Please stop the Events already

Open note to the Battle Bay Devs:

I used to enjoy Events as a change of pace to the standard ranked matches, and a nice supplement to rewards. However, today I'm finding the 6 out of every 7 days of Events as nothing more than a source of frustration, contradicting Battle Bay's core design.

No longer are Events special, no longer do they offer tangible rewards, they simply interrupt what Battle Bay used to be about: skill and progression. Those two words are getting lost in the post-4.0 world.

Event strategies are conflicting with Ranked matches. I see a distinct lack of strategy amongst players in Events as opposed to ranked matches, and it is frustrating to see. That mentality carries over to Ranked matches and causes issues when players are used to 6 days of mindless damage and respawn.

Leagues and thus Battle Rewards are based on Infamy. You can't run Events running 6 days per week and expect the League system to keep making sense. It's one or the other. Infamy is a measure of progression. Events are a measure of grinding for Premium Ships. What you are doing by placing Events first and foremost in this game is adversely affecting every aspect of Battle Bay's core progression system.

Please, take a step back and ask yourselves, If you removed ranked matches entirely from this game, would this still be a viable MMO? If not, then you understand the need for change.

Proposed Solutions:

1. Easiest fix: Limit events to 2, maybe 3 days per week max. I'm hesitant about 3 days unless NML Reset is raised.
2. Scrap EventMatchmaker entirely, use InfamyMatchmaker(tm) for events, and have Events impact Infamy. Players need more incentive to play smarter in Events, and I can find no value in the current EventMatchmaker(tm). The League system needs Infamy input.

I'm leaning toward #2.

 

With a new boat & new item type we are going to need more events to get the upgrade stuff, not less. My prediction is 8 days of events per week is just around the corner.

But otherwise I agree that the events have jumped the shark.

 

Events are optional. Its just that they offer new stuff not found in regular matches so everyone is heading there.

 

I do like that I can play without concern for infamy. I’m very inconsistent so I go into the “tanking” zone more often than I like to admit. At least with events I get my full rewards for playing.

 

Also, as an aside to all that, could we actually get some INTERESTING events!? This 5v5 TDM, with stupid item tweak, has gotten stale. Give us something more objective based, like King of the Hill, to actually promote strategy.

 

I agree 5x5 TDM is the worst event because it doesn't have enough difference from ranked matchmaking... it would be better excluded from the Event rotation.

I haven't yet seen an confirmation from anyone as to whether it is valid remove Infamy entirely from this game... because that's exactly what many of you are asking for... casual endless events. Without progression what is this game?

 

With infamy matchmaking events,events will be no longer fun anymore.you don't get to try out new weapons and you'll be battling all those ppl with lvl 50 legs again and again while you're using rares in nml.
The matchmaking system in event is totally fine now in my opinion

 

You're thinking of old times... matchmaking is NOT based on your boat, or your gear any more... it's based on Captain Level. That doesn't allow you to try out your weak new ships or exotic new under-leveled gear you put on just for questing.

 

Remove the tanking infamy penalty so people can play regular games without worry. Matchmaking is not based on infamy now and the penalty was useless then and is useless now. If the tanking penalty serves its purpose, Rovio wouldn't need to change matchmaking method. The penalty only hurts normal players.

 

I would totally vote the same. Ranked is miserable for me and there is literally no merit to grinding ranked unless your capable of getting into 4k, which I definitely won't be in any reasonable amount of time.

With events I can have fun AND get some decent rewards. I currently don't get either with ranked.

 

The Ranked button is in the middle. Press it if u like and leave the rest of us to choose whitch button we want to push! Thank you!




Turkett

 

You realize you are agreeing with the core of my #2 suggestion? Why are you and I in matches with BlackTail, YSL, yorkeN at all, and their +4000 Gear Score in the first place? Doing what I said, and implementing Infamy in Event Matchmaking ensures you will never see them... and then you can actually compete with equals without being throttled by T5 Legendary weapons.

And yes, this is the key. If I go into ranked at my paltry 2491 Infamy, my teamates are a joke, rushing in battles, and dying out the gate as if they are still playing in an Event... and as a result I can't rely on these guys to win battles. I recently had a couple star quests and I lost even more Infamy trying to complete them, and now if I go to events I'm penalized every match, and winning 100 straight Events doesn't fix that. The system is broken... Events overriding Ranked, affecting Leagues, and NML Reset is backfiring even worse than before.

 

You obviously read nothing I wrote. Please take the time to read before replying.

 

Firstly.you gotta chill.its getting hot here
However,did someone say only those beasts got high lvl leg weps?lots of ppl are using t3 or even t4-5 legs even they're sitting at 4000 infamy.whats the point of playing events if u actually worked hard on entering the nm league and then face strong weps every.single.match just because those whales sat on 4000 inf?

 

Exaclty... NML Reset resets all those 5500+ Infamy players to 4000, who camp out in the 12 days of events during a league season, and all NML players are stuck in the misery of day 1 of a season reset. There's no time to re-stabilize Infamy, so I'm proposing that Infamy be brought into Events so that it can be stabilized again.

I was killed by a T4 Legendary Sniper yesterday... player was only 10.5k total Gear Score and lower 3k Infamy, so I haven't a clue how they got a T4L, but it didn't bother me because the total GS was around mine. That's how the system should work... but it's less reliable than that... I took out an Interceptor today at 5.7k total GS, got matched up with 8-9k GS. Took out a Fixer at 4.4k GS, played with mostly 9-10k GS players. Again, Event matchmaking is based on Captain Level, and just a touch of Gear Score, sometimes... so you are always at a disadvantage by lowering your GS in events.