Frontline Standings

I think they have to be sorted by Victory Rate, and to be able being ranked, have a minimal number of encounters, maybe 10 or 20.
Right now, sorted just by number of win, it is ranked in first places the ones who plays more, rather than the ones who gives more chances to win to its faction. imho.

Well that leaderboard isnt correct anyway. You can manipulate it with just leaving the game before you loose.

True...
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I believe if you leave before you lose it still counts that game. It doesn't count it was a loss, but it still counts in in the total number of games you've played, so it will decrease your win % for the week. I know someone who got vote-kicked and that's what happened to him.

A single person in a team as large as Frontlines doesn't affect the chance of success enough to really make leaderboards matter anyway. What the win rate on these leaderboards mostly shows, is who's lucky to be teamed with competent players, or who frequently signs up with organized premades, not who's individually skilled.

I found something very odd with primal server, it looks like about 90 of the 100 most matches belong to someone triple boxing, with generic character names.

http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...=&match=&gcid=

Wow good find! Based off the names, that's probably square enix preparing for the frontlines event at the Las Vegas fan fest on friday!

This is actually great info, it shows that all the characters will have i90 pvp gear and that paladins will have i90 VIT accessories instead of STR... Off topic but if anyone else is going I'll see you guys there, I'm planning on hitting up the 72-man frontlines they have!

That's kinda weird/funny/neat lol. Wish I were going!

Oh man wish you guys were going, we could have actually been on the same team haha

Right!? United Front!

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Originally Posted by LalaRu

I think they have to be sorted by Victory Rate, and to be able being ranked, have a minimal number of encounters, maybe 10 or 20.

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The minimum amount for the victory rate portion is 10, I noticed. I like how the standings works right now. It seems fair for everyone. Even if at the same time it seems not fair for people who just have lives outside of Frontlines. But for me, as an Adder on Balmung, I am first place for number of wins. I'm happy with that. I will enjoy it while it lasts. I feel like I earned it (even if the other GC's beat me so bad just by playing more XD).

Eheh I'm sure who is on top now, wants things stay as they are ;)

But, as said before, even with the other sort on, the ratio can be easily cheated so really the board does will not change so much. If DC before battle ends counts as a lose, it will be another thing but it is not, will live with it. Ru ru ruuu :)

How can it be cheated exactly?

Think that's more of a misunderstanding than anything. Side note, if you d/c and make it back before the match ends/as it's ending, I believe the result is still accredited.

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Originally Posted by Saiyakupo

How can it be cheated exactly?

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DC when you see it is a loss.
Dunno if leaving battle counts as loss, will check this week.

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Originally Posted by LalaRu

DC when you see it is a loss.
Dunno if leaving battle counts as loss, will check this week.

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It doesn't tally as a loss but it still will lower your ratio. A match counts towards your total at the start of the match, with the result at the end of the match. Think of it as counting towards an invisible "4th place".

Too bad they dont tally and keep track of your k/d ratio. I know it would be a largely useless statistic in a team-oriented, objective competing event like frontlines but I'm still curious as to how much higher my k/d is over my friends and people I play with.

Edit: On second thought keeping track of that would probably just promote the idiocy some people have in spawn trapping/camping, or running around the map solo-renegade style trying to just kill people or any other non objective related asinine tactic which generally causes your team to end up losing. So its probably better that they not keep track of that. Nothing annoys me more than seeing people not play for the win in frontlines.

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Originally Posted by Dimitrii

On second thought keeping track of that would probably just promote the idiocy some people have in spawn trapping

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Spawn trapping is a tactical strategy in this game. Unlike spawn trapping in games like CoD for example, you don't instantly die in this game. So you can call for help in alliance chat or wait till more people die and then go out together to kill them. Remember, killing players gets you points and the people spawn camping you are not on a point.

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Originally Posted by Lexine

Funny seeing the top have a horrible win ratio, they probably get owned when wolve's den was still relevant.

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The loadstone rankings mean next to nothing. You cant really determine anything based off of it other than how often that person plays frontline. The more matches a person plays (and some of those ppl atop the leaderboards have played as many as 80+ matches in a week) the less likely that they are queuing as part of a premade group and therefore are at the mercy of a pug group in a game mode that requires team unity and coordination to win consistently. Common sense. The impact one person can have in winning a match in frontlines is much much smaller than the impact they would have in a wolves den match just by virtue of number of participants alone so how can you possibly compare win rates between the two modes?