"David wrote: Moore"]*Update (06/14/16) Hello, Thanks for all of your feedback so far on the current testing. We're aware that some players are reporting tied scores and a few scoring anomalies (which are being investigated). Here's word from Anthony at Demiurge: "We intentionally set up this run of Enemy of the State so that there was a finite number of points - meaning there's an absolute top score, and multiple players can hit it. When looking at previous runs of events with the new mission difficulty, we did not think that there would be many ties as almost no one played all missions until they were all drained out of points. Once the event has finished, we will look at how many ties there are and how well people performed in general."
"We intentionally set up this run of Enemy of the State so that there was a finite number of points - meaning there's an absolute top score, and multiple players can hit it. When looking at previous runs of events with the new mission difficulty, we did not think that there would be many ties as almost no one played all missions until they were all drained out of points. Once the event has finished, we will look at how many ties there are and how well people performed in general."
Vhailorx wrote: I appreciate that test data is valuable and that unexpected outcomes are, by definition, unanticipated and only show up in real world testing. But something about this statement from Anthony seems a bit off. There are years' worth of data that the top 20-50 PVE grinders will play every node down to 1 if the rewards are sufficiently tempting. Hell, during the last test with 20 pt. trivial nodes there were multiple posts on these boards that read something like "grinded the easiest node 170 times for the hell of it 'cos I had some free time." And there was even an earlier run of the gauntlet that functioned more or less identically to this event (except that each node required 1 hit rather than 6-15). So it was absolutely predictable that the top of the leaderboard would be crowded with max scores and the event would a be a race for the premium placement rewards. So what did Anthony mean when he said "we did not think there would be many ties"? Specifically, what constitutes many? I will happily concede that in bracket of 1000, 15-20 ties may not constitute "many" in an absolute sense. But in a world where the only meaningful eldergame rewards in PVE are for top 10 finishes, 15-20 ties is a fairly big deal.
veny wrote: 1 CP missing, 6/7 rewards looted - fighting against 20k HP Gorgon and his friends? All i have are maxed 3*s... GG
"David wrote: Moore"]*Update (06/14/16) Hello, Thanks for all of your feedback so far on the current testing. We're aware that some players are reporting tied scores and a few scoring anomalies (which are being investigated). Here's word from Anthony at Demiurge: "We intentionally set up this run of Enemy of the State so that there was a finite number of points - meaning there's an absolute top score, and multiple players can hit it. When looking at previous runs of events with the new mission difficulty,we did not think that there would be many ties as almost no one played all missions until they were all drained out of points. Once the event has finished, we will look at how many ties there are and how well people performed in general."
Buret0 wrote: You guys need to trust your users more. Not only did we predict this as soon as the event was announced, the reason we were so quick to predict it was because we had already had the discussion long before it was ever announced:viewtopic.php?f=7&t=31626
"David wrote: Moore"]*Update (06/14/16) When looking at previous runs of events with the new mission difficulty, we did not think that there would be many ties
Bowgentle wrote: *sigh* Step 1: Bracket all PVE monsters into the same bracket and make them fight tooth and claw for T10 for 18 months, showing them that they have to clear down to 1. Step 2: Set a max score than can be reached my getting green check marks, with no 1 point missions to break ties. Step 3: Be surprised that there are ties because the crazies do what they've been shown what they need to do for 18 months.
TimGunn wrote: what are the ties like in your brackets? mine there are only 6 people with a perfect score, but i'm guessing mine ended up being a not very competitive bracket. i'd like to hear what other people are seeing.