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Post by Redfiend on Aug 25, 2020 19:40:26 GMT -5
OverviewTournament is the competitive mode of MA. It's on from Tuesday to Sunday every week, and is the primary source of rewards based on activity. This game mode is definitely nothing to sleep on because it's the primary method of getting every currency in the game! The basic rules and explanation for how tournament operates can be found through buttons on the ranking card screen accessed from the hangar. Ranking Cards compare you to players that played their first tournament match in your bracket around the same time as you. While you will face opponents that are in your entire bracket, your score for the day ONLY matters against those 20 people. This can make tournament a little luck of the draw. Sometimes you can get stuck on a card with people that grind like maniacs, sometimes you can place high with your free daily tickets.  You can also find the map rotation for the week here. They change every week, and rotations are never really set in stone. Once you know which maps are which, knowing which loadouts will grant you the most mileage is king.  There are 5 ranking brackets, each with their own reward pools. Every player starts in Novice on the first tournament day they participate in for the week. Get to know these well, because the Cheese forever section will be a guide to milking rewards for everything you can get without driving yourself crazy. 
Fortune Vaults and Loot Rush:
Fortune vaults are this game's version of lottery loot boxes. They never go away, the timer isn't for that. The keys to open these crates only come from tournament and real money.  The drop rates for each crate can be found by clicking the circled "i" symbol, then clicking the "i" symbol in the header of the screen that shows the thumbnails. The 10 cost chests are the best value because of high drop rates for chunk Credits and A-coins. SKINS DO NOT DROP DUPLICATES. The chances of getting currency technically go up as you roll skins since the number of items on the RNG table shrinks. The 20 cost chest will only really be worth it once you've pulled most of the skins in the game. The 20 cost chest only has a handful of skins that don't drop from the 10 cost chest, so the massive overlap of loot tables sees it as wasted value up to the point where you do have most of the skins. 5 10 20
Loot Rush is specifically the bar at the top of the vault screen. Participating in loot rush gives extra rewards for opening crates. 12,500 Credits, 250 A-coins, 2 Rare Skins, and 1 Exotic SkinIn order to get all of the rewards from loot rush, you'll have to spend at least 50 keys within the two week period loot rush is available.Loot rush is ON for two weeks, and OFF for one. It returns with different skins each rotation.
CHEESE FOREVERTournament doesn't mean you have to kill yourself to grind in waters you're not ready for yet. As a matter of fact, playing it straight will likely get you frustrated by the final day. Grinding to get everything is VERY UNLIKELY until you're already at the 5 star hangar stage.
The best way to farm tournament is to keep the Bot Ranking rule of thumb in mind. The average rank of your hangar is a clear and easy indicator of what level of tournament you want to actually try to finish high on the Rankings for, and when it's ideal to only play one match for the day and let yourself drop back to the previous rank.Farm by Hangar1-3 Star Hangar: Your hangar is only going to be this weak for the first couple of days if you're following the Beginner's Guide. Novice and Professional are going to be where you spend most of your time until you can get your Hangar to Rank 3.Your week looks like: D1: Novice: Rank as best you can. Promoted.D2: Professional: Rank as best you can. PromotedD3: Expert: Play one game: DemotedD4: Professional: Rank as best you can. PromotedD5: Expert: Play one game: DemotedD6: Professional: Rank as best you can, aim for the top because it's the last day.
     3-4 Star Hangar: Once your brawlers and damage dealers reach this point, you can push a little higher. If you don't intend to go crazy with grinding, you can keep this rotation going every week until your hanngar is rank 5 and above. Consecutively ranking up increases your chances of running into near max players, and creates a completely different Master/Grandmaster swathe of AI as the days progress. Buying tickets for both runs of Expert and Day:6 Master are where you're most likely to rank top 3 and get the bulk of what you're going to get for the week:Your week looks like:D1: Novice: PromotedD2: Professional: Promoted:D3: Expert: Rank as best you can: PromotedD4: Master: Play one game: DemotedD5: Expert: Rank as best as you can: PromotedD6: Master: Final day, push as hard as you can.4-5 Star Hangar: This is the point where your bots can actually hang with high rank AI and players that are near the top. Playing tournament straight to the end isn't advised yet, because the AI will become extremely punishing with it's statically high health/damage output and absolute hatred for all human life visiting it's digital world.
Your Week looks like: D1: Novice: Promoted D2: Professional: Promoted D3: Expert: Promoted D4: Master: Rank as best as possible: Promoted D5: Grandmaster: Play one game: Demoted D6: Master: Last day of the tournament, aim for as high as your sanity allows. These rotations will maximize the amount of resources you can get out of tournament, at the 3-4 star level, you can often win between 2000-3000 A-Coins a week with minimal grinding, on top of all of the credits/blueprints won from the rest of the rewards, and additional A-coins from the Vault. Just remember that the actual population of your ranking card is a crapshoot based on when you started playing tournament for the day, so you won't be able to win them all!
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Post by Deadeye on Aug 26, 2020 8:21:49 GMT -5
This is outstanding! I thought I would add one note that I'm trying out to manage my tickets each day and maybe this will be helpful or not. Since I believe you are only able to earn 12 tournament tickets/day, any open chests after that number will not benefit you from a tickets stand point. With that in mind, I am saving my chests that I earn each day after I have maxed out my tournament tickets to open on the following day. That way I start the next day fresh and flush with new tickets. It helps me manage that only buying gold tickets when I absolutely need to.
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Post by ⓣⓡⓘⓒⓚⓨ48 on Aug 26, 2020 9:15:04 GMT -5
Redfiend - Man I for one am very appreciative of you showing up, then joining up, and then posting all this... there is a lack of info out there for sure and you are filling in all the gaps! Deadeye and Koalabear , thank y'all for opening up a subforum and not only playing the game, but actively promoting discussions here. Y'all didn't have to do that and it's much appreciated. And double thanks to you, Koalabear , for that initial thread talking about it! Mech Wars was pretty boring but wasn't War Robots so I was going down that rabbit hole... MA blows it out of the water. I love this forum. This is why I don't leave even though War Robots is not on any of my devices anymore... the folk here are top notch. Cheers!
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Post by Redfiend on Aug 26, 2020 9:27:30 GMT -5
This is outstanding! I thought I would add one note that I'm trying out to manage my tickets each day and maybe this will be helpful or not. Since I believe you are only able to earn 12 tournament tickets/day, any open chests after that number will not benefit you from a tickets stand point. With that in mind, I am saving my chests that I earn each day after I have maxed out my tournament tickets to open on the following day. That way I start the next day fresh and flush with new tickets. It helps me manage that only buying gold tickets when I absolutely need to. Free tickets are the bread and butter for the days where I say "Promoted" without any mention of trying on the rotation schedule. I mentioned their counter and limits in the main megathread. Buying tickets is cheap at 20 for 100 coins, but it's only really suggestible to do that for the highest bracket you're going to be in/final day. Even when grinding on the 3+ star rotation, you're never going to use more than 60 tickets a week. Grinding harder than that will just have the AI lay on the hate. |
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Post by mechtout on Aug 26, 2020 9:58:01 GMT -5
This is outstanding! I thought I would add one note that I'm trying out to manage my tickets each day and maybe this will be helpful or not. Since I believe you are only able to earn 12 tournament tickets/day, any open chests after that number will not benefit you from a tickets stand point. With that in mind, I am saving my chests that I earn each day after I have maxed out my tournament tickets to open on the following day. That way I start the next day fresh and flush with new tickets. It helps me manage that only buying gold tickets when I absolutely need to. Free tickets are the bread and butter for the days where I say "Promoted" without any mention of trying on the rotation schedule. I mentioned their counter and limits in the main megathread. Buying tickets is cheap at 20 for 100 coins, but it's only really suggestible to do that for the highest bracket you're going to be in/final day. Even when grinding on the 3+ star rotation, you're never going to use more than 60 tickets a week. Grinding harder than that will just have the AI lay on the hate. what positions will get you promoted in Novice and Professional? As long as you are in the money? I made the mistake of winning my bracket in Novice lol oh nevermind, i see it tells you if you will stay in the bracket or not |
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Post by Redfiend on Aug 26, 2020 10:08:08 GMT -5
Free tickets are the bread and butter for the days where I say "Promoted" without any mention of trying on the rotation schedule. I mentioned their counter and limits in the main megathread. Buying tickets is cheap at 20 for 100 coins, but it's only really suggestible to do that for the highest bracket you're going to be in/final day. Even when grinding on the 3+ star rotation, you're never going to use more than 60 tickets a week. Grinding harder than that will just have the AI lay on the hate. what positions will get you promoted in Novice and Professional? As long as you are in the money? I made the mistake of winning my bracket in Novice lol oh nevermind, i see it tells you if you will stay in the bracket or not Rust is my secondary acct. You deleted me ? Squadding with lower division players puts the AI somewhere in the middle. I say play one game to get demoted because it takes being bottom 5 to actually get demoted. Not registering at all just holds your rank over to the following day. |
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Post by mechtout on Aug 26, 2020 10:09:45 GMT -5
what positions will get you promoted in Novice and Professional? As long as you are in the money? I made the mistake of winning my bracket in Novice lol oh nevermind, i see it tells you if you will stay in the bracket or not Rust is my secondary acct. You deleted me ? Squadding with lower division players puts the AI somewhere in the middle. I say play one game to get demoted because it takes being bottom 5 to actually get demoted. Not registering at all just holds your rank over to the following day. oh sorry! i just had this guy invite me like 90 times, so i got annoyed and started clearing names including ones that didnt sign on in a few days lol. |
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Post by Redfiend on Aug 26, 2020 10:28:01 GMT -5
Rust is my secondary acct. You deleted me ? Squadding with lower division players puts the AI somewhere in the middle. I say play one game to get demoted because it takes being bottom 5 to actually get demoted. Not registering at all just holds your rank over to the following day. oh sorry! i just had this guy invite me like 90 times, so i got annoyed and started clearing names including ones that didnt sign on in a few days lol. That was me, trying to get you some chumper opponents for some easy wins ? |
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Post by Danny Linguini on Aug 26, 2020 16:41:15 GMT -5
Redfiend - Man I for one am very appreciative of you showing up, then joining up, and then posting all this... there is a lack of info out there for sure and you are filling in all the gaps! Deadeye and Koalabear , thank y'all for opening up a subforum and not only playing the game, but actively promoting discussions here. Y'all didn't have to do that and it's much appreciated. And double thanks to you, Koalabear , for that initial thread talking about it! Mech Wars was pretty boring but wasn't War Robots so I was going down that rabbit hole... MA blows it out of the water. I love this forum. This is why I don't leave even though War Robots is not on any of my devices anymore... the folk here are top notch. Cheers! Ditto all of this. And don’t forget a shout out to the boss, SuperHero, for letting it all happen. Considering that the ‘official’ game forum is garbage, Discord will always be a cesspool, and FB is the epitome of everything wrong in this world, giving us a subforum here is greatly appreciated. |
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Post by scape211 on Aug 27, 2020 7:56:38 GMT -5
Redfiend - Man I for one am very appreciative of you showing up, then joining up, and then posting all this... there is a lack of info out there for sure and you are filling in all the gaps! Deadeye and Koalabear , thank y'all for opening up a subforum and not only playing the game, but actively promoting discussions here. Y'all didn't have to do that and it's much appreciated. And double thanks to you, Koalabear , for that initial thread talking about it! Mech Wars was pretty boring but wasn't War Robots so I was going down that rabbit hole... MA blows it out of the water. I love this forum. This is why I don't leave even though War Robots is not on any of my devices anymore... the folk here are top notch. Cheers! Ditto all of this. And don’t forget a shout out to the boss, SuperHero , for letting it all happen. Considering that the ‘official’ game forum is garbage, Discord will always be a cesspool, and FB is the epitome of everything wrong in this world, giving us a subforum here is greatly appreciated. I havent been here as long as most of you but I would agree in many ways. It's been tough finding a good discussion base for this game with those who think similarly and speak English well. I hope as this gets more releases in all areas that it will be easier to find the English base. But for now, this sub forum has been a nice place to talk strategy. |
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Post by mechtout on Aug 28, 2020 12:03:19 GMT -5
I say play one game to get demoted because it takes being bottom 5 to actually get demoted. Not registering at all just holds your rank over to the following day. TBH this is a test of will because those Tournament gold tokens sitting there all day are calling me XD |
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Post by Redfiend on Aug 28, 2020 12:17:59 GMT -5
I say play one game to get demoted because it takes being bottom 5 to actually get demoted. Not registering at all just holds your rank over to the following day. TBH this is a test of will because those Tournament gold tokens sitting there all day are calling me XD Get 300 A-coins and a vault roll the following day? Or get the vault tokens today and reduce your chances of getting anything decent out of tournament tomorrow? Personally, I just intend on doing Professional 3 times a week until some of my stuff is rank 4. I'll take the thousand coins I know will be a cake walk over grinding hard for slightly more  ?? |
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Post by mechtout on Aug 28, 2020 12:22:39 GMT -5
TBH this is a test of will because those Tournament gold tokens sitting there all day are calling me  Get 300 A-coins and a vault roll the following day? Or get the vault tokens today and reduce your chances of getting anything decent out of tournament tomorrow? Personally, I just intend on doing Professional 3 times a week until some of my stuff is rank 4. I'll take the thousand coins I know will be a cake walk over grinding hard for slightly more ?? ya i might try that next tourney, i ran out of tickets and placed third in Expert yesterday. first in professional looks better. |
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Post by Deadeye on Aug 28, 2020 12:27:13 GMT -5
Off day of the tournament bein' like...   |
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Post by Redfiend on Aug 28, 2020 12:48:56 GMT -5
Get 300 A-coins and a vault roll the following day? Or get the vault tokens today and reduce your chances of getting anything decent out of tournament tomorrow? Personally, I just intend on doing Professional 3 times a week until some of my stuff is rank 4. I'll take the thousand coins I know will be a cake walk over grinding hard for slightly more ?? ya i might try that next tourney, i ran out of tickets and placed third in Expert yesterday. first in professional looks better. Yea, don't start shooting for expert until most of your bots are halfway to rank 4. Mine aren't there yet, hence the laid back approach. 1000 coins is 100k credits, and I'm sure you've noticed how scarce those actually are. Buy the credits, save coins the same way for the rank ups, then hop up to the next tier. At barely rank 3, you should be able to get first in professional three times with just the free tickets, unless you get an unlucky card. Especially with the two hold-over days when dropping back a bracket. Just remember not to open any crates if your tickets are maxed. |
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Post by Redfiend on Aug 30, 2020 23:42:24 GMT -5
S1E1 Added screenshots of this weeks heat under the "1-2 Star Rotation" showing that I still had free tickets to spare, and that 1st place is possible whether your hangar strength is 500 or 1500
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Post by A.c.r.u.x. on Sept 2, 2020 9:54:56 GMT -5
RedfiendCan you append your post with each heats positions and payouts for each? Heat 1 - 1, 2-3, 4-6, etc..
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Post by Redfiend on Sept 2, 2020 12:37:36 GMT -5
RedfiendCan you append your post with each heats positions and payouts for each? Heat 1 - 1, 2-3, 4-6, etc.. I don't understand the question. Getting first place in every recommended bracket per day isn't difficult. Sometimes you'll get dropped in with a mad-lad willing to grind for hours to beat you, but 1st is attainable for every bracket recommended with only the daily tickets if your hangar is up to snuff. Demotions/play one game is basically tossing to stay in the bottom 5. Payouts are by current bracket not by heat. |
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Post by A.c.r.u.x. on Sept 2, 2020 15:54:22 GMT -5
Redfiend Can you append your post with each heats positions and payouts for each? Heat 1 - 1, 2-3, 4-6, etc.. I don't understand the question. Getting first place in every recommended bracket per day isn't difficult. Sometimes you'll get dropped in with a mad-lad willing to grind for hours to beat you, but 1st is attainable for every bracket recommended with only the daily tickets if your hangar is up to snuff. Demotions/play one game is basically tossing to stay in the bottom 5. Payouts are by current bracket not by heat. What I meant is to show the payouts for each heat so people can see if it would be better off to try and advance and get bigger payouts or just hang around certain levels until their hanger is better which may be better payouts in the longrun for their "level" IE- heat 1 1st - 6 cheese, 1200 blue, etc 2nd-3rd - 3 cheese, 500 blue etc etc etc etc heat 2 1st - rewards 2-3 - rewards 4-6 6-whatever whatever - whatever - no advance/drop bracket. cont... heat 3-6 Like I've only been playing for ~3 weeks but I've placed 3rd and 5th in the Grand Master.. but it may have been better to see where pending my hanger to stick in some brackets and get better payouts than if I had finished in position 10+ in Grand Master. |
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Post by Redfiend on Sept 2, 2020 17:30:12 GMT -5
I don't understand the question. Getting first place in every recommended bracket per day isn't difficult. Sometimes you'll get dropped in with a mad-lad willing to grind for hours to beat you, but 1st is attainable for every bracket recommended with only the daily tickets if your hangar is up to snuff. Demotions/play one game is basically tossing to stay in the bottom 5. Payouts are by current bracket not by heat. What I meant is to show the payouts for each heat so people can see if it would be better off to try and advance and get bigger payouts or just hang around certain levels until their hanger is better which may be better payouts in the longrun for their "level" IE- heat 1 1st - 6 cheese, 1200 blue, etc 2nd-3rd - 3 cheese, 500 blue etc etc etc etc heat 2 1st - rewards 2-3 - rewards 4-6 6-whatever whatever - whatever - no advance/drop bracket. cont... heat 3-6 Like I've only been playing for ~3 weeks but I've placed 3rd and 5th in the Grand Master.. but it may have been better to see where pending my hanger to stick in some brackets and get better payouts than if I had finished in position 10+ in Grand Master. The biggest difference between ranking low in grandmaster and staying in lower brackets to bag first place easily, is the general AI power and general player power you're going to be fighting. It becomes a slog to compete in higher brackets for the worst reward the bracket has to offer, while lower bracket games are a breeze for pretty much the same payouts. You're also more likely to get stuck on ranking cards against players that will spend paid tickets to secure the top spot, that have hangars that allow them to easily do so while you're lucky if you can scrape up 200 points a match. The 2-3 and 3-6 ranks are usually around the #1 spot of the previous two ranking brackets. So Master's 2-3 is the same as Experts #1, and Master's 3-6 is the same payout as professional's #1. Grinding to place in higher brackets will see the AI become very punishing, and will see more ranking cards with people that will grind out 6-7k points to keep the top spots. |
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Post by mechtout on Sept 2, 2020 23:20:09 GMT -5
Professional
1: 8, 8000, 300, 1
2: 4, 5000, 120, 1
4: 2, 3000, 50, 1
7: 1, 2000, 0, 1
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Post by frunobulax on Sept 3, 2020 10:29:54 GMT -5
Redfiend Can you append your post with each heats positions and payouts for each? Heat 1 - 1, 2-3, 4-6, etc.. I posted that a long time ago  |
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Post by A.c.r.u.x. on Sept 3, 2020 10:41:45 GMT -5
Redfiend Can you append your post with each heats positions and payouts for each? Heat 1 - 1, 2-3, 4-6, etc.. I posted that a long time ago but but.. Redfiend uses pretty pictures...  haha thanks, ill reference this I kept "meaning" to do it.. |
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Post by frunobulax on Sept 3, 2020 11:08:47 GMT -5
Farm by HangarYour week looks like: D1: Novice: Rank as best you can. Promoted.D2: Professional: Rank as best you can. PromotedD3: Expert: Play one game: DemotedD4: Professional: Rank as best you can. PromotedD5: Expert: Play one game: DemotedD6: Professional: Rank as best you can, aim for the top because it's the last day3-4 Star Hangar: [...]D1: Novice: PromotedD2: Professional: Promoted:D3: Expert: Rank as best you can: PromotedD4: Master: Play one game: DemotedD5: Expert: Rank as best as you can: PromotedD6: Master: Final day, push as hard as you can. There are more strategies. The key here is to understand how player populations change. The biggest grinders will usually be in the higher tiers. Of 20 players, 10 get promoted, 5 stay, 5 are demoted. Exceptions are Novice, where 15 of 20 get promoted. I'm not 100% sure about Grandmaster, but I assume that 15 stay and 5 get demoted. But maybe someone else can fill in this information for me. This means, we have the following player distribution among tiers (assuming that all players play on all 6 days, which is of course an oversimplification): Another simplification is that the strongest players will usually be in the higher groups.
So, on Day 1, you'll meet a random selection of players. If you promote every day, you'll face the top 9% players on day 5 when you reach Grandmaster. No wonder half of the group might grind to 5000 points. But the key differences are really in the middle tiers. Consider Expert, for example: On day 3, you'll compete against the top third of all players in Expert. On day 4, the best 19% are in Master and you can go against somewhat weaker players in Expert. On Day 5, the top 28% of grinders will be in Master and Grandmaster, leaving you playing against the middle of the crop. On day 6, you're even fighting against players that are slightly below average, as the top 38% are in Master/Grandmaster while 35% are below you.
If you can control your ranking a bit by playing in the last hour, an alternate strategy is to stay one tier for a change: Go Novice (promote) - Pro (promote) - Expert (stay, rank #11-#15) - Expert (grind) - Master (demote) - Expert (grind).
That way, you'll compete in Expert on days 4 and 6, which should be easier than competing against the mega grinders on day 3 and facing stronger opponents on day 5. Of course you'll miss out on a chance to play Master on day 6.
Alternatively you could simply sit out the first day. That way, perhaps one could place #1 or #3 in Expert twice with a 2* hangar.
Sit out - Novice (promote) - Pro (grind) - Expert (grind) - Master (demote) - Expert (grind).
In any case, it seems smart to me to avoid the bottom diagonal of the top grinders (Pro on Day 2, Expert on Day 3, Master on Day 4, Grandmaster on Days 5/6) if your hangar is weak.
BTW, here are the rewards as Keys/Credits/A-coins/chest. Those grandmaster rewards are certainly tempting, but better be prepared to grind for half a day to get even to the top 6. Don't remember from my Grandmaster days, but I think I played just one game and watched in amazement as players put up 6000 points at rank #10.
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Post by bagofsoup on Sept 7, 2020 22:39:09 GMT -5
Thanks for the info everyone! All my bots are 3 star level 4, but I have been just playing the tourney straight up each day and week. Didn’t think about a better strategy. I usually finish around 2nd in each bracket, though the need for grinding and teaming up with friends goes up the last three days in master and grandmaster. If I can average 200 points a match the last 3 days, that helps to keep the grinding less... Grindy! Just wondering if it matters what time you play your first match of the day. Does it help to wait until the end of the day to start, or are the matches easier in the morning? Any patterns that people have noticed yet? Thanks!
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Post by Redfiend on Sept 7, 2020 22:54:31 GMT -5
Thanks for the info everyone! All my bots are 3 star level 4, but I have been just playing the tourney straight up each day and week. Didn’t think about a better strategy. I usually finish around 2nd in each bracket, though the need for grinding and teaming up with friends goes up the last three days in master and grandmaster. If I can average 200 points a match the last 3 days, that helps to keep the grinding less... Grindy! Just wondering if it matters what time you play your first match of the day. Does it help to wait until the end of the day to start, or are the matches easier in the morning? Any patterns that people have noticed yet? Thanks! Depends on your timezone and when tournament resets for you. If you're usually up when it ends, playing around 2 hours before the heat uses the timer as leverage for the finish line. Your ranking card is limited to only the 20 players on it, so playing around tournament end/start is where all of the players from regions that got the game first(read:end game) are up, and getting on a card with them is almost a guarantee the top spot isn't going to be yours. I usually jump in when there's still 6-10 hours left in tournament, and don't find much resistance as long as I'm sticking to the Brackets I know will be easy for my hangar. It's usually best to not start unless you've got a couple of hours to play. When you start your card, everyone else probably has one, maybe two games at the most. If you can blow them out of the water, they'll usually give up. If you run into a Rusky or Indian username, they're the ones that had first access, so they'll likely grind tooth and nail to keep that top spot. Just try to make sure you can actually play tournament for a solid while when you start. Try to get like 1k-1500 points on second place, and just try to keep that lead when you come back to it later. Everything up to expert tends to be easier to grind out because the AI won't ramp up higher than a 1-200 power advantage to where your score probably is. Masters and grandmasters can have you run into some nasties if you're grinding, which I'm sure you've probably dealt with. I outlined "good" spending habits with coins, and what I think is the best cycle of moving up in the grind here war-robots-forum.freeforums.net/thread/42122/mech-arena-economy-good-deals |
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Post by Happy Fun Ball on Sept 7, 2020 23:10:55 GMT -5
I think the key, as mentioned in another thread, is to have one good bot for tournament maps with little vertical cover and one good bot for maps with lots of overhangs. I finished at the top of grandmaster both rounds with:
a) killshot (rank 3) with rank 3/4 javelin rack 6s [use this for maps with little overhead cover)
b) jugs (rank 4) with rank 4 missile rack 8s.
For b) using something like a panther with longarms would also work.
I finished around 12k points each time while averaging around 200 points per game.
I start play around 2-3pm CDT in grandmaster. I didn't start earlier because I didn't want a really long, drawn out contest that would require even more points to come out on top. By the same token, I didn't wait until late in the day because I am new and I worried that an experienced/advanced player could roll up more points per game than I could (I can make up for them getting more points per game by playing more games through the day/evening). Once I got about 2500-3k points separating me from the second player I would stop playing and just monitor things. If players 2 and 3 weren't trying to catch up, I was done. If they were trying to catch up, I would obviously play again. I had one person stop playing for about an hour in the evening and so it looked like they were done, but then they came back on and tried to challenge my position. I figure the best players might be able to make 300 points per game with about 10-12 games per hour possible so they could close the gap at a rate no more than about 1200 points per hour. My 2500-3000 point cushion would work so long as it was still there with ~2 hours left in the heat.
Overall I don't think it is necessary to manage what bracket you are in during the tournament. Play hard at the end and balance spending Acoins on tickets vs. where you think you'll end up by doing so. Player 3 last night had about 3500 points at the end if I remember correctly so it isn't like everyone is at 6000+ points in grandmaster.
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Post by Redfiend on Sept 7, 2020 23:33:14 GMT -5
Managing the brackets is about the AI first and foremost. As Frunobulax mentioned above, playing the direct ascent diagonal increases your chances of running onto the people that have the ability to completely blow others out of the water, as the strongest players are shooting for the highest reward brackets.
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Post by hicycles on Sept 12, 2020 2:22:23 GMT -5
My goodness, I got stuck with a really bad card today. I decided to farm the professional bracket this week, thinking the grind would be easier, and nope, today was not a good day. I had a guy on the card pull 5k+ points, and I was determined to place first. So I went for it. What I noticed is that the more points I accumulated, the harder the ai fought. Not only that, but I was matched with opponents at least as leveled as me, making the grind that much more real because I wasn't getting as many kills.
My question, has that been everyone else's experience, as far as racking up points and the opponents getting more difficult? My hangar is mid rank 3, and I was seeing guys with missile racks toward the end. In professional.
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Post by Redfiend on Sept 12, 2020 14:01:45 GMT -5
My goodness, I got stuck with a really bad card today. I decided to farm the professional bracket this week, thinking the grind would be easier, and nope, today was not a good day. I had a guy on the card pull 5k+ points, and I was determined to place first. So I went for it. What I noticed is that the more points I accumulated, the harder the ai fought. Not only that, but I was matched with opponents at least as leveled as me, making the grind that much more real because I wasn't getting as many kills. My question, has that been everyone else's experience, as far as racking up points and the opponents getting more difficult? My hangar is mid rank 3, and I was seeing guys with missile racks toward the end. In professional. The cards are based on proximity of tournament start. Sometimes you get unlucky. I'm probably not the first person to come up with staying at lower brackets to farm easier AI. Don't try to out grind the people that are willing to go that high, they probably have hangars that make the toughest AI in the bracket a cake walk. |
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