soenottelling wrote: Clint wrote: God bless brackets where you can take 1st with less than 3K points. I had nearly 48,000 and came in the top 100 after sitting and watching my ranking drop away in the last 2 hours of the game with my missions only being worth 10. System is garbage. When did u start? I started day 3, hence a sub 30k bracket (by 1 match ) And about devil dino. He should be part of the rewards for a 1* tournement as he is 1* rated. Would be awesome if he was part of a savage lands Mr.sinister/sauron event..nightcrawler could be in it too. Also, don't think 0 points is a bug necessarily. I had the last lvl with sink blacked out and venom blacked pit by the end. I think they put a cap on the number of attempts/points/something. I am sure my other two would have blacked if I had gotten a few more matches on on each. Each round had a base min for first attempt that dropped from there. The PROBLEM is I think the drop only occurred after rubberbanding points finished disappearing.
Clint wrote: God bless brackets where you can take 1st with less than 3K points. I had nearly 48,000 and came in the top 100 after sitting and watching my ranking drop away in the last 2 hours of the game with my missions only being worth 10. System is garbage.
Ranzera wrote: I'm just pissed that I even played by their stupid system and STILL got jacked. With this stupid system I should be able to retake first with stupid levels of lady minute grinding. I couldn't even get 1000 points to retake my bracket.
DayvBang wrote: From first to somewhere in 51-100 in 8 hours with no missions available. Oh well, I'll get Punisher eventually. I think in the end, PvE competitions end up broken with or without rubber banding. Like most other competitions in this game, if you can't time a The Hunt for a ending hour push, you're out of luck.
forgrim wrote: there is initial outrage that will die down after the punisher is rewarded in every tournament for the next month. but brackets in pve events, i'm beginning to think its generally a bad idea.
KidInsomnia wrote: It's not a bug. There was clearly a limit on missions. Another thing that would have been nice to know in advance.
greggray24 wrote: It is odd that you have to "crack the code" to win but it is also interesting. Made for some lively discussion here as we figured out how the rubber banding worked. I went with a strategy of starting every event right away with one win and doing all the missions towards the end. Did not do well in any individual event (best was top 200 and mostly top 400) but was able to out score most in my main bracket this way. My secondary account sat this out for the most part but did come in for one event and easly finished top 10. Not even close for the main bracket though. Endded up pacing myself and sprinting for the finish at the end with 9pt matches and took 2nd in my main. Sorry to those that are frustrated but the strategy became pretty clear - especially if you read the forums. This was not a grind tournament. Glad of that as a 10 day grind would have sucked. I'm sure lots more punisher covers will be coming.
Ranzera wrote: I'm just pissed that I even played by their stupid system and STILL got jacked. With this stupid system I should be able to retake first with stupid levels of last minute grinding. I couldn't even get 1000 points to retake my bracket.
ihearthawthats wrote: KidInsomnia wrote: It's not a bug. There was clearly a limit on missions. Another thing that would have been nice to know in advance. I'd definitely call it a bug. I'm curious, did anyone manage top 2 in both main and any of the sub-brackets? I was playing for Punisher, but I'm wondering if it were possible had I tried.
Misguided wrote: Ranzera wrote: I'm just pissed that I even played by their stupid system and STILL got jacked. With this stupid system I should be able to retake first with stupid levels of last minute grinding. I couldn't even get 1000 points to retake my bracket. Hey, I'm curious, was that your second go on those or had you not touched any of them until the end? I was a little surprised that I didn't catch up more quickly at the end, but I think it might be because more people were playing at the end of the event than had been the case previously.
Ranzera wrote: Misguided wrote: Ranzera wrote: I'm just pissed that I even played by their stupid system and STILL got jacked. With this stupid system I should be able to retake first with stupid levels of last minute grinding. I couldn't even get 1000 points to retake my bracket. Hey, I'm curious, was that your second go on those or had you not touched any of them until the end? I was a little surprised that I didn't catch up more quickly at the end, but I think it might be because more people were playing at the end of the event than had been the case previously. Savage was virgin before I started with an hour and 4 minutes to go.
ihearthawthats wrote: I'm curious, did anyone manage top 2 in both main and any of the sub-brackets? I was playing for Punisher, but I'm wondering if it were possible had I tried.
AdamMagus wrote: Those of us that were here for the Heroic Juggernaut event and other events we know the system and due to that we had an unfair advantage. I see many posts of people complaining that missions were giving 0 points and if you're a new person I can understand why that would make you upset, specially if you don't know that they refill every 1.5-2 hours. New players also did not know that they should be saving The Savage Lands missions till the end. It's unfortunate that new players don't exactly know how the system works, they have to learn the hard way, this rubberbanding works well if you know what to do, but if you're someone who just hopped on board a week ago and started spending $$ and were excited that you were about to get a Punisher cover only to have your dreams crushed at the last 15 minutes, then I can see how this game would leave a sour taste in your mouth.We're only seeing the vocal minority posting here, am sure there are hundreds of players who don't post here wondering what the heck just happened to their top 10 ranking. All I can say to them is, lesson learned, the hard way, there will be more events, now you know a bit more and hopefully you won't rage quit and stick around, this community is pretty great and I love seeing more competition out there.