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Fri Oct 03, 2008 10:10 am

Took a look at the rankings earlier and we had 1 bot in the top 50 and 8 ish in the top 100. None of em are mine but i am doing ok team wise.

The mission win % were getting killed on too, was 300 wins v 600 or so earlier to the cons. Either its just the RNG or something fishy is going on :-?

News Credits: 4 · Fri Oct 03, 2008 10:26 am

The RNG is to blame for our lack of presence in the rankings, but the win ratio is so much in favour of the cons because I think it gets confused by the beasties.

News Credits: 1 · Fri Oct 03, 2008 11:37 am

The cons are stonger and more active and then that leads to what we see now. The number of upgrades even if its minute at level 0 still plays a part in mission out comes. Well that seems to be the case.

Every mission I see has 6 cons while we might only have 3 or 4 with only a couple minutes left.
I wish there was a way to get more activity from the Bots...

Fri Oct 03, 2008 12:58 pm

I'm throwing my team out there (to the decepticon wolves it seems)...we just need a handful more autobot players in there and we'll have even odds.

Fri Oct 03, 2008 1:18 pm

I'm throwing mine in where I can. I've gout about 50% win ratio right now, be it a furry or con mission, so we ARE winning.

Personally I haven't paid much attention to that bar at the top of the page with the win ratio as soon as the furries and bugs showed up because all that does is skew it. If the Cons win most of their missions against the beasties, then it will most definitely skew it in their favor, regardless of how we are doing against the cons.

Fri Oct 03, 2008 7:45 pm

I got the whole weekend to build my team up, I hope to make up the rankings a bit

Fri Oct 03, 2008 8:39 pm

My current work schedule doesn't let me play at work, but i will get in and get er done with you guys.

im gonna play alot this weekend and get my rankings down in the 50s currently in the 70s

News Credits: 7 · Fri Oct 03, 2008 8:51 pm

I'm sitting on about a 53% win rate now, and I too am throwing my bots into the fray. I think I'm ranked 120th or around theres now. I'm hoping to break 100 by the end of the weekend. We just gotta keep plugging away and hope the RNG starts to like us soon...

Fri Oct 03, 2008 11:29 pm

We are also getting owned so badly because I've noticed a few people jumping 1 bot vs 5 cons with only 1 minute or so left. I would suggest we band together and set up a time scheduale. For example I tend to be on M-Th 9pm-12am EST. If you PM me I'm willing to jump on any chatting service and share missions with people. I figure if we can get 6 people during those times and run for 3 hrs 6bot teams at a time we can raise those ratings fast along with getting some serious points.

Sat Oct 04, 2008 12:29 am

the main message is everyone just needs to work the missions only

act like the arena doesn't exist & we'll be alright :grin:

Sat Oct 04, 2008 6:14 am

I am doing decently atm, team is ranked 20th and mission win % is 54%, i see why the bot highscore list is filled with cons its cus there win % is 80%+, probably due to filled cons in mission v not filled cons and they get easy wins and can come back out again alot sooner.

News Credits: 1 · Sat Oct 04, 2008 6:51 am

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.

Sat Oct 04, 2008 7:17 am

Zero Autobots in the top 75 now. Seems our win % is costing us alot.

Highest Autobot is 6.4k
Highest Con is 11.9k
Highest Predacon is 7.2k
Highest Maximal is 5.5k

News Credits: 9 · Sat Oct 04, 2008 10:15 am

im tryin my damnedest to stay up in the ranks its working but they are whoopin us around every corner I play pretty much all day and my win % is still only 58% we really need some more active bots

and this coming from the current #1 overall team for the Bots

Sat Oct 04, 2008 5:17 pm

Can't buy a mission win even 6 v 6 past few hours, think i am 0 wins in last 15 missions atm.

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:

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.

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

News Credits: 1452 · 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!

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

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:

News Credits: 1452 · 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

Sun Oct 05, 2008 10:29 pm

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

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.

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.