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Good morning and Happy Halloween!

Just giving you a heads up about a change going forward. In order to give more people a chance at getting tickets in relation to the scoreboard, around/after the first Monday of every month, the scoreboards will be wiped clean.

I think this will be especially good for Squad Battle, so people can't just consistently sit on hours they put in months ago.

Edit: After some thought, it occurs to me that capping the BP requirement for ranking in Squad Battle needs to remain a consistent thing. Lockers Mode will remain without a cap, unless there is a contest happening. The BP cap for Squad Battle is currently 10 BP.

Comments

Jeanette Mardion

That just sounds like a waste of time that will change nothing, really. I hope I'm proven wrong, but the current 1st-placed players will just repeat this process every week and still get 1st place. There are better ways to give more people a chance, like just allowing more people in the scoreboard to get tickets (or give "ticket fragments" to lower places that will eventually add up to a ticket).

Bomb-A-HEAD

I strongly disagree. Firstly, there is a luck factor in play for certain things. Secondly, looking at the scoreboard for Squad Battle for example, and constantly seeing that there are people who have put in hours upon hours to rack up points in addition to points they get from passive victories will de-incentivize any new comers. I feel like this change will ultimately encourage more engagement with these modes, if nothing else.

Reina

If we want the competition to be more fair, then BP Consumption should be limited to maybe...20 BP. Otherwise people that have abundant amount of BP (50-60-70) will dominate the competition one way or another.

Bomb-A-HEAD

That's a fair point, but I feel like we need another solution besides just capping BP, when we're not doing contests.

Reina

Hmm then how about this, lets say I have 30 BP, then the system should only allow matchups that has similar amounts of BP, if there is no opponent that has the same or similar amount of BP then the game should tell me to either gain more BP by buying them from the shop or accepting the hard handicap match willingly. If my BP exceeds all of the opponents then this time game should tell me to decrease my BP to match their BP level so that matches will be fair.

Bomb-A-HEAD

This somewhat defeats the point of getting BP though...But I have what might be a solution based on what you're saying. Right now, the matchups prioritize the amount of wins when determining opponents. Maybe I'll change it so that it prioritizes BP instead...That way you can easily keep fighting opponents who are near your level.

Reina

Pls do not let people farm wins from lower BP opponents.

Vany9

Why not?

Reina

because it is not fair

Reina

Another idea: How about instead of a win-lose system, we can have a point system that works like this: If the opponent's BP is lower, then as a result of winning the match, we should get fewer points, like maybe 500 points; if we win against a similar BP level opponent, we should get 5000 points, and if we manage to beat an opponent whose BP is at least 10 points ahead of us, then we should get 10000 points.

Vany9

In games, you either demonstrate your skill or your resources. Right now, for instance, I’m demonstrating my investment of time. Honestly, it’s hard to imagine how this mode could be changed to prioritize skill over resources.

Bomb-A-HEAD

Okay...I can much more clearly see how the BP difference can be an issue now.

Vany9

I’m trying to understand exactly what changed with the edit. As far as I could tell before, Squad Battle didn’t seem to have a BP restriction for ranked scores, while Locker appeared to have one, since results above 10 BP didn’t seem to show up on the scoreboard. So does the edit mean that going forward Squad Battle will have a permanent BP cap, while Locker will normally have no BP cap at all unless there’s a contest? And if Squad does have a permanent BP cap, what exactly is the limit?

Bomb-A-HEAD

Lockers didn't have any BP restrictions. I forgot to put the exact number for the BP cap up above, but it's there now.

Vany9

So does that mean that all this time it was actually possible to get a Locker score recorded with more than 10 BP? I had assumed that 10 BP was the limit, so I’m trying to understand whether that was simply a misunderstanding on my part. And I’m still not completely sure I understand the Squad Battle rule. What exactly does the BP cap apply to there? Is it a maximum BP my character can have for the result to count, and if so, what happens if I go above that limit?

Bomb-A-HEAD

What made you assume that 10 BP was the limit for locker rooms? Yes, you still have the option to use as much BP as you want for Squad, but you won't get a score for it if you use more than 10.

Vany9

Mostly from messages I had seen in the chat before. For example, I remember someone saying that their Locker score hadn’t appeared on the scoreboard, and the first response was asking whether their BP was at 10. I had seen similar comments before, so I naturally assumed that 10 BP was some kind of requirement or limit for Locker scores. So if that was never actually the case, then yes, I had misunderstood how it worked. In hindsight, that makes my assumption look pretty silly.

Bomb-A-HEAD

Not really. You just dropped in on conversations from when we were running the contests is all.

Vany9

Ah, that explains it. I had mixed up the contest rules with the normal Locker rules. That changes how I look at the mode quite a bit. Thanks for clarifying.