rkd80 wrote: Anyone know why the points attributed to each event are in the low hundreds? Where Manhattan was over 1,000. I cleared out Manhattan right before it ended (last 10 minutes), so I figured it had something to do with that, but even waiting a whole night did not help. Also, does anyone know whether the placement of a previous event impacts the score? So I was in the top 5 for Manhattan, but now it is impossible for me to place even in the top 15 in China because even if I grinded everything down I would still be behind 1,000+ points. Thanks!
Sumilea wrote: The rubber band changed greatly this sub. Instead of gaining one for every 1250 points your behind the leader its now about 2750 points. Also the part with no scaling is much bigger, when I was 2200 behind the bracket leader I had zero rubber band scaling. Its probably even bigger than this is its HIGHLY unlikely I am in the bracket with the overall leader. The scaling is much closer to the last two events now unlike the first sub which was much closer to the old way rubber banding worked a few months back. Hence this sub your unlikely to get above 3.5 in the scaling meaning the top node will max out just over 1000 points when you about 10K behind the leader.
Phantron wrote: I don't think the rubberbanding has changed.
atomzed wrote: I'm a bit confused. Does that means that in this sub, it's no longer enough to rely on rubberbanding to catch up? My nodes are around 300+ points and I'm not likely to catch up with the leaders. I'm not even trying, but just want to be in a good position at the end of the pve.
CrawHammerfist wrote: I am not a little bit confused. I am completely confused. I read the pve guide and have no idea how to figure the base points of a node or what the refresh for a node is. Are the "rewards available" the stack size? For example, in the current LA event (I'm guessing this is what a "sub-event" is) I played the five nodes that I could do without C Daken. They all say 4 rewards. Is the stack size 4? Is there any reason not to immediately try and clear them again? Will I be better off waiting for the refresh to get 100% points again or will I not have scaled enough to make a difference? I have no levelled ** characters of note. I have a maxed * team. I figure I'd do well to make top 200 at best. Realistic?
Phantron wrote: so you might as well start dying earlier.
Lyrian wrote: Also, keep in mind that rubberbanding only helps players catch up if the players on top of the leaderboard are playing inefficiently. Right now, this is not occurring. Although with double subs, playing both effectively on limited health packs should start causing inefficient play from the top of the leaderboard. As long as the top of the leaderboard is running perfect clears, rubberbanding won't let a player catch up with them completely and the leaders will always outpace the pack. Through China, there are still plenty of people perfect clearing the nodes who do not know any better. Besides, when the final 36-48 hours are played on the parent event against the global main bracket leader for rubberbanding, placement in the subs isn't really going to matter at all. All that will matter is how well you play the last set of pins and if you can perfect clear (or come close to perfect clearing) these pins in the last 12 hours of the event.
Dragon_Nexus wrote: So I haven't played this game since about this time yesrurday...unless PvP counts, in which case it was 3am. It's been more than 12 hours, and the nodes will give me about 100-200 points. Meanwhile the guy in first place has 4000. So err...did they turn rubberbanding off completely? Because I'm not going to sit here and grind out 60 nodes per sub event to get up to that guy.
Phantron wrote: Dragon_Nexus wrote: So I haven't played this game since about this time yesrurday...unless PvP counts, in which case it was 3am. It's been more than 12 hours, and the nodes will give me about 100-200 points. Meanwhile the guy in first place has 4000. So err...did they turn rubberbanding off completely? Because I'm not going to sit here and grind out 60 nodes per sub event to get up to that guy. There is no rubberbanding for LA/Wakanda.
Dragon_Nexus wrote: Phantron wrote: Dragon_Nexus wrote: So I haven't played this game since about this time yesrurday...unless PvP counts, in which case it was 3am. It's been more than 12 hours, and the nodes will give me about 100-200 points. Meanwhile the guy in first place has 4000. So err...did they turn rubberbanding off completely? Because I'm not going to sit here and grind out 60 nodes per sub event to get up to that guy. There is no rubberbanding for LA/Wakanda. Oh. So clearly I picked a bad day to go to work, huh? Great idea putting the round without any rubber banding during a business day so I'd end up losing out massively. Dude in first place had 4600 when I came on, and I had 800. And the best node was for 270 and the enemies were level 160. What, I'm meant to grind all these nodes to gain 3800 points? Not going to happen. This has really put me off playing this event now...
Phantron wrote: Dragon_Nexus wrote: Phantron wrote: Dragon_Nexus wrote: So I haven't played this game since about this time yesrurday...unless PvP counts, in which case it was 3am. It's been more than 12 hours, and the nodes will give me about 100-200 points. Meanwhile the guy in first place has 4000. So err...did they turn rubberbanding off completely? Because I'm not going to sit here and grind out 60 nodes per sub event to get up to that guy. There is no rubberbanding for LA/Wakanda. Oh. So clearly I picked a bad day to go to work, huh? Great idea putting the round without any rubber banding during a business day so I'd end up losing out massively. Dude in first place had 4600 when I came on, and I had 800. And the best node was for 270 and the enemies were level 160. What, I'm meant to grind all these nodes to gain 3800 points? Not going to happen. This has really put me off playing this event now... What do you think happens to the scaling of the guy with 4600 points? Scaling is a resource and if the time is right, you should use it. I figured this out pretty early and then worked out the math and decided it'd be crazy talk to try to keep up with the guys with 4600, so I simply didn't do the nodes that I could have. Hopefully the guys who ruin their scaling will fall behind on the next round, but if not, kudos for them for making a bold gamble. History suggests that such gamble won't pay off anyway.
Spoit wrote: Your tolerance for scaling is a lot higher than most people's. Personally, BP is at 'normal' levels and already caused a couple wipes, even almost wiping me during a try with cmags/lazythor