Merry Mayhem - UPDATED

[sententz]

Originally Posted by Arkonen

This is true for "official" teams created with the ingame team system ... not for teams made outside of this system.

will be a very big surprize to be 'official teams' and 'unofficial teams by pictures'

[Walter]

Originally Posted by Arkonen

This is true for "official" teams created with the ingame team system ... not for teams made outside of this system.

yeah i know, i talked about loot collectors, no one can collect your loot if you arent in a normal team. only if he has done mor dmg then you. but its not you kill then. so whats that?

[Arkonen]

Originally Posted by Walter

yeah i know, i talked about loot collectors, no one can collect your loot if you arent in a normal team. only if he has done mor dmg then you. but its not you kill then. so whats that?

Kill mob more than 50%, let a friend finish it, loot it ...

[Walter]

Originally Posted by Arkonen

Kill mob more than 50%, let a friend finish it, loot it ...

Mercury said, friends collecting loots for you. Ok i give up, better go hunt something

[Xen]

Originally Posted by Arkonen

Kill mob more than 50%, let a friend finish it, loot it ...

I don't think if you do <50% of the damage it would count as a kill. There is a marker on dead mobs that indicates who did most damage, i.e. who can loot it, and this marker points to a player or team. Who fired the kill shot is probably not even information that is normally kept since it means nothing, so I'd doubt they could determine kills by kill shots.

[Xen]

Originally Posted by Marco|MindArk

A quick reply on a key question; the reason we cannot give out per period time spent is that we don't compile and prepare that data in real time. In an earlier message I explained that the DQ time verification is done after the event is done and in top score avatar order. So the "best case scenario" (data base strain-wise) is for us to make three checks; the top most point avatar, the second most point avatar and the third most point avatar.

Just FYI.

Well first, thanks for taking the time to post on Christmas Day.

However, I can't recall your resume exactly but I don't think you are a technical person. So I can only think this is what some technical people are telling you. If this is what they said then I can only think that they are incompetent or not telling you the truth because they don't want to take on this task during the holidays. Or, your record methods are a mess. But even if some of this information was kept as plain text (not in a database structure), it is searchable and sortable by automated methods. It should not be hard to filter out DQ's and post a daily top 100 on a webpage.

[thoreau]

Originally Posted by Mercury

Marco, you want to help us sort this out before we waste another 40 hours of our lives?

LOL. You'd be wasting MORE of your life if it wasn't for this event.

[thoreau]

Wouldn't kills be counted by who looted the mob?

[Imsin]

Originally Posted by Mercury

I'll concede that this way could in theory beat me if a soc could get 10 members to coordinately help in the effort, although that may actually slow it down due to lack of teamwork. If correctly done though, it would be faster!

First off I am NOT competing in the event.

I have however been hunting trox alot due to the nice drops.
I have witnessed some team work that could very well allow another player to beat you.
The competing avatar does nothing more than kill, kill, kill, kill
They have a healer.
ammo, loot & repair runners.
mob herders.
"muscle" avatars that try to scare you off the LA by making threats and when that doesnt work they try to mob train you so you die, repeat until you give in and leave or they realize they can't kill you with a train
If they think you may be competing they will also attempt kill stealing to keep you from getting the kills.

I realize these ways are not violating the "rules" but they are pushing the harrassment line very closely if not crossing it.

This event is making everyone crazy

[Xzion]

Originally Posted by Imsin

This event is making everyone crazy

no need for a event to make us crazy