There is no reward for playing well.

[Elfidan]

Anyone who's been through the gold to crystal ride has seen the people who have top crystal time top damage competitive kills lots of heals but their team loses. Must be their team right? No, it was them running in solo none stop like some bot while spamming push the crystal over and over while the crying whm peppers the log with group up and hello. If you really did well your teammates will commend you. That's your gold star sticker. Congrats!

[Claustrum]

Anyone who's been through the gold to crystal ride has seen the people who have top crystal time top damage competitive kills lots of heals but their team loses. Must be their team right? No, it was them running in solo none stop like some bot while spamming push the crystal over and over while the crying whm peppers the log with group up and hello. If you really did well your teammates will commend you. That's your gold star sticker. Congrats!

Uhhhhhh... yeah, so...

could we maybe just make it so you don't get punished as hard for being on a team with that dude who runs in solo "none stop like some bot"?

[Gserpent]

Uhhhhhh... yeah, so...

could we maybe just make it so you don't get punished as hard for being on a team with that dude who runs in solo "none stop like some bot"?

The problem is there's not really a plausible way of doing so. Riot, Valve, and Blizzard would have devised a solution to it many, many years ago if an automated, hands-off system like that were plausible.

[Claustrum]

The problem is there's not really a plausible way of doing so. Riot, Valve, and Blizzard would have devised a solution to it many, many years ago if an automated, hands-off system like that were plausible.

Riot, Valve, and Blizzard all have a larger pvp playerbase which lets them mix things up easier, and they also don't have a pvp system where it's "winning = +1 point" and "losing = -1 point". It's usually more like "Okay, you lost, but we put you on a team with people who are all ranked lower than you, so you won't lose quite as many points this time." Granted, all of these companies have their own pvp issues, which they are handling in their own ways, but these forums are for FFXIV.

Also, this does not excuse the "WELL IT'S NEVER BEEN DONE SO IT CANT BE DONE" argument.

[Nanne]

Riot, Valve, and Blizzard all have a larger pvp playerbase which lets them mix things up easier, and they also don't have a pvp system where it's "winning = +1 point" and "losing = -1 point". It's usually more like "Okay, you lost, but we put you on a team with people who are all ranked lower than you, so you won't lose quite as many points this time." Granted, all of these companies have their own pvp issues, which they are handling in their own ways, but these forums are for FFXIV.

Also, this does not excuse the "WELL IT'S NEVER BEEN DONE SO IT CANT BE DONE" argument.

Actually the amount of points you lost changed depending on the difference in the average rating of 2 teams back in Feast days

[Towa-Musa]

Actually the amount of points you lost changed depending on the difference in the average rating of 2 teams back in Feast days

Does not change the fact that they're right though.