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Old Apr 1, 2017, 6:53 am
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Jaenks
 
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Originally Posted by X-ON
This is my totally speculative view on how MPG would import LT tiers from SPG:

LT SPG GOLD=> NEW LT GOLD tier (which would resemble SPG GOLD with some bells and whistles) official night requirement 250 nights
LT SPG PLAT=> NEW LT PLAT tier (A mix of features of MR GOLD/PLT and SPG PLT all watered down of course) official night requirement 500 nights
NEW LT tier PLAT+ (or Palladium or ???? ) Will be the new full top tier of MPG official night requirement: somewhere in area of 750 to 1000 nights

The matching would be done in 2 steps:
(1) In step one all SPG LT get their new corresponding LT tier
(2) In step two those LT GOLD /PLT with enough combined LT nights gets "promoted" into a new tier some GOLD might get into PLAT or PLAT+ and some PLAT might get into PLAT+ but most stay where they are.

Obviously you would perform the same type of procedure with the LT MR tiers
... maybe someone has an even better idea...
If this will happen, new LT Tier qualification should count the sum of SPG and MR nights. If SPG LT Gold has 260 nights with SPG and 800 nights with MR but not MR LT Plat(not enough points), then New LT Plat would be granted. New LT Plat Tier could be 1000 nights combined and LT Gold 750 nights. Not sure about what will happen to points requirement.
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