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Skihids
Bullet Cluster
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Posted - 2013.08.30 17:19:00 -
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I took that week off work partly to enjoy 1.4. Please don't penalize me for playing Wed-Fri. It would be very punishing to force me to sit on my hands all week and then attempt to cap out in two days.
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Oh and to have to do it all in Ambush with the increased amount of wait time before and after each match.
That would be pure torture.
Did anyone do the math on this? You really need to ask yourself how someone would generate the maximum benefit from the event if you are trying to make it less painful.
In this case the answer is "Play a gagillion Ambush matches for 48 hours straight." |
Skihids
Bullet Cluster
1979
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Posted - 2013.08.30 17:28:00 -
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Beren Hurin wrote:Skihids wrote:I took that week off work partly to enjoy 1.4. Please don't penalize me for playing Wed-Fri. It would be very punishing to force me to sit on my hands all week and then attempt to cap out in two days. You could play with an alt? It would be like working in reverse of how you'd do it normally where you cap your dude early, and then complain on the weekend. You could just complain ahead of time as if it WAS the weekend, but then start with your main on the weekend! Alternatively, what about an SP event where the SP you earned with one alt, could also be multiplied to the rest of them. So you could bill it as a potentially 3x to 9x SP event, but you'd have to cap 2 alts and your main if you wanted all that SP.
I don't run alts. I barely have time to cap one character each week, and since I've got 18k SP now with 10k SP in dropsuit upgrades any alt is going to be severely UP in comparison. |
Skihids
Bullet Cluster
1979
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Posted - 2013.08.30 17:52:00 -
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Sana Rayya wrote:Bonus SP doesn't count toward your SP cap.
From how I interpreted the event (and from what has been stated here), it seems that the way to maximize your SP gain from this event is to not play on Wednesday and Thursday, and to only play ambushes from Friday - Sunday with the specific goal of not exceeding 3000 SP per match. Exceeding 3000 SP will mean depleting your cap faster without any reciprocal bonus event SP. So play a lot of games but don't do too well or you're shorting yourself SP... an interesting style of gameplay you're inadvertently promoting with this event, CCP.
After capping, your extra event SP will be equal to your normal SP per match, so assuming you can consistently score high on ambushes, this is still the best game mode to maximize SP potential. The actual warpoint to SP conversion will still be 1:1 unlike past SP events, but since whatever you gain will be doubled up to the soft cap, this will lead to more points gained for the same time invested. This is when you should try your hardest to meet or exceed the 1000 WP soft cap per match.
I just did the math and assuming I take Friday off of work and cap out on that day, I should be able to earn around 940K SP from active play alone, so with my Omega passive that'll be 1.082 mil SP in three days time. It's going to be a grueling grind, but probably easier than the last 2x SP event.
If that's true I'm just going to have to pretend this event isn't happening to preserve my sanity.
Yes, I like SP. I've been shoveling money at CCP for boosters. But I'm not going to sit on my hands for two or three days and then hook up an intravenous drip to keep me going for 96 hours straight in order to cap out playing Ambush for under 3k a match.
Next CCP will figure out how to have my DS3 administer shocks as I play. |
Skihids
Bullet Cluster
1988
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Posted - 2013.08.30 20:35:00 -
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Needless Sacermendor wrote:Sana Rayya wrote:Again, seems like the safest way to maximize your SP gains until you cap is to AFK ambushes to make sure you earn no more than 3k a match. Can anyone even remember why we have an sp over time setup in the first place ... with a proper matchmaking system will it still be necessary ? Best I can figure it was to reward those that weren't so good and struggled to get a couple hundred wp while others were getting a few thousand ... surely a better matchmaking and improvements to rewards for DS pilots etc. should see a more even distribution of the wp in a match and therefore less need for sp over time ! Unless anyone knows any other reasons for it ?
We don't have a working matchmaking system, nor do we have a balanced WP reward system. Thus we can't rely upon performance measures for SP purposes. |
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