DUST Search - WTF Reduced kill points!!!???

Calroon DeVil wrote:

CCP Greyscale wrote:

SirManBoy wrote:

CCP Greyscale wrote:

Rasatsu wrote:

Why isn't orbital strike events used as an input to the WP capping algorithm, raising the ceiling for that player?

This seems a much better solution than increasing the cap so much as to make it profitable to do a bit of exploitation near the end of matches.

The more complexity and special-casing you add into the system, the more loopholes you end up with, so we really want to avoid adding any additional rules like this if we can possibly avoid it. The overall goal of the cap is for it to be just low enough that players actively farming WP find that it's not worth the boredom of doing it when they could be making nearly as much and having more fun playing normally.

Have you seen the kind of WP logis gain when their teams get struck by an orbital and now 8+ people spawn immediately from uplinks? Add this to the fact that in some matches the ebb and flow is such that logis continue to accrue all match long via a constant flow of uplink spawns, resupply points through hives, triage, and so on. As someone who routinely scores 3000-4000 WP a game (much of it coming in large spurts), performing legitimate support activities that help my team, I worry that I'm going to be affected here.

I like my play style the way it is and I don't want to be punished for it.

If your 4000 point game is taking longer than nine minutes, and you're not scoring more than 1000 points in the first two minutes or so of the battle, you'll not be affected by this feature once we get the new numbers onto TQ.

Amazing how stupid your bandaid fixes keep coming along.
Maybe, just maybe - you should take a look at the equipment instead.


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Vin Mora Sanguis Defense Syndicate 169	Posted - 2013.10.30 12:11:00 - [1] - Quote Calroon DeVil wrote: CCP Greyscale wrote: SirManBoy wrote: CCP Greyscale wrote: Rasatsu wrote: Why isn't orbital strike events used as an input to the WP capping algorithm, raising the ceiling for that player? This seems a much better solution than increasing the cap so much as to make it profitable to do a bit of exploitation near the end of matches. The more complexity and special-casing you add into the system, the more loopholes you end up with, so we really want to avoid adding any additional rules like this if we can possibly avoid it. The overall goal of the cap is for it to be just low enough that players actively farming WP find that it's not worth the boredom of doing it when they could be making nearly as much and having more fun playing normally. Have you seen the kind of WP logis gain when their teams get struck by an orbital and now 8+ people spawn immediately from uplinks? Add this to the fact that in some matches the ebb and flow is such that logis continue to accrue all match long via a constant flow of uplink spawns, resupply points through hives, triage, and so on. As someone who routinely scores 3000-4000 WP a game (much of it coming in large spurts), performing legitimate support activities that help my team, I worry that I'm going to be affected here. I like my play style the way it is and I don't want to be punished for it. If your 4000 point game is taking longer than nine minutes, and you're not scoring more than 1000 points in the first two minutes or so of the battle, you'll not be affected by this feature once we get the new numbers onto TQ. Amazing how stupid your bandaid fixes keep coming along. Maybe, just maybe - you should take a look at the equipment instead. So the DEV is stupid for outright telling you that we are very unlikely to legitimately hit the soft cap? I just had a game last night where my three man squad earned 3 OBs; and I, the squad leader and logi, earned 4200+ points across the entire match, and I never once hit the soft cap. Those 3 OBs netted me 25 kills and an unknown amount of equipment destruction points. Just because you might hit the cap doesn't mean that you will. Sanguis Defense Syndicate: Recruitment now open for players of all skill levels
Vin Mora Sanguis Defense Syndicate 170	Posted - 2013.10.30 13:14:00 - [2] - Quote iTbagyou wrote: I dont get capping equipment either. If im in a dom and am the only one running links. Ob kills half my team, im being punished for dropping a spawn point. As long as you are getting some points you aren't being punished. Sanguis Defense Syndicate: Recruitment now open for players of all skill levels