wait until the last hour to grind at the hard node to make it to at least the top 10.

How far behind are you point wise? To me, placement comes second to separation of points between you are where you want to be, as there may be 10 people all within 100 points of each other that you could hop over in one match.

well the player in the number 1 slot is at 10797 points. I'm at #4 with 10478. All my nodes are under 200 points now so i have to like beat them all if i want to reach the top, but the thing is i dont want to waste my remaining hero points on health packs when i want the number to charge up 30 minutes. And i also keep using my buffed up falcon and thor, with either M storm, IM 35, A wolvie, or my bffed Cap or Ares (even though they need to be improved)

oh and this part is on the easy node haven't looked on the hard node

Don't ignore hard either - do what you can with the essential nodes in particular and you could get just enough points to get a nice handful of ISO and some standard tokens.

Unknown

HairyDave wrote:

Pamizard wrote:

daveomite wrote:

Pamizard wrote:

im almost at number 1 in the easy node, but still at like 20-23 in the hard. Wonder if i should wait until the last hour to grind at the hard node to make it to at least the top 10.

How far behind are you point wise? To me, placement comes second to separation of points between you are where you want to be, as there may be 10 people all within 100 points of each other that you could hop over in one match.

well the player in the number 1 slot is at 10797 points. I'm at #4 with 10478. All my nodes are under 200 points now so i have to like beat them all if i want to reach the top, but the thing is i dont want to waste my remaining hero points on health packs when i want the number to charge up 30 minutes. And i also keep using my buffed up falcon and thor, with either M storm, IM 35, A wolvie, or my bffed Cap or Ares (even though they need to be improved)

oh and this part is on the easy node haven't looked on the hard node

Don't ignore hard either - do what you can with the essential nodes in particular and you could get just enough points to get a nice handful of ISO and some standard tokens.

im not ignoring hard. I'm currently at rank 26 in round one. .-. im currently out of health packs since im never ever ever going to waste HP on them ^_^ im a good beginner yes I am!!!!!!!

HairyDave

I just found out the hard way that you never let Patch get enough green when his angry green buddy is around...

Level 90s and they smooshed Ares, Falcon and OBW in one turn. Tried again with Moonstone and Loki and didn't do any better