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Armand_
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2017-05-26 21:20:58
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The main problem witht his cross server sage is the INSANE amount of people per battlefield!
Can't they reduce the number of players to 30? it would equilibrate things a lot. If this is not possible they whould at least increase the rewards range. Only 9 people out of 75 get advanced refines? really? they will become just as hard to get as advanced thread! Specially since many servers could start sage on their own.
Please increase the advanced refines to top 7 of each group at least. Otherwise cut by half the total number of participants in each battlefield.
As it stands it will be catastrophic in the short run and its possible that people will just stop entering sage at all. But the solutions are there and it could still turn out to be a good event.
Group 1 is gonna * even if it's 30, from 80k to whatever the max is for that server cluster (which is 100 to 160k)
I think the solution would be better with something like this:
Step 1, bracket everyone into whatever group size (I think ~45 is good)
Step 2, for bracket 1 and bracket one only, for each player 13th to 24th, have 50% chance to swap with the 1st to 12th player of group 2(13th with 1st, 14th with 2nd and so on, 50% chance is rolled individually, so on average 6 would swap), for player 25th to 36th, 50% chance to swap with top of group 3 and finally, 37th to 48th(or all remaining if less than 45/group) 50% ti swap with group 4. (if there is more, swap with group 5 etc)
Step 3, last 15 of group 2 will have a similar swap with top of the highest group that is not swapped with group 1.
This system would more or less be overall fair as far as top 3 reward is concerned. People who have a chance to win top 3 reward will, effectively speaking, be randomly pulled into group 1 to be sacrificial lamb so they don't always win. At the same time, people who would otherwise be stuck with group 1 will have a chance to be top of the group they swapped down to so they wont always lose.
And as participation varies from sage to sage, there are some mobility for everyone else to be top/bottom of group (except original group 1 and part of group 2)
Note that all numbers are examples. The fact of the matter is, the smaller the sage and swap group, the better. I picked 12 per swap group as at 50% that means 6 swapped down on average. This makes it so they won't take up all the top 3 rewards and thus giving the lower groups players a chance at reward. Both the size of the swap group and the swap chance can be adjusted, maybe say 9 per group at 30% chance or whatever might be fair. But in any case, the only way to make sage fair for everyone is if there is some way to "randomly" pick the sacrificial lambs for group 1, because as it stands, no matter what sage size is, player ranked 15th onward until group 1 fills will probably have a sad life.
P.S. as a fairly high powered ftp(63k), 30-45 group size would probably place me in group 2, possibly on the upper portion. So this is really for other people. If it's just for myself, then pushing for smaller group size would have been the easiest way to get what I want.