Prodigal Sun, Episode 4.5

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  • Unknown
    Unknown
    All these PvE events are the same. I have trouble keeping up with the top 50 in the first sub because everyone is grinding like mad. I check the scoreboards and half of the players are newer players.

    By the end of it, everyone is either sick of the event or have scaled themselves out of competing, so I cruise past them to a top 10 placement.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Toxicadam wrote:
    By the end of it, everyone is either sick of the event or have scaled themselves out of competing, so I cruise past them to a top 10 placement.

    I'm pretty sure I'm well on my way to that second one. icon_razz.gif
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Vudu, last night I noticed that you managed to stay in the lead for the entire last 2 hours, as everyone else dropped out of top10 as the rubberbanders did their last refresh. I'm curious, what was your pro strategy to pull that off? icon_e_biggrin.gif
  • Unknown
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    DrUnpleasant wrote:
    So is rubberbanding based on your overall bracket? In my sub I did a full clear in the first couple of hours of it opening, and another full clear about 6hrs in. My highest node value is about 200pts yet the highest guy in my sub is 2400 ahead of me - even with insane grinding, I can't see how that is catchable.

    To back that up, I'm 11th in my overall so I can only assume that the low point value in my sub nodes is related to my proximity to the leader in the overall standings.

    Is that right? Or is it just that the leaders in my sub are have done some crazy grinding?

    The rubber band changed greatly this sub. Instead of gaining one for every 1250 points your behind the leader its now about 2750 points. Also the part with no scaling is much bigger, when I was 2200 behind the bracket leader I had zero rubber band scaling. Its probably even bigger than this is its HIGHLY unlikely I am in the bracket with the overall leader.

    The scaling is much closer to the last two events now unlike the first sub which was much closer to the old way rubber banding worked a few months back. Hence this sub your unlikely to get above 3.5 in the scaling meaning the top node will max out just over 1000 points when you about 10K behind the leader.
  • Bowgentle
    Bowgentle Posts: 7,926 Chairperson of the Boards
    Sumilea wrote:
    DrUnpleasant wrote:
    So is rubberbanding based on your overall bracket? In my sub I did a full clear in the first couple of hours of it opening, and another full clear about 6hrs in. My highest node value is about 200pts yet the highest guy in my sub is 2400 ahead of me - even with insane grinding, I can't see how that is catchable.

    To back that up, I'm 11th in my overall so I can only assume that the low point value in my sub nodes is related to my proximity to the leader in the overall standings.

    Is that right? Or is it just that the leaders in my sub are have done some crazy grinding?

    The rubber band changed greatly this sub. Instead of gaining one for every 1250 points your behind the leader its now about 2750 points. Also the part with no scaling is much bigger, when I was 2200 behind the bracket leader I had zero rubber band scaling. Its probably even bigger than this is its HIGHLY unlikely I am in the bracket with the overall leader.

    The scaling is much closer to the last two events now unlike the first sub which was much closer to the old way rubber banding worked a few months back. Hence this sub your unlikely to get above 3.5 in the scaling meaning the top node will max out just over 1000 points when you about 10K behind the leader.
    Wonder if they changed it so that less people will reach the Daken at 45K.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    The value of the nodes in my sub has barely moved today and I've only dropped from 10th to 16th in the last 6 hours despite minimal activity...
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Bowgentle wrote:
    Sumilea wrote:
    DrUnpleasant wrote:
    So is rubberbanding based on your overall bracket? In my sub I did a full clear in the first couple of hours of it opening, and another full clear about 6hrs in. My highest node value is about 200pts yet the highest guy in my sub is 2400 ahead of me - even with insane grinding, I can't see how that is catchable.

    To back that up, I'm 11th in my overall so I can only assume that the low point value in my sub nodes is related to my proximity to the leader in the overall standings.

    Is that right? Or is it just that the leaders in my sub are have done some crazy grinding?

    The rubber band changed greatly this sub. Instead of gaining one for every 1250 points your behind the leader its now about 2750 points. Also the part with no scaling is much bigger, when I was 2200 behind the bracket leader I had zero rubber band scaling. Its probably even bigger than this is its HIGHLY unlikely I am in the bracket with the overall leader.

    The scaling is much closer to the last two events now unlike the first sub which was much closer to the old way rubber banding worked a few months back. Hence this sub your unlikely to get above 3.5 in the scaling meaning the top node will max out just over 1000 points when you about 10K behind the leader.
    Wonder if they changed it so that less people will reach the Daken at 45K.
    The answer to this question is so obviously yes that I wonder if it is a rhetorical question.

    You see, they put the one good reward up, but if there is any chance we will actually achieve it, they take measures (sometimes so extreme they completely screw up the event like last time) to ensure that it does not happen.
  • over_clocked
    over_clocked Posts: 3,961
    Ugh! They nerfed points again? Or RB, whatever?
    After all the lags and bugs you would think playerbase could be left alone with their achievable prog reward.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    locked wrote:
    Ugh! They nerfed points again? Or RB, whatever?
    After all the lags and bugs you would think playerbase could be left alone with their achievable prog reward.

    The total base points went up however the change to the RB will mean our totals for this sub will be lower. (Unless someone grinds REALLY hard)
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    DrUnpleasant wrote:
    The value of the nodes in my sub has barely moved today and I've only dropped from 10th to 16th in the last 6 hours despite minimal activity...

    You're pretty damn lucky!

    My node value has barely moved either and I dropped from around 25th in both main and sub to 154th in main and 256th in sub - also in a little over 6 hours. Distance to leader -5k in main, 3k in sub. This event is so weird for me.
  • Unknown
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    ZeiramMR wrote:
    Nice job in overtaking me EvilSonGoku. I had pulled into the Top 2 with ten minutes to go but lost it in the last minute.

    I keep telling myself, don't bother, but kept slowly closing the gap and it was a mad dash at the end. For all that trouble I got bullseye, ares and cstorm. Doh.
  • Leugenesmiff
    Leugenesmiff Posts: 401 Mover and Shaker
    I just re-read the PVE guide and had a question. I asked it there but after seeing this thread I thought I'd ask here to incase others were wondering the same and only looked here.
    There's one thing I'm not clear on and I hope someone can help me out. I read the refresh for this event is 12 hours (if that's incorrect then just for this example let's say it is 12 anyway.) Does that mean the entire sub event starts refreshing all the nodes 12 hours after you began that sub event or is it per node played. For example, if I play one node at say 12o'clock am, stop playing, and play another node at 3 o'clock am, does that second node begin refreshing at 12pm or at 3pm? If there's 5 battles per node until the points are emptied and I played both nodes five times taking ten minutes per battle, then will both nodes be full at 12:50pm or just the first with the second node full at 3:50 pm?

    Thanks for reading and if you can, answering.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Leugenesmiff wrote:
    I just re-read the PVE guide and had a question. I asked it there but after seeing this thread I thought I'd ask here to incase others were wondering the same and only looked here.
    There's one thing I'm not clear on and I hope someone can help me out. I read the refresh for this event is 12 hours (if that's incorrect then just for this example let's say it is 12 anyway.) Does that mean the entire sub event starts refreshing all the nodes 12 hours after you began that sub event or is it per node played. For example, if I play one node at say 12o'clock am, stop playing, and play another node at 3 o'clock am, does that second node begin refreshing at 12pm or at 3pm? If there's 5 battles per node until the points are emptied and I played both nodes five times taking ten minutes per battle, then will both nodes be full at 12:50pm or just the first with the second node full at 3:50 pm?

    Thanks for reading and if you can, answering.

    It is per node, so for your example the first node would refresh at 12 (or 12:50) PM and the second would refresh at 3 (or 3:50) PM
  • Leugenesmiff
    Leugenesmiff Posts: 401 Mover and Shaker
    gamar wrote:

    It is per node, so for your example the first node would refresh at 12 (or 12:50) PM and the second would refresh at 3 (or 3:50) PM

    Thanks so much. I'd thought it was the other way around and thus things were playing out confusingly. Knowing this will help a lot.
  • Unknown
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    after waiting for more than 12 hours, my nodes have barely moved at all that made it impossible to catch up to the leaders. icon_cry.gif
  • wade66
    wade66 Posts: 212 Tile Toppler
    They broke the rubberband to keep LD out of reach... just when I got my hopes up after a nice comeback at the end of the first sub
  • bahamut685
    bahamut685 Posts: 210 Tile Toppler
    So... Are all of the subs going to end at random times (or at specific times, unrelated to the stated end times)? Or do we think was Manhattan a fluke? (For those unaware, Manhattan was reading 2 days left when it ended.)
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Manhattan ended at the scheduled time for me. I'm on Steam, so I'm not sure if mobile has bugs.
  • Nemek
    Nemek Posts: 1,511
    The first sub ended at the time specified for me, too. I haven't seen any other reports that it was off.
  • Shadow
    Shadow Posts: 155
    Rubberband still applies in the game... but I suspect it could be based on the lower of your gap to the main lead or sub lead which really messes things up. We didn't see this in the first sub because there wouldn't have been a significant difference between main bracket leader or sub bracket leader but going into the second sub... messy rubberbanding

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