Originally Posted by
Bercat
True true. I like the way you think. But how will they stop multiple people from farming? They can't possibly play together if they're earning damage points on their friends cuz it'll be technically farming if you play in a server with your friends. Unless the devs create new servers specifically designed to house these challenges in a tournament type fashion, where you wouldn't face someone twice in a row. The challenges would only count if they are completed on public servers and I certainly don't wanna spend my entire day in a public server trying to decap kids that are trying to do the same to me. Not to mention the players in the room could be whispering each other on who gets to decap who that round and who gets it the next round. Also there's nothing stopping a few friends from going into one of these rooms and farming off of each other.
Well here is what I think about the points you raised. First off creating a tournament like room goes against the purpose of these challenges to make it more attainable for lower skilled players. Also in farming for damage players would still have to learn how to strike a stationary target in a way that would gain them points. This is still driving players to learn and improve even if its for evil intentions. As for your worries about decaps and what not, the things I listed above are only example ideas, the challenges can be whatever the GMs wish to make them in order for fair play and what not.
But I guess it would be possible to make four or so rooms that you would have to enter in order to accomplish the challenges (Yes the rooms would have min a max belt limits in them, but a wide range of belts in order to discourage alts.). In this manner a que would be so large that it would be hard to set up rigs with your friends in order to achieve a goal. Also if two players began to obviously cheat to do challenges it would be easy for players to simply report them to a GM and for the GM to ban them from challenges.
In preparation for this system it would probably also be advantageous to implement a rule making it possible for GMs to temp ban players caught using alts to farm lower belt players for challenges.
Last edited by Kohta; Jul 12, 2015 at 09:26 AM.