The "random" rolls for Medal of Capture

Even more annoying is when you would have that one beacon more but you were killed a split second before you finished turning it blue.

Or when you have more damage than the entire rest of the team combined, but the cossack who contributed 35k damage and no kills takes the gold.

Or when you started late but still managed to catch up on beacons and top damage.

Or they just followed you around and stood on the beacons with you while you did all the killing work (I've had this happen, I couldn't play the rest of the day because I was so upset at the game and the other player).

The system works off a duration of capture system. If your beacons are held longer you win. In other words go for your side beacon then center.

You think 1 in 20 because you don't notice when you do.

I'll notice that went there a tie on number of beacon. The guy who has the lower damage done always get the MOC.

Will try to take some picture for the record.

Good to see I am not the only one with this issue.

Firstly, it is stated numerous places that in the case of a tie, the medal of capture (and its accompanying 5 gold) is awarded randomly. While I am pretty sure there are factors that can affect this, they have nothing to do with damage, captured first, held the longest, turned from red, or any other such criteria.

I have been running well under 5% on winning ties since I started playing this game. At one point, I documented my concerns including screenshots, statistics and videos in a bug report to Pixonic. Their response was to stand by their claim that it is awarded randomly.

If you go back to the wiki, you can find a thread I posted where I documented my experiences. I quit adding to that thread at 3 wins out of 69 ties (#52,63,64), it wasn't really very interesting anymore. As follow up on this, I don't think I have won a coin flip since I was moved to [2wik], for sure not while squadding with other clan members, and I squad quite a bit.

There is no official reason! Pixonic says it is random. Random just happens not to like you very much.

Or me, either. You get used to it.

Cheers!

ps.  There are screenshots showing more damage, less damage, more kills, etc in that thread.  I disproved (to my satisfaction, anyway) every theory that I could think of that there is a reliable way to ensure winning the beacon tie.

I would think a liberated beacon should actually count for more than a captured one.

That's really interesting, never thought liberating beacons counting as more. Thanks!

Thought that might be the case. I've won the tie quite often even after avoiding the stampede to cap the home beacon. Honestly, I capture more when I'm not focused on them. I know it has to irritate the pilot that was running around, huffing and puffing the whole match to get the gold.

I have seen your option b cited in this forum a number of times- tie decided by length your captured beacons held (i.e. the contribution to the blue bar). I havent seen any documentation on this, but I wasnt looking. May be more than meets the eye.

Ahh. Good to know.

I don't believe the FAQ for one, we all know how transparent and informative about things Pixonic is. And it's definitely not the first one to cap most beacons and be tied with someone else. I would never win moc by liberating the same amount of beacons. That's the only way I get beacons generally by liberating them. Yet I win moc if tied for most beacons. I have seen this happen many times. Especially now since it's something I look for since this thread was first started.