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So I was thinking about this idea a little more and I know it has been suggested before. But I really think it is a good idea to bridge the gap between short term competition (tourneys) and long term competition (all time list) in this game. I know a couple of new players have discussed how it's hard to get motivation to play for the all time list when they are first starting out, and understandably so.

My suggestion would be adding a new feature to the main map; a monthly leaderboard for points with gold silver and bronze awards for 1st 2nd and 3rd. It would be similar to a month long tourney, but I don't think the award should be cups since this aspect of competition would value different skills, mainly time commitment, than a tourney. I believe that this would be a good feature that newer players and older players would be on even ground competing for. After competing for top monthly points for a few months, new players will see themselves rising up the all time list and may be motivated to start making passes.

A couple things to add to make this work: obviously I would anticipate that the main map would become much more active with older players playing more often as well competing for new awards. I know the main map emphasizes playing how people want to play as far as quitting low, fake fighting, free kills, and raid taking vs raid dodging, and a monthly points competition may encourage these less desirable attributes. So to offset these negatives I have a few proposals:
1. Rank does not matter. Total points at the end of the month is all that matters.
2. Reform the points system. Add a multiplier or just make it so you earn more points when shooting someone while you are low on fuel or being shot by multiple people.
3. Also add a lump bonus of points for deaths to offset the points you miss out on while you are spending time refilling. Dying as a higher rank earns more points than a lower rank to keep people from just repeatedly dying for points.

I propose that these changes will add a new exciting dynamic to main map play and increase activity in the main map. By reforming the points system, the current standards of main map play are preserved. People may continue to play as they please, there is just more benefit to playing "fairly".

Let me know what you think. I've really been putting some thought into this. I think it would be a new dynamic without involving any stat/award resets or a new map that won't lead to new activity . It does change the point system that we have had in place for a long time, but I think it does so in a positive way. I think battlefield used to not give you points when you shot someone who was using armors, it's not like things have never changed before.

In uTanks I came up with the idea of getting bonus points for being shot so many times within a giving time slot, the more times you wet shot the more points. Its was kinda blah to be honest...

I'd much rather see getting points for dieing, more points the higher the rank you are.

I do agree I see this giving I boost in activity.

The only problem I see are the people who will come in and just fake all month long. Thats why i think the top players point wise should change to a new color. That way if you have the same people faking most likely they will change to the new same color and force them to fight others. Only problem is how many people should change colors? Not enough and it would be extremely hard for them with nobody radaring the map with them or too many cause the top players twnd to be the most active and then we have a mob running around constantly. This new color shoyld be updated every 24 hours, it will push players to show a new type of prestige.

weekly and the standard one of the last 15 years gets my vote. this subject has come up many times.. sw will never do it tho.

Its obviously because nobody is forcing him sexually...

sYm wrote:Its obviously because nobody is forcing him sexually...

Actually iirc sw does have plans on implementing extended leaderboards however monthly should just be one part. IMO this game needs a leaderboard as low as hourly to reward play hour by hour.

The leaderboards needs to be structured like this.

Hourly/daily/weekly/monthly/quarterly/yearly

Than there has to be an all time for those categories. The above categories would only show you the best for that hour/week/month etc. the second set would show you only the all time best scores. That would mean every hour you have a chance to break into the all time leaderboard, and at the least mark a spot on the current leaderboard.

This is why I feel the two extra dot awards should be earned via competing in the leaderboards. The game doesn't need anymore awards earned outside of the game. If the leaderboards are as polarized as we hope than almost any player regardless of skill level could have a chance to win a bronze/silver shield if they play enough.

Gold dots could remain as so either to serve the purpose of glitch submissions or restructured into te leaderboards (give players with dots the option to be demoted to silver/bronze. I imagine an influx of players would make the swap thus making the gold dot the more valuable and harder to earn award again. Glitch submission could earn one of the other awards. Either ph or lb. of course a new award could be made but it'd have to certainly fit the mold perfectly. I'm not sure anyone in the community had the skills to create a new award.

Just take the gold away from everyone and use it on the leaderless also...

Its not people should get an award for turning in a glitch, we should be openly turning that in to make the game better..

just take all awards away, people should just enjoy the game without feeling the need to earn anything.

shermanfrombf wrote:just take all awards away, people should just enjoy the game without feeling the need to earn anything.