Quote Originally Posted by Aravell View Post
It wouldn't kill the mode but it would encourage people to ignore 1st place and secure 2nd place.

If 1st place is already far ahead, instead of teaming up and taking down the 1st place team, the 2nd and 3rd place would be far more likely to start attacking each other to secure 2nd place if the 3rd place rewards were vastly reduced.
I disagree that it would encourage people to ignore 1st place. As it is now (and usually always has been), people with barely a lead (especially at the start) often tend to get focused on when available. At that point you're making the bigger assumption that people won't contest 1st place for twice as many mogtomes than getting just 1 or 2 more mogtomes for securing 2nd. You could just as well make the same hypothetical argument that the larger reward for 1st place motivates people to actually want to focus on dragging the 1st place team down.

If 1st place is ever that far ahead where the general consensus of the teams are "fight for 2nd," then there's already a fundamental skill issue between the losing teams that probably wouldn't have been remedied by suddenly deciding they have to focus them down. Also, there's no achievement rewards for coming in 2nd x amount of times nor do the standard tomestones awarded for queuing differ between finishing 2nd and 3rd, so at that point you're saying that only a 1 or 2 mogtome difference is worth not teaming-up against 1st place.

I'll admit that 2nd and 3rd place teams fighting each other already happens, although it is more because of spite, tunnel-vision or general ignorance.