Call to Action: Capping and Killing To Lose

I just submitted the following:

"I am a top player, Champions league.

I'd like to voice my displeasure and concern around the new leagues system- I believe it's hurting the game. As implimented the incentives favor going for damage over beacons so much that in many cases it's better to ignore beacons entirely (and lose the game) rather than fight for the win. I see many players making that choice to the point that the game is changing fundementally.

Winning the game should still be the goal, and if you agree I believe the incentive system needs to be modified to better reward actions that help achieve that goal. Currently the reward system rewards selfish play rather than team success. The previous allocation of gold and silver was much more aligned with the goals of the game, which is likely why it worked well for so long.

I would strongly encourage changing the new system as soon as possible. It's making the game much less fun to play."

Exactly. I see my self sitting in my Trident Zeus Trident Fury just to rack up damage points. I like to win, but don't bother to since I am guaranteed at least a +3.

Definitely. I regularly see players standing just a few meters from an uncapped beacon without a care in the world. Just lobbing their trident shells mindlessly across the field. It's really really bad. Everyone is afraid of getting low damage and losing a bunch of points.

I don't want this change, and you shouldn't either.

What is going to net you more gold, capping at your current league level or capping two levels down.

Keep focusing on caps rather than damage, keep coming in last when you loose and last when you win, at some point your going to start coming in first, figure out what level that is and do what you must to stay there.

If you don't like tanking change your hanger to keep your self there. Play down and stay down.

At least until I get about 8k more gold plus buy a new, much faster tablet.

Personally I like being in battles where I can make a noticeable contribution - and *doing* so - much more than desperately clawing for every league point so I look like a stronger player.

It's not that they don't plan ahead, because you can definitely see that everything they do has a plan behind it.

But everything they do always seems to produce unexpected results, then there's the complaints and the scramble.....

They have their own very firm expectations of the results their changes will bring, that they never question. And the batting average on their expectations panning out is very low.

This is not true!! I'm getting frustrated that people don't get this :X

IF U KEEP LOSING U WILL GET PUSHED DOWN TO GAMES W LOWER PLAYERS... THEN U WILL START WINNING AGAIN... and in the meantime u will have upgraded more, procured more gold and wsp for stronger bots and weapons, etc.

There's no magical evil fairy preventing EVERYONE from winning all the sudden lollllllll

go to 6th place in the league points chart...
if your team wins your award is +2
if your team loses your reward is -20
2 x 10 = 20
ten of one equals one of the other... in ratio... as proportion... like fraction...10/1
thus life in sixth place is exactly as I posted, no wonder you're frustrated

since I have invited the storm, I will self incriminate, yes of course I chose the worst case scenario... this is the internet right?!?!
in fifth the ratio is 5/1
in fourth its about 3/1
in third its about 2/1
only in second or first do you always yield positive points...

thus... a third of the places gain, two thirds lose... one group steps forward, the other groups step back... one step forward, two steps back

(come on, that is seriously on topic and correct)

no matter how you slice it, your best league strategy is to not support your team, abandon all beacon play and simply play to accumulate the highest possible damage for yourself... and that blows

Even in your detailed explanation u seem to leave out the fact that out of 12 players in a match, 8 of them come out w positive points... What r u talking about again?!

I was expecting a reply like: "Yeah, no one knows this problem as much as we do. Don't you worry your pretty little head about it: The new MM will be fabulous; it'll be classy; and it'll be HUGE. After we fix it you'll win so much you'll be tired of winning. You'll say, 'Oh Pixonic, we're so tired of winning.'"

LOL.

Er ..your boys look quite capable of looking after themselves

Squadding is an interesting case that could be used to illustrate the balance. If you had a 6-player squad, how many league points would each player lose if the match was lost? How many would each gain if it were won?

These are rhetorical questions.

-Adam