Thread: 3.2 PvP: Feast Game Mode Discussion Thread.

I wish we could see some rankings applied to more casual play of the feast as well... I don't feel that there is much reason to jump into 8v8, other then the pvp xp rewards, it would be nice if there were ranking play lists for thsoe larger groups as well... I find that I have one or two friends who want to play but it's hard finding that fourth member some times, so having a mix size group ranking play list could be fun as well.

Can we get an official response already as to whether this Ninja hiding with medals nonsense is working as intended or what? If we could also bar DRK from being able to queue until they actually buff that job in 3.3 that would be awesome as well >.> Also wtf is up with every loss seemingly being a static -25 yet wins barely net 20 points?

Can Feast-solo queue please be changed so you are never queued against someone on your server.


I'm just now hearing about so and so got boosted to a high rank.
I'm not sure if this is something that can be discussed on the forums though. If we can discuss it: can we discuss it right? SO..

Don't mention anyone specific. Thats an obvious support desk, report.

Don't discuss about how boosting was or is done. I think that covers it but i'm still worried about posting this.


But please for Feast-solo queue, don't let people from the same server be in the same fight. ;___;

Originally Posted by Februs

I'm not really sure what you're specifically getting at here, since you're doing a pretty fantastic job of skirting around it, but ... queue times...
I don't have a terribly active server/world as it is (at least, not that I've noticed), but that doesn't mean that I want to remove an entire world worth of queues out of my queue line. Illicit activities or otherwise, I still want to at least get into matches. If anything, I would prefer if they merged a few data centres together to increase the number of players, not reduce them. Most of the time I don't even pay attention (gotta catch that queue train), but sometimes it's fun to see a fellow Diabolos member in the end-results. It's nice to know that there are other people in my world that queue for PvP.

Can you get banned or reported for throwing matches on purpose? How hard would it be to detect someone doing this?.. Even subtlety


Hypothetically, I wish that the option of say 175 people in the same free company all decide to want to play feast - solo, maybe even at 6am

Even if this would increase queue times, i hope it's something that can be addressed to retain the feasts incorruptibility. Maybe this can happen if groups of 2 data centers were merged together. Then maybe changed the top ranking to be top 150, top 15, top 3 for rewards.



Edit: After calming down I hope the best of people, but deep down suspect foul play. Voice chat would even bypass any evidence of cordination. It's like triple-triad tournament 2.0 but a much longer tournament. Good for them, this is good practice to try not to let what others do bother you personally. :/

Originally Posted by Dimitrii

Also wtf is up with every loss seemingly being a static -25 yet wins barely net 20 points?

This is really starting to bug me... +19 for a win, -28 for a loss... Plus I have no idea what is causing that variation... I suspect it is a combination of the difference in total party rating (in which case matchmaking can go to hell) and current rank, but I'd rather not get worked up trying to figure out why I get hit with such shitty rating rewards... Always fun to watch a weeks progress flushed away because reasons... Bad enough matchmaking calls a novice healer v one of the top DPS "balanced"...

I'm really quite sick of the rating/matchmaking system... Someone feel free to claim its fine, we have a leaderboard where around half the players aren't actively participating... If that's not a damning critique of Feast, I don't know what is... Matchmaking isn't the only issue there (the rewards are a huge part IMO), but the prevailing meta is "Don't play once you get 1,100+ rating" because the matchmaking/rating system can completely strip you of that in a matter of hours... I don't mind losing when teams are balanced, but they rarely are...

I don't even care if we don't have the playerbase for a tighter matchmaking system, I'll take longer queues for consistently enjoyable matches, over short queues for utter tripe... I'd say getting completely destroyed by someone on their way to Platinum is going to turn more new players off than long queues anyway, and we know for a fact that plenty of existing players are turning away regardless of queue time... The alternative is changing the rating system so it isn't such a frustrating mess, you can't just copy a rating system from games where one person can carry a team and slap it in here, where that is far from the case... Instead we have a system where it seems you're actively punished for being good... Matchmaking balances out the teams terribly and you end up losing more and gaining less the higher up you go... It's a fucking horrible system and it's no wonder so many are turning away from it, which sadly just compounds the problem since now you're almost certainly stuck playing with worse players as all the good ones get their 1,100+ rating and bail...

guess who just went from 1,000+ to 800 in the space of two days