Arena Payout Based on Average Rank
I'm not sure if I've seen this on here before or not, but a thought occurred to me. What if your arena payout was based on an average rank held throughout the day? Say every 15 minutes your current rank is saved and used to calculate a 24 hour rolling average. Once your payout time hits, you get your payout based on that rank compared to your shard mates.
I think this would solve a few problems:
- Prevent 'sniping' at payout times
- Reduce collusion of top ranked players by making it harder to coordinate
- Increase competition and potentially more refreshes to maintain a high average
I know it would require a whole restructure to how payouts are calculated, but I think it may solve some problems that have been around for a long time.
What do you think?
I think this would solve a few problems:
- Prevent 'sniping' at payout times
- Reduce collusion of top ranked players by making it harder to coordinate
- Increase competition and potentially more refreshes to maintain a high average
I know it would require a whole restructure to how payouts are calculated, but I think it may solve some problems that have been around for a long time.
What do you think?
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I would think this would actually make it harder to get 1st place. Unless you're the one whale nobody on your shard can beat, maintaining an average rank of 1 throughout the entire day would be extremely difficult.
I wouldn't love this idea, it would be even more miserable than arena already is to have to worry about my rank not just once but all day long.
Agreed, no one would ever get first.
Well, technically, someone would
This would be an idea if it was possible for players to better than others but the current state of arena is that anyone can beat anyone else in the top 30. This will just mean you have to login 500 times a day to make sure you don't drop rank.
yeah i read it wrong. i thought the op was saying it should be the highest rank you achieve throughout the day
Then you're still making it worse, since currently up to one person per time zone gets the #1 payout, not just one person total.
I love this idea. The forum's would be a blast to watch. The outrage would be hilarious.
If they stick to panic farming to produce revenue, this wouldn't affect that too much, yes people would have overall more crystals, however it takes so many packs to 7 star a new character usually at 1,300 a piece, in the grand scheme of things this would be a welcome change.
Not true, it would still be 1 player per time zone per day. This is just a change to the structure of how we decide who is #1, #2, #3, etc. It would not change how many crystals are awarded each day.
Because the final payouts will be based on highest average rank, not highest overall rank.
Well it's your proposal so you get to define what it is (despite not having made it clear in your OP). Regardless, the original point stands - having to care about and watch my rank all day instead of at one specific time would be absolutely miserable.