MPQ 11th Anniversary Zombie Slayer Community Challenge

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  • axmoss
    axmoss Posts: 241 Tile Toppler

    every node worked? i just kept hitting the zombies nodes... like 16x a day per node. i fell asleep once and woke up to my phone still on a battle.

  • Timemachinego
    Timemachinego Posts: 509 Critical Contributor

    @axmoss said:
    every node worked? i just kept hitting the zombies nodes... like 16x a day per node. i fell asleep once and woke up to my phone still on a battle.

    For the "use" points, yeah. Much better points return on the single wave zombie node with one of the high value characters, though.

  • Tac
    Tac Posts: 26 Just Dropped In

    @Grizwald said:
    Can you share how many points it took to make the top 10?

    also curious but giving that info is a recipe for disaster with their current design. If you grind all of week1, and realize top10 is doing 2x more points that you do, you won't even try the rest of the month. Multiply that by hundred players per week and you get the average community challenge, failing tier5

  • JoeHandle
    JoeHandle Posts: 535 Critical Contributor

    @Tac said:

    @Grizwald said:
    Can you share how many points it took to make the top 10?

    also curious but giving that info is a recipe for disaster with their current design. If you grind all of week1, and realize top10 is doing 2x more points that you do, you won't even try the rest of the month. Multiply that by hundred players per week and you get the average community challenge, failing tier5

    ... and no one even knows their own point total, so the answer would have no relevance at all. Are these top #s 2x mine? 10x? 100x?

  • bluewolf
    bluewolf Posts: 5,847 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited 1 November 2024, 14:12

    @Tac said:

    @Grizwald said:
    Can you share how many points it took to make the top 10?

    also curious but giving that info is a recipe for disaster with their current design. If you grind all of week1, and realize top10 is doing 2x more points that you do, you won't even try the rest of the month. Multiply that by hundred players per week and you get the average community challenge, failing tier5

    I have heard that some of the winners barely played the zombie nodes, and that most of their play was grinding LRs (they play them a lot. A LOT.). Which, more power to them. Some say/think that while the zombie node grinding contributed to our overall points, the times you grinded one and didn't get a reward (aka after the first 4 times, when you'd gotten all the iso and iso) did not contribute points towards the Top 10 Grinder competition as the reward drop triggered the points going into individual account tracking.

    When the challenge started, around day 4, I became convinced that this top 10 point-getter thing was stupid because you could never know who was where, you could only play the game and any time spent extra was possibly a waste as long as we were sort of on track to get everything. So basically it was a way to make people who already play the game a lot get something extra, and the people who can play the most already have the biggest rosters. etc. Basically it only encouraged people who are already perhaps a bit over-engaged to continue to be such and risk burnout.

    After the second week it appeared that you could only win once, so I decided to spend some extra time grinding zombie nodes in week 3 to see what happened. Then some of the people who'd won before repeated and I was a mix of amused and annoyed.

    The fourth week I did grind a lot, wondering if I would somehow get high enough to get into the T10 but mostly trying to help the community win the challenge. And I think we got more repeat winners in this top 10 thing.

    There are like 45000 players for this game and probably a good 3000ish who try hard among the top 250 alliances. It seems like they could have implemented a rule that you could only be a Top 10 player once which would have made it more interesting in some ways. Or maybe some baseline point total could have put you into a drawing which had 10 winners each week to make it a way to spread some rewards among people who don't have 550 rosters.

    So.....it seems like the back end stuff wasn't working the way you might have thought it did and hence the game you thought you were playing wasn't the one you were playing if the fact is that it required reward drops to be a winner of the Grinder NoLife reward competition.

    In the end I come back around to the idea that the Top 10 GRINDers competition was not a good thing.

    Final note....I believe that when the game had the "Get 2NC to a 5, be one of the first 100 people, and you get cool stuff" competition, they were under the table giving out reduced rewards to people who did it but weren't one of the first 100 folks. Just saying.

    I get this is just a silly match-3 game with people in tights in it but still they could do things a little better.

  • DracmanF
    DracmanF Posts: 4 Just Dropped In

    Did we or did we not that is the question? Administrators gave us some kudos. But there's no mentioning sorry we didn't reach our goal or congratulations here are your Awards. As I have yet to receive my stone my Gauntlet is wanting

  • BriMan2222
    BriMan2222 Posts: 1,328 Chairperson of the Boards

    @DracmanF said:
    Did we or did we not that is the question? Administrators gave us some kudos. But there's no mentioning sorry we didn't reach our goal or congratulations here are your Awards. As I have yet to receive my stone my Gauntlet is wanting

    MPQBlaine said on this thread, Congratulations on making it, rewards will go out soon.

  • DracmanF
    DracmanF Posts: 4 Just Dropped In

    Done & DONE!!
    T.Y. to EVERYone.

  • capt
    capt Posts: 12 Just Dropped In

    So when do we get the tier 5 rewards?

  • BriMan2222
    BriMan2222 Posts: 1,328 Chairperson of the Boards

    @capt said:
    So when do we get the tier 5 rewards?

    I just got mine like an hour ago.

  • concillado
    concillado Posts: 52 Match Maker
    edited 1 November 2024, 18:01

    I still havent received it and have both restarted and played several pvp matches up untill now??

  • MPQBlaine
    MPQBlaine ADMINISTRATORS Posts: 191 Tile Toppler

    I believe the team tripped and unplugged the dial-up for one of our servers 🤣 The Challenge rewards are being pushed again so we apologize and hope you all get to enjoy your shiny new infinity stone soon.

  • slidecage
    slidecage Posts: 3,485 Chairperson of the Boards

    No fun pushing out stones 😂

    Now to find someone to use it

  • Borstock
    Borstock Posts: 2,744 Chairperson of the Boards

    kicks dirt

    Still waiting ....

  • Drlex
    Drlex Posts: 112 Tile Toppler

    @MPQBlaine said:
    I believe the team tripped and unplugged the dial-up for one of our servers 🤣 The Challenge rewards are being pushed again so we apologize and hope you all get to enjoy your shiny new infinity stone soon.

    I haven't received mine, yet.

  • derrickn
    derrickn Posts: 49 Just Dropped In

    Yup. Still waiting.

  • Sithforever
    Sithforever Posts: 145 Tile Toppler

    Waiting on mine too

  • rg72
    rg72 Posts: 120 Tile Toppler

    Nothing here either. Restarted after the daily reset. Played PVP/PVE but no Stoney joy thrown my way

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 10,342 Chairperson of the Boards

    There is a space in my Supports that should be filled with a Space stone. 😖 I am unable to be a Spaceman. Etc etc about no space Stone yet.

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