Star Legends Beta Leaderboards to be Wiped for Launch

[Samhayne]

To present a fair playing field for everyone, we will be wiping the Leaderboards for the launch of Star Legends: The Blackstar Chronicles. This means that your kills and deaths will be reset to Zero.

To accompany this change, we will also be changing how PvE kills are tallied. If the monster is appropriately leveled to you, or you are otherwise gaining experience from killing it, it will count toward your kills. If you disable XP or the monster is too low level to give you XP, it will not count toward your kills. Characters who are at the level cap and gain no further experience will still gain kills from monsters who are appropriately leveled against the character. For example, a level 21 character would still gain kill counts from monsters that were level 20, even though they no longer gain experience because they are at the level cap. To recap:

• Players receive no kill count if the victim can never give xp.
• No kill counts granted if the victim is too low level.
• Players will receive no kill counts if they have disabled xp gain.

To be clear, we are NOT wiping the Pocket Legends leaderboards. However, in the future, you can expect the change to not allow kill counts to accrue when XP is disabled to make its way to Pocket Legends.

[Kraze]

Best news ever

[Conradin]

Great job. I was hoping this would happen. And. Love the no xp no kills motto.

[Physiologic]

Thank you very much guys. The Star Legends leaderboard will be a lot more truthful in that it is truly a "leaderboard," and not a board with a bunch of lv 12 characters with a 160,000:0 K/D ratio and 472,492 total kills.

[CanonicalKoi]

Woot. Thanks so much, guys. It'll be nice to have an LB that actually means something.

[Snakespeare]

Interesting!

So the old way to get on LB was to turn off XP in FH and grind away at low level mobs.

The new way will be to grind at level cap vs. equal level mobs.

Works for me...

[Kraze]

Interesting!

So the old way to get on LB was to turn off XP in FH and grind away at low level mobs.

The new way will be to grind at level cap vs. equal level mobs.

Works for me...

Odd concept skill over time spent now if only elixir kills didn't count but hey it's a start

[Roasty]

I don't care much about kills, so this works for me!

[Zbooo]

Thank you baby Jesus, best news I've heard today.

[Physiologic]

Perhaps the current leaders on the beta leaderboards should receive some sort of compensation for their troubles.

[Silentarrow]

Thanks Sam!

[Ellyidol]

Thanks Sam, for clearing it up.

And ultimately, thank you Phys for bringing it up!

[Darkfader]

Sounds very good. Next same for PL too.

[Fyrce]

I don't much care about boards, but this sounds pretty cool. Good job devs.
And personally I thank you for SL and beta, as I'm sure many others do as well.


(Wow, the hyperventilation in the other thread... that's some board attachment being shown...)

[Diodge]

I would like to see a second leader board for people who shut off exp to farm kills. Then add a kill counter for no exp kills. This is a major part of your other game PL. There is tons of people who like to farm kills so they look pimp at a low level. I think you might have just killed a big group of players way of playing.

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The low kill count was a problem in groups of PL. You would get kicked/booted. I wonder how this will play out?

I guess you choose the smaller group to make mad. The small group is alot of people who never played. They came from major droid pages. I hope it works out.

((((I hope the people who are upset they got a death are happy now.))))
I know im happy. This will keep the begs off.

... This stinks . First it was apple/droid not playing complaining in PL. Now in SL this is the new complaint. PLEASE drop the game already to stop the bs. Im dieing for my buddies to join. Then we will see farming . LoL

[Flowman]

Perhaps the current leaders on the beta leaderboards should receive some sort of compensation for their troubles.

Why? Playing more than other people doesn't deserve a reward. You can argue they were more efficient and made better use of their time, but it was their decision to stick with one character and farm kills.

[Physiologic]

Trying to balance the yin with the yang, flow.

[JaytB]

Thanks Physio, everybody should know that you brought this on the radar

Thanks devs for listening to community feedback. It are these things that keep me playing your games A great implementation indeed

[Slush]

Perhaps the current leaders on the beta leaderboards should receive some sort of compensation for their troubles.

Yes please

[dcichoracki]

Perhaps the current leaders on the beta leaderboards should receive some sort of compensation for their troubles.

The point of beta testing seems to have been lost. They should get what every other tester does: the thanks of STS dev team. Beta testing isn't about glory or leaderboards, it's about helping work out the kinks; and, devs, thanks for the opportunity to help out, I've enjoyed it!