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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2017 23:43:10 GMT -5
So I thought about this and wondered if the people who mech out early do it for ads or upgrades.
Now the thing is, whichever one of the two they go for, it's fine as long as they don't bloody stay in the lower leagues forever and climb back up to their proper league.
So is it okay to tank just to get upgrades and bronze ads chests done?
Or you're just letting your team down by doing this...
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Post by ᎶƦ℮℮ƊᎽ ƤΛƝƊΛ on Dec 25, 2017 1:12:44 GMT -5
By the standards of the forums, that is not okay, because you have to club your way back up, no matter how you do it.
That is not my personal opinion, just warning you what will follow. Personally, I couldn't give less of a crap what others do, nor do I give a crap what they think about what I do. Life is simpler that way.
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Post by mojay1 on Dec 25, 2017 2:33:37 GMT -5
I don't believe you can actually open an advertisement until the battle is over, even if you were mech'ed out.
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Post by xXrobotrippinXx on Dec 25, 2017 3:16:54 GMT -5
I don't believe you can actually open an advertisement until the battle is over, even if you were mech'ed out. Correct. It’s kind of pointless. You won’t get the ads for each battle until that battle is over and you can only hold a few ads at a time. And the ad doesn’t pop up on its own either you have to switch screens at one point after the battle ends in order to light up the button. So you could go in, tank out, go in, tank out, go in, tank out and then you’d go back to hangar, Switch back & forth repetively between your task and hangar screen for 3-6 minutes while waiting for the first battle to end, watch your ad when it finally pops up, repetitively switch screens again for another 2 minutes till the ad from the second game pops up..... You get the point... Trust me. I’ve meched out 3 games in a row plenty of times playing BR and didn’t want to lose the ads I had saved up so I’ve waited and done just that and it’s boring as hell. I don’t even leave after I Mech out half the time now if im in that situation cause I’d rather watch the end of the game than sit there waiting. And tanking is what’s ruined the game more than anything and the reason my activity was about 70 last week. |
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Post by darkknight on Dec 25, 2017 3:38:04 GMT -5
I don't believe you can actually open an advertisement until the battle is over, even if you were mech'ed out. Correct. It’s kind of pointless. You won’t get the ads for each battle until that battle is over and you can only hold a few ads at a time. And the ad doesn’t pop up on its own either you have to switch screens at one point after the battle ends in order to light up the button. So you could go in, tank out, go in, tank out, go in, tank out and then you’d go back to hangar, Switch back & forth repetively between your task and hangar screen for 3-6 minutes while waiting for the first battle to end, watch your ad when it finally pops up, repetitively switch screens again for another 2 minutes till the ad from the second game pops up..... You get the point... Trust me. I’ve meched out 3 games in a row plenty of times playing BR and didn’t want to lose the ads I had saved up so I’ve waited and done just that and it’s boring as hell. I don’t even leave after I Mech out half the time now if im in that situation cause I’d rather watch the end of the game than sit there waiting. And tanking is what’s ruined the game more than anything and the reason my activity was about 70 last week. You can save up 5 adds now and I just checked usually even if I play 7 matches in a row I still get 7 adds ( playing full 10 min) |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 25, 2017 3:51:26 GMT -5
I don't believe you can actually open an advertisement until the battle is over, even if you were mech'ed out. Correct. It’s kind of pointless. You won’t get the ads for each battle until that battle is over and you can only hold a few ads at a time. And the ad doesn’t pop up on its own either you have to switch screens at one point after the battle ends in order to light up the button. So you could go in, tank out, go in, tank out, go in, tank out and then you’d go back to hangar, Switch back & forth repetively between your task and hangar screen for 3-6 minutes while waiting for the first battle to end, watch your ad when it finally pops up, repetitively switch screens again for another 2 minutes till the ad from the second game pops up..... You get the point... Trust me. I’ve meched out 3 games in a row plenty of times playing BR and didn’t want to lose the ads I had saved up so I’ve waited and done just that and it’s boring as hell. I don’t even leave after I Mech out half the time now if im in that situation cause I’d rather watch the end of the game than sit there waiting. And tanking is what’s ruined the game more than anything and the reason my activity was about 70 last week. Jesus Christ, you scared the living daylights out of me, I thought moderator was going to ban me for discussing these things :O. I get a little annoyed when one or two blues mech out and it's boring as you say to drop games. Yes it's ruining the game. |
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Post by Refuse2GrowUp on Dec 25, 2017 4:26:43 GMT -5
Correct. It’s kind of pointless. You won’t get the ads for each battle until that battle is over and you can only hold a few ads at a time. And the ad doesn’t pop up on its own either you have to switch screens at one point after the battle ends in order to light up the button. So you could go in, tank out, go in, tank out, go in, tank out and then you’d go back to hangar, Switch back & forth repetively between your task and hangar screen for 3-6 minutes while waiting for the first battle to end, watch your ad when it finally pops up, repetitively switch screens again for another 2 minutes till the ad from the second game pops up..... You get the point... Trust me. I’ve meched out 3 games in a row plenty of times playing BR and didn’t want to lose the ads I had saved up so I’ve waited and done just that and it’s boring as hell. I don’t even leave after I Mech out half the time now if im in that situation cause I’d rather watch the end of the game than sit there waiting. And tanking is what’s ruined the game more than anything and the reason my activity was about 70 last week. Jesus Christ, you scared the living daylights out of me, I thought moderator was going to ban me for discussing these things  . I get a little annoyed when one or two blues mech out and it's boring as you say to drop games. Yes it's ruining the game. 'Mech out' is a relative term. There are those who interpret meching out as simply running their bots into reds to get the killed quickly, while doing the bare minimum damage, just to end the match quickly and not be thrown in the LPQ, but still get a loss and tank. Then there are those who play extremely aggressive and do as much damage as possible and take as many reds with them, but then quickly move on to another match. The aforementioned may do so because they hate a particular map but don't wont to simply drop and screw over their fellow blues. They may do so because there is an event going and they are moving on quickly. Or they may do it simply because that is their play style, and the best defense is a strong offense. Point is, the second category of players do not have the intention of tanking when they mech out. Keep that in mind, as the perameters for the survey are pretty biased. From a personal perspective, I often mech out. But I am climbing leagues. I am typically in D2 (tho have been bumped to Gold by all the tankers and beacon rushers thx to the event). My hanger is 6/7, with a couple weapons now up to 8. While match making does seem to be better than it was, I still regularly face expert players. So I play extremely aggressive. I do so not to tank, leave a match early, or screw over fellow blues, but rather because I want to be in top three for damage to get the gold and keys for top damage and beacons. If I play conservatively or defensively, I am almost assured to be in the bottom for damage and get little silver and keys, and no gold. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 25, 2017 4:36:34 GMT -5
Yes, it's biased as you said Refuse2GrowUp, I want to speed up upgrades/super chest bar, but I don't want to go through the meching out early method by rushing in to do as much damage and leave for the next battle. It's not fun/ it's boring indeed, no action as moderator said, I find it a bit annoying that I have to rush my good bots into suicide when I could've pounded the red if played properly. |
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Post by hyderier on Dec 25, 2017 8:47:40 GMT -5
Only acceptable form of "tanking" is to stop making your hangar more powerful, so you stop rising in leagues. If you went too high, it is acceptable to switch to light bots and play for beacons/harassment until you have dropped enough.
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Post by Pilot sand735 on Dec 25, 2017 11:06:30 GMT -5
tankers usually tank 3-4 games and then play a full game to get the rewards
atmost 5 ads are stored now
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Post by Poopface on Dec 25, 2017 12:20:12 GMT -5
Jesus Christ, you scared the living daylights out of me, I thought moderator was going to ban me for discussing these things . Keep blaspheming on His birthday and the moderator will be the least of your troubles. |
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Post by ᎶƦ℮℮ƊᎽ ƤΛƝƊΛ on Dec 25, 2017 12:28:17 GMT -5
I don't believe you can actually open an advertisement until the battle is over, even if you were mech'ed out. That is not correct. You can start with your usual 5 stored ads. If you leave a game every 2 minutes, the games will be done before you get through 5 ads, so you'll essentially be watching an ad every 2.5 minutes instead of every 7-10 minutes. Basically you can watch ads 3-4x faster via tanking. |
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Post by hyderier on Dec 25, 2017 13:42:50 GMT -5
I don't believe you can actually open an advertisement until the battle is over, even if you were mech'ed out. That is not correct. You can start with your usual 5 stored ads. If you leave a game every 2 minutes, the games will be done before you get through 5 ads, so you'll essentially be watching an ad every 2.5 minutes instead of every 7-10 minutes. Basically you can watch ads 3-4x faster via tanking. And every ad generates Pix a tiny bit of money. Nice. I wonder if the ad providers are on board with this though? |
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Post by ᎶƦ℮℮ƊᎽ ƤΛƝƊΛ on Dec 25, 2017 15:08:19 GMT -5
That is not correct. You can start with your usual 5 stored ads. If you leave a game every 2 minutes, the games will be done before you get through 5 ads, so you'll essentially be watching an ad every 2.5 minutes instead of every 7-10 minutes. Basically you can watch ads 3-4x faster via tanking. And every ad generates Pix a tiny bit of money. Nice. I wonder if the ad providers are on board with this though? Pixonic probably likes it because it generates revenue for them quicker. |
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Post by mojay1 on Dec 25, 2017 17:27:58 GMT -5
That is not correct. You can start with your usual 5 stored ads. If you leave a game every 2 minutes, the games will be done before you get through 5 ads, so you'll essentially be watching an ad every 2.5 minutes instead of every 7-10 minutes. Basically you can watch ads 3-4x faster via tanking. Thanks for the clarification. |
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Post by ѻﻭɼﻉ on Dec 25, 2017 18:36:48 GMT -5
The reality is we can’t say for sure why someone is meching out quickly. I’ve been in Champion League for a long time now and don’t intend to drop leagues for “easier” combat and rewards. However, in the passed week I have frequently had severe lag resulting in enemy taking no damage, vanishing enemies, instantaneous mech destruction and being at spawn having to choose a mech again, constant “reconnecting” messages interfering, and also being sent back to hangar mid-match. After iOS update this morning, every single one of my battles was full of the above, so I had to stop playing altogether.
I’m all about team work even during the events, but in these situations, I’m sure some of my teammates were cursing me as a worthless “tanker”.
Anyways, point is, I see these posts of people talking crap about others even posting hangar pics to slander them. I’m sure one of these days my hangar will be on display from some chump, who ironically, more than likely experiences the same issues sometimes but also doesn’t consider themselves a tanker. The whole subject of whining about it is ridiculous.
The sooner we come to accept certain facts of the game, the less pissed off we’ll get. People still get super bent out of shape because they were destroyed and they curse the weapon and even delete the app for an evening they were so mad. Like, dude, this is a game were we destroy and get destroyed; where teammates intentionally tank, or have connection issues, or don’t care about their team or beacons or winning or whatever. Get over it, or go play Frogger
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Post by Refuse2GrowUp on Dec 25, 2017 18:47:58 GMT -5
The reality is we can’t say for sure why someone is meching out quickly. I’ve been in Champion League for a long time now and don’t intend to drop leagues for “easier” combat and rewards. However, in the passed week I have frequently had severe lag resulting in enemy taking no damage, vanishing enemies, instantaneous mech destruction and being at spawn having to choose a mech again, constant “reconnecting” messages interfering, and also being sent back to hangar mid-match. After iOS update this morning, every single one of my battles was full of the above, so I had to stop playing altogether. I’m all about team work even during the events, but in these situations, I’m sure some of my teammates were cursing me as a worthless “tanker”. Anyways, point is, I see these posts of people talking crap about others even posting hangar pics to slander them. I’m sure one of these days my hangar will be on display from some chump, who ironically, more than likely experiences the same issues sometimes but also doesn’t consider themselves a tanker. The whole subject of whining about it is ridiculous. The sooner we come to accept certain facts of the game, the less pissed off we’ll get. People still get super bent out of shape because they were destroyed and they curse the weapon and even delete the app for an evening they were so mad. Like, dude, this is a game were we destroy and get destroyed; where teammates intentionally tank, or have connection issues, or don’t care about their team or beacons or winning or whatever. Get over it, or go play Frogger ? I screen shot recap and hangers on occasion, but only do so for extreme cases, i.e. the player who has 4k+ wins plus or legend trophies and all maxed gear, but is kicking around in bronze or gold league. Have yet to post them, but may someday. I have no quams naming and shaming extreme offender dirtbags |
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Post by ѻﻭɼﻉ on Dec 25, 2017 19:28:44 GMT -5
The reality is we can’t say for sure why someone is meching out quickly. I’ve been in Champion League for a long time now and don’t intend to drop leagues for “easier” combat and rewards. However, in the passed week I have frequently had severe lag resulting in enemy taking no damage, vanishing enemies, instantaneous mech destruction and being at spawn having to choose a mech again, constant “reconnecting” messages interfering, and also being sent back to hangar mid-match. After iOS update this morning, every single one of my battles was full of the above, so I had to stop playing altogether. I’m all about team work even during the events, but in these situations, I’m sure some of my teammates were cursing me as a worthless “tanker”. Anyways, point is, I see these posts of people talking crap about others even posting hangar pics to slander them. I’m sure one of these days my hangar will be on display from some chump, who ironically, more than likely experiences the same issues sometimes but also doesn’t consider themselves a tanker. The whole subject of whining about it is ridiculous. The sooner we come to accept certain facts of the game, the less pissed off we’ll get. People still get super bent out of shape because they were destroyed and they curse the weapon and even delete the app for an evening they were so mad. Like, dude, this is a game were we destroy and get destroyed; where teammates intentionally tank, or have connection issues, or don’t care about their team or beacons or winning or whatever. Get over it, or go play Frogger ? I screen shot recap and hangers on occasion, but only do so for extreme cases, i.e. the player who has 4k+ wins plus or legend trophies and all maxed gear, but is kicking around in bronze or gold league. Have yet to post them, but may someday. I have no quams naming and shaming extreme offender dirtbags There are exceptions, of course, but generally speaking we don’t know that everyone being named is tanking, that’s why I’m pointing out what happens to me. I even know a guy with maxed gear who is down in diamond due partially to continuous connection issues, but also maybe there are some piloting mistakes there, not to mention poor teamwork on part of randoms contributing to a loss of league points for this person. I know them well, they try really hard, but rising into the higher leagues is just really difficult for them despite their gear, so there are these instances where looks are deceiving. |
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Post by Danny Linguini on Dec 25, 2017 21:16:34 GMT -5
Confession time -- there is one situation where I'll intentionally mech out early. In almost every match I open with my Rhino, and go grab either one strategic beacon or as many peripheral beacons as I can, making every effort to take out at least one red before getting killed myself. At that point, if I see a map with 4 red beacons and the only blue being the one I just turned, and the rest of the blue team is hanging around spawn avoiding anything that looks like action, I'll eject my next three bots and suicide the last one. Only when it's obvious, and believe me, it IS obvious, and it happens a lot more than the law of averages would suggest it should. Those games that I have tried to play out inevitably end in cuss-inducing frustration, and I'm not going to put forth the effort to try to salvage the game when the rest of the team obviously doesn't give a crap. Otherwise, all it takes is one or two good teammates to make it a good game, and for those guys I'll go all out for the duration of the game.
Am I letting teammates down? I don't think so, but at that point, I don't care -- it's my own mental well-being I'm more concerned about. Side benefit is it slows down league advancement so it's more in line with the increasingly long times it takes to upgrade my hangar. If that makes me a schmuck, so be it.
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Post by WilsonK on Dec 25, 2017 22:10:28 GMT -5
Regardless of reason or motive, I'll never want to tank, I just play my best and do my best to contribute to the team. Even if my team consists of tankers.  |
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Post by rollinfknpower on Dec 25, 2017 22:49:26 GMT -5
I don't believe you can actually open an advertisement until the battle is over, even if you were mech'ed out. Correct. It’s kind of pointless. You won’t get the ads for each battle until that battle is over and you can only hold a few ads at a time. And the ad doesn’t pop up on its own either you have to switch screens at one point after the battle ends in order to light up the button. So you could go in, tank out, go in, tank out, go in, tank out and then you’d go back to hangar, Switch back & forth repetively between your task and hangar screen for 3-6 minutes while waiting for the first battle to end, watch your ad when it finally pops up, repetitively switch screens again for another 2 minutes till the ad from the second game pops up..... You get the point... Trust me. I’ve meched out 3 games in a row plenty of times playing BR and didn’t want to lose the ads I had saved up so I’ve waited and done just that and it’s boring as hell. I don’t even leave after I Mech out half the time now if im in that situation cause I’d rather watch the end of the game than sit there waiting. And tanking is what’s ruined the game more than anything and the reason my activity was about 70 last week. I usually stay and watch if I mech out as well. It's fun watching and rooting for the home team. Especially if it's a close game. |
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