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[Call_Me_Ishmael]

spr1nterJam

Member Since 26 Jun 2015

 

 

Main or alt account?

[Amidatelion]

He did, absolutely. Actually, more promising than that, he said something along the lines that Hawken was running in a sustainable state (your current wording left the possibility that it was stable due to Reloaded's funding, and not due to the income of the game itself vs the costs it incurs).

However, that was after Reloaded significantly downgraded the servers, and immediately after the acquisition, which made a bit of a splash in population and purchases, and it was before they upgraded the servers again, as well as before they began hiring people (people cost money). I don't have financial data, but on the current playerbase estimates and the fact that the cost of servers has likely gone up due to the upgrades since that statement as well as the size of the team, I would be ready to accept that Hawken is only operating at present due to Reloaded viewing it as a profit in the future.

"We can reduce server costs by 60%."

Three iterations of Dallas servers later...

spr1nterJam
Member Since 26 Jun 2015


Main or alt account?

Who?

Edited by Amidatelion, 22 October 2015 - 03:38 AM.

[spr1nterJam]

what alt?

[GreyFa1con]

I feel the need to post this again just to be clear.

The solution?

Sky-rocket excessive low level pub-stompers in MMR.

Kick them up to the big leagues. And if they can't cut it, they slowly fall back down.

[Hyginos]

The solution?

Sky-rocket excessive low level pub-stompers in MMR.

Kick them up to the big leagues. And if they can't cut it, they slowly fall back down.

 

I don't necessarily disagree, but we already have underdog bonus and a good player can get an account to 2200 in a couple of hours. I think the issue is the experience of the players who meet those accounts during the skyrocket.

[GreyFa1con]

I don't necessarily disagree, but we already have underdog bonus and a good player can get an account to 2200 in a couple of hours. I think the issue is the experience of the players who meet those accounts during the skyrocket.

Right, but I'm talking within 2-4 rounds of excessive stomping kick them up to about 1900.

Bias on the side of treating all low-level stompers as if they were smurfs. (Or players with tons of time in similar games)

And then if they are merely lucky kills, not stomp kills, then they will fall back down in MMR at a natural rate.

[HHJFTRU]

I don't necessarily disagree, but we already have underdog bonus and a good player can get an account to 2200 in a couple of hours. I think the issue is the experience of the players who meet those accounts during the skyrocket.

The underdog bonus does this by affecting score, which is not good. Please, give extra XP as an underdog bonus but not score. And low level MVPs could just plainly gain much MMR instantly. I read in another topic that it would fuzzy up the leaderboard but it's not true, because the pilots that haven't attained lvl30 are ignored. 

Edited by someone, 22 October 2015 - 09:48 AM.