Prodigal Sun - Low rewards - Impossible to get good ranking?

Unknown

Hi all

I am quite a heavy player, even if I don't belong to big alliances, I think I have quite the good roster and I play often enough.

Lately though I noticed the game is getting harder and harder, not to win single matches, but to get enough points to make it worth it.
It used to be that if you were at the bottom of the rankings you would get more points... is it now different?

I am ranked 903 out of 1000 in prodigal sun Los Angeles. The points I can get out of the matches go from 40 to 100, top rankings have 2600 points.

In prodigal sun Wakanda I am 990, I can get from 79 to 150 points, top ranks have 3100 points.

How am I supposed to compete, keeping in mind that if I start winning some points the rewards will progressively get lower??!!

Am I doing anything wrong?

Unknown

High points if you're far behind, i.e. rubber banding, gives a massive advantage to players who spend as little time as possible on the game and just catapult their way from bottom to top at the end of each event, negating all the hard work other players put in when they play a lot. Of course it also makes it so that you do not have to spend 24 hours grinding and aren't penalized too harshly if you miss out on a few days. So there's advantages and disadvantages. It looks like they're tweaking it in this event, to reward hard work but also allow people to catch up - IF you put in a similar amount of hard work.

Basically, those with a lead of 2k points or so, have ground every match (=node) several times until there's no more points to be had. If you start low and do a similar amount of grinding, you will be able to catch up. Also, the scarcity of points seem to lead to people being very close together - your 40-100 points nodes will probably put you up several hundred ranks.

The current events are usually discussed in the Events, tournaments and missions forum, the thread for Prodigal Sun is here: viewtopic.php?f=20&t=7703

Unknown

In both pve & pvp, between the shard joining, harder MMR, removal of tanking, worse progression rewards, and decreased rubberbanding, they have made it so that you have to work much, much harder for fewer rewards. My expectation is that many people will quit.

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Rajjeq wrote:

In both pve & pvp, between the shard joining, harder MMR, removal of tanking, worse progression rewards, and decreased rubberbanding, they have made it so that you have to work much, much harder for fewer rewards. My expectation is that many people will quit.

Do you?

Unknown

When I saw the points on nodes hasn't increased a bit a few hours ago (I had't played the subs for at least 24 hours), my thought was they are trying to make people not grind so much as to skyrocket the enemy levels. But it's just a guess of mine.

user311

Um well if if you are 903 of 1000 and the top guy has 2600 (990 compared to 3100 on the other) than I'd have to say something on the user end. Did you join early and then just not play for the day or something? It just seems to me like you joined your brackets and didnt earn any points compare to the leaderboard.