This solution does nothing but mess over the mid range powers.

The problem right now is those that are Top power- run around & click everyone but try & avoid those that are within their own range because it's about "Time" for them.

The mid range powers avoid the Top powers like the plague, while running around trying to find the bottom powers.

Everyone is basically trying to * on a low power- making win streaks valuable when they're already valuable just forces Top powers to camp Mid range Powers to earn the streaks they've gained & then what do Mid range powers do? It answers itself.

The top powers still win- while everyone else loses, the solution is in making the rewards a "Field based" reward, like how it is now when your field wins you get an extra 250 or so Sun Scrolls & a seal scroll. It should be like that but the whole field wins 4-5 Refine runes & the top places don't get a 1st/2nd/3rd reward. If you want fairness & balance, that's how it needs to be.

That way, the 2nd place field all gets 3 refines & 3rd place field gets 1-2 refines- this incentiveses everyone to at least participate for their "Field" and encourages people to actually win/play for their team & not "for themselves" it's a psychological aspect that people can "get behind" that will work, when it's every man for themselves the negative aspect has already been established, everyone wants to win.

How SWB is obvious but just in case, how it actually works- there are 3 fields, but those 3 fields ARE NOT actually competing, you're actually competing with the players in your OWN field, the play is getting 1st/2nd or 3rd, in your field therefore realistically you're competing with your own field to win, you don't actually care about the other fields.

Remember in a game like this, there will Always be a Loser.

Most likely the matching system is considering more than just level now. It really should be based on power, not level anyways....although it hardly matters since the high powers almost never fight each other.

Wish there was a system that was the opposite of Rage system....and call it Fatigue. Every time you win a fight, you degrade and get weaker due to exhaustion. This would somewhat level the playing field and eventually make whales targets instead of them being untouchable.

ok ok. what if i was to vs someone with the same amount of power as me BUT, he has bonds JM, AGK, MKS and water main blizt? while i have f2p ninjas and JM (not bonds)?

its definitely true that the high powers and mid-powers both just click on low-powers for the streaks, while avoiding other 'streakers' b/c of time.

One thing that could alleviate this problem while leaving everything else unchanged is to significantly boost the reward u get for killing a streak;

e.g. if you got 50% of the points in a streak that you killed.

Lets say u get 100 points for a kill, and +100 points for each consecutive kill (+300 for a 3 win streak, thus +1000 for a 10 win streak).

That means a 3 win streak would have 100 + 200 + 300 = 600 points, so killing a guy with a 3 win streak would net u 300 points.

A 10 win streak guy would have 5500 points, so killing this dude would get you 2750 points. Note that if you're on, say, a 15 win streak, your next win will get you only 1500 points. This method would make killing high win streaks increasingly more tempting, especially to those high power guys.

Ofc it doesn't have to be 50% of the points; it can be 70% or even 100%. The main goal is to make killing high win streaks more tempting, so that instead of picking on low power guys with rage lvl 4, the 200k's will pick on other 200k's or 150k+ players.

Also note that low-win streaks like 3-5 win streaks would only give 300-750 points, which is far less than a 16th win (1600 points). This would discourage what you mentioned, high powers camping mid-powers for their streaks. Killing streaks is worth only when they're on a similar size.

How many of you get actual high win streaks in Sage world & kill others with win streaks? You actually get bountys for killing Win Streakers, this isn't a new concept.
High powers already attack mid powers for their win streaks, this ACTUALLY happens all the time.

I'm a mid power, I get anywhere between 2nd & 5th, depending on who is placed in my side(field), in fact I've gotten first if the high powers are put in to another team, which enforces the fact that you're not really competing against other teams but against the people on your own side- I know roughly where I'm going to land on the scoreboard based purely on who is on my team & the only influence other fields have on that is whether their higher powers decide to camp me for my win streak.

If you truly believe other 200ks will risk their streak to go after another 200k, you really don't do Sage at all- I mean it happens, but when you're trying to WIN top 3 then you avoid bad odds, that's just how you game the game, the system doesn't incentives you to risk that much, your goal is top 3 in your field, not knocking other top 3s down to risk your own top 3 status.

You guys are trying to fix the wrong thing, you're going after everyone above you as if "They are the problem" & I don't understand why, perhaps it's a fixation on being at the top.

The problem lies with how rewards are distributed because that's what incentiveses people racing to destroy lower powers & the psychological aspect that has on everyone playing the event, you either distribute the rewards fairly for participation & field victory or you narrowly focus on making it harder for the person above you thus effectively creating another problem.

Look at it this way, if it was field vs field & you all got a reward for winning as a field there would be a bigger incentive for people go shut down other fields, it would impact how people played the event across the board, sure people would also go after low power still- you can't create a system that avoids this, but at least you could potentially run after players your own power as there would an inventive to do so & there'd also be more players going after win streakers to get their field victory & at the end of it all, if your field won you can at least say "I did my part", rather than "I'll never be top 3, nerf top 3".

This idea that a problem will fix a problem is gnawing at me, why do you want to f*k over the person above you so hard? It just creates a worse experience for them & eventually if you're there a worse experience for you & solves no issue, it's like you see a problem but don't understand what is creating it but attempt to fix it anyway.

Besides the event is a lot more rewarding than it used to be anyway- I'm not really bothered if it changes & chances are it wont but it's not a terrible event, reward wise, even if you aren't getting top places, because the Sun Scrolls you get for just participating are good enough for 5-7 Advanced Refines by itself- & I'm talking about actual participation, it gives you more coins the more you run around and actively participate.

Sorry to break it to you fam but since you are a f2p you should of just lvl freezed to give yourself a fighting chance.

Since you didnt and lvl 100 you HAVE to play with the big boys . My advice to you next time their a lvl cap increase (105) dont rush leveling you'll be asking to be put up against them.

Level freezing doesn't work that way- to sustain level freezing the way you're meant to, you must also p2w.

The way level freezing works means you're cutting yourself off from everything that gives you power- if you're not gaining power, then it doesn't matter how much you level freeze, especially now that we are gaining Sun scrolls from everything- there's very little incentive to do so other than stomping nubs with high power.

Now slowing down your leveling progress by not doing the main missions is something that is possible, that should be done no matter what you are, p2w or f2p.

Now, before I even say anything further- the rewards could be spaced better, with the rewards being given for a "Field" victory, rather than top 3 but that doesn't encourage spending, which is it's own separate topic entirely.

The main problem here lies with people believing there should be any kind of fairness in a system that incentiveses purchasing to win- you're defeating yourself before the battle has even begun & that's the problem. People need to stop entering events like SWB and expecting some kind of "Victory" or "Fairness" if you're not purchasing it.
In these events your goal is to literally "participate" and get what you're given, in this case "Sun Scrolls" but in general the event was always worth participating in because 2 Advanced refines were better than 0 & that's the bottom line, if you're not paying for your 10+ refines, then accept your free ones.

I prefer the psychological aspect to it, but that discussion would get me done for inciting drama