The Energon Pub

So I really don't have the mental capacity or time right now to figure out exactly what we need to sign up for ("Just DO IT!" - Shia) but it does sound like once the second part of this round kicks in we need to coordinate to maximize our point opportunities.

It sounds like we should make sure our 6 "Chosen" (or whatever Psychs calling them) Kludge, Behemoth, Orobus, Colossus Prime, Shunt & Rioghan should never be in the same mission if we want to maximize our chances for points.

I don't have time today (or likely tomorrow) but could someone comb the mission logs and find out how many special event missions there are and their level ranges? That could possibly help us determine which characters should deploy to which missions.

Our Key 6 levels
Kludge - 5
Behemoth - 5
Orobus - 9
Colossus Prime - 8
Shunt - 4
Rioghan - 5

The Cons Key 6
Mendem, - 6
Pandaemonium, - 10
Suspiria, - 8
Tarantulas, - 7
Nosferatu, - 11
Nemesis Wheelie - 6

I know of two missions 0-5 and 1-11, I'll keep a look out for the rest

https://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwa ... _id=123374 steven takes part in a slaughter

https://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwar/view_mission.php?mission_id=123378 here's the 1-11 mission.

Burn wrote:4 x 0-5
21 x 1-11
17 x 6-11

Key 6 levels
Kludge - 5
Behemoth - 5
Orobus - 9
Colossus Prime - 8
Shunt - 4
Rioghan - 5


What I suggest is that Steve & Wingz focus on the 6-11 missions since the rest of us can't reach them with our 'specials', TT & OP can focus mostly on the 0-5, S.o.L. & I can focus on the 1-11.
That being said if there are a lot of one kind (judging by what Burn posted there are FAR more 1-11 than 0-5) and the people that are supposed to take those missions are already deployed or AWOL fee free to jump.
(To be clear: I only mean to focus on those missions with you key guy. Otherwise deploy whoever into whatever tourney mission you can)

I'll add the list of our key 6 and their links to the top post to make it easy for all of us to check and see which of them are deployed/in CR/Inactive

Any other thoughts/ Suggestions/Heckling (not you Burn)

It would also probably be helpful if the key peple post here when they enter a mission so that the rest of us can deploy (if we can) to back them up.
Probably wouldn't hurt to try to get a couple medics in each mission (not to many mind you, we still gotta do some damage)

So is there any way I can be useful in the times that I'm on or is it just throw myself in their way in the top level missions? As I've only got two guys in the same lvl range as two of the specials.

You can meat shield in the 1-11 matches and be decent back-up in the 0-5 matches.
Even if one of our special 6 isn't in a match we still have to keep the Cons from winning (as that's the primary source of points) and especially if one of their special 6 is in it so they don't get bonus points.

I'll add a list of their 6 to the top post for easy refrence as well

*edit

After adding the Cons I realized they don't have any under level 6.
That means only we can get bonus points from the 0-5 missions (too bad those are the ones that spawn the least)
If we hit the 6-11 & 1-11 missions with our big guns while flodding the 0-5 missions with level 5's we may be able to limit their bonus points while racking up points for us.

To that end I say all the specials that can should prioritize the 0-5 missions (but still make sure we only have 1 special per mission to maximize our opportunities)

As you know my team is pure L3 so I doubt I be much help in the wider range missions unless there are L9 and below Cons and even we have to outnumber them 2 to 1. As for the 1-5 missions, I should do well in them. I wish the Cons had better players around my level but those who are rise quickly. I admit, my team isn't the best and my playing frequency isn't the best either except days off where I stay home.

One thing I am curious about is the bonus energon and experience. Do we know what they are?

2000 xp and ya got me on the energon
1000 energon

Bun-Bun wrote:

Burn wrote:4 x 0-5
21 x 1-11
17 x 6-11

Key 6 levels
Kludge - 5
Behemoth - 5
Orobus - 9
Colossus Prime - 8
Shunt - 4
Rioghan - 5


What I suggest is that Steve & Wingz focus on the 6-11 missions since the rest of us can't reach them with our 'specials', TT & OP can focus mostly on the 0-5, S.o.L. & I can focus on the 1-11.
That being said if there are a lot of one kind (judging by what Burn posted there are FAR more 1-11 than 0-5) and the people that are supposed to take those missions are already deployed or AWOL fee free to jump.
(To be clear: I only mean to focus on those missions with you key guy. Otherwise deploy whoever into whatever tourney mission you can)

I'll add the list of our key 6 and their links to the top post to make it easy for all of us to check and see which of them are deployed/in CR/Inactive

Any other thoughts/ Suggestions/Heckling (not you Burn)

I think you've misinterpreted me. Those numbers I quoted were for how many missions in those brackets had been run, not how many different ones are in the system.

Ah so there's only three tournament missions then.

Yes

Burn wrote:

Bun-Bun wrote:

Burn wrote:4 x 0-5
21 x 1-11
17 x 6-11

Key 6 levels
Kludge - 5
Behemoth - 5
Orobus - 9
Colossus Prime - 8
Shunt - 4
Rioghan - 5


What I suggest is that Steve & Wingz focus on the 6-11 missions since the rest of us can't reach them with our 'specials', TT & OP can focus mostly on the 0-5, S.o.L. & I can focus on the 1-11.
That being said if there are a lot of one kind (judging by what Burn posted there are FAR more 1-11 than 0-5) and the people that are supposed to take those missions are already deployed or AWOL fee free to jump.
(To be clear: I only mean to focus on those missions with you key guy. Otherwise deploy whoever into whatever tourney mission you can)

I'll add the list of our key 6 and their links to the top post to make it easy for all of us to check and see which of them are deployed/in CR/Inactive

Any other thoughts/ Suggestions/Heckling (not you Burn)

I think you've misinterpreted me. Those numbers I quoted were for how many missions in those brackets had been run, not how many different ones are in the system.

I think you've misinterpreted me. I knew what the numbers you quoted were. I may not have your fancy tools but I'm tracking too

Still the low level missions generate at a far lower overall rate (like you said, due to the number of other possible missions the RNG can kick out in that range.
At last check the Tourney missions are about 20% of all missions and the 0-5 mission is somewhere between 2%-3%

Bun-Bun wrote:At last check the Tourney missions are about 20% of all missions and the 0-5 mission is somewhere between 2%-3%

Really going to have to go through and turn off a lot of those lower level missions. Problem is, they span various levels (0-1, 0-2, 1-2, 1-3 etc). It's why I feel the easiest thing to do would be to come up with a whole bunch of new missions, add them, turn the old ones off then turn the new ones on.

Current War Report:

I've claimed all our Knight Points so far (probably duplicating claims with some of yinz but screw it, let Psych sort it out ) Not sure how many of those possible point the Cons have claimed

So we're falling behind then by the looks of things, still, plenty of time to change that

Not that far behind all things considered.

Honestly after the bloodbath we had going on yesterday I expected things to be a lot worse

I am going to do my best to get Rioghan in CFC missions. Its been a up-hill battle with the 0-5 mission spawns. Guess it pays to be patient!

I've just spawned a 0-5 mission and joined one that was already spawned. This is the most I've seen that mission today

Finally caught up

We're still fighting from behind but I honestly expected it to be worse from what I was hearing yesterday.

Keep up the good fight guys, there's still lots of play time

(Also I've claimed all 36 of our knight points so far)

Sorry I havent been deploying much today, had a very busy day.

Seems to be the story for all of us so far this week so no prob

We are currently enjoying a bit of a rally though so we've got that going for us which is nice



Added blocked points ( "# Con points blocked" = how many times we've stopped them from getting a Knight Point )

So the Previous rally fell apart quickly...

I did some further analysis:



We REALLY need to make sure the Knights (listed in the first post) only go into CFC missions. So far we have had nearly 50% fewer opportunities for points than the Cons. Some of that is just that our guys have less back-up and require more CR time but another reason is lack of proper deployment.

It'll be a rough road but I think we could still pull this out with some effort and luck

I'm all ears if you have suggestions