DumDumDugn wrote: 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. Well that's your problem, you waited too long. It takes longer than 1 hr to grind all the repeatables down to 0, which you need for a top 3 finish at the end.
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.
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: 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.
Nick-Fury wrote: Well that was intense, started playing my missions with 50 minutes left on the clock, and thought I had left it too late half way through, In the end placed first by a single point. I hope they remove the rubber banding after this, it seems a lot of people who clocked in a lot of hours are leaving this event relatively empty handed. Perhaps a compromise next time, have the sub-missions affected by rubber banding, so that casual players can play infrequently and win some tokens, but have points to the main event fixed?
DumDumDugn wrote: Well that's your problem, you waited too long. It takes longer than 1 hr to grind all the repeatables down to 0, which you need for a top 3 finish at the end.
Shikao wrote: DumDumDugn wrote: Well that's your problem, you waited too long. It takes longer than 1 hr to grind all the repeatables down to 0, which you need for a top 3 finish at the end. Depends on your team and bracket. I had no problems with getting to top place in 50 minutes, even without grinding repeatables to 0.
DumDumDugn wrote: True. Depends how many other people in your bracket understood the rubberbanding system.
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.
Generator Leon wrote: 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. Except they got rid of the refill timer for this event, points were supposedly entirely dependent on your placement in the main rankings.
FantasticWolle wrote: Been in the top 10 for almost all of the event. And when I dropped, it wasn't farther than rank 120 or something and I could get back in the top 10 with minimal effort. Well, until yesterday: dropped to about 500 and couldn't get back to the higher ranks. I even didn't play the missions 9 hours before the end and i could only get about 80 points doing the repeatables 1 hour before the event ended though. Now I finished top 100 and got 3 useless covers. All the grinding for nothing, great.
Sooty wrote: 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. They should just remove placement rewards from PvE. That seems like the only way to fix it.
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.
Misguided wrote: When you say grinding, do you mean playing the repeatables past the point where you had collected all the awards, or something else?