Joseph Ridgeson
WarRavens
Capital Punishment.
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Posted - 2015.01.14 01:00:00 -
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It is a good idea, like all things, in theory. I can see some huge potential problems.
Current System:
SP = (2X + 5Y) * 1 +.5A + B
X = WP
Y = Time in battle (seconds)
A = Active Booster
B = Omega Booster. I'll ignore A and B for now.
This means that it pretty much all of your SP comes from being in a battle. You would need to get 2.5 WP a second to equal out. In a 12 minute Domination, that is over 1,800 WP for Passive to be a smaller bonus. Frankly speaking, people are not hitting those numbers. Play a solo game, no squads, no friends. At the end of the match, look at the scoreboard. Assuming that no one is actively cheating, you are going to see numbers greater than 1,800 for maybe the top 3 or 4 players on each side. Even 3 or 4 is generous. This means that the Passive SP is more important to 75% of the players in the match.
It is easy to see why. Let's say that in a 11 minute match, someone kill 30 people, 6 headshots, and gets 5 assists. That is 1,685 WP. This means that 3,370 SP from WP and 3,300 from time. Even a godly score like that is only marginally more SP from WP.
For the players that have good or decent but don't get higher scores, changing the WP could be a flat out kick in the teeth. As I always say, I am mediocre most of the time. In a good match I might go 15 kills in my Scout suit. Let's say that is 12 minute Domination, and I get 1,000 WP. 2,000 from WP and 3,600 from Time. But let's say I didn't use Uplinks to farm more WP and I got 8 kills. That's 400 WP, an extra 80 if I with Defend Bonus.
That is what the average player in a match is pulling. Look past the people getting 2k+ and go for numbers 4-12. Some of those might be new players yes but I bet a lot are veterans that might just either not have a spectacular game or be performing roles that do not earn much WP. Reducing their SP "because you really should have gotten more" is unfair to them.
When do you call someone a veteran by SP? I have 44 million SP and have been playing since Open Beta. I am clearly a veteran, right? What about my friend's character that has 12 million SP but has zero WP because she has been building it up? Is that a veteran? Jeez, what about the person that started 3 months ago with 3,672,000 SP every 4 weeks? That would be over 11 million SP. Veteran?
Stickier question. Someone by the name of Gill Bates starts the game. Gill decides "what the hell?" and drop 100+ dollars on the game. He run 3 Omega Passives and Actives for 28 days. He caps out 4 times in 28 days. Passive SP is 2,688,000 for 28 days and Active is a whopping 12,000,000 from Active. Is he a Veteran?
The root of the problem, even ignoring the extreme, is that two people can start playing at the same time, play the same amount of time but the person that spends money is going to get to the different formula first. This can either be a detriment if they are both pulling numbers that would favor Y instead of X or a bonus if the opposite were true. "I spent money on the game and now I have to work harder to earn my SP?" "I didn't spend money on the game and CCP decided to change the game so I earned less SP flat out."
Veteran by time is the same problem just backwards. I am coming up on 3 years of play. Veteran, easy. My friend's account has been building for a year but never played. Veteran? Basically, the same problem as time is just as difficult to tack down as SP.
For the less strong players that might pull bad numbers but love the game, this change is going to make it harder to get SP. My dear ol' dad is one of these types of players. He has 40 million SP but isn't super strong at the game. He can pull 400 WP on a good Domination match that he is solo. This change will slaughter his end of match SP. Even if the change was 3X + 4Y is SP is going from 4,100 to 3,840. Lower by a small part, yes, but lower.
Biggest part:
If this change is going through, please please please let players get Attacking Bonus for fighting near an Objective. Currently, whoever gets there first gets 20% more WP while those that are desperately trying to get it back get no bonus.
"This is B.S! This is B.S! I paid money! Cash money, dollars money, cash money!"
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