simonsez wrote: locked wrote: I'm glad there was no rubberbanding on the final leg and no one's hard work for 3 subs was invalidated I don't get why people are saying this, because I totally feel like my hard work for the 3 subs was invalidated. I grinded the **** out of them, and had a 3.5k cushion on top 10. Trust me, with rb'ing, it's not trivial to build up that much cushion. Then, due to real life, I couldn't hit the main until 3 hours to go, and there weren't even enough points available for me to reach top 10. Working my **** off for 5 1/2 days, only to have it negated because I'm tied up for one 8 hour stretch, should not be the "working as intended" format of any event.
locked wrote: I'm glad there was no rubberbanding on the final leg and no one's hard work for 3 subs was invalidated
Chimaera wrote: simonsez wrote: locked wrote: I'm glad there was no rubberbanding on the final leg and no one's hard work for 3 subs was invalidated I don't get why people are saying this, because I totally feel like my hard work for the 3 subs was invalidated. I grinded the **** out of them, and had a 3.5k cushion on top 10. Trust me, with rb'ing, it's not trivial to build up that much cushion. Then, due to real life, I couldn't hit the main until 3 hours to go, and there weren't even enough points available for me to reach top 10. Working my **** off for 5 1/2 days, only to have it negated because I'm tied up for one 8 hour stretch, should not be the "working as intended" format of any event. This is a competition. In all forms of competition it cannot be fully balanced when based around time zones and definitive end times. I am sure everyone can agree that massive banding on the main nodes in the last day is stupid other than getting progression awards. So in a perfect world how would you do it princess? The only way I can sees it is if there were a set amount of points available each sub max. Extra grinding benefits no one once you hit your cap other than to maybe get missed rewards. Progression awards only. No competition. The devs don't envision that though. They design their game and make choices based on their vision, not what players world want or like. That's the summary.
Chimaera wrote: So in a perfect world how would you do it princess?
EvilSonGoku wrote: Personally, I liked this pve format. For those that were relying on RB to overtake everyone in the last 12 hours, well that was a little wishful. If you kept your position at the end of each sub, you pretty much secured it. Now I may have been lucky bc in my bracket I secured #2 and did not even have to play last 12hrs and still secured it. 6-10 was a closer dogfight. I prefer that 90% of your pve play is not invalidated by the last 12 hours.
pasa_ wrote: If rubberbanding was on your finish would have been 50-100 places lower than this way.
simonsez wrote: pasa_ wrote: If rubberbanding was on your finish would have been 50-100 places lower than this way. If you think rubberbanding is disadvantageous to someone who starts playing late, then you don't understand how it works.