A blowout, just what i wanted. Server 2 clearly won this about 3-4 days in, making the rest of the days a lame duck situation of unfunness that people generally dont like to participate in.
Next I recorded population difference and assigned a multiplier per 15 minute interval. Every 10 people a server outpopped the other two combined their multiplier went down 10%. For every 10 people you were outmanned your multiplier went up 10%.
So if server 1 had 150 people, server 2 50 and server 3 50, server 1 would get 50% of its points
Server 2 would get 100% increase in point gain same with server 3.
The lower bound is 10%, so a server cant start losing points for holding territory.
There is no upper bound.
Basically an interesting thing happened that I honestly didnt expect. Because the model was predicting that an overpopulated server would quickly take the map, the bonus had little effect in increasing the score of the other two servers. It did however lower the score of the oceanic server by almost 10k.
Results:
Server1: 28047.5
Server2: 43072.5
Server3: 17544.5
Interesting right? So putting in a multiplier seems to not effect the standing as much as we would like. Its still a blowout. Even though we made PvD worth much less points it didnt really change the outcomes all that much.
So I got to thinking (well I had the idea all along, but wanted to prove it)
What if we keep the multiplier in, because it does help tamp down on the server with the most out of prime population, but we implement a bonus system.
The rules of the bonus system:
After 1 hour for Forts and Towers and 30 minutes for camps, the longer they remain uncaptured by an enemy team per 15 minute interval the more bonus points they are worth.
After 1 hour Forts accumulate 20 bonus points per tick
Towers accumulate 8
Camps accumulate 4.
Bonus points are awarded when a different team captures the keep. The capturing team is granted the bonus ‘stockpile’ of points.
The bonus points accumulate slower than the actual points awarded. So it always a benifit to hold something as long as you can, as you get more points that way.
The result?
Here it is:
Server1: 46055.5
Server2: 50759.3
Server3: 36372.9
Bam, ‘night capping’ is eliminated. Server 1 is within 4k points for a single map at the end of the week, a catchable lead.
Also this system has a second benifit, it makes it more benificial for the 2 underpopulated servers to intentionally target the winning team. as the winning teams objectives are going to be worth more points if they were holding them overnight.
The system also make sure the point system remains fair in even population matchups
Bonus amounts can be told to and updated on the map so the player can easily see them. Multiplier can be built right into the score system. (multiplier also affects the bonus award)
Also as an aside if this model would expand to all 4 maps, it would calculate on a population of 166×4. The multi system is based on total server population in all maps in wvw, not one particular map. so you cant manipulate the system by leaving one map and jumping to another. Also I would use the rolling maximum population over the last 45 mins, to prevent organized guilds from jumping to pve to score more points before enough time has passed for a server with more wvw population to retake objectives.
Below: Graphs!
