[Feast Feedback] Rewards and New PvP Profile

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The following document contains collaborative feedback for the reward system in the Feast. The purpose for these rewards is to increase incentive to participate in the Feast each season and provide players with more options to display their achievements. Contributions come from several experienced players on the Aether datacenter.

Moderator: Nikoza Envy (Gilgamesh)

Seasonal Rewards

• Please consider adding rewards to Ranked Light Party. This is the only mode that can be played with a group of friends that utilizes a lot of communication and coordination between teammates. It needs incentive in order to stay active throughout the season.
• Trophy for top prize is good, but some players might not have a house to display it. We think a unique title should also be awarded for the top player in Solo Ranked and the same title for the top 10 players in Light Party Ranked. These titles are permanent and would be rewarded at the end of the season. Here are some titles that were suggested:

  • "Leader of the Pack"
  • "The Legendary Wolf"
  • "Wolf of Legends"
  • "Wolf of Swords"
  • "The Feastful Wolf"

• The Mentor System “Crown” icon is currently very popular. We think that icons would be a unique way to reward and display a player’s PvP achievement at the end of the season, based on the tier they end at. These PvP icons would last only up until the end of the next season, when new seasonal rewards are awarded:
  
  
  http://i.imgur.com/zot9AxC.png?1
  
  
  http://i.imgur.com/KjXkUj4.png?1

Examining a Player's PvP Profile

• Consider allowing players to examine other player’s PvP profiles, since this information will already be available for everyone to see on the lodestone.
• Consider making adjustments to the PvP Profile to display a player’s previous season tier achievements. This provides incentive to participate every season.
• Since a player’s rank in Diamond Tier is important, consider displaying a player’s rank number of where they stand in the rankings (updated daily).
• Consider displaying a rank number of where a player ended in Diamond Tier in previous seasons.
• Here is an example of a PvP Profile:

http://i.imgur.com/pfCW59u.jpg?1

The current seasonal rewards are not enough, but with these proposed changes, we believe that this will increase competition and participation for both casual and hardcore players.

[Vaeria]

Agree with this, especially the check/icon by name stuff. Was my pride and joy back in ff11 ballista to get pvp chevrons which popped up everytime I got checked. While I love pvp purely for pvp's sake...must admit it did indeed make some of those 1-sided arsewhoopins more palatable knowing you still had something to show for your effort if you actually tried. And with the less than divine comedy of solo que ranking, a little more motivation couldnt hurt.

[Bloodb]

All these examples are really awesome.

I'm so happy with how pvp is set up with this game. It's not all about rewarding only the people who can be pvp'ing 20 hours a day 7 days of the week. Systems like that make me sick. And any system like that would make anybody get sick.

[Enlial]

Great ideas (nice concept pictures too). 100% support and hope something like this gets implemented.

All these examples are really awesome.

I'm so happy with how pvp is set up with this game. It's not all about rewarding only the people who can be pvp'ing 20 hours a day 7 days of the week. Systems like that make me sick. And any system like that would make anybody get sick.

Wow, glad Im not the only one that thinks this. Its this aspect of the rank system that really impresses me. There are certainly parts of it I dont like, but screw me if I could come up with anything better.

[Dumbledoremd]

Yes too all this please square

[auron_seifer]

Great ideas! I think SE should really take them in consideration.

[ShaluaLie]

Add the rank icon next to name PLEASE. PLEAAAAASEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Eul]

That's what I thought when Feast come. But the icon isn't beside our name lol. With option to show it or not won't hurt too.

[AlereRaeder]

Please consider adding rewards to Ranked Light Party ... participation for both casual and hardcore players.

I cringe so hard because well, honestly, the newbie groups would get obliterated by the experienced groups. The experienced players will have the biggest one sided advantage for these rewards.

The Mentor System “Crown” icon is currently very popular. We think that icons would be a unique w ...

I like to say that the Mentor Crown icon is pretty much that paper crown you get from Burger King's Kid's Meals. Whoppee congrats on playing the game! Walking around town with a paper crown...wowyoursocool

I doubt anyone ( arbitrary 90% of the community) will strut around with a big "Bronze" icon brand near their names. I guess you can show off once you play enough matches and get diamond, or whatever high rank. Mind you, I do enjoy pvp in this game; just seems excessive to start off implementing pvp based icons in a primarily pve game.

More pvp titles....ohgod

I like the subtle idea of UI changes the most.

[FunkYeahDragons]

I cringe so hard because well, honestly, the newbie groups would get obliterated by the experienced groups. The experienced players will have the biggest one sided advantage for these rewards.

Don't newbies already get beat by experienced players? That's life. There could be different rewards for different rankings same as solo queue.

I did ranked party with friends last night and we saw teams from Faerie, Coeurl, Cactuar, and Balmung who were all also new. We saw a Gilgamesh team with much more experienced players that crushed us twice, but that was out of 9 games. It's really not that bad out there.