GOTG May 2023 Community Challenge

Bowgentle

@DAZ0273 said:

@slidecage said:
i thnk its broken says like 32.68 should be higher

thats why mostly given up on this game... after 7 years of daily playing getting boring

7 years of playing the same game is a pretty good run though no? I don't think I have played the same game* (I guess you could count FIFA and it's various versions) for that long except possibly for The Last of Us which for some reason dragged on for literally years (maybe 6 or 7!) for me to complete. I have no idea why it took that long...it might still be unfinished now if there hadn't been a sequel.

*and of course MPQ I have played for that long

I can relate to that Last Of Us comment.
This stressed me out so much I had to take a break after every stealth sequence.

MoosePrime

They can see how many powers are normally fired in any given time period, they would have used that information when setting the goals.

DAZ0273

@MoosePrime said:
They can see how many powers are normally fired in any given time period, they would have used that information when setting the goals.

I don't think any of us doubt that is the case. We are just wondering why we are failing so badly.

KGB

@DAZ0273 said:

@MoosePrime said:
They can see how many powers are normally fired in any given time period, they would have used that information when setting the goals.

I don't think any of us doubt that is the case. We are just wondering why we are failing so badly.

Tier 3 is probably the average amount of playing for this type of time period and we'll easily hit tier 3.

Tier 4 is probably the high end of the total for this type of time period. So with a bit of extra effort we can make it. It will be close, but with things like Lightning rounds about to open the amount of powers fired may pick up in the next couple days. Also many people who never play PvP might be enticed to play to fire more powers/complete Guardian quests.

Tier 5 reward was setup to require a fair amount of extra playing on the part of the player base. So it was always unlikely we'd get there without a concerted effort (which is very hard to do in a world wide game in multiple languages when many players may still had no idea this effort is even happening or what the progress is). To meet this we'd probably need a bunch more players playing PvP than normally do and people who leave Shield Sim to the end of the season (like me) to at least start it now and get most of the way there etc.

Right now we are at 33%. Assuming May 8-14th is inclusive of both days, that's a 7 day time period and mid way though today (again assuming Cali time) is the half way point. So we aren't quite at the half way point yet. If Lightning Rounds adds significantly to the powers fired or the upcoming PvE/PvPs are ones with characters who tend to fire a lot of powers then maybe we can hit 80% or tier 4.

KGB

Bad

Probably we already should swicht to Mthor riri deathlok if we want the high reward.
Still probably the last days and in the weekend that bar will boost up.

DAZ0273

Of course it might also be true that people have had enough of grinding the game following the Guardians thing, so play might even go down. Although there will always be MPQ grind maniacs...bless their hearts.

Guess we find out!

Zarqa

@DAZ0273 said:
Of course it might also be true that people have had enough of grinding the game following the Guardians thing, so play might even go down. Although there will always be MPQ grind maniacs...bless their hearts.

Guess we find out!

I definitely fall under that category. After just wrapping up that event, I don’t want to immediately play more/differently again for a different challenge. I just want to play normally for a little while.

When I saw the community challenge, I immediately decided not to do anything extra. Despite the amazing final reward. Don’t want to burn myself out.

Punisher5784

@Bowgentle said:
Maybe we were not meant to easily get all the rewards, and they set the target accordingly.

There's an old historical quote in MPQ.. "You're supposed to lose!"

will7612

The game has stalled so badly, it's URGENT to get new PVE stories, challenges and other Characters for PVP; hard to recall any of the oldies getting PVP, like Apocalypse, Onslaught and many others
My alliance has started to play some, some are thinking about retirement, myself as well
Too many promises for NEW, the real question es WHEN!!!!!!!

Seph1roth5

Ice said in discord that passive powers count, so maybe just farm the low lv goon fights now and then.

Bzhai

Yea, most of my alliance mates completed their GotG quests before this challenge was announced. We were rushing to complete it before puzzle gauntlet expired. I'm sure if this was running concurrently we would be now past at least 50% progress.

Grizwald

I was playing a Winfinite team in Sim with Kamala Kahn on the enemy team. She went air born and I thought "Now I can spam powers to my hearts content!"

"No targets available"

DAZ0273

@Seph1roth5 said:
Ice said in discord that passive powers count, so maybe just farm the low lv goon fights now and then.

!!!!!!!!! Guess we can call it firing a power every time Juggs cause collateral damage after all...

Ptahhotep

So, we don’t have to stop using Polaris. She’s actually an advantage firing several powers every turn.

DAZ0273

So it would appear.

MegaBee

@DAZ0273 said:

@Seph1roth5 said:
Ice said in discord that passive powers count, so maybe just farm the low lv goon fights now and then.

!!!!!!!!! Guess we can call it firing a power every time Juggs cause collateral damage after all...

A heaping helping of vindication for you!

DAZ0273

@MegaBee said:

@DAZ0273 said:

@Seph1roth5 said:
Ice said in discord that passive powers count, so maybe just farm the low lv goon fights now and then.

!!!!!!!!! Guess we can call it firing a power every time Juggs cause collateral damage after all...

A heaping helping of vindication for you!

To be honest I don't want or need it, I would much rather we all got as far as we can. So I am spamming Polaris...

Edit: And to be more honest the only reason I questioned this was thanks to @Punisher5784 - he asked the Devs to share what the top 5 powers fired were. I know nothing about programming or anything but I started to think - how do you do that? What is the easiest way to record it happening in game when hundreds of millions of powers have/are been fired? So that is when it struck me - banners. Every time one pops up it must be counted somewhere on the Devs Batcomputer and as passives have banners then why would they not count? I could of course still be entirely wrong about that too, it was/is just a hunch! Anyway...back to Polaris I guess if I want to help get our 3* Rocket & Groot.

EienRyuu

Welp, I will try to do my best. Whatever it is - firing powers or not. xD
At least Grocket is boosted these events so I can use him. xD

DAZ0273

I made the ultimate sacrifice (j/k) - I visited Discord where I haven't been for years and I saw what IceIX said for myself following @Seph1roth5 revelation.

A power is just a power. If you use it, it has been fired. There is no special difference between passive and active powers. Chasm, Polaris, 4* Juggernaut, etc. They all count.

He (Ice) also said we are behind but there is a shot we can do this because engagement is normally up at weekends. I have no idea so all I can suggest is if you use spam characters then continue (as I did all along but now more) and if you don't then maybe consider using a few more spammy characters if you are interested in the challenge.

BRB/Polaris/iShulk worked on Challenge Node - I was able to fire a lot of powers with the enemy stun locked.

So...good luck I guess? I still can't comprehend how we could even reach tier 4, let alone complete this but somebody who KNOWS says it isn't by any means impossible.

pepitedechocolat

maybe we get a shot at finishing the same way Magik is top contender after pre release nerfs. (Or the maths were done by the same person )