Lerysh wrote: You can get 2 covers with 700 points. I get 2 covers pretty reliably with 800 points all the time. It's all about when you bracket. If your top 25 is covered in people with 2000 points, you are joining the event too early. Wait for all the "OMG NEW EVENTS PTS PTS POINTSSSS!" people to join right after the start. Give it a day, then start your event. You should be able to place top 25 with 700-800 points in events that are giving away old covers. If you take your 700 points to the alliance recruitment board you can probably get 3 covers with them. A lot of those people with 2,000 points want the 1100 Blade and 1300 Fury. They probably don't care about Thor (although they might, some people have 2 thor's ya know). Any time it's new guy PvP scores will be higher.
adamLmpq wrote: Lerysh wrote: You can get 2 covers with 700 points. I get 2 covers pretty reliably with 800 points all the time. It's all about when you bracket. If your top 25 is covered in people with 2000 points, you are joining the event too early. Wait for all the "OMG NEW EVENTS PTS PTS POINTSSSS!" people to join right after the start. Give it a day, then start your event. You should be able to place top 25 with 700-800 points in events that are giving away old covers. If you take your 700 points to the alliance recruitment board you can probably get 3 covers with them. A lot of those people with 2,000 points want the 1100 Blade and 1300 Fury. They probably don't care about Thor (although they might, some people have 2 thor's ya know). Any time it's new guy PvP scores will be higher. I thought when you joined was irrelevant thanks to sharding?
Flare808 wrote: Just my 2 cents-Even without Season scores factoring in, vets will still push for T5. Many of us are used to ranking well and won't give that up easily. The ISO boost from being T5 makes a big difference. You still see the same people scoring high for the PVPs between seasons. An unfortunate byproduct of that is we do sell off most 3* rewards immediately.
Lerysh wrote: We need to move towards roster based bracketing and match making. Let the top 10% win the best prizes, but let the fight be fair at least.
atomzed wrote: Lerysh wrote: We need to move towards roster based bracketing and match making. Let the top 10% win the best prizes, but let the fight be fair at least. Roster based bracketing *could* be one of the solutions, but the details are as difficult to adjust. Some points on factors in a roster based bracketing and possible "complaints". 1) We bracket based on number of max levelled 3*. Say 6 3* gives you in one bracket and 3 3* in another. "damn you D3, my 3* are gsbw, im40 and daredevil. Look at their rankings! How is it fair that I'm competing against a player with lthor, sentry and hood?! Change the system!" 2) We bracket based on average level of the roster. Say 10 characters with average of 120 lvl puts you in one bracket whereas someone else with average of 166 gets put in another. "tinykitty, the other guy average is lower because he has freaking paid for 100 roster spots and filled it with 1*! Whereas poor me only can scrimp and save and has only 50 slots of all essential 3* characters! This is P2W! I'm going to quit!"' Of course this are fictional examples and we can tweak the factors much more to.make it fair. My main point is that the details of the solution is not that easy, and many people will be upset with the changes. So until we can get it perfectly right, I think it's better to maintain status quo.
Spoit wrote: The REAL issue isn't the number of covers awarded, but how they shifted both the alliance AND progression rewards to the lowest tier. Making top 5 a lot more important, and also coincidentally leaving some of the more important covers (like blade purple) massively undercovered until like 2-3 seasons later when they finally get around to the 3rd or 4th time a new character is the rewards