Triple Triad Tournament... no longer worth the time

[Archadius]

You can almost get as many points getting 50 draws against a person than you can by getting 50 wins against NPCs.

Just FYI, you can actually get considerably more than 50pts for a draw against a real player. I played my matches with my wife last night and sometimes when there was a draw, I received as much as 79pts, and I doubt that is even the maximum O.O

[stuscott]

Again, the issue now is finding that many people who want to play matches - no one cares about TT anymore because the prizes are simply not worth the effort at this point - it's hard enough to find someone to play one match against you, much less 50. They upped the amount of matches we had to play, causing people to flock to NPCs or win trade. Now that NPCs give no incentive to match against, all this does is continue to encourage win trading.

[Chek]

Alright, SE.

I can deal with only getting 2 plat packs to my usual 4 or 5.

Thanks for not making it totally a waste of time. <3

[JarinArenos]

With 50 matches required and painful rulesets... no, not worth my time. I've got better things to waste my time on. Gold Saucer officially has nothing worth doing anymore. Chocobos were never good, GATEs... I guess if you want the achievements, fine, but MGP payout is worthless. Lottery? Might as well play lotto at the gas station.

[K7Sniper]

New tourney still has no fix.

However, it's Order/Same, and punching out Elmer with an OP deck gets you 82 each time.

Still absolute crap, but it's your best bet for this one.

Update: Finished the 35 matches. Won 25, tied 10 thanks to some really dumb plays on my part, and that annoying Hildebrand card at the end. Ended with 2447, which is still behind someone with 1 win.

[Kezha]

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I'm very new to FFXIV still but quite love the Gold Saucer and Triad especially.

Only did one tournament last time it was up and saw many people with 6k+ points, and then discovered that it is possible to wintrade.


But the problem seems to be fairly easy to manage to me, in two ways you can do it without shafting people.

1. If you join the tournament, and wanna play against a player, you cannot choose your opponent but instead got to que up and meet a random player.

or

2. You can only play against the same player one timer pr day. (this will shaft major wintraders in the way that they can muster together a large possey and perhaps push one dude to the top, but would shaft everyone else helping one player get the price.) This would also encourage people to want to play against people they meet perhaps?

I dunno, i'm new and everything is new and everything is shiny but people seem to have way to complicated rants about how to fix it :P

[Lindaru]

Won 27 out of 35, 1,890 points, may not be good enough for platinum packs...

[ElysaProudmoore]

why not just give the same amount of points for a win regardless of any other factor? i understand that it would be seen as lame that someone playing an NPC and someone playing versus a player could get the same amount of points (i dont see how thats lame at all call me crazy but that seems fair lol) but what choice is there? if not that then these prick win traders (who have been in the top 20 every week since these tournaments came out, who obviously do not need the MGP or the cards) will just keep abusing your broken system cheating everyone who actually would like to, you know,actually earn their wins and tournament points, out of getting an actual decent reward and actually like having fun which is supposed to be the point.
P.S remove the bonus that you get for beating a player with a better deck, that does nothing but encourage the win traders further. lets be real for a second, someone with a bad deck isnt going to want to play a person with a better deck, because lets face it you arent going to win, even if the rules are favorable, you arent going to get a good score, unless the person is a total dummy, or you play versus an NPC with your starter deck. or if your a win trader trying to get 2 or 3 times the points as anyone else doing it legitimately!

[HaelseMikiro]

On my server, someone managed to get 17th place with 0 wins and something like 2700 points IIRC. That just looked crazy.

I got you beat this week. 10th place on the board with 0 wins/35 losses. SE needs to completely abolish the bonus points awarded based on your opponents tournament rank. Right now players who cheat early in the week still get more points for intentionally LOSING to someone in the top 20 then you get for BEATING an NPC.
At this point, anything SE hasn't tried to fix the tournaments, is better than everything they have tried

[K7Sniper]

Such a bloody joke...