NovaShadowStorm
The Southern Legion
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Posted - 2012.12.31 14:27:00 -
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BigussDikkuss wrote:If this has been said a 1000 times already, my appologies. But here is time number 1001.
If I have 10 kills and 1 death and another player has 11 kills and 11 deaths, no way they should be atop me at the end of the match on the WP "leaderboard". Not that those "leaderboards" mean a darn thing, but still,,,,
Yeah... no. WP is not something that should be penalised upon death as it would completely skew the system. Regularly I come out with more kills than deaths but there are players out there who completely roll me and the rest of a team. Now imagine if you will.
A new player starts Dust has very little idea whats going on then runs into a veteran or team of veterans who consistantly gun them down throughout the game leaving them with a horrible K/D. How would it be fair to cut down this new player's WP which as stated determines SP and isk pay out? Would it be fair to have them get almost nothing just because they aren't used to the game? Is it fair that they'd have to play for endless hours continously getting rolled just to scrape up enough isk and SP to buy skills and train to get to a moderate level. No it is not.
As for your other argument you have no idea what that 11/11 may have done for the rest of the team while you have your 10/1. Might be a logibro who constantly drops nano hives, revives, heals, gets some kills and gets gunned down alot while doing it but thats still a major contribution. Thus I'd say he'd be entitled to the points he's earned.
Not to mention people who cap objectives and installations. They earn extra WP for that too since hey in skirmish if you don't cap the points you kind of lose. There are many reasons why someone may come out with more WP than you even if they have a crap K/D and shouldn't be penalised just because all yours are racked up from kills. And who knows they may of had a ton of assists kills too. K/D doesn't track assists only outright K/D. They might of assisted in half the kills in the match for all you know.
And yes the penalty of losing an entire suit, weapon and mods is plenty penalty enough especially when some fits cost hundreds of thousands of isk per loss. Wanting to penalise it would only bring more frustration and would kill off a new player base and even suggesting it without considering these things above is extremely small minded in my opinion. |