Grand Prix - I can earn thousands of points playing games but I can only add a max 100 to my boost meter - wtf?

[mjbr55]

Utterly, utterly broken and incomprehensible. On Day 1 I could add thousands of points to my boost meter. Now it will only accept a max of 100 regardless of how many I have earned. Is this the "Team Corgi" re-balancing? How on earth am I supposed to get enough points to be able to buy that £5 off coupon in the pit stop if I am limited to 100 a day regardless of what I do? What a mess.

[CZBGR Icepick]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

If you're unable to claim points for quests, and not cap out, then you contact support.

Then you should clearly state that from the start. Contact support.

We're all pretty much here to air our grievances over this. We're here to be aware that many people experience issues with this event. It's not like people haven't already tried Support.

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

Are you thinking if you idle the game, to gain points? If so then no that's not how it works.

That is how is worked when it worked once I tried it, but it has stopped working since. It's literally what the thing says. Especially should for an idle clicker.

But, not anymore. Not even for TF2. No points have been accumulated. If all you had to do was play a game, and it doesn't even count it, this does not make sense per the description, and that is among many of the complaints thus far for points not counting, making it a useless event. Time has been wasted on it with nothing to show for it and I'm here on the record to share that experience.

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

You idle the game to add to your recently play games list for the event for achievements you already unlock, and claim the points. The 1st two days of the event, was an issue as when you claim your points, it use it all up, and waste whatever remaining points, they changes it so it wouldn't do that, but games that were already claim on the 1st two days of the event, do not revert, and you need to play another game that you haven't claim the points for as of yet, or unlock more achievements for current, or other games.

The games that it counts in that section have been so because they were played at the time. When you play them, you're supposed to earn a certain amount of points over time everyday for more than 30 minutes, and those points are used from any one of the games that have a max available number of points. Doing quests adds more.

The first part of the problem is that other than the 100 daily points from Valve for participating, there are no more points being accumulated, which was what I was talking about. I have a capacity, which when you offset the free 100 points, that is not even close to being reached. This means that when playing the games don't actually count even though they're supposed to, you cannot even take the available points (earned from previously completed achievements) from it, so there is no cap to even speak of. It just doesn't exist.

I'm pretty sure I have enough such points to convert to tokens even for that $5 coupon without actually spending money (that is the p2w factor, every dollar you spend is contributing to the boost points and that converts to tokens when used), if only I was able to do so should the boost increase. There's nothing I can do when I'm pretty sure I've been following the simple rules.

[CZBGR Icepick]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Wassenichsagst:

You need to idle a game for 30mins so that it shows up in your Achievement Quests on the Grand Prix page. There you can claim points for the achievements. one time if you take all points at once.

No points are generated from doing so. What part do you not understand about that?

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Wassenichsagst:

It doesnt matter how many minutes/hour you keep on idling this game now, you already claimed the points for the achievements.

I would think it would matter due to a certain amount of points generated over time. I can't claim anything that isn't generated in the first place. That's how it worked last time.

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Wassenichsagst:

And, if your Boosted Points = Max points you are done for the event. You can not claim any new points from any quests.

There are 0 points generated now other than what Valve gives. It's not claimed, there is nothing to do when it isn't generating. Nothing there, nothing to have claimed in the first place. It should keep going, but it does not.

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Wassenichsagst:

You need to wait until tomorrow, because then you can claim 100 points again from any quest you finished.

You don't get the 100 from any quests, and I'm not even doing quests for that matter. There are thousands of potential points I could use up, but there is no capacity to do so that isn't generated to claim, therefore it is not doing what it is supposed to be doing, which is why I said that unless someone somehow managed to do quests or simply splurged money, there is nothing anyone can do from just playing. Not even idling on an idle game. That's what makes it a useless event.

[Tehbeardedgamer]

lmao How does no one know how this works? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Em0AbKmcnc&feature=youtu.be

[TomCat86]

I bought games and its not increasing my max daily point limit. Im stuck at 100 points cap' per day usable.

((11439 points earned
42 completed

YOU ALREADY REACHED YOUR MAX POINTS
Upgrade your maximum points or wait until tomorrow to claim your points ))

Its not letting me claim the points, its only letting me do 100 pts a day

[Bee🐝]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Chompman:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von MaskedKohan:

Wait, so do your max capacity go back to 100 after each day? Because I had bought a few games already but my max points is just 100 today.

If you spent those points with boosts on one day then yes it's only the 100 per day.

Exactly and that 100 “bonus” should only be available if you participated in the race the day before. It doesn’t go up “just because”, you have to be active in the races.

[ShadowKatt]

I'm just here to give Valve the proverbial middle finger... this "event", as they call it, has to be one of the stupidest things I have seen in the 14 years I have used this service. (and that's saying something)

Epic FAIL

[mjbr55]

This is what is says should happen:

"Increase your max points
All players will begin with at least 100 max points, and for each day that you participate, your maximum will increase by 100 points. Additionally, for every £1 you spend on Steam, you will increase your maximum points that you can earn by 127 points."

Note the "for each day that you participate, your maximum will increase by 100 points."

To me, this means 100 points on day 1, 200 points on day 2, 300 points on day 3, etc. It goes up by 100 for each day that you participate.

This is NOT happening. I believe I have played every day, and my max points has been 100 every day, except for on the very first day and for those days after I had completed a quest or bought something.

Whoever coded this made a mess of it and it was never tested properly.

People are talking about it, but not in a good way. Way to go Valve.

[Toyfan1]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von mjbr55:

This is what is says should happen:

"Increase your max points
All players will begin with at least 100 max points, and for each day that you participate, your maximum will increase by 100 points. Additionally, for every £1 you spend on Steam, you will increase your maximum points that you can earn by 127 points."

Note the "for each day that you participate, your maximum will increase by 100 points."

To me, this means 100 points on day 1, 200 points on day 2, 300 points on day 3, etc. It goes up by 100 for each day that you participate.

This is NOT happening. I believe I have played every day, and my max points has been 100 every day, except for on the very first day and for those days after I had completed a quest or bought something.

Whoever coded this made a mess of it and it was never tested properly.

People are talking about it, but not in a good way. Way to go Valve.

Because they poorly explained it.
Thats not how it works, you're only supposed to get 100- everyday.
Valve just sucks at everything these days.

[Cartridge]

Youre just wrong,
"for each day that you participate, your maximum will increase by 100 points."

that just means that your maximum will increase by 100 points each day, and not whatever you were thinking Genius.

The key fact you might missing is, that your points dont reset daily.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

I have a feeling the key word is "participate" as in spend the 100 points by clicking on boost to claim the 100 points each day, and see what happens. Beyond that if still nothing idk what to tell you.

[Bacon Overlord®]

It turns out it really doesn't matter.

The scripters, cheaters, botters and hackers have taken over obviously. I dumped 100K points (at 1K boost each) into this race today and we pulled 8K ahead of everyone. I wake up and hare has a 10K lead with 5K attacks against it.

Obviously Steam did what they always do... They care at first and delete hackers and exploiters, but eventually they get tired and just give up like they did with the leveling system.

The race is now a sham.

http://prntscr.com/oa2vym

[CZBGR Icepick]

The points you're given by Valve don't increase either. I skipped a couple days and did not have more than 100.

The races last for a day and it resets. You can't conserve, you have to keep buying stuff to catch up.

[Toyfan1]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Cartridge:

Youre just wrong,
"for each day that you participate, your maximum will increase by 100 points."

that just means that your maximum will increase by 100 points each day, and not whatever you were thinking Genius.

The key fact you might missing is, that your points dont reset daily.

you guys act as if anyone reading that vague sentence Valve made and rewrote is just a nutjob.
Despite Valve never clearly explaining this ♥♥♥♥ event

[CZBGR Icepick]

Reminds me of DONTNOD's attempt at Americanization.

[TomCat86]

I'm confused. I woke up today and it says I am not a member of any team and I need to join a team? I dont understand. I was in a team already and participated. Did the race end and now we have to do it all over again?