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Post by nocluevok on May 16, 2024 19:31:49 GMT -5
With a 150 point max per battle... unless I'm missing something, how is this pilot over 200k? He is certainly gaming the system with 2 losses in 1500+ matches and a 1 bot hanger.   |
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Post by Danny Linguini on May 16, 2024 20:24:37 GMT -5
Looks like he’s taking my strategy to the extreme. 1 slot hangar, somehow paid for a top-tier mech and weapon, dumped a ton of resources into that alone. His SP stays low, especially with no pilot. He clearly doesn’t have a whole lot more in his inventory, probably just Paragon and a few weapons. He had to have spent a good chunk of change obtaining and maxing that Nomad, and just obtaining the Disruptor. And of course there’s gotta be a bit of skill behind it, too. Impressive strategy and execution, but at a cost. But he found a MM loophole.
I’m running just two slots, but relatively low tier mechs (Lancer and Tengu or Stalker) that are all fairly well leveled, and with well leveled pilots, but mid-tier weapons (HR’s, EG6’s, DL8’s). No way I can come anywhere close to this guy’s win rate - I’m just shy of 75%. I always wondered what would happen if I stuck to just one slot, but without dumping that kind of cash into it. The wallet has been closed for many months now, and I’ve only recently resumed playing sporadically in the past week, so it’s been a very long time since I’ve upgraded anything. My Stalker is ready to rank up to R6, but I’m shy of the needed a-coins, and no weapons to take advantage of the increased energy anyway. I might just hoard a-coins now to max the Lancer, if I ever get the thousands more bp’s I need for that.
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Post by Koalabear on May 17, 2024 8:34:20 GMT -5
With a 1 mech maxed Nomad, he's definitely gaming the system. At that SP level, he's probably encountering low level AI. Hmm...maybe I'll try this and see if I'm right. I'll try it with my maxed Eclipse with RG12.
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Post by BigBear on May 17, 2024 9:16:06 GMT -5
There has been much debate online regarding this player as he tops the current playoff by a country mile, originally it was thought he was a Paylarium bot or developer account as he had a 100% win rate after five thousand battles, recently he lost a couple and now some are saying he is a Chinese whale player who dropped a ton of money on the bot and weapon to try and reach a certain goal. Some had reported him as a cheater and Paylarium allegedly said it looked suspicious and they would look into it but nothing more was said.
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Post by Danny Linguini on May 17, 2024 13:12:06 GMT -5
With a 1 mech maxed Nomad, he's definitely gaming the system. At that SP level, he's probably encountering low level AI. Hmm...maybe I'll try this and see if I'm right. I'll try it with my maxed Eclipse with RG12. I’m not 100% sure and I have no proof, but I believe your number of open slots plays into the MM algorithm. If you have 5 slots and 4 of them are empty, it somehow figures in your IP and calculates your potential SP. I think. Then it has to do that for every player in queue, and then factor in all the recent win/loss rates, and then make a crappy effort at matching everybody up. I only have two slots open and four total mechs, three of which are pretty well leveled (R5-R6), with highly leveled pilots. Occasionally I see ridiculous hangars if I dare to win too many matches, but most of the time all other human players have full hangars with SP’s around 1000 higher than mine. Of course that varies from match to match, but that’s what I’m observing as an average matchup. Yes, there are magic mechs and weapons all over the place, but they’re usually not leveled very high to keep the enemies’ hangars not too much higher than mine. Anyway …l my point is, if you really want to test the theory, your full hangar and larger inventory will throw everything off (and NOT in your favor), so you’d probably need to start fresh with a single slot. The problem there is, if you’re not ready to dump a ton of cash on one mech and weapon, it’s going to take you forever to get to a place comparable to this individual in question. I have no doubt that he set up this account, then purchased and maxed one mech, then purchased one weapon to arm it with before playing a single game. |
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Post by BigBear on May 18, 2024 8:39:05 GMT -5
The EVA01 account is a new account with everything paid for, would be interesting to know what the total outlay was to get everything where it is.
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Post by Koalabear on May 21, 2024 8:21:55 GMT -5
With a 1 mech maxed Nomad, he's definitely gaming the system. At that SP level, he's probably encountering low level AI. Hmm...maybe I'll try this and see if I'm right. I'll try it with my maxed Eclipse with RG12. I’m not 100% sure and I have no proof, but I believe your number of open slots plays into the MM algorithm. If you have 5 slots and 4 of them are empty, it somehow figures in your IP and calculates your potential SP. I think. Then it has to do that for every player in queue, and then factor in all the recent win/loss rates, and then make a crappy effort at matching everybody up. I only have two slots open and four total mechs, three of which are pretty well leveled (R5-R6), with highly leveled pilots. Occasionally I see ridiculous hangars if I dare to win too many matches, but most of the time all other human players have full hangars with SP’s around 1000 higher than mine. Of course that varies from match to match, but that’s what I’m observing as an average matchup. Yes, there are magic mechs and weapons all over the place, but they’re usually not leveled very high to keep the enemies’ hangars not too much higher than mine. Anyway …l my point is, if you really want to test the theory, your full hangar and larger inventory will throw everything off (and NOT in your favor), so you’d probably need to start fresh with a single slot. The problem there is, if you’re not ready to dump a ton of cash on one mech and weapon, it’s going to take you forever to get to a place comparable to this individual in question. I have no doubt that he set up this account, then purchased and maxed one mech, then purchased one weapon to arm it with before playing a single game. Yeah, I tried for one game with my Eclipse. I ended up with over 2k SP. In hindsight, I probably should have tried to lower the SP even further. Regardless, I didn't get very far and didn't have much fun. |
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Post by Danny Linguini on May 21, 2024 9:56:34 GMT -5
I’m not 100% sure and I have no proof, but I believe your number of open slots plays into the MM algorithm. If you have 5 slots and 4 of them are empty, it somehow figures in your IP and calculates your potential SP. I think. Then it has to do that for every player in queue, and then factor in all the recent win/loss rates, and then make a crappy effort at matching everybody up. I only have two slots open and four total mechs, three of which are pretty well leveled (R5-R6), with highly leveled pilots. Occasionally I see ridiculous hangars if I dare to win too many matches, but most of the time all other human players have full hangars with SP’s around 1000 higher than mine. Of course that varies from match to match, but that’s what I’m observing as an average matchup. Yes, there are magic mechs and weapons all over the place, but they’re usually not leveled very high to keep the enemies’ hangars not too much higher than mine. Anyway …l my point is, if you really want to test the theory, your full hangar and larger inventory will throw everything off (and NOT in your favor), so you’d probably need to start fresh with a single slot. The problem there is, if you’re not ready to dump a ton of cash on one mech and weapon, it’s going to take you forever to get to a place comparable to this individual in question. I have no doubt that he set up this account, then purchased and maxed one mech, then purchased one weapon to arm it with before playing a single game. Yeah, I tried for one game with my Eclipse. I ended up with over 2k SP. In hindsight, I probably should have tried to lower the SP even further. Regardless, I didn't get very far and didn't have much fun. It’s really tough in this game to re-engineer your active hangar after you’ve started down a certain path. This EVA01 person obviously built this account from the ground up for this specific purpose. |
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