The Simulator: April 29 - May 6

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  • ZeiramMR
    ZeiramMR Posts: 1,357 Chairperson of the Boards
    Maybe something about Falcon's yellow is keeping buffed tiles from switching sides?
  • hex706f726368
    hex706f726368 Posts: 421 Mover and Shaker
    buddy2034 wrote:
    Facing Falcon, AW, Psylocke and all I'm doing is getting blacks at the cost of my Punisher knowing trickery is huge here. Get my number right before Pun goes down and they crush the board with Falcon protects and AW strike tiles. I'm okay though bc even though I just lost my literal big gun, the board is now going to be flush with trickeried strikes and protects. Game will be over in a couple turns. I pull it out and... only about half of the tiles change. What!? Am I getting a bug or is his ability limited to a specific number of targets? I know it doesn't affect attacks, but I thought ALL of the protects and strikes would be mine. What did I miss?

    I just did this same thing. Iron-Man had put out two sets of protect tiles from armor assault. My low-level loki only turned 4 of the 5 remaining protect tiles into strike tiles.
  • wade66
    wade66 Posts: 212 Tile Toppler
    locked wrote:

    I wish the game would allow us to choose our own difficulty for PvE (and get corresponding rewards, maybe slightly more ISO and tokens for harder enemies). If the player uses boosts and 'broken' characters they don't get the best rewards and that's it. Also make it so newer players cannot even choose the ultra hard mode and older players cannot choose the starter mode. Makes sense to me because 1*s can't survive match damage anyway and 3*s need more ISO by the very nature of their rosters.

    Here's what I would do:

    At the beginning of each event create 3 difficulty tiers. Have one for 1 and unmaxxed 2 stars, one for 1, 2, and unmaxxed 3 stars, and one elite for all characters. Once you select your setting you are locked in that tier for the duration oc that event.

    Make the 75-100 placement be the top award for lowest setting, the 51-74 be the top for the second tier, and the 3-10 the top of the third. The token 1-2 place 4* can go to just the first place winner.
  • over_clocked
    over_clocked Posts: 3,961
    ^ seems a nice idea, that way even newbies can get a shot at the single cover of a new character, which is the only thing that matters. And not at the cost of other players.
  • Unknown
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    After some sever side lag of me entering the subs this morning I came in next to last. New record low me

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  • Unknown
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    Sumilea wrote:
    After some sever side lag of me entering the subs this morning I came in next to last. New record low me

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    Surely you're not that bad?! And if there's a cheater in your bracket that would make you.. Oh right, still second to last.

    The lower ranks are changing really slow, I've done public nodes once on each sub, and my rank hasn't changed much at all. Everyone waiting for rubberbanding
  • DrNitroman
    DrNitroman Posts: 966 Critical Contributor
    Interruptor wrote:
    The lower ranks are changing really slow, I've done public nodes once on each sub, and my rank hasn't changed much at all. Everyone waiting for rubberbanding
    This is my case. I don't have as much time as usual, so I'm trying to wait for max RB. For those interested, Sumilea posted the point values of each nodes on the 3rd page of this thread icon_e_wink.gif
    Obviously, if we are numerous to wait for max rubberbanding this will slow down the overall point progression...
  • Unknown
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    Need grinders for optimal rubber banding but you also need rewards for the grinders right now nothing appeals in the progressions.
  • Unknown
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    DrNitroman wrote:
    Interruptor wrote:
    The lower ranks are changing really slow, I've done public nodes once on each sub, and my rank hasn't changed much at all. Everyone waiting for rubberbanding
    This is my case. I don't have as much time as usual, so I'm trying to wait for max RB. For those interested, Sumilea posted the point values of each nodes on the 3rd page of this thread icon_e_wink.gif
    Obviously, if we are numerous to wait for max rubberbanding this will slow down the overall point progression...

    Those point values need to be scaled up by 25%. If the 3rd set of subs go to form they need to be scaled by 50% for the final round.
  • DrNitroman
    DrNitroman Posts: 966 Critical Contributor
    Sumilea wrote:
    Those point values need to be scaled up by 25%. If the 3rd set of subs go to form they need to be scaled by 50% for the final round.
    OK, thanks!
    beemand2g wrote:
    Need grinders for optimal rubber banding but you also need rewards for the grinders right now nothing appeals in the progressions.
    You're right.
    Currently, I guess that numerous grinders are just occasional players who invest some time during the week end, hoping for a good ranking... and invariably finishing ranked behind veteran players who know game mechanisms. I feel a bit bad about that but I think the true responsible is the lack of transparency of the game: the rules are hidden.
  • MaxCavalera
    MaxCavalera Posts: 425 Mover and Shaker
    So I have had a couple first here today playing these sim matches. First scenario i am down to just C mags left vs DD and his team my only hope is to just chain his blue but there are traps out. So i make a 5 blue and bam stunned for 7 turns game over but, wait I had made a 5 match so i got one more turn that i took delayed because it took me a minute to figure out what the game was waiting for. I made one last match and AI took care of the rest, ouch. Secondly I was getting down to the nitty gritty again vs a hulk team. I had m thor and hood left but i was just about out of HP so i unleashed all my powers call storm, thunder strike, even intimidation for good measure hes not dead and very angry so i make my best match available a 4 red and wait to die first two angers kill my team looks like defeat but the game is still running his abilities even after were all down oh wait hes got 48 hp ! one more anger and he kills himself! victory =)
  • Unknown
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    So hard ranking high when I dont have Loki for the essentials.

    and right now I'm spamming for 20 isos instead of doing pvp where i can heal I'm afraid my nodes are going to go up and will be too high leveled for me when i only have 4 high levels and one buffed passed 50
  • over_clocked
    over_clocked Posts: 3,961
    Something to liven up the thread:

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    Invisible Woman went Invisible and also hid mHawkeye behind her force field! Just like in comics!

    (No, not really, he's just being his usual buggy avoid-y jerky self). Never fear - I was able to select him and proceed to beat his cowardly bum.
  • Unknown
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    IFK about all of you guys but I am officially exhausted from trying to fight lvl 300+ nodes. This is freaking ridiculous man. I wanna know who complained about 250 nodes so I can kick their tinykitty!!! Screw this!!!
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    Pamizard wrote:
    So hard ranking high when I dont have Loki for the essentials.

    and right now I'm spamming for 20 isos instead of doing pvp where i can heal I'm afraid my nodes are going to go up and will be too high leveled for me when i only have 4 high levels and one buffed passed 50

    Not doing essentials is always hard. Take this event if you order nodes by points the hit order from highest value down starts as follows

    8,9,10,8,9,4,10,8,9,7,3,4,10

    After this sequence nodes the next best are worth 80 point and are 3 and 7 again. As you can see 9 of the top 13 nodes are essentials Simulation 4 is done twice and simulations 3 and 7 once. These 13 nodes get you 1752 of the 2940 - ignoring the unrepeatable sim 2 - from 13 of the 45 nodes. After about 19 nodes, from the complete list, points start becoming painfully low.
  • Bowgentle
    Bowgentle Posts: 7,926 Chairperson of the Boards
    I must say, my scaling is behaving for now.
    Probably mostly because I can't even be bothered to do the essentials more than twice because they aren't worth any points.

    So my strategy is one full run-through through every node once (preferably early to avoid the worst of community scaling), and once more for the essentials.
    Then each essential twice for the second-to-last refresh, and then twice or three times the essentials for the last refresh, whatever it takes to get back into top 10 in the main.
    Been working out (and I've just accepted that I have to adjust my sleep pattern to match refresh times for the last two times...).
    Three subs lasting 2,5 days actually is pretty enjoyable, at least compared to the last events, which arguably isn't saying all that much.
  • over_clocked
    over_clocked Posts: 3,961
    Sumilea wrote:
    Not doing essentials is always hard. Take this event if you order nodes by points the hit order from highest value down starts as follows
    She cannot do Essentials, she doesn't have Loki. (We know her roster better than our own.)
  • Unknown
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    I don't even feel like grinding anymore I only want top 50 I am in first in the main 2nd in hard and 16 easy so many points on the board but no incentive to grind 200-300pt nodes. PVE has become a nightmare
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    Congrats to Kroasankata - assuming your lurking here somewhere - could not even get close to that score in the easy bracket:-

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    beemand2g wrote:
    I don't even feel like grinding anymore I only want top 50 I am in first in the main 2nd in hard and 16 easy so many points on the board but no incentive to grind 200-300pt nodes. PVE has become a nightmare

    For the main bracket there's really no incentive to go for top 10 if you've not got a solid shot at 1-2. I'm sitting in 11th in mine, and I plan on taking it easy the next couple days and aiming for top 50. It's not worth screwing up my next event's scaling for 500 ISO.

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