entropic01 wrote: Am I the only one that had their most miserable PVP in a long time? Seeing these huge scores makes me think I’m the only one super struggling in this PVP Top 10 cutoff in my bracket is 1124 which is high but manageable. Usually I could break 1100 with 0 or 1 shields but this time I am in the worst MMR hell I’ve ever seen. From the very beginning, I was facing nothing but 141 teams. I have no problem taking down 141 teams since I field one myself but the problem was I also was getting attacked more than usual. Typically, my team lets me not get attacked until above 900. Occasionally I would get hit around 600-700 but that was the exception rather than the rule. This time however, I started getting hit as low as 300. It wasn’t just a fluke thing either, I got to about 700 and came out to over -100 in attacks. I actually had to shield out at 725ish and immediately got hit several more times. I clawed my way up to 800ish and shielded out for hopefully at least a top 50. Anyone else seeing anything remotely like this?
EvilSonGoku wrote: that sucks Entropic, I saw the usual 2* to 300ish, obw +thor from 500-800, then 3*s around 1k. It seemed like mmr was pretty spot on.
entropic01 wrote: EvilSonGoku wrote: that sucks Entropic, I saw the usual 2* to 300ish, obw +thor from 500-800, then 3*s around 1k. It seemed like mmr was pretty spot on. Yea, that's the climb I've grown accustomed to as well. I have no idea why my MMR suddenly went to hell. Hopefully I can do something to get it reasonable again.
daveomite wrote: So, what's the general consensus of when the best time to start is now? I know it used to be waiting, but not so sure as one of our alliance waited and they still had 1,200+ top 5/10.
WolfmanX25 wrote: daveomite wrote: So, what's the general consensus of when the best time to start is now? I know it used to be waiting, but not so sure as one of our alliance waited and they still had 1,200+ top 5/10. I know I'm never entering another bracket 29 hours after the start.
daveomite wrote: WolfmanX25 wrote: daveomite wrote: So, what's the general consensus of when the best time to start is now? I know it used to be waiting, but not so sure as one of our alliance waited and they still had 1,200+ top 5/10. I know I'm never entering another bracket 29 hours after the start. yeah...thinking earlier is now officially better. Lol
Mizake wrote: entropic01 wrote: EvilSonGoku wrote: that sucks Entropic, I saw the usual 2* to 300ish, obw +thor from 500-800, then 3*s around 1k. It seemed like mmr was pretty spot on. Yea, that's the climb I've grown accustomed to as well. I have no idea why my MMR suddenly went to hell. Hopefully I can do something to get it reasonable again. I think a different strategy is required now. You hit me with about 4 hours to go in the tournament for -40. At the time I was already above 1000, and you were at around 700 pts. In the past you would have never seen me in your nodes until you had gotten higher. I've noticed that as well when I was climbing, I was hitting people 200+ points above me, and visa versa. It sucks being above 1000 getting hit for large pts by people with 700 pts and below. So you have to find fights worth more than 25+ pts (ie they have scores higher than you), but you are getting retal'ed by those same people AND you have to deal with players starting their climb. Those are the tough ones because you essentially have to win 2 fights to get those pts back. Because the range is so large now a lot more people are seeing you as targets, and because of that you are going to get hit more often. Therefore late pushes don't work as well. This event was especially crazy with the scores, we will see if this was an aberration or a sign of things to come.
Mizake wrote: I think a different strategy is required now. You hit me with about 4 hours to go in the tournament for -40. At the time I was already above 1000, and you were at around 700 pts. In the past you would have never seen me in your nodes until you had gotten higher. I've noticed that as well when I was climbing, I was hitting people 200+ points above me, and visa versa. It sucks being above 1000 getting hit for large pts by people with 700 pts and below. So you have to find fights worth more than 25+ pts (ie they have scores higher than you), but you are getting retal'ed by those same people AND you have to deal with players starting their climb. Those are the tough ones because you essentially have to win 2 fights to get those pts back. Because the range is so large now a lot more people are seeing you as targets, and because of that you are going to get hit more often. Therefore late pushes don't work as well. This event was especially crazy with the scores, we will see if this was an aberration or a sign of things to come.
Toxicadam wrote: Mizake wrote: I think a different strategy is required now. You hit me with about 4 hours to go in the tournament for -40. At the time I was already above 1000, and you were at around 700 pts. In the past you would have never seen me in your nodes until you had gotten higher. I've noticed that as well when I was climbing, I was hitting people 200+ points above me, and visa versa. It sucks being above 1000 getting hit for large pts by people with 700 pts and below. So you have to find fights worth more than 25+ pts (ie they have scores higher than you), but you are getting retal'ed by those same people AND you have to deal with players starting their climb. Those are the tough ones because you essentially have to win 2 fights to get those pts back. Because the range is so large now a lot more people are seeing you as targets, and because of that you are going to get hit more often. Therefore late pushes don't work as well. This event was especially crazy with the scores, we will see if this was an aberration or a sign of things to come. Are you sure it's not that they hit skip and immediately and 'found' you, but rather they had you in their queue already from an earlier time? Because I know I've been hit by people with 0 points when I had climbed to 800+. They didn't "see me" at 800 .. it's more likely they logged in the event 90 minutes earlier, queued me up when I was at 200, and then hit me later. So, I lose -50 and they gain more points than their screen told them they were going to get. When I'm making my climb, I -rarely- see someone with more than 250+ points above me. They are there .. but I usually have to hit skip about 7-8 times to find them.
Mizake wrote: I think it's just a wider MMR range now. When I go from 200-800ish, I can usually skip around and find targets worth 40+ all the time. I don't have them saved up from before.
Toxicadam wrote: Mizake wrote: I think it's just a wider MMR range now. When I go from 200-800ish, I can usually skip around and find targets worth 40+ all the time. I don't have them saved up from before. Sure, but when you're in the 600's making your climb, you're not finding multiple people with 1000 points (I know I'm not). It's more likely your finding a few people in the low to mid-800's to gain those 37-41 points and many more people within 100 points of your current position. Those times you find someone that is 400+ points ahead of you is very, very rare. I would assume its by design in order to help people make a climb so they don't get stuck in rut slugging it out with the same people in their point range.
ichijuan wrote: What the tinykitty is a kiyp-gate? I assume the -gate at the end is a reference to watergate-like things, but could someone explain to me what is kiypgate?