The Mental Health Break Rule: only count the top 80%

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  • Zifna
    Zifna Posts: 170 Tile Toppler
    Another possibility is to count the top 80% of each member's scores, and only count the first 16 members of any alliance. That does make slots 17-20 less valuable in some ways, but it makes them more valuable in others - they won't directly up your score, but they give you breathing room for people to sit events out or whatever without needing to kick them.
  • daveomite
    daveomite Posts: 1,331 Chairperson of the Boards
    Susra wrote:
    With alliances and PVP seasons, the pressure on players to perform is greater than ever before and relentless. Demiurge, please do something like the following to help prevent burnout and retain your customers.

    The Mental Health Break Rule:

    Only the top 80% of a player's individual event scores are counted toward their total season score
    and...
    Only the top 80% of an alliance's members' scores are counted toward that alliance's total for a particular event.

    This means that you can take a couple breaks per season and not screw over your alliance, or wreck your chances at season placement rewards. Alliance members would have to communicate to make sure that not too many took the same event off, but that should be simple. In my 80% example, a 20-person alliance would only get its top 16 scores counted for an event, so four members could take a break. Hard core alliances with no break-seeking members could use this, too; with four uncounted scores per event, there's room to try out probationary members without risk to the alliance.

    I think this would be a good idea to eliminate some of the pressure, as what Ben had mentioned... but I also agree with him that's it's unlikely they would really want that. It's not like D3 is going out of their way to comment in all of these threads to assure people that we're wrong with what we suspect. Of course, their also busy dealing with the dev side of things, so that factors in. But, as they said, it is "working as intended" - and specifically "working as we want it to". With statements like those, you don't even need to really read between the lines anymore.

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