Why we need to talk about SuB.

Hey guys-

As you know, I’m not a PVPer (I think I got my single kill by accident), but looking at last week’s KOTH, it was pretty bad.

SuB has won 4 of the 5 KOTHs since the reset. Last week, @Carnotauros tried to organize a group of players to oppose SuB, but couldn’t find the bodies. @TheMel0n valiantly went in to a 10 v 1 situation, only to get rekt. No one was able to kick SuB off the platform during KOTH, and it ended up being very quick and with few fights.

This domination by a single team makes KOTH no fun. Making this worse is the fact that KOTH is the only time some SuB members log in (Like SkittleCooki). They log in, fight, collect loot, vault it, log out and are untrackable for the rest of the week. This might be fun for them, but no fun for the rest of us.

I have three possible solutions to this.

The first is that KOTH admittance should at least be earned, and you can’t log on once a week just for KOTH. Maybe there’s an entrance fee (50-100 gold), something you can earn if you are on the server at least a few hours outside of KOTH (and therefore run the risk of being tracked).

The second is to limit teams to 8 or fewer players. 10 player teams might be too big (or at least limit team size proportionally to the owners rank). Having such a large team is part of the problem and no one except @TheMel0n wants to 10 v 1.

And finally, the KOTH loot could be proportional to the time KOTH takes. I think a better prize would be XP bottles that have XP that’s the seconds that KOTH takes. If KOTH is over right away (2000 seconds), and you win, then you get a 2000 xp bottle (approx 37 levels). If it takes longer then you get more XP. This means that a KOTH like we had this week would have netted little for SuB, whereas a KOTH with many players would have made a bigger prize to go after. Also KOTH loot is pretty much random and no one wants to be the guy that gets that single set after going through three.

I’m not anti-SuB, I just want the KOTH to be fun for everyone.

 

Sad

And close to true

I was on last night, and for a while it was just @PoopWrangler and I on the whole map. I’ve been asked why I don’t track, and it’s because there have been too few players on the map. There are far fewer bases and active players, especially since the reset was only a month ago. I’ve been derping in an area that, 3-4 years ago, was littered with bases, but now I’m only finding a handful. Player counts in the 6-12 range is pretty common when I’ve been on (outside of KOTH and The End event).