y2fitzy wrote: Stupid question I guess, but why is there even such a thing as rubberbanding? Seems a bit perverse to essentially punish the grinders
PPPlaya wrote: y2fitzy wrote: Stupid question I guess, but why is there even such a thing as rubberbanding? Seems a bit perverse to essentially punish the grinders Rubberbanding in this form is garbage. Weaker rubberbanding is generally ok as it allows more casual players to still compete for say top 100.
simonsez wrote: I think this is people's punishment for complaining about the weak rb in the last two pvps
Sumilea wrote: I would think if you want to try and tank the last nodes down you do it while attacking the last nodes.
silverrex wrote: nothing is more deflating then to realize you have no chance and so you play casually
simonsez wrote: silverrex wrote: nothing is more deflating then to realize you have no chance and so you play casually I don't know, I find it pretty deflating knowing that in a 96 hour event, no matter how much we all play in the first 94 hours, everyone's going to have pretty much the same score, and it all comes down to who can play the fastest during the last 2 hours.
silverrex wrote: PPPlaya wrote: y2fitzy wrote: Stupid question I guess, but why is there even such a thing as rubberbanding? Seems a bit perverse to essentially punish the grinders Rubberbanding in this form is garbage. Weaker rubberbanding is generally ok as it allows more casual players to still compete for say top 100. if I was to defend d3 I would say they are still testing the extremes of rubberbanding (this event) and non-rubberbanding (last PvE) and trying to find balance. but if I was against d3 I would say they are doing this on purpose to drive sales because of a new character, everyone one new or veteran will want and they keep basically everyone competitive right until the last hr where alot will / decide to start spending massive health packs and boost just to stay in the top tier. nothing is more deflating then to realize you have no chance and so you play casually and backout, but when you know you have a shot you will try to push and when you realize you are 1 health pack or 1 node away from sneaking in the top 10 you will gladly pay only to find out 2 minutes later, your back in the same spot and so it continues... simonsez wrote: I think this is people's punishment for complaining about the weak rb in the last two pvps yeah no kidding, I really like the weak to non-rubberbanding style PvE, simply, reward those who can spend the most time period. Time is where everyone has regardless how deep your pocket runs.
GrumpySmurf1002 wrote: Have to echo how silly this event is. These "doesn't matter until 1 hr left" events are for the birds. Pardon my french.
Phantron wrote: From my estimation the distance between you and the overall leader halves after each cycle if you were able to do every mission on that cycle. So if you started out at #100, after 12 hours you'd be around #3 or #4 at the end. Good luck beating those level 200 guys even a couple times, let alone every time for 5 cycles.
Thugpatrol wrote: Phantron wrote: From my estimation the distance between you and the overall leader halves after each cycle if you were able to do every mission on that cycle. So if you started out at #100, after 12 hours you'd be around #3 or #4 at the end. Good luck beating those level 200 guys even a couple times, let alone every time for 5 cycles. Except you don't have to hit the hardest nodes to catch up. I was in 800something place yesterday. I started hitting the essentials and a few others, few times yesterday, more aggressively today. Now I'm 1500 points out of the top 10 without touching the right side of the map and in position to blitz the end. I'll go after the heavy hitters for the last push, and I've got a stockpile of health packs from rewards. Gonna be a "fun" finish for sure.
Phantron wrote: Thugpatrol wrote: Phantron wrote: From my estimation the distance between you and the overall leader halves after each cycle if you were able to do every mission on that cycle. So if you started out at #100, after 12 hours you'd be around #3 or #4 at the end. Good luck beating those level 200 guys even a couple times, let alone every time for 5 cycles. Except you don't have to hit the hardest nodes to catch up. I was in 800something place yesterday. I started hitting the essentials and a few others, few times yesterday, more aggressively today. Now I'm 1500 points out of the top 10 without touching the right side of the map and in position to blitz the end. I'll go after the heavy hitters for the last push, and I've got a stockpile of health packs from rewards. Gonna be a "fun" finish for sure. 1500 points behind is a ton of points to be behind when you're in the last cycle and everything's only going to be worth 300 points max and that's the nodes on the right side of the map. You'd have to do every node twice while the leader is doing nothing to make that up, and it's hard beating every node even once without running out of health packs at this point. Sure you can hit the left side + essentials quite easily, but the right side is going to hurt, a lot.
Phantron wrote: GrumpySmurf1002 wrote: Have to echo how silly this event is. These "doesn't matter until 1 hr left" events are for the birds. Pardon my french. This event isn't like a lot of the recent one where you already have no chance of winning by day 2 but if you actually tried to do what you get claimed you'd get unbelievably burned unless you mean you try to join with only 1 hour left. In that case you've a small chance of being placed in a new bracket, or otherwise you'd still be burned. From my estimation the distance between you and the overall leader halves after each cycle if you were able to do every mission on that cycle. So if you started out at #100, after 12 hours you'd be around #3 or #4 at the end. Good luck beating those level 200 guys even a couple times, let alone every time for 5 cycles.