Building Incentive

[Ckit]

@bird

I.E. - Every 600 or so HP a builder’s medistation heals his allies he gains a point on the scoreboard.

This seems quite competitive and I can foresee players deconning another builders medi and replacing it with their own for maximum score per minute.

@bird

I.E. - Every 10 kills from any of the builder’s constructed machine gun turrets earns him one point.

This isn’t so bad although, I think the point generation should be focused more on repairing/construction of structures.

[dGr8LookinSparky]

@romdos

@dGr8LookinSparky and @shuffle, showing the stats is only possible at post-game scoreboard, so there’s no need to hit the Tab key, and slowing people down with the mouse isn’t a concern.

Why would it not be possible to show the stats discussed in this topic during a match? Doesn’t this happen now with the score? I have even seen Arcade have an extra column for “feeds,” and that was observable during the game by pressing tab. That is for the current game stats that I mentioned above (overall score and the 4 score components described above).

Or by stats are you referring to detailed all time stats for a given GUID, like the information the GrangerTracker might show? I wonder if that might be better to view in a menu at anytime instead, as the intermission time tends to be pretty short to allow for review of such detailed stats.

Regarding to how the building component of scores are determined, it is important to have a good algorithm before fine tuning it with particular values. I did discuss what that algorithm might look like in general here:

@dGr8LookinSparky

In regards to good building and good attacks on the enemy base, I propose that each building gets a scalar value called “importance”. Importance would be determined by all relevant factors including but not limited to: building activity, the type of building, how long the building survives, what time of the game the building is still around & its rarity at that time (during the beginning of the game, mid game, or end game), the proximity of a building to other key buildings, if the activity of a defensive building occurred while a friendly player was nearby (so that camping doesn’t add to the “importance” of the building), and how much damage the building sustained before its death. As the importance of each building increases, the score of each building’s builder increases, and the builder’s stats would include the average of the importance of each kind of building they have built. Also players would get higher scores for destorying more important buildings, and their stats would include details on their contribution towards killing important enemy buildings.