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Actually I just felt like replying, it's 3AM here. 😛
If someone seems to be thinking with us and optimistic, it's enjoyable for me to give them a bit of insight, so I don't mind doing it in my own time then 😃
 
It's different when someone asks for the umpteenth time where trading is!
 
Hope you'll stay on this journey with us.

What exactly does?
 
Events are a fair bit of work but it used to be a part time job for a guy who made them about 6 months upfront. Honestly the majority of it lies in research for us - we can't just 1-2-3 change everything because the current event standards are actually not just random but based on extensive market research etc. 
Main issue right now is honestly that we couldn't simply inherit skilled staff (SM was in maintenance mode when we bought it - they had other jobs already), so we've to figure everything out from scratch and hire as well, so a lot of "we" ends up being "me" trying to juggle maintenance previously done by 4 (3 of which part time, thankfully) people in addition to actual changes that haven't been done in years! 
I am in the hiring process for some staff but having some difficulty choosing! Life sucks sometimes. 😛 On the community side specifically, as that's something I really _really_ don't have time for and it's starting to show >.> 
Basically as I start understanding and fixing some backlaying stuff everything (including hiring - hiring people who have to learn everything on their own is ... difficult!) should become much much much easier. 
E.g. we have to get backups in a much better place, there's a serious risk of losing months of data and having a week of downtime or more if disaster strikes and that's just totally not acceptable for a game like this. I'd like to automate infrastructure so it recovers nicely etc (have you noticed? I already did a fair bit of work on that, though the biggest steps are yet to come!), with this i'd like to make a proper pipeline of SM Dev -> SM RC (semi-public beta) -> SM Live so updates get less risky (there's a pipeline of sorts now, but it honestly has some crucial issues, including that the only real test version doesn't run the game the same way as the live version....). We can streamline support by probably up to 90% by offering simple instructions to disable your own base and reach forget password and making clear what we can/cant help with... There's so much we've planned that will make SM more reliable in the long run or free more of our time for stuff more beneficial to the players.... 
Events are part of that - once we've a bit of experience we can probably automate parts (does a human REALLY need to decide what days you get some random bonus? :P), assuming the small parts actually are fun and make sense, and free up time for actual humans planning larger scaled, more interesting events that don't feel like generic drivel. 
Right now the goal of the upcoming event schedule is just for us to duke out what does/doesn't work and play around a bit. Top priority right now is picking up the pieces Tacticsoft couldn't work on as they had a huge need to show results quickly (which we really don't, we're fine spending a few months making the next 5 years easier). But once we've some experience, as with all things, it'll get better 😃

You shouldn't believe everything people say on the forum 😛
 
We'll do our best but please do temper your expectation. While we intend to experiment and play around to see what works, we're not just going to do everything completely different and start over 😛

@Alexander. Thank you very much for making it clear when the last TS event was. I think we are all looking forward to see what your team does moving forward!

28th feb is the last TS event 🙂

No offense taken. I agree there are plenty of models that get us to the META items. 
 
I do run my sheets as actions points based as well. This is when you account for multiple variables. 

This is a difficult question to answer, as the utility a player gains from resistance can vary greatly depending on factors such as mech type (phys speeds up battles, heat slows them down) and season (1v1 fast, 3v3 slow). What I think you should be using is approximately how many times each player's mech (important: singular!) takes damage in battle on average. This is equivalent to how many times resistance affects a match, after all. 

This means factoring in every drone, weapon, and special item hit. If I were you I'd do some testing with varying sample sizes, but equal amounts of each mech type to alleviate one of the problems I've listed above. Although without any replay sampling, I'd estimate the value to be somewhere around 15-18. Like I said it's a difficult thing to accurately measure, but I think you can get pretty close. Best of luck.

The past months ,several players have been deceiving the community by winning solo medals and reaching high ranking by boosting themselves using alt accounts or having others boost them. As a result, individual medals are losing their value and players become demotivated, competition is being destroyed. I believe the only possible way to deal with this is to make all Replays visible, including instant quit Replays so that the players who boost will be exposed at least. In that way they will probably stop boosting since the community will acknowledge that those players are ethically cheating. Please spend a few minutes/ seconds on the poll, your opinion matters a lot and can determine whether boosting will be prevented, and how soon this will be. The sooner, the better.
I believe that since it has been several months already that competition is being harmed and most solo weekly wins are a lie, its high time action was taken, **as soon as possible** , so that the game will become a little better. The more making the game better by fixing any competition issues is delayed, the more pointless fixing it in the future becomes since more and more damage is being caused, damage that can not be eraised. 
Thank you for your time.
@Alexander please visit this topic from time to time to see the results.

Nice 👌 
WTF is going on at top players. One more day to move up. New metas and game adjustment changing the lands scape. 😎🧑‍🌾🧑‍🍳
 
 
 

Cool 😎,  welcome to the club stuck in 250. 🙃 congrats, about time. 🧑‍🌾

Who knows, maybe some folks will come back. 😃
 
 

Resistance drain is applied after damage is dealt.
 
Hope this helps! I like the new item too, just don’t know how many I’m going to max. 

beautiful. 

beautiful. 

beautiful. 

beautiful. 

beautiful. 

reached that with my self made build🤩

F2P Phys is definitely the strongest of the 3, but I think this is viable. Maxed with maxed arena stats, this should be a free pass to rank 5. 

I used something similar with cracked plasma cannon, everything else was the same and I must say it worked pretty well. Got its back blown out by some physicals occasionally.

I feel like this is a nice easy rank 5 phys no LM build

It's March 1, ok?

btw Sawzall you don't really need all these topic just make a topic for all of them

i hope so.
all this cheater begin to bore me.

Not right now. We’re working on the backlying fixes which we expect to finish in the next few days, we intend to do a smaller banwave right after based on reports and a bigger one later.
Please report anyone you find suspicious Here.
The aim is to have the game clean for the next 3v3 season. 
 
We’ll do another balance update around the same time as well. 
 
Hope that answers your question 🙂