Simple Suggestion for Tie-Breaks

aenigmaeffect

As we all know, the current tie-break is purely based on time. Your ranking is based on if you're the first one to that particular point level, or the last. Someone with the same number of points can be getting a better tier of rewards, purely because they play in a more life-friendly timezone for the event, or stayed up late/woke up at 4am.

Why not just do something simple that a lot of other ranked games/sports (ie. Olympics) do: if you're tied, you're all ranked as if you're the highest ranked of that group, but the next point down start at the actual total number of players ranked ahead of you. Definitely need an example:

Prizes are: 1-5 | 6-25 | 26-50

1st - 1 player at 100 points

2nd - 6 players at 99 points. They all get ranked (and rewarded) as #2, but take up counting spots of 2 - 7.

Now, since there's already 7 players, the next group at 98 points, are all ranked 8th.

8th - 10 players at 98 points. All of them are 8th. Rewarded in the 6-25 tier.

you can see where this is going. Next group will be 18th ranked.

18th - 10 players. (taking up spots 18 - 27). All are rewarded in the 6-25 tier, since they are all 18th.

28th - X players... Rewarded as 25 - 50 tier

And so on.

Yes, d3go may have to give a few more players slightly higher rewards, but this is a SIMPLE fix, and gets rid of the very non-skill based of "first to the finish, but we're a global game where everyone is in different time zone" issue.

Edited: counted wrong, and formatting.

THEMAGICkMAN

yep. its been suggested dozens and dozens of times before and yet...

losdamianos

viewtopic.php?f=31&t=56927

I would rather have an official reply from D3 as of WHY they dont want to implement this solution

AngelForge

losdamianos wrote:

https://d3go.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=56927

I would rather have an official reply from D3 as of WHY they dont want to implement this solution

My guess would be, that they're totally fine with the time stamp as a tie breaker.

I think they will not use the "olympic method", because giving out more rewards is not their intention, as you can see with the new progression reward in the new events.

Regards!

Delnai

AngelForge wrote:

My guess would be, that they're totally fine with the time stamp as a tie breaker.

I agree with you it seems this way, but the devs claim to care. There's this quote in the Dev thread in the general discussion forum:

Hibernum_Will wrote:

First, we want to change the “first-come-first-served” tie-breaking rule where the first player to reach a score wins a tie on the leaderboard. Everyone should have an equal chance, regardless of their time-zone.

AngelForge

Delnai wrote:

AngelForge wrote:

My guess would be, that they're totally fine with the time stamp as a tie breaker.

I agree with you it seems this way, but the devs claim to care. There's this quote in the Dev thread in the general discussion forum:

Hibernum_Will wrote:

First, we want to change the “first-come-first-served” tie-breaking rule where the first player to reach a score wins a tie on the leaderboard. Everyone should have an equal chance, regardless of their time-zone.

Thank you for that information.

Well, so, I guess we have to wait and see what they implement in the future.