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by **Deephaze** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 12:30 pm

Having 0-1 missions would help out us bots alot.

I don't even like going into the 0-3 missions when I see there are already 6 level 2-3 cons and on the autobot side we have 0 bots or even worse we have 2 or 3 level 0-1 autobots and I know throwing my level 2 bots in is just feeding the cons more xp.

If we had 0-1 missions the lower level bots could go in there and not leave our higher bots screwed over against high level cons.

Of course the level 0-1s helping is better than having only 2 bots in a mission but when the 0-1s are the first 2 or 3 to join it makes it rough to go into a likely loss.

by **Wingspan** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 6:20 pm

Evolution Prime wrote:Just don't give up the fight.

No game can be fun unless it is played - on this we are agreed.

by **Evolution Prime** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 4:45 pm

From what I can tell of the missions, they do seem to be balanced. For the most part I have seen the numbers even in them. Its just that they have the higher levels at times. The only thing the mods can do is break it down into more single level mission. I doubt that is going happen since they want to minimize the changes in HMW right now (at least last I heard). Just don't give up the fight. Even just "going through the motions" is better than up and quitting until HMW2 comes out.

by **Wingspan** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 4:34 pm

Disagree; voice concern in the GD threads. Mods will further adjust missions to enable fair play.

The only faction who seems wholly screwed right now are the Maximals - unless all Beast missions were limited to 4v4.

by **Evolution Prime** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 9:09 am

Not much we can do about it. They hit it hard at the beginning and they are reaping all the rewards from it. We can take solace in the fact that this won't last forever in that HMW2 will be starting everything anew. So we can keep plugging away at it and keep fighting hard and don't back down.

by **Firebird** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 11:39 pm

ashe5k wrote:And A LOT of that has to do with not being outnumbered, although that has been happeneing to me a fw times today, but with the 'Cons being mostly level 2's and 3's and we're mostly 0's and 1's which is NOT helping.

The 2's and 3's whip the bots and everyone loses out on the bots side.

I've noticed that as well in my missions. Whenever I go to the mission select screen all the missions are already filled with 6 high level 'Cons.

by **ashe5k** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 8:35 pm

And A LOT of that has to do with not being outnumbered, although that has been happeneing to me a fw times today, but with the 'Cons being mostly level 2's and 3's and we're mostly 0's and 1's which is NOT helping.

The 2's and 3's whip the bots and everyone loses out on the bots side.

by **Conjurous** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 1:32 pm

Bumping this not to do with rankings but to do with the win % bar at the top on missions, now that we don't get free wins against the maxi / preds were barely getting 20$ of missions now. Last i saw it was 85 v 439 to the cons, thats just shocking for us.

by **Ninjaburn** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 10:52 am

Getting picky on the missions would be bad right now. I agree with Blurrz that heading into 'easier' missions may help but we don't want the cons to just suck up the winning percentage either, esp since they aren't listing the maxi's and pred's mission stats yet. (Anyone else think thats a shame?)

by **ashe5k** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 3:05 am

If all goes well I should have all if not most of my team as level 1 before the weekend.

by **_Anshin_** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 11:22 pm

Actually being outnumbered may actually help us. If we can catch some of the over confident cons in a match, the bonus is ours. If for example 6 of us were to take on a lvl 1 con and 3 lvl 0s, the XP payout should be at least 100+ an additional for the dmg to the cons. On the bright side, a lvl 1 killing a lvl 0 yields less xp. While that doesn't help while your sitting in the CR, at least its an incentive to grab 5 friends and try to own every mission.

by **Blurrz** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 11:03 pm

Hope is never lost...

http://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwar ... 5&keyword=

As you can see, we have quite alot of Level 1's being featured in a lot of our missions. My Top 6 will surely reach Level 1 by the end of the day, so that's quite a few of Level 1's in missions.

I must say though, we are getting quite outnumbered when it comes to said Level 1's. I suggest that all we need to do is wait and weather the storm.

We shall survive!

by **Snoball** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 9:04 pm

Blurrz wrote:I wasn't attacking you, I was just stating that to the entire faction. I also did not say you were a coward, or that you were stupid. We are none of those things.

Fair enough , I took the comment that I was taking the easy way out and as you can see I don't like it when my character is questioned, but as seeing you cleared that up I will leave it be

by **Blurrz** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 8:20 pm

I wasn't attacking you, I was just stating that to the entire faction. I also did not say you were a coward, or that you were stupid. We are none of those things.

by **Snoball** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 7:01 pm

Blurrz wrote:That's not the point i'm making. The point is, who cares if we have a bad losing percentage? I'd rather loose and rack up massive EXP, then win and only get a small fraction of that. Sometimes we need to lose, and if you seriously aren't getting mad EXP in missions you lose, then perhaps something is wrong with what upgrades are being used. This is what I deduct, because you can't always be that unlucky.

The reason I believe we are doing so bad in the standings is simply our inactivity. Sure we have a load of members on our side, just check out, http://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwar ... totals.php for goodness sake.

We aren't getting outnumbered in missions. The ones that are 0-6 stay 0-6, and missions that have Autobots usually end up 6-6.

Don't always try to take the easy way out versus the Preds/Maxis, simply because that won't garner enough Experience to deal with the Decepticons.

Sometimes we need to take one step backwards to take two steps forward.

Cheers,
Blurrz

I am not new to this game and have been threw this before,In two years in mostly part time playing I got my name sake to a maxed out lvl 8. plan and simple I will put my bots in maxi and pred missions before I take on 6 lvl 1's with 6 lvl 0's ,I find it funny how I am getting attacked over my comments but what if this was a tourny? I am not a coward but I am also not stupid. waiting 25 mins for 1 of my 12 bots to get out of CR grows old fast. The fact is I get more xp from the preds and maxi's right now than I do from the cons but what ever , each to there own I guess.

by **Evolution Prime** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 7:32 am

We just need to stay clam and keep on fighting. The RNG is so random at Level 0. It just has been in the 'Con favor as of now. I have gone on long losing streaks since the reset, but have also had some winning streaks. Give it time and things will work themselves out.

by **devast8or** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 10:29 pm

let's not get picky on missions: just fight in all of them

by **Blurrz** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 10:12 pm

That's not the point i'm making. The point is, who cares if we have a bad losing percentage? I'd rather loose and rack up massive EXP, then win and only get a small fraction of that. Sometimes we need to lose, and if you seriously aren't getting mad EXP in missions you lose, then perhaps something is wrong with what upgrades are being used. This is what I deduct, because you can't always be that unlucky.

The reason I believe we are doing so bad in the standings is simply our inactivity. Sure we have a load of members on our side, just check out, http://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwar ... totals.php for goodness sake.

We aren't getting outnumbered in missions. The ones that are 0-6 stay 0-6, and missions that have Autobots usually end up 6-6.

Don't always try to take the easy way out versus the Preds/Maxis, simply because that won't garner enough Experience to deal with the Decepticons.

Sometimes we need to take one step backwards to take two steps forward.

Cheers,
Blurrz

by **ashe5k** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 10:07 pm

Snoball wrote:
Blurrz wrote:I'm the owner of the highest ranked Autobot, and the second ranked Autobot team, and still that means nothing. I'm still getting my rear handed to me in missions!

It's an easy fix, stick to fighting preds and maxis as much as possible, starve the cons of xp , just until we can match there numbers in lvls at least

Oooooo. I like that plan! :grin:

by **Snoball** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 9:50 pm

Blurrz wrote:I'm the owner of the highest ranked Autobot, and the second ranked Autobot team, and still that means nothing. I'm still getting my rear handed to me in missions!

It's an easy fix, stick to fighting preds and maxis as much as possible, starve the cons of xp , just until we can match there numbers in lvls at least

by **Blurrz** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 9:36 pm

I'm the owner of the highest ranked Autobot, and the second ranked Autobot team, and still that means nothing. I'm still getting my rear handed to me in missions!

by **Snoball** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 9:17 pm

Conjurous wrote:Its annoying, can beat the predacons but can't win against a decepticon, the RNG seems so heavily weighted in there favor its unreal.

I hear ya, thats why I am trying to put my bots in pred and maxi mission first

by **Conjurous** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 6:54 pm

Its annoying, can beat the predacons but can't win against a decepticon, the RNG seems so heavily weighted in there favor its unreal.

by **devast8or** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 5:42 pm

Hoistimus wrote:I'm baaack! Made my team this morning, since I didn't check over the last few days to see if HMW was back up. Kinda surprised by the whole 'r' thing, but oh well, it's finally out of the way and we can concentrate on playing full time again.

I was in the top 10 of all HMW warriors before the reset, based on total exps, so it's time to get back up there!

I'll be in missions if anyone is looking for me.

wondered where u were!? :roll:

Now everyone, sit back & watch this pro climb the ranks like no one's business.... :shock:

FYI: u may want to take notes on hoist b/c he'll discover the best ways to get fast xp :wink: