Ridiculous Unfair Scoring System in Compeitions

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• miasmat Member, Cryptic Developer Posts: 318Cryptic Developer › Cryptic Developer

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  The other thing I've noticed is that on all the "kill something" contests, you can get partial credit for a kill, but it doesn't show on the scoreboard. So, if I do 1 damage to the Quickling, but someone else kills it the rest of the way, I'll show up on the scoreboard with a blank score. I assume this is internally 0.000001 (or something) being rounded down to 0. So, in your example, Player 4 got 6.3, and Player 5 got 6.1. They have a minor score difference, so they end up in different brackets.
  
  In the "collect something" contests, I never see people with the same visual score ending up in different brackets.
  
  Also, like macjae said, the size of the brackets depends on the number of participants. Take a look at the bottom of the scoreboard to see how many people participated. Imagine that the scores of people fell in this order:
  28, 25, 9, 6, 6, 4, 4, 3, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
  I could easily see those being bracketed as:
  28 | 25, 9, 6, 6 | 4, 4, 3, 2, 2, 2 | 1, 1, 1, 1...

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• kaiuscormere Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 1

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  The reward should be relative to the points earned, with an additional bonus for gold, silver, bronze.
  
  For example, let's say you are killing quicklings in Sharandar, you should get 1 R4 enchant per 5 kills (round up), +3 for Gold, +2 for Silver, +1 for Bronze.

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• pitshade Member Posts: 5,665 Arc User

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  macjae wrote: »

  Your reward for taking 1 point in an instance with no competitors is probably just the same as the reward for taking first place in an instance with 50 other people competing.

  It is. If you are the only participant, you get the gold place finish and the full reward.
  
  Of all the 'slay X' contests, the one in Helm's Hold seems to be the only one that fairly scores for partial kills. Maybe it's set up the same and the only difference is the HP of the target. However you get a lot more credit for the damage you do, making kill stealing impossible, unlike what I've seen with the phase spiders in Rothe Valley, where finishing off the mob seems to award all or most of the points.

  "We have always been at war with Dread Vault" ~ Little Brother

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• empalas Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 802 Arc User

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  In one of the winter events there were three of us that competed...I had a decent score for even if more of us competed...somehow i won and got silver???? But yes I do think there are partial points given that we don't see.

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