New Event - Support Circuit Updated (1/28/19)

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  • Jexman
    Jexman Posts: 165 Tile Toppler
    “Playing and having fun is then replaced by obligation and responsibility. I don't know about everyone else, but I play MPQ to avoid my obligations and responsibilities.”

    A long haul game like MPQ is fun because of the progress you make. You get better and better and it’s fun. In MPQ to progress you either spend big or grind. There’s no other way. So unless you spend, MPQ becomes an obligation and responsibility. And you’re right, that isn’t fun. 

    I quit my alliance this week and shifted to DDQ only. The next step will be quitting altogether. The new support emphasis was the final straw. They’re doubling down on supports being the next fun thing, but as a 5* player they won’t be. The devs have gotten all they’re gonna get out of 5* star players, so nothing new is coming for us. They’re focusing on getting newer players, where there’s a rich array of 4* to aim at. This is no game for long term players. 
  • Ptahhotep
    Ptahhotep Posts: 428 Mover and Shaker
    What are the rewards for the nine standard pins? Are they the same as the six main track pins and the first three essential pins in normal pve or does the event have its own unique set? I would hope that normal pve’s standard tokens are replaced with basic support tokens at least.
  • Smart80
    Smart80 Posts: 748 Critical Contributor
    LifeofAgony said:
    Making a new pve does not equate to new content.  FFW wasn’t a new game mode, just a new pve.

    This is just another pve.  Stop trying to call it something else.  You can change the rewards or the details but it’s the same as always - be fastest to clear, wait 23 hours, then be fastest grind.

    and I’m no genius, but I suspect leaderboards will be filled with same names who don’t need the supports to begin with to be fast at pve.

    Maybe they should give best rewards to bottom of the leaderboard to even things out?
  • Ed_Dragonrider
    Ed_Dragonrider Posts: 593 Critical Contributor
    Ptahhotep said:
    What are the rewards for the nine standard pins? Are they the same as the six main track pins and the first three essential pins in normal pve or does the event have its own unique set? I would hope that normal pve’s standard tokens are replaced with basic support tokens at least.
    Hah! Lovely dream that. Considering only the t3 get actual support tokens, not even progress contains one, and everything is just a chance at the vault, where you might luck into a support token, i highly doubt the pins would just give us one... Even basic support tokens are still rarer than LTs, so dont get your hopes up.
    But really, it would be awesome if they did. (I think i might be willing to do something drastic, like buy an Asgard treasure or whatever to show my happiness, if they did.)
  • Projectus2501
    Projectus2501 Posts: 218 Tile Toppler
    Brigby said:

    Support Circuit

    Hi Everyone,

    For those of you that have been staying updated on changes to Supports, you’re likely already aware of the upcoming new event: Support Circuit. For those of you that aren’t, please take a look at the Updates to Earning Supports article HERE

    We’re taking a deeper dive into this event in this post, so check out the full event details below! 

    Sounds great. And it is also a new way to gain more regular resources (iso,CP,hp,tokens) for players that want to play even (!!!!) more.

    BUT... Supports are limited to pve... And so, their interest will be very limited. Hope this changes one day
  • HoundofShadow
    HoundofShadow Posts: 8,004 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited January 2019
    Support event starts tomorrow. It happens to be Deadpool vs MPQ PvE today.  Could it be possible that every Sunday PvE will start with a two day-sub until there's a one week Support event break?

    I remember players wanting more PvEs to play if Deadpool vs MPQ is being run becauses they lose out on resources.  :D
  • Bowgentle
    Bowgentle Posts: 7,926 Chairperson of the Boards
    HoundofShadow said:
    Support event starts tomorrow. It happens to be Deadpool vs MPQ PvE today.  Could it be possible that every Sunday PvE will start with a two day-sub until there's a one week Support event break?

    I remember players wanting more PvEs to play if Deadpool vs MPQ is being run becauses they lose out on resources.  :D
    That still overlaps with end grind/opening clears on Tuesday.
  • HoundofShadow
    HoundofShadow Posts: 8,004 Chairperson of the Boards
    I forgot about that. We'll shall see what the timeslices are in less than 24 hours away.
  • bluewolf
    bluewolf Posts: 5,819 Chairperson of the Boards
    I’m pretty sure they can’t really make it work that every Monday is the second part of a 48 hr sub. In game saved tokens have revealed Namor’s release is a 4 day event, meaning next week Monday will see a 3 sub event starting. Unless they do something really unusual and start a 4 or 7 day to run past a week from Thursday. 
  • Moon Roach
    Moon Roach Posts: 2,863 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited January 2019

    I was thinking of skipping competing in Deadpool vs MPQ anyway, because it's a horrible event, which frees up time to take a proper look at this new thing.

    I have a bad feeling about this.

    :edit: I might be blind, but I see no mention of slices here, just brackets.  Anyone have better eyesight?  Or insight?

  • zodiac339
    zodiac339 Posts: 1,948 Chairperson of the Boards
    Moon Roach said:

    :edit: I might be blind, but I see no mention of slices here, just brackets.  Anyone have better eyesight?  Or insight?

    I think “slice” is a player-community term, so probably wouldn’t be a word used in official news.
  • therightwaye
    therightwaye Posts: 459 Mover and Shaker
    Smart80 said:
    LifeofAgony said:
    Making a new pve does not equate to new content.  FFW wasn’t a new game mode, just a new pve.

    This is just another pve.  Stop trying to call it something else.  You can change the rewards or the details but it’s the same as always - be fastest to clear, wait 23 hours, then be fastest grind.

    and I’m no genius, but I suspect leaderboards will be filled with same names who don’t need the supports to begin with to be fast at pve.

    Maybe they should give best rewards to bottom of the leaderboard to even things out?
    That's not a bad idea
  • Bowgentle
    Bowgentle Posts: 7,926 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited January 2019
    OJSP said:
    Moon Roach said:
    I might be blind, but I see no mention of slices here, just brackets.  Anyone have better eyesight?  Or insight?
    Brigby answered it on the first page:
    Brigby said:
    fmftint said:
    Are the 9 small pins repeatable for points? How many times?
    Dlanning said:
    So are there time slices like regular pve? Will this basicaly play like a one day pve event? 4 clears and grind at the finish?
    Missions are repeatable, and there are "time slices." Regular Missions have 6 Mission rewards each, just like a regular Story event, but you only need 4 clears of each to reach max progression rewards.
    The screenshots also show that the duration of the event is 1 day and 16 hours, suggesting there are different ending times for the 24 hour subs.
    And there's no preview, so they're going to spring this on us without telling us first if they offset the slices from regular PVE or not.
    The usual brilliant, in advance communication we've come to expect.
  • DeNappa
    DeNappa Posts: 1,396 Chairperson of the Boards
    If it only runs once per week, why not keep it running for the whole week? So you can complete it at your own leasure...
  • Bowgentle
    Bowgentle Posts: 7,926 Chairperson of the Boards
    OJSP said:
    Bowgentle said:
    And there's no preview, so they're going to spring this on us without telling us first if they offset the slices from regular PVE or not.
    The usual brilliant, in advance communication we've come to expect.
    I've been wondering this myself. I'm guessing: just like Boss events, they have to switch something manually to make the event appear. So, the event might appear after today's data push. 

    Data patch will be about 3 hours after the start of S1.
  • Tony_Foot
    Tony_Foot Posts: 1,812 Chairperson of the Boards
    I hope the times are the same so the same people in the same slices are not winning everything.
  • Smart80
    Smart80 Posts: 748 Critical Contributor
    Are we supposed to keep an eye on thegame all day today? A preview of some sorts would be welcome by now... Or at least a starting time? 
    Tony_Foot said:
    I hope the times are the same so the same people in the same slices are not winning everything.
    Dont worry about that, same people will just win different slices ;-)

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