Remove EXP from Frontline

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

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Again, we are on the same page with the existence of sleepers being bad, you are just going at it with a really bad method. Removing / cutting down incentives for weak participation will simply reduce the player pool because players who aren't good enough will say "why bother". Congratulations, you filtered out people who aren't good at PvP or maybe have no drive to become better, increasing the queue times for everyone involved for absolutely zero benefit.

The reason why it is better to amp rewards for strong participation and achieving 2nd and 1st place is because it doesn't filter out people who aren't good at the game, but rather incentivizes them to become better. And even if not, you still have matches forming at the same or better pace because you used incentive rather than punishment.

Carrot on a stick instead of whip.

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There is no point re-inventing the wheel in what rewards should and shouldn't be given to players. Before the addition of job EXP, Frontlines actually had far less participation for obvious reasons. It essentially hinged on everything else incentivizing players to play, which back then wasn't great. The reason why the reward pool for PvP is so inflated (EXP, Wolfmarks, GC EXP, Series EXP -> Trophy Crystals, Tomestones of all types) is so people of all facettes of the game can come into PvP and not feel like they wasted their time having fun when they gained a sizeable amount of resources. It's the same reason why roulettes had their payouts increased over the years to keep players running those to facilitate queues for players who need certain duties.

Simply don't punish 3rd and instead incentivize 2nd and 1st further.

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This is 100% a gamebreaker and it is not even funny how much it is. I played when roulettes of various kinds did not exist yet, including Daily Challenge Frontlines and it was a nightmare to get instances to pop with the good will and hope of the community. The main thing that held people reward wise was GARO glamour and even then it was far from enough. Right now we are having the exact same issue with Rival Wings right now because the mode is large-scale just like Frontlines but holds zero additional benefits over playing Frontlines - so it is currently at the mercy of noble parts of the community trying their hardest to organize events to ensure it pops or Moogle Tomestone events doing the trick.

The Frontlines rankings page is nice to look at but compared to Feast / Crystalline Conflict Ranked leaderboards they simply hold no meaning and don't create player drive.

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People will do minimal things if you let them get away with doing minimal things. As long as there is no game system that grades performance (specifically player activity throughout the match) and lets you leech off driving around the map and suiciding into the enemy, there will be no way to deal with griefers or leeches. The more realistic thing you can do is to incentivize them to stop leeching by amping the rewards for winning because it will suddenly make it worth their time if they could get 3 x rewards for winning for example.

Closing words - you need people to join your game even if there are potential leeches and griefers among them, because the only thing worse than those for someone who enjoys PvP is them not being able to play PvP at all or with extreme queue times. i know this one extremely well because I played The Feast back with 30-300min queue times for one match, I know what suffering in a queue is.