Guild Wars 2

Take number of people playing for your server on WvW and put that in the denominator when factoring number of points.

Discuss.

Here i go again~

Outmanned buff isn’t meant to help, it’s meant to motivate.

WvW wants your server to help yourselves.

the scoring system is kind of something that, as it is now.. is taking fun from the game and adding very little to none in return.

i’m not sure there is any way to fix it. i certainly am not sure giving people who are doing less more of it is the proper solution as that would take fun from the people doing better but not really add much to those behind.

fivekiller.1432:

the scoring system is kind of something that, as it is now.. is taking fun from the game and adding very little to none in return.

i’m not sure there is any way to fix it. i certainly am not sure giving people who are doing less more of it is the proper solution as that would take fun from the people doing better but not really add much to those behind.

I think he means that if you would have got 100 points from the current map if it were fully populated by the other two worlds you’d only get 50 points if the other two worlds are only at 50% population. It would have to be based on average population over the 15 minutes or everybody would leave for two minutes when there is one minute to go.

Complicated, but I’m not completely opposed to it.

I still think the best idea is to just to remove the total scores. We don’t need to see that. A-net needs to see it for the next match-up, but we don’t.

i understood that.

my main point was, value to me as the customer is – accessibility, fun, and competition.

the scoreboard in general does not add value to the game but rather detracts. his idea isn’t bad, but i don’t see how it adds value either as it doesn’t really make me feel more competitive.. it only serves to bandaid a poor system that is in place with a mechanic that makes the score more meaningless when it needs to be gone or changed completely.

if that clarifies my counterpoint. not trying to say its a bad idea.. i just think the idea doesn’t go far enough.

fivekiller.1432:

i understood that.

my main point was, value to me as the customer is – accessibility, fun, and competition.

the scoreboard in general does not add value to the game but rather detracts. his idea isn’t bad, but i don’t see how it adds value either as it doesn’t really make me feel more competitive.. it only serves to bandaid a poor system that is in place with a mechanic that makes the score more meaningless when it needs to be gone or changed completely.

if that clarifies my counterpoint. not trying to say its a bad idea.. i just think the idea doesn’t go far enough.

Agreed.

I wouldn’t say the score is entirely meaningless though, it has meaning to A-net where it’s a useful tool in determining the which worlds should be matched against each other. Actually, now I type that, the above system might actually mess that up with low pop servers getting higher relative scores and thus being matched with high pop servers.

Anyway, the score is meaningless to me as a player. It only tells me how my world has done in the past, it doesn’t tell me how my world is doing now.