What's New MPQ - March 2024 (Updated 03/25/24)

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  • bluewolf
    bluewolf Posts: 5,819 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited 3 March 2024, 19:02

    @slidecage said:
    03/28/24 - 03/31/24
    TBA

    first to complain WTH a boss battle over easter weekend

    The calendar. The game follows a 4 week schedule which is partially based around the PvP season lasting 3 1/2 weeks, with that small gap between seasons.

    Weekend one of new season : new 3/5
    Weekend 2: a new support
    Weekend 3: new 4 (or sometimes a 2, haha)
    Weekend 4: boss battle and new costume

    Every new season the new 4 and 5 enter tokens at the start, as well.

    Pushing back anything for a holiday for one culture would not work to their advantage around scheduling etc. Not to mention which cultures do you honor with a weekend off etc?

    Every time there is a significant event (new release, boss) that overlaps with a holiday we complain. Nothing changes because their schedule is what it is.

  • Bowgentle
    Bowgentle Posts: 7,926 Chairperson of the Boards

    "We" stopped complaining 7 years ago, I think.

  • Zarqa
    Zarqa Posts: 336 Mover and Shaker

    I enjoy events over holidays. It generally means I have more time to play.

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 10,275 Chairperson of the Boards

    Me too.

  • GrimSkald
    GrimSkald Posts: 2,640 Chairperson of the Boards

    @bluewolf said:

    @slidecage said:
    03/28/24 - 03/31/24
    TBA

    first to complain WTH a boss battle over easter weekend

    The calendar. The game follows a 4 week schedule which is partially based around the PvP season lasting 3 1/2 weeks, with that small gap between seasons.

    Weekend one of new season : new 3/5
    Weekend 2: a new support
    Weekend 3: new 4 (or sometimes a 2, haha)
    Weekend 4: boss battle and new costume

    Every new season the new 4 and 5 enter tokens at the start, as well.

    Pushing back anything for a holiday for one culture would not work to their advantage around scheduling etc. Not to mention which cultures do you honor with a weekend off etc?

    Every time there is a significant event (new release, boss) that overlaps with a holiday we complain. Nothing changes because their schedule is what it is.

    I'll point out that in general a boss event requires less play time than a normal PVE. This probably changes depending on your roster, unfortunately, but at the top end it's a lot less since the normal (i.e. not Heroic) side of the PVE is generally over by Saturday morning. Sure you can grind it for minimal rewards, but everything else is finished. As for the Heroic side, that depends on if your alliance wants you to keep going for the best rank awards, though TBH there isn't a huge difference between top 20 and top 100...

  • S0kun
    S0kun ADMINISTRATORS Posts: 676 Critical Contributor

    @slidecage said:
    3 star vemon in chaos. As a reward. Is that a typo or we getting 3 star vemon

    It's a typo that I have no idea how it happened, but it should be 1 Star: Venom (Dark Avengers).

    Updated the typo and new calendar image.

  • BriMan2222
    BriMan2222 Posts: 1,287 Chairperson of the Boards

    Fourth in line is whoever this is....

  • SaltnPeppa
    SaltnPeppa Posts: 372 Mover and Shaker
    edited 5 March 2024, 01:24

    @BriMan2222 said:
    Fourth in line is whoever this is....

    She's second in line. So I don't know where that Fourth came from. Even her planet is the 14th moon.

  • bluewolf
    bluewolf Posts: 5,819 Chairperson of the Boards

    She’s the fourth person to have used the title Captain Marvel in the comics.

    First was Mar-Vell, the original who died of cancer.
    Next was Monica Rambeau who took the name when she first appeared. She is a human who is unrelated to Mar-Vell. Later she took on different code names.
    Then was Genis-Vell, the genetically engineered son of Mar-Vell.
    He created Phylla-Vel, his sister. He died (for a while) and she took the title.

    Later it passed to others before eventually getting to Carol.

  • S0kun
    S0kun ADMINISTRATORS Posts: 676 Critical Contributor

    Updated a few PVP, PVE, and Buff lists. :)

  • Bowgentle
    Bowgentle Posts: 7,926 Chairperson of the Boards

    Thank you for mixing Shang into the new boost list instead of going with Surfer / Phx / OML!

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 5,828 Chairperson of the Boards

    @Bowgentle said:
    Thank you for mixing Shang into the new boost list instead of going with Surfer / Phx / OML!

    1* Juggernaut is on that list too...

  • bluewolf
    bluewolf Posts: 5,819 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited 6 March 2024, 14:55

    @entrailbucket said:

    @Bowgentle said:
    Thank you for mixing Shang into the new boost list instead of going with Surfer / Phx / OML!

    1* Juggernaut is on that list too...

    Just like he is every 4 weeks!

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 10,275 Chairperson of the Boards

    So it's Shang time, also like it is every week! Great! Now just imagine they chose now to do that "smart AI" thing from the other thread to teach the AI how to use Shang!

  • turbomoose
    turbomoose Posts: 806 Critical Contributor

    I do wish the game would tell us when it’s about to lose an hour

    I’m in the uk so our clocks don’t go forward until the end of the month

    Just went to do my last clears only to find that the round just finished

  • trenchdigger
    trenchdigger Posts: 145 Tile Toppler

    Exactly the same for me (and several others in my alliance also missed their clears).

  • Scofie
    Scofie GLOBAL_MODERATORS Posts: 1,368 Chairperson of the Boards

    It's happened to me before too. Even though I clocked it at the event start, it still caught me out.

    Now I just play S4 and clear either side of sleeping so it makes no difference at all to me.

  • bigjojo04
    bigjojo04 Posts: 414 Mover and Shaker

    I almost did my clear early but as I was about to start it at my normal time I looked at the time remaining and noticed that there was an additional hour added to the end time than I was accustomed to and then remembered about it being daylights savings. I’m not surprised though it caused issues with some.

  • S0kun
    S0kun ADMINISTRATORS Posts: 676 Critical Contributor

    PVE Updates:
    FIGHT FOR WAKANDA
    MEET ROCKET & GROOT

    PVP Updates:
    DARKCHYLDE RISING: Magik (Darkchylde)
    DO YOU MIND?: Emma Frost (New X-Men)
    LETHAL INTENT: Gamora (Guardians of the Galaxy)

    and 3 of the 4 DDQ / Buff lists added. :)

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