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nitpicking iirc they were not immediately disqualifying applications due to prior bans

how many different translators was this run through before you posted it here

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W:L threat based system is what RTW had not exactly sure how early g1 threat was calculated the current system is based upon score and while you do get a sizeable score bonus for winning, a majority of your score generally comes from accumulating score during the mission (for completing objectives, for getting kills/assists, etc), therefore -theoretically - your performance during a mission more accurately determines your threat in practice i think theres not enough actions that give score and too much score being handed out freely for the actions that are measured, but its a decent framework id like to see tweaked rather than scrapped altogether

rip staff play sessions another "glorious" win for the shit community was it worth it tho?

i mean we already have a pretty good system of measuring actions that result mission winning, and it includes actually winning the mission in your example you could do nothing but vegas jumps - 500m from the objective - and still win and still threat up or the opposite, do nothing but get kills but lose the match despite going 30 and 3 and still threat down

i think the system we have right now could be perfectly useful, but there needs to be a serious overhaul of both what actions accumulate score and how much score those actions give but measuring threat solely based on one statistic is always going to skew threat for certain people and make it easily exploitable for others

the rtw threat system would allow dethreaters to go all out on low skill opp but then let them win the mission, and then the dethreaters would continue to stay low threat because they lost even tho they went 15 and 2 on some bronzes a W:L based threat system is bad, idk how many times i can say this lol

interesting, i could have sworn that districts had threat levels before that but i suppose im remembering wrong still gonna say that going back to a W:L based threat system would be a mistake though, far too easily manipulated my forum account date is because this isnt my og account, that was somehow wiped clean of posts when the new forums spun up

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i remember districts having threat levels since obt at the latest, cant remember when the money lock was implemented i also remember the zerg missions, and the matchmaking never really added up regardless of the numbers imo, adding more shambling zombies to mow down doesnt add that much difficulty - especially back on the old system where gold was more difficult to get granted the old 1 gold = 2 silvers = 4 bronzes thing is a lot better than the straight 3 golds vs 2 silvers and 1 bronze we get a lot of today

while i agree that the hard "one threat per district" lock was perhaps too harsh, there was certainly a number of complaints before that, since you were free to enter any threat level district (albeit with a monetary penalty, but what veteran player is actually worried about money?) there was a lot of noob stomping going on, just no one dethreating because no one had to

i cant speak for rtw but i'll say that only having 3 months to actually play probably wouldnt allow anyone to really start to need to game the system as for g1 apb, people have been complaining about matchmaking since at least cbt, if you go search the old forums you'll see matchmaking posts from 2010

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because its insanely obvious - or at least it should be - that basing threat level off W:L ratio makes it so exploitable that you might as well just remove dethreating from the "bannable" list dont have to play with the system for that, and your unreasonable dismissal of such a glaring flaw just makes me wonder why i even bothered to bring it up

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if you didnt want a discussion here you shouldnt have posted here also the perspective of an outsider looking in is a pretty important one, especially in this case since - if the threat system is changed - the outsiders will be new players we are still thinking about the new players arent we?

theres 2000 players in the apb discord and a good few of them have played with staff, trust me they arent the cream of the crop when it comes to apb lmao

the original rtw matchmaking was based solely on the last 50 mission W:L ratio, i cant think of a threat system that would enable dethreaters better than that tbh id also argue that leaderboards from rtw and the coveted G10 threat level from g1 (while neither one was a bad thing imo), lead to far more "win at all costs" gameplay than the simple 3 tier visual system we have now

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im sure theres more people you can mention apply yourself

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