Guild Wars 2

The scoring at the moment has little relevance to who the survivor is. If you come first and survive to be the last man standing, you may not even be on the score board. That just happened to me—I was the second last survivor, but was not even on the score board. Previously I came first, and was second on the score board.
Would be nice to see some sort of scoring where you get points for just being alive at the end, second, third etc. After all, that is what the game is supposed to be about ^-^. So at the moment its going to have to be a slaughter fest for me, to complete the high score achievement>>.

PS, just completed the Southsun High Scorer Achievement—-I am going of rest in a darkened room, preferably in the horizontal position with a cold cloth over my forehead, with a ‘Please do not disturb sign on the door’, ^-^.

You get 50 pts for first place but you may not be top scorer. Winning in that game is more or less for fun which I don’t mind.

I agree with the OP. Right now it’s been very hard for me to score points. I usually end up with no weapon at the start making it hard to kill anyone for points. As a ghost, again it depends on finding a survivor and getting them to trigger the trap you set. So at the end of the game even though I managed to survive to 4th or 3rd, there’s no credit for that. I end up with 10 pts per game. I know I’m not good at this game, but I do think some points for surviving any length of time would be reasonable.

Rosen Myst.7641:

I agree with the OP. Right now it’s been very hard for me to score points. I usually end up with no weapon at the start making it hard to kill anyone for points. As a ghost, again it depends on finding a survivor and getting them to trigger the trap you set. So at the end of the game even though I managed to survive to 4th or 3rd, there’s no credit for that. I end up with 10 pts per game. I know I’m not good at this game, but I do think some points for surviving any length of time would be reasonable.

Collecting revenge emotes gives you points.

Yes I know that, but I believe the limit is 15. Now if I"m trying to survive to the end and I die late in the game my chances of finding 15 motes is much less. So I’m saying that in addition to finding motes, setting traps, or killing players, I think you should get points for the amount of time you survived as well.

Rosen Myst.7641:

Yes I know that, but I believe the limit is 15. Now if I"m trying to survive to the end and I die late in the game my chances of finding 15 motes is much less. So I’m saying that in addition to finding motes, setting traps, or killing players, I think you should get points for the amount of time you survived as well.

15 is the maximum you can hold, but you still get points for running over more emotes.

I agree that surviving on the whole should be more lucrative.

Right now, I find what gives me most points (other than winning, or going on an amazing killing streak), is to die in a mob as soon as grace period is over, be the first ghost to pick up all the emotes, and then play the traps for the rest of the game.

And that’s fine – I’m having fun anyway – but I don’t think that that was supposed to be the point of the game when it was designed…

My suggestion would be that points while alive are double what you get from when you’re a ghost. So killing someone while you’re alive is 10 points vs 5 while a ghost, trap 4 vs 2, scavenging 2 vs 1. This makes more incentive to try to live, rather than die very quickly and get the revenge motes while there are still dozens of them around.

I don’t exactly like how the game rewards hiding from everyone versus actively seeking out the other survivors, but that isn’t really fixable with scoring.