The Simulator (PvE) - (May 30 - June4)

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iPulzzz wrote:

So I'm #10 or so in both brackets, but my main bracket is #40+..

Anyone else in similar situation? Or just my luck being in a bad main bracket?

Sub brackets have 200 people. Main brackets have 1000 people. On average you should take your placement in sub and multiply it by 5 to get your expected main bracket placement.

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iPulzzz wrote:

So I'm #10 or so in both brackets, but my main bracket is #40+..

Anyone else in similar situation? Or just my luck being in a bad main bracket?

Note respective bracket sizes. You should be lower in the main.

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Lyrian wrote:

Surprised no one has complained yet about Simulation 7 yet. Perhaps the levels aren't high enough yet on this one.

Beware the new Doombot Coordinator. Although it is only a 1* because it is a grunt, the opponent an equivalent of a "Gold" Doctor Doom, outside of its low health pool.

It can cast Summon Demons at the same potency as Doom, but at only 7 AP instead of Doom's 12 AP. Also, it has an altered Blue power to suit the fight on the node. For 6 Blue AP, Narcissism converts blue tiles on the board into yellow and not black, to feed Modern Thor. Plus, of course as a grunt, it can generate its own AP to fuel these abilities a 2 Blue + Black per round. Fortunately, both abilities requires 4 turn CD to activate as a grunt.

Still, avoid being caught off guard on this one.

I also didn't pay attention to the fact that the free black AP allows Loki to use Trickery and I was running Daken + Punisher on that node. That fight ended very badly.

over_clocked

I wiped on Hard Moonstone/cStorm by mistake
Went BP/Doom just for kicks. Laid down Sacrifice and had enough black to murder their whole team. cStorm was already whittled down enough that with Sacrifice, she would be 100% dead. Cue them wiping out the strike tile in a 4-match and me happily proceeding to use Rage of the Panther anyway. cStorm survived with some 100 health points and Raged on me thrice. Lol - not pretty.

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wade66 wrote:

Would it be safe to assume this one uses 8 hour cycles, I played some nodes this afternoon, now all of mine are back up to the 500- 1000 point range.

I did grind everything to 100 and relished five minutes of being in first place.

Those few minutes feel great.

Bacon Pants

This has been a fun event so far, though I haven't had the time to play as much as I'd like to. There are some interesting teams in some of the nodes as well. I saw a post about Simulation 6 (Spider-Man, Punisher, Don) but more annoying than that has been Simulation 7. I use Daken almost exclusively now, and the Coordinator generating black for Loki is quite frustrating.

Other than that, I have always wanted to play as all three Black Widows...not fair that the AI gets to do it...

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Has anyone noticed that after you do missions with the same base points, like the essentials, the points become different?
For instance, I do two clears each of nodes 8 and 9 who start at the same value. Let's say they are both at 1000 to keep this simple. However, after those two clears, node 8 could be worth 570 points and node 9 only 565 points.

Well, I have a crazy theory on what's happening. The stacks refresh continously; not a full stack every 12 (or 8, not sure) hours, but every minute you recover a fraction of a stack.

Edit: For science, I grinded Easy 5 down to 0. One hour later, it's up to 14 points. Theory validated.

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I am liking this event too. Just got the punisher reward, my scaling is fine in both, Im liking the opponent team variety, im in competitive but not crazy subbrackets and buffed heroes are fine and I have them all and Sentry's buff is enough to have him useful in battles where he is needed. And Im in a flu at home, but not crazysick, so nothing else to do than lay in bed and play for couple of days
Oh and I have my panther at 1/5/1 so no need to go crazy at events end, i only need to place higher than 75# . I have gotten three blue covers just from standard tokens like in a couple of months. Had even to toss one away as BP was full covered with blue.

rawl316

I actually think ther is a mistake on the essential nodes, my middle one is way tougher than the other 2, by 30-50 levels depending on whether it s normal or hard.

rawl316

In general, my nodes have been ridiculously easy.

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With a high level Sentry, all nodes are easy

Although you need some health packs to heal him frequently

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Have we figured out the refresh yet?

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elfritobandito9 wrote:

Have we figured out the refresh yet?

I'm starting in an hour anyway.

Either I'll have 2 refreshes (if the rerfesh is 8hrs) or 1.

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Okay... I think I like this event so far. With the lack of new characters, it's definitely at least felt more chill. The scaling hasn't been ridiculous.

I wouldn't mind if there were fewer "big" events like these. Have one or two like these that are more of a way for people to get 3* covers that have already come out, then make the events with new characters seem more special, ya know?

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rawl316 wrote:

I actually think ther is a mistake on the essential nodes, my middle one is way tougher than the other 2, by 30-50 levels depending on whether it s normal or hard.

That's probably community scaling because Widow X 3 is actually a very easy combination of enemies. They got virtually no offensive power, and OBW will sometimes save up 16 AP for MBW's Aggressive Recon which does exactly the same thing, but cost 5 more AP!

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Phantron wrote:

rawl316 wrote:

I actually think ther is a mistake on the essential nodes, my middle one is way tougher than the other 2, by 30-50 levels depending on whether it s normal or hard.

That's probably community scaling because Widow X 3 is actually a very easy combination of enemies. They got virtually no offensive power, and OBW will sometimes save up 16 AP for MBW's Aggressive Recon which does exactly the same thing, but cost 5 more AP!

Or even better, deceptive tactics, which just puts green on the board for YOU to use

daveomite

I mentioned this in the NHB thread...but it appears they extended the end time of the subs by 15 minutes. At least 3 others in our alliance confirmed on their end too.

Not sure what the thought process was for an extra 15 minutes for 2 subs...but whatever.

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daveomite wrote:

I mentioned this in the NHB thread...but it appears they extended the end time of the subs by 15 minutes. At least 3 others in our alliance confirmed on their end too.

Not sure what the thought process was for an extra 15 minutes for 2 subs...but whatever.

It's not extra, the event launched with that offset after Starfall.

daveomite

pasa_ wrote:

daveomite wrote:

I mentioned this in the NHB thread...but it appears they extended the end time of the subs by 15 minutes. At least 3 others in our alliance confirmed on their end too.

Not sure what the thought process was for an extra 15 minutes for 2 subs...but whatever.

It's not extra, the event launched with that offset after Starfall.

right, I remember that. I could just swear that both subs and SF all originally showed the same end time, not all of a sudden they don't.

Moral

locked wrote:

I wiped on Hard Moonstone/cStorm by mistake
Went BP/Doom just for kicks. Laid down Sacrifice and had enough black to murder their whole team. cStorm was already whittled down enough that with Sacrifice, she would be 100% dead. Cue them wiping out the strike tile in a 4-match and me happily proceeding to use Rage of the Panther anyway. cStorm survived with some 100 health points and Raged on me thrice. Lol - not pretty.

Same story but replace Rage of the Panther with World Rupture. You know it's about to end badly with that strike tile gone and the countdown tiles are already in play.