Agree Hect, there is a huge lower level player base, apologies didn't mean to imply anything there. It just didn't occur to me that a high number of them compared to 35 and up would actually be shooting for the LB.
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Agree Hect, there is a huge lower level player base, apologies didn't mean to imply anything there. It just didn't occur to me that a high number of them compared to 35 and up would actually be shooting for the LB.
I've never once questioned the matter of fairness or the morals of winning at any cost. If you want to debate that you are welcome to start another thread and we discuss at leisure what is involved in that.
On the matter of twinks. I would not be surprised if half the leaderboard gets overrun by new toons come the last days of the event. Again its not cheating to run at low levels. Cheating is exploiting glitches that lead to free portal runs as was recently patched. That I dont condone and if players are caught and punished accordingly then that will be fair to those that ran the contest buy buying energy with plat or gold.
You also have to remember that the forums represent a fraction of the player base that exists in AL. Not everyone is going to come on here and announce their intentions.
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There would still be complainers.
Boards show top 50. Since--as forum hysteria is saying--there are SOOOOOOOOOOOOO many twinks waiting to strike, none of the top 10 35+ players would know where they actually stand. If the board filled up with all sub lvl 35 players, you'd still never know if you're winning. The only way to know if you're in line to win SnS is to be within the top 50. Otherwise, you don't know who is 35+ with a higher score, because of SOOOOOOOOOOOO many twinks' scores.
well, displaying on the the top 50 is inherently a bad idea as well.
Other games that have leaderboards display EVERYONE. they'll show the top 10-50 players that everyone has access too, but they'll also show what position you are in relative to the entire event. so if your No. 874, you could see the next 20+players ahead and below you.
These other games also tend to have rewards that scale down to the top 100-1000 etc, so it becomes relevant. Sure rewards at these levels could as trivial as free Energy kits for the next event, but at least it something to work towards.
This is only the 2nd event, lets suggest ways to improve it so that eventually, they will get it right. Cursing STS isnt doing you any favors.
Perfection no but I think better is expected especially when it comes to exploits. Designs and systems that folks don't like are one thing but exploits are something else entirely. There is no excuse for serious exploits to not be caught before release.
As for the leaderboard and twinks. I think if the leaderboard is for lvl35+ it should be expected that means "Points Earned While Level 35+". Just a personal opinion from a non-leaderboard player.
A seperate lb for players below level 35 perhaps?