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 Alex C wrote:
I gave up on the challenge, it's turned everyone into a ****ing moron.

How so? I didn't notice much of a difference.

 Overlord Thraka wrote:

 Alex C wrote:
I gave up on the challenge, it's turned everyone into a ****ing moron.

How so? I didn't notice much of a difference.

Way more hiding than usual, every other build is an lrm boat, half the team disconnecting at the start of a match because it's not the map they need, etc.

The prize isn't worth the hassle of playing with people like this. Unfortunately I can't choose not to until the event ends, so I guess I won't be playing for a few days.

 Alex C wrote:

 Overlord Thraka wrote:

 Alex C wrote:
I gave up on the challenge, it's turned everyone into a ****ing moron.

How so? I didn't notice much of a difference.

Way more hiding than usual, every other build is an lrm boat, half the team disconnecting at the start of a match because it's not the map they need, etc.

The prize isn't worth the hassle of playing with people like this. Unfortunately I can't choose not to until the event ends, so I guess I won't be playing for a few days.

I thought disconnecting more than 3 times disqualified you?

 Ovion wrote:

 Alex C wrote:

 Overlord Thraka wrote:

 Alex C wrote:
I gave up on the challenge, it's turned everyone into a ****ing moron.

How so? I didn't notice much of a difference.

Way more hiding than usual, every other build is an lrm boat, half the team disconnecting at the start of a match because it's not the map they need, etc.

The prize isn't worth the hassle of playing with people like this. Unfortunately I can't choose not to until the event ends, so I guess I won't be playing for a few days.

I thought disconnecting more than 3 times disqualified you?

They removed the disconnect penalties due to legit bugs in recording disconnects.

Therefore the thing they were trying to stop, is indeed happening.

I really wish PGI would catch up with the times and implement a 'dailies' system of rewards. they've kind of already done that with CW, offering MC and CBill rewards if a faction complete's an objective but you have to go to the website to even know what the reward or objective is.

Be nice to get a proper in-game interface for daily challenges and rewards and maybe a mountain of new and fun achievements.

People universally love their random loot events, where you earn "picks" from a prize pool.

I think if they implemented that more often, their player base would respond positively.

They could add weekly and monthly's too. Challenging ones that reward free mechs

So I'm still piloting the Raven, loving it, and I'm at the second to last tier(Elite?) of skills, only 8k ish XP to buy the last skill to open up Master. Master skill says that it unlocks another module slot, but do the other slots unlock at that level too? I ask because there are some tasty modules that I want to get my hands on, such as the zoom and ER laser cooldown reduction/range, and they are all "locked" and no info is given on how to unlock them.

Thanks guys!

 nels1031 wrote:
So I'm still piloting the Raven, loving it, and I'm at the second to last tier(Elite?) of skills, only 8k ish XP to buy the last skill to open up Master. Master skill says that it unlocks another module slot, but do the other slots unlock at that level too? I ask because there are some tasty modules that I want to get my hands on, such as the zoom and ER laser cooldown reduction/range, and they are all "locked" and no info is given on how to unlock them.

Thanks guys!

It's called. GXP. It's 15% of your total XP earnings that is used to unlock modules

Ya, just found the Pilot Skill tree and thats where it unlocks mods. Blew all my XP on ERL cooldown reduction, I'll unlock the Advanced Zoom next.

Played a game with 12% reduced ERL cooldown, was lighting dudes up!

I hate the idiots who ask PGI to remove all weapon quirks and add module slots to replace them. That's basically flipping off everyone who doesn't get premium time. And increasing the cost to fully equip a mech by like 10 Million

LOL been playing since it came out and was disappointed by the lack of the promised class system(during the England Olympics I think) and never noticed the pilot tree until someone mentioned it yesterday. I had previously been using GXP for sparsely filling slow gaining mech exp. Still had 17000 to spend so now I have a couple hundred left

Well didn't pursue the tourney and just played normally and so when they dropped down to 200 and 300 got Tier 1 (last map at lunchtime) and close to Tier 2 but not going to reach (lots of games at about 280-290, several at 291!). Odd tournament really given the randomness of maps.....

Looking forward to the Black Knight and the new MechWarrior Academy looks interesting.

 Mr Morden wrote:
Well didn't pursue the tourney and just played normally and so when they dropped down to 200 and 300 got Tier 1 (last map at lunchtime) and close to Tier 2 but not going to reach (lots of games at about 280-290, several at 291!). Odd tournament really given the randomness of maps.....

Looking forward to the Black Knight and the new MechWarrior Academy looks interesting.

The Mechwarrior academy was AMAZING on the PTS server.

So I'll be playing some today. But I picked horrible time to try out Skyrim... as I am not addicted

and we are patching

I quite like Skyrim but it seems so ..empty without mods

 Mr Morden wrote:
and we are patching

I quite like Skyrim but it seems so ..empty without mods

Patched. Played my 1st game with a Knight. Alpine with the R varient. 4 Large Lasers and 2 meds. 545 DMg 3 kills 2 solo. It was a 12/11 loss

Also. Holy crap I'm tier 4? Thought for sure I'd be 3. Oh well. Time to work that up!

Tier 2 bitches (Higher than I expected XD) I will now proceed to ensure you all know I'm better than you because some game on the internet tells me so!

 Mr Morden wrote:
and we are patching

I quite like Skyrim but it seems so ..empty without mods

I'd suggest playing a non-optimal build for Roleplay purposes. It makes the game so very much more entertaining than specifically making a character to roflestomp all over everything ever. Maybe try to make a Merchant with a little talent in Healing, who specializes in Speechcraft and dungeon raiding- relying on your hireling or follower to fight for you.

Tier 2 here, for some reason!

Black Knight is hella fun. Running Wubknights is hilarious. 6 mpulse and 2 lpulse with an XL350 wrecks face.

 Alex C wrote:
Tier 2 here, for some reason!

Black Knight is hella fun. Running Wubknights is hilarious. 6 mpulse and 2 lpulse with an XL350 wrecks face.

I've got 1 LargeP 8 MedP running on a XL 360. I'm not gonna be tier 4 for long...

I know tier 4 is too low for me because I'm smashing up everyone ingame. (Or the Black Knight is just that good)
That and a saw theB33f last week along with Bombadil. So maybe it's left over from the territorial challenge

Anvildude wrote:

 Mr Morden wrote:
and we are patching

I quite like Skyrim but it seems so ..empty without mods

I'd suggest playing a non-optimal build for Roleplay purposes. It makes the game so very much more entertaining than specifically making a character to roflestomp all over everything ever. Maybe try to make a Merchant with a little talent in Healing, who specializes in Speechcraft and dungeon raiding- relying on your hireling or follower to fight for you.

Its not the combat - I have moded so that more challenging - its that the towns, fields etc seem very empty to me.........the wilderness is fine being like this................

on MWO - well I am tier 5 - laugh away

The new Accademy is very nice - and already got another 4 million Cbills there from the basics

It's wierd, I think it's averaged out across all mechs, where before it was per weight class.

I'm listed as T4.
I know I'm probably a T3 with Lights and Heavies, and probably T5 with Mediums and Assaults.
But now as a flat T4... we'll have to see if I have an easier ride in my Lights / Heavies than I used to, or if they've retained a per-class adjustment?

Winning and Loosing games seem to be the main thing to put your rating up or down -

got a average game and went up as we won
scored 400, 2 kills and went down as we lost.........

Yeah. I can only assume the change they made was to alter the way points are calculated at the end of a game, as the fundamental of "if your team sucks too bad you lose points" is still the same as before

 Mr Morden wrote:
The new Academy is very nice - and already got another 4 million Cbills there from the basics

The Academy is the tutorial missions correct? I skipped them after I figured out how to use the jump jets. Do you get paid for completing those or is the Academy something different. I learned how to steer and shoot and jumped right in, when I started a few weeks ago.

 nels1031 wrote:

 Mr Morden wrote:
The new Academy is very nice - and already got another 4 million Cbills there from the basics

The Academy is the tutorial missions correct? I skipped them after I figured out how to use the jump jets. Do you get paid for completing those or is the Academy something different. I learned how to steer and shoot and jumped right in, when I started a few weeks ago.

I got over 3 Million C-bills out of the academy. It's worth spending 20 minutes for like 5 hours earnings

In the academy, you only get cbills for doing the "learn how to move and shoot" bit, right?

Or am I missing free money?

 Alex C wrote:
In the academy, you only get cbills for doing the "learn how to move and shoot" bit, right?

Or am I missing free money?

I think you get 2Mill for just completing basic training, and there is another couple on offer for the movement test in that bit depending on what grade you do it at - I got Silver IIRC and got couple.. Not done the Shooting range etc but maybe there is more there as well?

You get C-Bills for completing basic (2.5mil), then +2mil for getting gold in the 'race', 500k for completing the fire test with no friendly fire, 200 for shooting and being shot by adams.

I think there's a reward for doing X well in the Gauntlett, but I haven't spent long enough to go far enough to get it. (My theory that the Locust would be fast enough to dodge the 0 latency computer controlled mech fire was wrong, only made it 2 rounds before dying).

I found that the gauntlet was easiest in a Dakkawolf. Just keep disabling the targets all the time.