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Can some people just start in Gladiator Circuit?
DirtyLongBeard
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Hey all these 9 and 10 and 12 mil accounts with 100 r3s and 8 r4s, can you just start them in the gc? They're going to end up there anyway. What's the point of putting them in the victory circuit? What's the point of feeding progressing accounts to the people that dedicate their life and money to a damn mobile game. Just give them special treatment and special rewards. I'm tired of fighting people that got more r4s than I got r3s. Worst damn match making I've ever seen this season.
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URU - Diamond 4
GAMMA - Diamond 3
ARCANE - Diamond 2
QUANTUM - Diamond 1
MYSTERIUM - Vibranium 5
CELESTIAL - Vibranium 4
They could split VictoryTrack into 2 Tiers (aka “futball” leagues).
Victory Track Tier-1: those players that ended previous season in G.C., and have to do the “qualifying” rounds in a Tier-1 to get back to G.C.
*Yes, they still start in the “pre-GC” Victory Track (that Platinum starting point) system of ranks/rewards/buffs as they work their way back to G.C. But they just won't be inter-mixed with people who were NOT in G.C. the prior season.
And Victory Track Tier-2: those players that were NOT in G.C. last season. They can still fight their way into G.C. this season, but they would only be competing against other “non-GC” people on their way to doing so.
(Tier-2) *once(if) they reach GC they will then be part of the GC points matching methods against all other GC the rest of season (no more split tiers once in GC). And if they were really too weak to be able to hold their own there, well then next season when they are in Victory Tier-1 they will find it hard to repeat (and probably rightfully) won’t be able to repeat GC and so will go back to Tier-2 the season following that.
***So this method you won't have the situation where depending on WHEN some G.C. people start to play and then getting inter-matched against other lower (non-GC, aka Tier-2 players) who just because they want to start playing earlier in the season get a bunch of bad matchups as they reach some higher players that haven’t started advancing much yet in the season.
*Addendum* Or maybe, the very last couple ranks in Victory Track is where the Tier-1 and Tier-2 pools merge, so a Tier-2 player would have to actually fight (potentially) some Tier-1 (former GC) people those last several matches in order to fully reach G.C. (just not all the way up from Platinum where they may have been early in season).
If the goal is to have people gravitate towards BG's, there should be a positive user experience for all levels of players. Being fodder for big accounts is not an enjoyable experience and neither is waiting 2 weeks into the season in hopes the bigger accounts have moved on. A separate BGs with their own reward structure would be ideal but I don't see that happening any time soon.
Who knows there will be another bug so login before the next battlegrounds season starts so we can start at Vibranium 2
GC should be difficult for small accounts to get to imo.
Not that I necessarily think the OP's suggestion is viable. I just want to dispel that myth entirely. Larger Accounts are still hanging around the VT. I've seen a total of maybe 3 reasonable Matches. So I keep grinding with little progress. I doubt anyone is getting a free ride.
Sometimes Kabam's solutions make things worse. Extending the ammount of time to get the 100 points objectives just gave point farmers a few more days to hang around VT getting more points with Elder marks than they would in GC.
You might say this can only happen once, because if they happen to get into GC, they'll be in Tier 1 next season. But then they can just take that season off: play a couple matches and then quit, and simply reset for the following season where they will be seated back into Tier 2 (you even mention this as a positive of the system). Weaker players will have an easier path to GC than they do now, and much easier than a lot of stronger players, if they just play every other season.
And then you realize anyone smart enough to understand this can implement this strategy deliberately. A strong roster player who just wants easy rewards can simulate this behavior, slide into GC by being a very strong player in Tier 2, and when they get to GC take the next season off (if you implement a participation requirement, simply play the minimum) to demote themselves back to Tier 2. So now you will literally have players farming Tier 2 for easier wins.
When it works as intended, I believe this generates unacceptable results. But it may never work as intended, because players will likely learn how to exploit it.
Dont see this happening to larger accounts just because they are larger.
So we can blame you for all these useless deals and money grab content. Good to know somebody like you has the ear of kabaam, lol. You should have better suggestions.
DNA helped plan updated 2 coin win VT track.
He has done much more tho.
a) does not paywall progression, and has skilled players capable of speedrunning to the top progression title in less than a week without spending or even grinding the game significantly
b) allows free to play players to grind thousands of dollars worth of premium in-game currency a year without the entire game economy falling apart
c) convinces a small minority of spenders to spend huge amounts of money for things knowing I will be giving almost all of them away to players in a relatively short period of time
d) which allows the vast majority of players to play completely for free
e) while allowing those free to play players to access almost all the content, almost all the rewards, and even be competitive in all competitive game modes
By all means, please do. I would put it on my resume if I thought I could get away with it.
You see useless deals. I see deals that subsidize the vast majority of the playerbase to be able to play the game without having to spend. Those deals are not useless. They exist for the few spenders that spend, and also for the hundreds of thousands of players who play the game without spending. I would say that's highly useful.
MCOC is not a perfect game. There's a lot of things I would not want to take credit/blame for. But blaming me for the monetization of the game is like blaming me for sunshine. You're trying to create an insult out of something that everyone needs, everyone benefits from, and if you personally don't like it, wear a hat.