Guild Wars 2

There was a recent poll and thread asking our feedback on possible changes to match scoring. Thanks a bunch for running this by the WvW community.

I’ve thought a lot about this and can’t forsee any issues off the bat. I do know that the big issue with run away scoring is PPT. PPT objectives definately needs to be weighted less, otherwise, the server with the most objectives just gets a passive score increase without doing anything. I think the proposed changes will help with that. In the end, it really is just something that will have to be implemented and find out how well it will work.

However, one thinig that is obvious is the way the glicko scoring works. Whatever new system is implemented, the purpose is to have closer matches. Because there will be a much smaller gap between the score of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, the glicko ratings will go up and down by a very small margin. This means that a server in overal 1st place will stay there for a longer time. More importantly, because there’s such a large gap in the rating between tiers, the matchups will probably never change.

With any change to the in-game match scoring system, a change and reset needs to be done to the overall, server placement, glicko scoring system.

Thanks

No thoughts?

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You’re 100% correct. They are going to need to change the matchmaking process.

I would guess they’d also do a full Glicko reset before they change the scoring method.

Actually thinking about it how would they calculate a Glicko rating with the skirmishes in effect? Would they keep track of total score but just not show it and use that? Or would they use the result of the skirmishes? The two may give very different results.