Apocalypse join, not.

gamecat235

@dianetics said:
It will matter for lower tier players who cannot push into the 8th round.
They won't be able to get their regular rewards.
It is not about the tiny majority, but the larger player base who may have no idea whats going on.
Everyone should have a fair shake at personal progression.

edit** supports and mmr have nothing to do with and is totally off topic. I'm on a wait and see stance for those things...though I don't have high hopes.

This is a great point and it drives home that for the VAST majority of the player base who might be much more casual (I was there for the first 8-10 months of play) they have NO idea what’s going on. I don’t know what the reader base is on here or over on the subreddit, but this is a lot bigger than just us vocal commenters.

Thanks for the perspective.

Domsouth04

My son joined our alliance so he’s happy with the Kang cover

Tony_Foot

@dianetics said:
It will matter for lower tier players who cannot push into the 8th round.
They won't be able to get their regular rewards.

That's a fair point but then by trade off they get an alliance one for zero work.

Daredevil217

@Tony_Foot said:
I already stated I have zero confidence in this team. They gave me a lot of free covers and then the worst gaming experience I've had for a long time. One thing after another. You really think Supports and MMR re-vamp will be anything other than a mess?

Can I ask why you continue to play? And posting on the message boards as much as you do, means you are dedicating a sizable time outside of playing the actual game to MPQ as well. I usually feel a lot of negativity from you. You are experiencing the worst gaming experience you’ve had for a long time. And you don’t see it getting better (and in fact probably getting worse). I’m not trying to call you out but am generally curious as this is a mindset I’ve never understood. Why someone would continue to dedicate their time and energy to a pursuit they hate while having the choice to do literally anything else. Is it sunk cost? That I can at least wrap my head around.

KGB

My casual alliance finished round 8 with only 6 players joined. So all 8 rounds will be finished long before your whole alliance joins (unless they all join at the same time).

I don't think they can restart the event unless the restart gives out 0 alliance rewards and they just give out full alliance rewards to everyone so that every alliance gets full alliance rewards so that everyone is treated fairly. The question is can they restart and give out 0 alliance rewards and give everyone who didn't yet get full alliance rewards the full rewards.

That doesn't fix personal progression issues surrounding a restart so not sure what they could do there unless that also didn't give out double rewards since many top alliances have likely all gotten personal progression too.

KGB

dianetics

They can do what they did on previous PvE's and just reset the event and let all players keep the rewards they got. Simple...easy...not difficult.
Some players get bonus rewards, many players miss out.
I missed out, and I don't care. All players should have the chance to progress the event and get their personal progression rewards.

revskip

@Tony_Foot said:
They reset this and give out more Kang, the people who didn't get the one for joining late will riot.

Don't join late?

I remember back when the first Civil War was running how everyone figured out how to make it on to make sure we could clear as fully on both sides as possible. That was truly the most fun I've ever had in a boss event.

entrailbucket

Why would anyone miss out? Join now, and if your alliance already finished, you'll get every alliance reward at the next reset. I'm pretty sure that's always how this has worked...

gamecat235

@revskip said:

Don't join late?

I remember back when the first Civil War was running how everyone figured out how to make it on to make sure we could clear as fully on both sides as possible. That was truly the most fun I've ever had in a boss event.

I joined 16 minutes after the event started because I had a work meeting. Is your argument really that I should have ignored work to join a game?

EDIT: and my alliance had already finished all 8 rounds. So I have no alliance rewards.

@entrailbucket said:
Why would anyone miss out? Join now, and if your alliance already finished, you'll get every alliance reward at the next reset. I'm pretty sure that's always how this has worked...

No one has confirmed that this will actually happen. Until a dev confirms this, it’s just a rumor.

revskip

@gamecat235 said:

@revskip said:

Don't join late?

I remember back when the first Civil War was running how everyone figured out how to make it on to make sure we could clear as fully on both sides as possible. That was truly the most fun I've ever had in a boss event.

I joined 16 minutes after the event started because I had a work meeting. Is your argument really that I should have ignored work to join a game?

EDIT: and my alliance had already finished all 8 rounds. So I have no alliance rewards.

@entrailbucket said:
Why would anyone miss out? Join now, and if your alliance already finished, you'll get every alliance reward at the next reset. I'm pretty sure that's always how this has worked...

No one has confirmed that this will actually happen. Until a dev confirms this, it’s just a rumor.

I mean if the reward is so valuable to you that it causes you distress to not have it perhaps. Or you could you know remember that it is just a matching gem game and that missing out on any reward is relatively meaningless in the grand scheme of things.

Rioting because they made another snafu on a boss event when that has become the norm seems pretty counter-productive to mental health.

DeNappa

Yeah we'll have to wait and see. I didn't get any round reward covers either because by the time I joined the early joiners had already easily pushed it to the end.

Zalasta

@DeNappa said:
Yeah we'll have to wait and see. I didn't get any round reward covers either because by the time I joined the early joiners had already easily pushed it to the end.

Same. Kind of annoying.

Sp1d3r

Haha wow.. 180k for max alliance rewards ain't it normally 18 mil? Looks like someone missed a few zeros... I never moan but I have to say this is getting a bit silly now

gamecat235

It’s all meaningless. It is just a game. But yet we’re still here talking about it.

At the end of the day all most of want is an equitable solution which makes the least number of people feel like they’ve lost.

DAZ0273

With this now past 5 hours for the first sub and no solid announcements I am starting to think this is not getting reset. I guess maybe they might be looking at seeing if the everybody profits at the next stage happens? I would be OK with that and we just plow on but I guess we wait and see. Well I won't see until tomorrow now. There isn't a dull day with BCS for sure!

revskip

@gamecat235 said:
It’s all meaningless. It is just a game. But yet we’re still here talking about it.

At the end of the day all most of want is an equitable solution which makes the least number of people feel like they’ve lost.

No doubt, although reasonable minds will have very different ideas of what equitable means. I remember when we had the event snafu where some people were able to grind out an entire PvE in slice 1 because the devs screwed up the opening nodes and made the whole event available day 1. Some players wanted to roll back the rewards of anyone who participated, some wanted to leave things alone and others advocated for some blend of the two. I missed out on those rewards since I never play slice 1 but didn't begrudge those who got to double dip. Sometimes you win some extra stuff and sometimes you don't.

I'll be okay with whatever is decided for this snafu. If those who finished early get extra rewards it isn't that big of a deal. If not also not a big deal. Rioting because of either is pants on head silly.

gamecat235

@revskip 100%. And I think the real measure will be whether alliance rewards are attainable for those who haven’t yet received them, but should have. (Though I see boss events as a way to farm some extra CP in slow motion, and an easy way to gain some iso and refill my boosts, those are all minor).

The bigger parts are folks with new rosters are already struggling. Round 8 bosses and a fledgling 3* roster don’t always play nicely. Those folks may never come close to max progression whereas normally they can keep up until somewhere in the 400,000-700,000 range. I’ll get personal progression by the start of day 2 with the current event assuming no reset.

It’s a lot of factors at play. And I’m sure that’s why we haven’t seen any official response yet. But I wouldn’t be shocked by a reset of the event. The bigger question is when?

Daredevil217

@gamecat235 said:

@revskip said:

Don't join late?

I remember back when the first Civil War was running how everyone figured out how to make it on to make sure we could clear as fully on both sides as possible. That was truly the most fun I've ever had in a boss event.

I joined 16 minutes after the event started because I had a work meeting. Is your argument really that I should have ignored work to join a game?

EDIT: and my alliance had already finished all 8 rounds. So I have no alliance rewards.

@entrailbucket said:
Why would anyone miss out? Join now, and if your alliance already finished, you'll get every alliance reward at the next reset. I'm pretty sure that's always how this has worked...

No one has confirmed that this will actually happen. Until a dev confirms this, it’s just a rumor.

Annddddd no rewards for my alliance mates that missed out. That sucks.

shardwick

@gamecat235 said:
@revskip 100%. And I think the real measure will be whether alliance rewards are attainable for those who haven’t yet received them, but should have. (Though I see boss events as a way to farm some extra CP in slow motion, and an easy way to gain some iso and refill my boosts, those are all minor).

The bigger parts are folks with new rosters are already struggling. Round 8 bosses and a fledgling 3* roster don’t always play nicely. Those folks may never come close to max progression whereas normally they can keep up until somewhere in the 400,000-700,000 range. I’ll get personal progression by the start of day 2 with the current event assuming no reset.

It’s a lot of factors at play. And I’m sure that’s why we haven’t seen any official response yet. But I wouldn’t be shocked by a reset of the event. The bigger question is when?

You don't even have to kill the boss to get points. Put a decent amount of damage on him before your turn ends and then retreat. You'll keep the points and it'll go towards personal progression. If anything it's much easier to do it early on while the side nodes are super easy.

AdeptusRevolt

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