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Why do people not turn in index points, letting the mission fail?
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Is it some stupid flex? Are they just retarded? Why does this happen so fucking often?
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They don't pay attention at all to the timer. Had a guy the other day get angry because I didn't turn my five in and the timer had 20 seconds left but he had 15 and was still collecting.
Totally happens more than it should though.
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This is why, even when I'm not playing as main point collector, I will collect and turn in small number of points periodically just to make sure this doesn't happen.
because holding many points is dangerous, and thrilling.
Others have all brought up good points and reasons but personally I save up to 15 always UNLESS the time is getting low and I have points or if I’m one hit away from death.
It's always the Rhino who does this.
I sometimes forget to turn in at the beginning. A nice reminder is nice. The only time I didn’t turn in on purpose was when this 1 guy said the time left every 5-10 seconds after he said 1min left. Which wouldnt be a problem if he also wasnt saying “hey idiots” hey bitches” “you shits turn in points”. So instead i slowly creeped to the goal until time ran. Because Im not going to spend an entire round with that guy.
As someone who only brings Rhino into index, I look to see if there is another rhino, and what their MR is. While I do my best to turn in around 12-15 points, I'll turn in at 8 if everyone else is hoarding, and type in chat "turning in for time". I love it when other people intentionally avoid points and mark them for me to pick up, but if I see the other rhino(s) are being reasonable and turning in regularly instead of hoarding, I'll even back off and just kill and mark points for them too.
Yep, and it's most likely the people who do it that are downvoting this, because well, truth hurts I guess
Because in general people don't know what they are doing, and why are they doing what they do cause it was simply something they read.
Had a guy yesterday in energy reduction sortie with a spam 4 Mesa, can't hold a tower for 10 seconds by him/herself, used all the revives at the end of 1st wave, rage complaint in chat about why everyone said Mesa is good before quitting.
Because they are the idiots
It's big dicc syndrome. People want to look cool and have a swarm of points so that they can bank once and finish the match.
holy crap this .. i hate hate hate doing index with randoms cause 9 times out of 10 you fail cause some dumb ass likes shiny things flying around him.
While I know it's not optimal for the quickest scoring, I usually deposit when I have 5 or more points. I sadly spend more time looking at the clock than I should
Optimal turn in is at 15 points carried, but the timer is more important than anything.
Running a high duration Octavia build can help with this. Stay invis the whole time and bank 5ish points when you can. Normally that gives the oblivious e-peen rhinos time to realize they should stop holding them.
It's happened to me once or twice. Typically I'm one or two away from a bonus tier, try for them, get bopped near my team's spawn, and the enemy turns in my points while I'm dead. Especially bad with Atlas, since his walls die when he dies.
In other words... I get greedy.
The 2 times i failed index like that was simply because you are in the "zone", killing and collecting stuff and you simply friggin' forget about the timer. Thats all. There is no clear warnings or stuff like that, so its just easy to overlook.
Ideally, one person will turn in small amounts regularly allowing the others to horde. I'm happy to be the person that turns in 5 every time, I don't like the drain on everything at 15.
The big problem is that these guys don't realize you lose time when the enemy cashes in points. So they're holding 20 points with 120 seconds on the clock and they think we're doing fine, but then they get killed right next to the enemy goal, the enemy calmly walks it over and the match ends.
You get bonus points the more points that are turned in at once (starts around 5 or 6 points I think).
I usually turn in between 10-15 points, but if the timer is in the double digits, I turn in what I have to keep the match going.