7/20/2014 Rocks & Swamp

by **cirno** » Sun Jul 20, 2014 12:14 am

the dev messed this one up, starts in 50 minutes but the calendar's still stuck on the 19th and there's no countdown clock. :hammertime:

by **JDK** » Sun Jul 20, 2014 12:27 am

Sigh, if there's a tourney tonight, it might be a low turnout. Good luck people.

by **cirno** » Sun Jul 20, 2014 12:37 am

word. we'll see how this one turns out, I heard red-1 is a beast :p

by **JDK** » Sun Jul 20, 2014 2:04 am

I hate comcast so much. My internet was out for 6 minutes and knew I was out of the pph contest. Nobody would die, that was super shitty.

by **LastSingularity** » Sun Jul 20, 2014 2:07 am

Well, looks like it is possible to cup at lieutenant. Who is Sandy Bridge? Wow, impressive!

"You have competed in 30 tournaments. Your best placing so far is: 4. Keep practicing and some day you'll make the leaderboards!"

:boohoo:

It's 3 AM Eastern time now. Going to bed, guys. Peace

--- EDIT ---

I messed up my equipment...this time in opposite direction. I picked up 92 radars as lieutenant, with 40 min left. Used less than 2 per min, because it was wet. And picking up random radars when I tried to refill duals. Finished the tournament with like 30+ radars :lol:

by **weekend_nachos** » Sun Jul 20, 2014 2:08 am

meh 15 minute fill. Tried my best to make a comeback and finally broke top 10 within the last 5 minutes. Had some bad refills and no one seemed to want to 1v1 much. Had a lot of people sniping me. finished 11th.

evo raptor can suck me for the quit low when he got rocked. People need to pick better targets too, bf6 was limping around half the time.

> Edward Newgate

by **weekend_nachos** » Sun Jul 20, 2014 2:09 am

Also important to note that lol did fantastic in this tourney. Too bad there wasnt much for him to capitalize on

by **PD3.0** » Sun Jul 20, 2014 2:10 am

9 minute fill.

Got Taj Mahal top right when he went for a 37 fuel. No tourney countdown was interesting.

by **JDK** » Sun Jul 20, 2014 2:15 am

weekend_nachos wrote:meh 15 minute fill. Tried my best to make a comeback and finally broke top 10 within the last 5 minutes. Had some bad refills and no one seemed to want to 1v1 much. Had a lot of people sniping me. finished 11th.

evo raptor can suck me for the quit low when he got rocked. People need to pick better targets too, bf6 was limping around half the time.

> Edward Newgate

I was Natsu Dragneel. I thought I'd be the only manga/anime character playing tonight. I see Sakura and Edward Newgate, I thought people were copying me. lol

by **weekend_nachos** » Sun Jul 20, 2014 2:16 am

JDK wrote:
weekend_nachos wrote:meh 15 minute fill. Tried my best to make a comeback and finally broke top 10 within the last 5 minutes. Had some bad refills and no one seemed to want to 1v1 much. Had a lot of people sniping me. finished 11th.

evo raptor can suck me for the quit low when he got rocked. People need to pick better targets too, bf6 was limping around half the time.

> Edward Newgate

I was Natsu Dragneel. I thought I'd be the only anime character playing tonight. I see Sakura and Edward Newgate, I thought people were copying me. lol

Whitebeard from one piece is the fucking man. Anyone who's seen the war of the best knows that shit. I related to him a lot, and the name is just epic.

by **JDK** » Sun Jul 20, 2014 2:19 am

weekend_nachos wrote:
Whitebeard from one piece is the fucking man. Anyone who's seen the war of the best knows that shit. I related to him a lot, and the name is just epic.

Truth. That arc got me hooked on one piece. If you haven't watched it yet, fairy tail is pretty good. I binged watch all the episodes in a week.

by **TM3** » Sun Jul 20, 2014 2:24 am

Was browsing the forums and saw the post about the countdown. Wondered what time the tourney was at so I looked at the calendar, 2am tourney, look at my clock 1:59am. Load up TP real quick on a random tank.

7min fill just kinda bsing around since I haven't really played much lately. Make it up to LT like #3. Looking around and see Shoot real low. Zoom out and back in, he's somewhere else and even lower. Tele to him, he moves to a fake fuel and kill him for cap. Smooth sailing after that. Fought Professor Fink and Charlie Young and cought Ascend for a minute but I ran out of duels. Just cruised the rest of the way really, I think I had 65k on my cap after making it at 28mins or so. I knew the top LT's were ahead so if any of them got a kill I would get bumped. Luckily there weren't any more kills :hammertime:

. First tourney since march :hump:

TYRANNOSAURUS REX :silvercup:

by **cirno** » Sun Jul 20, 2014 2:36 am

well, that was moderately successful. slow fill and the refills weren't there

turnout surprised me

JDK wrote:I was Natsu Dragneel. I thought I'd be the only manga/anime character playing tonight. I see Sakura and Edward Newgate, I thought people were copying me. lol

I am a manga character though :hmmm:

never watched naruto, just picked Sakura because it means 'cherry blossom'. also this

by **LastSingularity** » Sun Jul 20, 2014 10:47 am

Still amazed at how many people play in tournaments (15 of each color = 6 humans of each color = 24 unique players) at weird hours like last night's. And yet, you will never seen that much activity on the main map (it's always 9-14-10-9 or 15-9-9-10, etc)

Almost feels like a lot of experienced players spend more time in tournaments (on anonymous tank names) than playing in the main map...

by **shermanfrombf** » Sun Jul 20, 2014 2:43 pm

because to most players, this game is nothing but tournaments.

some say half of them don't even know there is a main map!

by **-LanceheaD-** » Mon Jul 21, 2014 3:44 pm

LastSingularity wrote:Still amazed at how many people play in tournaments (15 of each color = 6 humans of each color = 24 unique players) at weird hours like last night's. And yet, you will never seen that much activity on the main map (it's always 9-14-10-9 or 15-9-9-10, etc)

Almost feels like a lot of experienced players spend more time in tournaments (on anonymous tank names) than playing in the main map...

Though I personally haven't played a tourney in many weeks, perhaps this sheds some light on more ways to get the game to become more active... having objective based games. Not just unlimited main map. I think people like objective based games that have some form of desirable reward. This could literally be anything, but I still think TP should look into finding new objective games instead of just tournaments and main map.

by **AsTrOKiD** » Mon Jul 21, 2014 4:03 pm

-LanceheaD- wrote:Though I personally haven't played a tourney in many weeks, perhaps this sheds some light on more ways to get the game to become more active... having objective based games. Not just unlimited main map. I think people like objective based games that have some form of desirable reward. This could literally be anything, but I still think TP should look into finding new objective games instead of just tournaments and main map.

Capture The Flag and King of The Hill come to mind... man that'd be interesting. Have like, multi-coloured obstacles that you have to take to new locations, and the person with the obstacle has 100 shields or something like that, while his teammates protect him from the barrage of shots. Getting off-topic here...

by **Jordann** » Mon Jul 21, 2014 8:54 pm

LastSingularity wrote:Still amazed at how many people play in tournaments (15 of each color = 6 humans of each color = 24 unique players) at weird hours like last night's. And yet, you will never seen that much activity on the main map (it's always 9-14-10-9 or 15-9-9-10, etc)

Almost feels like a lot of experienced players spend more time in tournaments (on anonymous tank names) than playing in the main map...

tournaments last one hour. main maps are indefinite. you get more enjoyment out of one tournament than one hour in main map. maybe some of the things that make tournaments so fun could be implemented into the main map.