[PC] Leaderboard Reward System

jim10morrison

Hello everyone!

Can someone explain to me how leaderboard works?

I mean, it seems that Invincible Overlord will get better reward in the end of the season than Overlord right? But how can one be Invincible Overloard with just 16 games played? Followed by a Overlord player with 170 games. This does not make any sense to me. Any thoughts?

nightwish021

Leaderboard always seemed to be based on a ratio between wins and loses, so the number of the games played doesn`t matter that much when it comes to the leaderboard position.

If the Leaderboard is based on an ELO system, it might mean the first few games are worth more points/score than the later ones.

xavior44

The leaderboard is junk. It needs to be based off a system that offers 2 points for a win and negative 1 point for a loss. Not only does this fix this obvious problem with the leaderboard but it also encourages players to play more, and rewarding the ones who do...

trgluestickz

nightwish021 said:

Leaderboard always seemed to be based on a ratio between wins and loses, so the number of the games played doesn`t matter that much when it comes to the leaderboard position.

If the Leaderboard is based on an ELO system, it might mean the first few games are worth more points/score than the later ones.

This is mostly correct as far as I've been able to figure out, there are some other factors at play and the above explanation is simplified. But in general, you go up by winning matches.

jim10morrison

Should't kills, deaths, assists, winning nods, all of it count towards leaderboard?

I know pvp database is not that big, but still, this looks lazy work from devs.

trgluestickz

jim10morrison said:

Should't kills, deaths, assists, winning nods, all of it count towards leaderboard?

I know pvp database is not that big, but still, this looks lazy work from devs.

I think K/D might be one of the smaller factors but hard to tell for sure.
Its good that K/D isn't being counted for much if you ask me. K/D doesn't reflect skill as much as win/loss does, its also less support role freindly than win/loss is. In a setting based around working together with your teammates, making K/D a bigger factor would just encourage crappy behavior like chasing after kills and running away a lot at the expense of their team and more people wouldn't even try to win the match. That, and getting a good K/D is very easy, just build tanky and abuse broken HAMSTER and you don't die much without having to put much effort into it. Behavior like farming pugs for kills after they have quit would likely get worse too.

As for winning nodes, not sure if that counts towards leaderboard any. I know it makes you move higher on the match scoreboard more than kills do but not sure how much your internal match placement effects your leaderboard placement. It does effect how much glory you gain from that match though.

I'm torn on whether or not winning nodes should be a factor on leaderboard. Successfully holding nodes tends to be better than losing them so much you are always having to recap them. But being the person to cap them does mean something I guess? There is also cap trading at the end of unbalanced matches to consider.