Unfortunately I wasn’t around for the entire beta so I can’t say that it was tried before, but I was hoping that it is possible to just try one matchup with the orb buff disabled? Or halved, or switched with the outmanned buff, or whatever you deem equivalent.
I know there has already been lots of orb threads, but I just wanted to plead once that we at least try something different. Heck make them give points-per-tick, I think even that would lessen the points sway that you get from a 3-orb strong enemy.
And I say this from the perspective of being mostly in tier 1 bracket servers, and participating this last week in IoJ of the closest match I’ve seen yet.
I love the orb game, its alot of fun to participate in a server gank of another server’s orb carrier group. Or sneaking through the back to snag it when a server is focused on defending the other side of the keep. But I feel that for the “little” server it is just too demoralising when one server achieves 3 orbs. Smashing your face against a brick wall in the hope of a crack forming is somewhat of the feeling you get.
While you may say “suck it up” or similar, I say that it just isn’t fun. And as soon as it stops being fun, the cannon fodder stop playing and as soon as the numbers start dropping it causes a cascading effect until only the dedicated few guilds are left. They don’t last much longer.
If you really want to achieve 2 week matches, the point sway needs to be steadied somewhat. I think there would be more consistent turnout throughout a week if the point sway wasn’t so wild.