OK Frontier you win, you proved your point beyond any doubt, no matter what you do there will be an accusation of incompetence or rigging or just general moaning.
CG 1 - 'Lets make sure it completes' - Response - Thousands of players miss out, lots of complaints its didnt last long enough. - So balance needs adding artificially.
CG 2 - 'Lets make sure it doesnt complete by cancelling solo FC owners and limiting the supply through rares / lets really encourage team FC usage and tea-bagging' - Response - Players complain about not finishing, about 20% not 25% discount, about limited supply and why bother going for anything but Brandy and then Cigars when Boom, about losing out to team players tea-bagging. - Artificial balance is unfair / every CG should complete and be 'won' and not that hard at the end.
CG 3 - 'Lets try and introduce the 1st new unique weapon to try and balance it and see how players respond to this first example of a type of new reward we mentioned on the LS' - Response - Its RIGGED! How many threads? Obviously rigged against the Empire. Probably most complaints so far. - So no more unique weapons ever. no more unique rewards, thats a very bad idea...but not credits as they are meaningless.
CG 4 - 'Lets balance it purely by numbers expected' - Response - Its RIGGED. Im not even playing / participating because its rigged.
Overall. Frontier only want one outcome. Its always rigged. Its always wrong. It shouldnt complete until the final hours and should be a proper race but it cant be balanced artificially as that is RIGGED! It cant offer unique weapons and credits are meaningless. Not enough PVP at any of them. All of them should be Open Only or penalties for not doing it in Open. Wheres the Thargoid one, we've had 4 now and still no Thargoid one! it isnt good enough, it wont be good enough, it will never be good enough. The story or setup will be rubbish anyway.
So Frontier, you have proven beyond doubt that no matter what you do it will be wrong. You have tried no balancing and balancing and both are wrong. Credit rewards and Unique Rewards and both are wrong. So knowing that, please just continue exactly as you planned with all the new stuff you have planned. May as well as get complaints about new stuff as old stuff. May as well get complaints because of a new weapon or unique rewards as because of lack of meaningful rewards. May as well get complaints for trying something as for not trying anything new. The CG numbers will back you up.
Personally, I like the new CGs and the balancing attempts. This latest one is spot on so far and could be the closest one in Tier outcomes (which after only 3 weeks stats I have to say Im impressed how close this one is, could be beginners luck ofc
but hope it continues) and look forward to participating in CGs that interest me and doing something else in game for 7 days if they dont or I need a break, not really an issue, I have a to do list that just keeps growing.
CG 1 - 'Lets make sure it completes' - Response - Thousands of players miss out, lots of complaints its didnt last long enough. - So balance needs adding artificially.
CG 2 - 'Lets make sure it doesnt complete by cancelling solo FC owners and limiting the supply through rares / lets really encourage team FC usage and tea-bagging' - Response - Players complain about not finishing, about 20% not 25% discount, about limited supply and why bother going for anything but Brandy and then Cigars when Boom, about losing out to team players tea-bagging. - Artificial balance is unfair / every CG should complete and be 'won' and not that hard at the end.
CG 3 - 'Lets try and introduce the 1st new unique weapon to try and balance it and see how players respond to this first example of a type of new reward we mentioned on the LS' - Response - Its RIGGED! How many threads? Obviously rigged against the Empire. Probably most complaints so far. - So no more unique weapons ever. no more unique rewards, thats a very bad idea...but not credits as they are meaningless.
CG 4 - 'Lets balance it purely by numbers expected' - Response - Its RIGGED. Im not even playing / participating because its rigged.
Overall. Frontier only want one outcome. Its always rigged. Its always wrong. It shouldnt complete until the final hours and should be a proper race but it cant be balanced artificially as that is RIGGED! It cant offer unique weapons and credits are meaningless. Not enough PVP at any of them. All of them should be Open Only or penalties for not doing it in Open. Wheres the Thargoid one, we've had 4 now and still no Thargoid one! it isnt good enough, it wont be good enough, it will never be good enough. The story or setup will be rubbish anyway.
So Frontier, you have proven beyond doubt that no matter what you do it will be wrong. You have tried no balancing and balancing and both are wrong. Credit rewards and Unique Rewards and both are wrong. So knowing that, please just continue exactly as you planned with all the new stuff you have planned. May as well as get complaints about new stuff as old stuff. May as well get complaints because of a new weapon or unique rewards as because of lack of meaningful rewards. May as well get complaints for trying something as for not trying anything new. The CG numbers will back you up.
Personally, I like the new CGs and the balancing attempts. This latest one is spot on so far and could be the closest one in Tier outcomes (which after only 3 weeks stats I have to say Im impressed how close this one is, could be beginners luck ofc
but hope it continues) and look forward to participating in CGs that interest me and doing something else in game for 7 days if they dont or I need a break, not really an issue, I have a to do list that just keeps growing.
