Time Gem Season Updates *Updated (10/19/17)

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  • The rockett
    The rockett Posts: 2,016 Chairperson of the Boards
    LOL. I just realized something. While breakdown the score vs win format for an ally mate that was seeing what he needed to do, I noticed that not only did they take the 15 CPs from 1200 and move to placement but they also took out the 500 score ISO, which is 750 in SL7 for black Vortex. I am not sure if this was talk about before, but I just saw it.  Lol. Nerfed the CPs and now an ISO rewards.  Awesome.  Time to go bash some seals again.  
  • Angjo
    Angjo Posts: 42 Just Dropped In
    So when the devs said “we’d really like your feedback on some changes we’re thinking about so we’re going to run some test events” what they really meant was “we’d like you to give us feedback that we’re making a good change. If you give us any feedback we could use to improve the event or that says these changes are bad, well we’re just going to ignore that”?

    If I could ask a question of you @Brigby

    A lot of players are now having to climb to places they know they will be attacked in order to lose points, a lot of players are deliberately using week teams to lose points, a lot of players are retreating to lose points. Could you check with the devs that this is the way they intended the game to played after this change? 
  • 8punch
    8punch Posts: 97 Match Maker
    when i got my 10 CP i had a score of 974 points. so that means for me to get 10 cp in PVP mode i have to do almost double the matches and not even getting that level 4 card.

    i end up most of the time in top20 in pvp so getting to 1200 is basicly useless now for me, since i get no cp at 1200. so i just go for 10 cp from now on and wait till the developers change it back into something good again.

  • astrp3
    astrp3 Posts: 367 Mover and Shaker
    edited October 2017
    Angjo said:
    If I could ask a question of you @Brigby

    A lot of players are now having to climb to places they know they will be attacked in order to lose points, a lot of players are deliberately using week teams to lose points, a lot of players are retreating to lose points. Could you check with the devs that this is the way they intended the game to played after this change? 
    From D3 HQ: Thank you for your feedback, Angio. No, that is not how we intended the game to be played. Rest assured, we will be taking prompt action. Beginning next event, we will be implementing changes that we feel will adequately address your concerns. In the interest of communicating with our players in a more timely fashion, we want to let you know the options we are considering: 1) locking players who engage in such practices out of progression rewards for the event, 2) locking such players out of participation in Versus events for the duration of the season, 3) eliminating the loss of points when retreating or losing with a weak team and awarding maximum points to the opponent of those who do so We are leaning toward option 3 since that benefits everyone and will eliminate what we feel is an egregious violation of the spirit of the game (we don't like people "gaming" the system and are confident that option 3 will severely curtail such practices). Thank you. 


    DISCLAIMER: I do not work for D3 or DemiUrge (despite rumors to the contrary). The above is completely false (at least AFAIK) and is intended as humor. 


  • NotBAMF
    NotBAMF Posts: 408 Mover and Shaker
    Just as a personal update to where I am at: In the Category-5 event, I am up to the 24 wins award, and I've yet to cross 550 points. So I've gotten well past the 10CP awards whereas under the points system, I wouldn't have even gotten the 10CP yet.

    So yeah, I still dig this. *shrug* 
  • Vhailorx
    Vhailorx Posts: 6,085 Chairperson of the Boards
    NotBAMF said:
    Just as a personal update to where I am at: In the Category-5 event, I am up to the 24 wins award, and I've yet to cross 550 points. So I've gotten well past the 10CP awards whereas under the points system, I wouldn't have even gotten the 10CP yet.

    So yeah, I still dig this. *shrug* 
    Are you actually attacking all opponents worth 22ish points?  Or are you losing a lot of points on retaliation strikes?

    Are you unable to see higher value opponents, or do you only see higher value opponents that you consider unbeatable?
  • smkspy
    smkspy Posts: 2,024 Chairperson of the Boards
    corytutor said:
    Thats not the games fault.

     Know your limits and the strength of your roster, buy a shield, and spend some iso to find easier teams. A ton of people grill and at 800 or above they arent hard to find.

    Look at your bracket leaderboard. See those guys at top? Pick the ones in top alliances. When they unshield look for them. Theyre worth the most and also the most likely to grill.  
    Did i say it was the games fault? 

    Thanks for school lesson though, glad it is outdated now.
  • 8punch
    8punch Posts: 97 Match Maker
    CharlieCroker said:
    8punch said:
    when i got my 10 CP i had a score of 974 points. so that means for me to get 10 cp in PVP mode i have to do almost double the matches and not even getting that level 4 card.

    i end up most of the time in top20 in pvp so getting to 1200 is basicly useless now for me, since i get no cp at 1200. so i just go for 10 cp from now on and wait till the developers change it back into something good again.


    I don't have a huge amount of time to play this weekend so just made a straight climb to 1400pts which cost me 15 healthpacks.  That took 25 wins including the three seeds.

    Under the old system that would have got me all progression rewards including the 3* cover, 4* cover and 15cp.  I could then decide if wanted to hop and fight for t5 or shield out and settle for t10/t25.

    With the new system I still have to win 15 more fights just to get the 4* cover (so maybe 4/5 hops) and that still might not be enough to get the 15cp.

    Thanks to the developers for this wonderful change.  More time spent for potentially less rewards was exactly what I wanted.  And I may be going PVE only to get it assuming you don't screw that up too.
    i dont even like PVE. you get the same story every freaking time. same nodes every time. replay same nodes constantly. i stopped bothering with it after that horrible caulson event. i thought we would get a great story. instead we got 1 lousy half page comic story. because for me that is the only thing that would draw me back into PVE. why dont we get a season story line for like 20 days. something along the line of deadpool challenge and every day a new page to read. now that would be awesome. even i would get less rewards, but at least it would be fun to do since you get somethign special as reward.
  • NotBAMF
    NotBAMF Posts: 408 Mover and Shaker
    edited October 2017
    Vhailorx said:
    NotBAMF said:
    Just as a personal update to where I am at: In the Category-5 event, I am up to the 24 wins award, and I've yet to cross 550 points. So I've gotten well past the 10CP awards whereas under the points system, I wouldn't have even gotten the 10CP yet.

    So yeah, I still dig this. *shrug* 
    Are you actually attacking all opponents worth 22ish points?  Or are you losing a lot of points on retaliation strikes?

    Are you unable to see higher value opponents, or do you only see higher value opponents that you consider unbeatable?
    It's mostly retaliation strikes. I'm probably seeing more retaliation strikes now than I used to, unless it just SEEMS like that and I'm mistaken.

    But another aspect is that I'm much more willing to lose battles I initiate now. No more skipping around constantly looking for the biggest fish with the easiest team. Now it's as soon as I find a team that doesn't look to be unbeatable, I go into thinking "What's the weakest team I can build that should be able to beat this team?". If the opposing team is worth 50 points or 7 points, who cares? As long as I think I have a chance, I go for it. And if I lose, so what? It was worth a try, and it's helping me strategize for next time. Losing battles I initiated used to be rage-inducingly frustrating; now it's the mildest of inconveniences. 

    I'm earning/saving more Iso from not skipping nearly as much. I'm earning more wins from being able to play a lot more at once (I'm almost never using heath packs except on Storm herself because I just skip around my healthy characters, so it's no more "I can only play until the one single best team I can build is not healed enough to continue"). I'm getting more rewards than I used to (I used to grind up to 575 and then just stop until the last hour or so of the event to salvage some progression, and now I'm earning well past the 10CP threshold). So all in all.. yeah, I'm a huge fan of the change so far, but it's only, what, three days in?
  • Milk Jugz
    Milk Jugz Posts: 1,122 Chairperson of the Boards
    Tony Foot said:
    Given the 40 wins a good play test again today, changed my mind. Effort isn't worth the reward. Didn't get seeds, could have hit 900 at 23ish wins and that was with hitting whatever I could regardless of points. Spent the day climbing to 850 and waiting for hits, rinse and repeat. Currently on 31 wins and hating myself.

    There's no way in hell I will step up to 5* with this system and I'm 2 weeks away from 300 pulls. Won't be bothering.

    Like the idea in general over the old system but points and wins is confusing as hell, mixed bag of nothing. 40 wins is still far too much. I'm so glad I'm about done with bothering needing to chase 4* covers because it's too much for me.
    Welcome to the Dark SIde
  • corytutor
    corytutor Posts: 414 Mover and Shaker
    23 wins. 870 points. T4 imb. Only hitting wins to preserve t10 now. 19hrs left i dont think I'll see 40 and couldnt be happier about it. 40 is waay too much
  • Vhailorx
    Vhailorx Posts: 6,085 Chairperson of the Boards
    Milk Jugz said:
    Tony Foot said:
    Given the 40 wins a good play test again today, changed my mind. Effort isn't worth the reward. Didn't get seeds, could have hit 900 at 23ish wins and that was with hitting whatever I could regardless of points. Spent the day climbing to 850 and waiting for hits, rinse and repeat. Currently on 31 wins and hating myself.

    There's no way in hell I will step up to 5* with this system and I'm 2 weeks away from 300 pulls. Won't be bothering.

    Like the idea in general over the old system but points and wins is confusing as hell, mixed bag of nothing. 40 wins is still far too much. I'm so glad I'm about done with bothering needing to chase 4* covers because it's too much for me.
    Welcome to the Dark SIde
    Welcome tp the side of acknowledging the obvious.
  • D4Ni13
    D4Ni13 Posts: 745 Critical Contributor
    Tony Foot said:
    Given the 40 wins a good play test again today, changed my mind. Effort isn't worth the reward. Didn't get seeds, could have hit 900 at 23ish wins and that was with hitting whatever I could regardless of points. Spent the day climbing to 850 and waiting for hits, rinse and repeat. Currently on 31 wins and hating myself.

    There's no way in hell I will step up to 5* with this system and I'm 2 weeks away from 300 pulls. Won't be bothering.

    Like the idea in general over the old system but points and wins is confusing as hell, mixed bag of nothing. 40 wins is still far too much. I'm so glad I'm about done with bothering needing to chase 4* covers because it's too much for me.
    I guess this system is for those times you really need or want that cover. Lets say you have a 5-2-5 X-23 and you need that red to champ her, you can make an effort & get the cover. If on the other hand you have a 4-4-4 Mr Fantastic and you don't plan on champing anytime soon, you can just skip the challenge. 

    As a casual player I found myself sometimes with nothing to play because I would not be optimal anymore or I was shielded. With this system I could play and not have drawbacks. 

    Win some, lose some. Not a perfect system, not sure if better than old one or not, but we have to deal with it now. 
  • Milk Jugz
    Milk Jugz Posts: 1,122 Chairperson of the Boards
    D4Ni13 said:
    Tony Foot said:
    Given the 40 wins a good play test again today, changed my mind. Effort isn't worth the reward. Didn't get seeds, could have hit 900 at 23ish wins and that was with hitting whatever I could regardless of points. Spent the day climbing to 850 and waiting for hits, rinse and repeat. Currently on 31 wins and hating myself.

    There's no way in hell I will step up to 5* with this system and I'm 2 weeks away from 300 pulls. Won't be bothering.

    Like the idea in general over the old system but points and wins is confusing as hell, mixed bag of nothing. 40 wins is still far too much. I'm so glad I'm about done with bothering needing to chase 4* covers because it's too much for me.
    I guess this system is for those times you really need or want that cover. Lets say you have a 5-2-5 X-23 and you need that red to champ her, you can make an effort & get the cover. If on the other hand you have a 4-4-4 Mr Fantastic and you don't plan on champing anytime soon, you can just skip the challenge. 

    As a casual player I found myself sometimes with nothing to play because I would not be optimal anymore or I was shielded. With this system I could play and not have drawbacks. 

    Win some, lose some. Not a perfect system, not sure if better than old one or not, but we have to deal with it now. 
    Considering I don't have any max champ 4s, my closest is 320 AC and he's 16 levels over the next closest, I need/want ALL the 4* covers. I was able to consistently get them when at 900......
  • Spudgutter
    Spudgutter Posts: 743 Critical Contributor
    Milk Jugz said:
    D4Ni13 said:
    Tony Foot said:
    Given the 40 wins a good play test again today, changed my mind. Effort isn't worth the reward. Didn't get seeds, could have hit 900 at 23ish wins and that was with hitting whatever I could regardless of points. Spent the day climbing to 850 and waiting for hits, rinse and repeat. Currently on 31 wins and hating myself.

    There's no way in hell I will step up to 5* with this system and I'm 2 weeks away from 300 pulls. Won't be bothering.

    Like the idea in general over the old system but points and wins is confusing as hell, mixed bag of nothing. 40 wins is still far too much. I'm so glad I'm about done with bothering needing to chase 4* covers because it's too much for me.
    I guess this system is for those times you really need or want that cover. Lets say you have a 5-2-5 X-23 and you need that red to champ her, you can make an effort & get the cover. If on the other hand you have a 4-4-4 Mr Fantastic and you don't plan on champing anytime soon, you can just skip the challenge. 

    As a casual player I found myself sometimes with nothing to play because I would not be optimal anymore or I was shielded. With this system I could play and not have drawbacks. 

    Win some, lose some. Not a perfect system, not sure if better than old one or not, but we have to deal with it now. 
    Considering I don't have any max champ 4s, my closest is 320 AC and he's 16 levels over the next closest, I need/want ALL the 4* covers. I was able to consistently get them when at 900......
    yes, but as been stated before, it's not about what the individual can get, but what the masses can.  for every one of us that are in that situation, i bet there are thousands that are not.  

    i have the day off tomorrow.  so instead of sitting behind a shield and not playing tomorrow, i can play all day, at my leisure.  i'm also sure that there will be days where it doesn't benefit me.  by keeping an open mind about it, i hope to not be as bitter about it as some people are when that happens.
  • Milk Jugz
    Milk Jugz Posts: 1,122 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited October 2017
    Spudgutter said:
    Milk Jugz said:
    D4Ni13 said:
    Tony Foot said:
    Given the 40 wins a good play test again today, changed my mind. Effort isn't worth the reward. Didn't get seeds, could have hit 900 at 23ish wins and that was with hitting whatever I could regardless of points. Spent the day climbing to 850 and waiting for hits, rinse and repeat. Currently on 31 wins and hating myself.

    There's no way in hell I will step up to 5* with this system and I'm 2 weeks away from 300 pulls. Won't be bothering.

    Like the idea in general over the old system but points and wins is confusing as hell, mixed bag of nothing. 40 wins is still far too much. I'm so glad I'm about done with bothering needing to chase 4* covers because it's too much for me.
    I guess this system is for those times you really need or want that cover. Lets say you have a 5-2-5 X-23 and you need that red to champ her, you can make an effort & get the cover. If on the other hand you have a 4-4-4 Mr Fantastic and you don't plan on champing anytime soon, you can just skip the challenge. 

    As a casual player I found myself sometimes with nothing to play because I would not be optimal anymore or I was shielded. With this system I could play and not have drawbacks. 

    Win some, lose some. Not a perfect system, not sure if better than old one or not, but we have to deal with it now. 
    Considering I don't have any max champ 4s, my closest is 320 AC and he's 16 levels over the next closest, I need/want ALL the 4* covers. I was able to consistently get them when at 900......
    yes, but as been stated before, it's not about what the individual can get, but what the masses can.  for every one of us that are in that situation, i bet there are thousands that are not.  

    i have the day off tomorrow.  so instead of sitting behind a shield and not playing tomorrow, i can play all day, at my leisure.  i'm also sure that there will be days where it doesn't benefit me.  by keeping an open mind about it, i hope to not be as bitter about it as some people are when that happens.
    Yes, exactly what I want to do on my one day off a week. Screw my wife, daughter, life. I'll play MPQ all day!!!! There are other things I want to do. I could get that cover much faster/easier before win based. Come on, spud!!!

    EDIT: In Cat-5 I've already been to 900 twice, at 22 wins and 28 wins. I want to be shielded to the end and not *have* to play tonight or tomorrow.
  • Bowgentle
    Bowgentle Posts: 7,926 Chairperson of the Boards
    Milk Jugz said:
    Spudgutter said:
    Milk Jugz said:
    D4Ni13 said:
    Tony Foot said:
    Given the 40 wins a good play test again today, changed my mind. Effort isn't worth the reward. Didn't get seeds, could have hit 900 at 23ish wins and that was with hitting whatever I could regardless of points. Spent the day climbing to 850 and waiting for hits, rinse and repeat. Currently on 31 wins and hating myself.

    There's no way in hell I will step up to 5* with this system and I'm 2 weeks away from 300 pulls. Won't be bothering.

    Like the idea in general over the old system but points and wins is confusing as hell, mixed bag of nothing. 40 wins is still far too much. I'm so glad I'm about done with bothering needing to chase 4* covers because it's too much for me.
    I guess this system is for those times you really need or want that cover. Lets say you have a 5-2-5 X-23 and you need that red to champ her, you can make an effort & get the cover. If on the other hand you have a 4-4-4 Mr Fantastic and you don't plan on champing anytime soon, you can just skip the challenge. 

    As a casual player I found myself sometimes with nothing to play because I would not be optimal anymore or I was shielded. With this system I could play and not have drawbacks. 

    Win some, lose some. Not a perfect system, not sure if better than old one or not, but we have to deal with it now. 
    Considering I don't have any max champ 4s, my closest is 320 AC and he's 16 levels over the next closest, I need/want ALL the 4* covers. I was able to consistently get them when at 900......
    yes, but as been stated before, it's not about what the individual can get, but what the masses can.  for every one of us that are in that situation, i bet there are thousands that are not.  

    i have the day off tomorrow.  so instead of sitting behind a shield and not playing tomorrow, i can play all day, at my leisure.  i'm also sure that there will be days where it doesn't benefit me.  by keeping an open mind about it, i hope to not be as bitter about it as some people are when that happens.
    Yes, exactly what I want to do on my one day off a week. Screw my wife, daughter, life. I'll play MPQ all day!!!! There are other things I want to do. I could get that cover much faster/easier before win based. Come on, spud!!!

    EDIT: In Cat-5 I've already been to 900 twice, at 22 wins and 28 wins. I want to be shielded to the end and not *have* to play tonight or tomorrow.
    That's exactly where I'm at.
    Played to 800 with my 4s, dumped, sitting at 700 with 20 wins.
    Screw 40, I'll do my normal climb tomorrow for alliance points and think long and hard about sniping brackets in the last 8 again - something I haven't done in about a year.
  • Nick441234
    Nick441234 Posts: 1,496 Chairperson of the Boards
    I still believe the wins option is better than how it was. The problem is they've set the bar way too high. Lower the bar, and I think it would work much better for all players. 

    I'm exiting on 16 wins and the 10cp. I simply cant be bothered to play to 40 wins. 

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