Verminion Penalty for Tutorial ?

[Kat_Manx]

Yes please to the Data Center-wide matching system.

[kuma_aus]

I heard you only start losing RP points once you hit 1000 points right? So how will people keep abusing the system when they get closer to 1000 RP points on their main?

[Myon88]

I heard you only start losing RP points once you hit 1000 points right? So how will people keep abusing the system when they get closer to 1000 RP points on their main?

There was only me and one other person queuing in the saucer today so I ended up going ~20 games in a row against him. I won all of them and his RP never dropped further after hitting 998, so I'm guessing 1000 points being the cutoff is correct.

Regarding tournaments, I'm guessing it would indeed be hard to keep racking up 1st place finishes once you plateau out over 1000 RP. You'd lose out to completely fresh players and alts with 0 RP.

It still doesn't make it completely fair though, it just makes the RP 'floor' 1000 RP instead of 0 RP. The gap in points earned won't be as wide, but anyone with more than 1000 RP is still basically penalized for being better.

[IceyWeiner]

All I have to say is this; Fifth maintenance in two weeks! This "was" probably a good idea at the time of its conception in a board meeting but now it has literally become a waste of almost everyones time and money! Not only do we pay MPG to do the challenges but we also pay actually god damn money to play this game! I find it ridicules and asinine that the development team wants to waste the time we pay for yo fix a "mini-game" that will die out within the span of a month or at the most, two. This is a minor problem that has lead to a very un-needed and abysmal 5 hour maintenance window where all players cannot do anything in the game whatsoever. I'm absolutely positive someone had good intentions with this maintenance but....ITS JUST A MINI GAME!! One that will become as irrelevant as chocobo racing with the passing time.

[PotatoTree]

I complained a bunch about the tournaments and while I appreciate them for trying to respond quickly, I think this is doing more harm than good. This 30 point bonus won't save high RP players, and wont save LoV in general. They shouldn't have tried to do a hotfix unless they're rolling out cross server duty finders or actual elimination style tournaments or something.

Perhaps they are bundling some secret maintenance stuff too, but if it's just for minions I think it was a bad call even though I love the minigame.

[Myon88]

I don't think they are particularly invested in making the tournaments 100% 'fair' anyway. The saucer is ultimately just a fun diversion, so I don't think making these tournaments 100% serious is really the goal they have in mind.

I mean if they really wanted to do that, it would be a simple matter to make the 'tournaments' an actual tournament with elimination brackets, or just disregard RP completely and make every win worth the same - but really these tournaments are more like fun social events with slightly higher stakes, than actual tournament tournaments if you get what I mean. It's more like your office ping-pong tournament than the Olympics, just a casual affair and if Jake from accounting is cheating to win a bottle of wine, eh who cares.

That said I'm glad to hear they're looking into cross-server matching for LoV though, that will go a long way to keeping the scene healthy - I know it did for pet battles in WoW.