Leaderboards should be more Skilled Based and Segregated by Age. * :-)

[StarTrekAlliance]

I've been playing this game since about a month after it was released. This is my favorite, and the only game I play. I love this game because it is challenging and most closely resembles playing chess. I think making the Leaderboards more Skill based is an important topic that deserves its own thread. If you don't like this post, then please scroll on by...thank you.

@Tin Soldier, Mr. Muet, and the team ant BHG: Folks have mentioned the Leaderboards should be more skilled based and I think that's a wonderful idea! Why not award 5 XP per Star earned on base attacks, but an additional 100 XP for 5 Star'n a base your own Age, and 500 XP for 5 Star'n a higher Aged base? For this idea to work and be fair, the Global Leaderboard would have to go, replaced instead by Group Leaderboards segregated by Age. Award Legendary Artifacts to the top 10 on each Age based Leaderboard. This seems like a nice medium between those who have time to grind and those who do not...and once this is in place, BHG could adjust the afore mentioned XP numbers so maybe we end up with 5 grinders and 5 skill based players in the top 10.

In my opinion, an Event Pass would need to be purchased to take advantage of the afore mentioned additional XP opportunities.

Benefits:

1. Segregating the Leaderboards by Age would be very fair and eliminate any age based variances, available targets, or inexperienced base designs at lower levels.

2. It would create a nice medium between those who have time to grind, and those who do not.

3. Grinding is tedious and just no fun at all.

4. It would be very cool to see who is at the top of more Skill based and Age segregated Leaderboards.

5. This would make the Events more fair and more fun!

6. Once the Skill based system is in place, the additional XP awards could be adjusted, if necessary, to make it fair for all parties.

7. It would encourage newer players to continue playing, and advance to the point where they could repair their Museum and use their Artifacts.

Thank you in advance for considering!


~Player Name 'Rob' - Star Trek Alliance

 

[Tommy]

Nope. The point I was making in my post that you have ignored is that the grinding players,for the most part,are already spenders. The skill based points I referred to arefor the players who don’t spend $20+ a week on a 5 cent game.

There is no skill required to 5 star a base. This is a math game.

 

[Dvicious]

LOL you really are obsessed with this topic. If you spent half the energy you did on these forums recently in-game you’d likely be leading the event by a wide margin.

 

[StarTrekAlliance]

Dvicious - Not obsessed, but if they want me to continue to play and buy Event Passes, then these Events need to change. This is a great game, so yes, I'm making suggestions because I'd like to see this game continue and grow. I have a life outside of this game, and don't want to spend time grinding. Grinding is boring and tedious...just not fun at all. Who wants to spend HOURS of their life grinding? Skill based makes much more sense...and it'd be more fun!

 

[Dvicious]

Totally understand about the desire to improve the game, not wanting to grind, having real life, etc. with you on all those things. I only say obsessed because you aren’t making suggestions, you have made the same suggestion over and over again on many, many separate threads.

 

[kilgore_trout]

If you spent half the energy you did on these forums recently in-game you’d likely be leading the event by a wide margin.

Have you logged in to this game since the event started? It would require someone quiting their job to crack the top 100

 

[Dvicious]

Haha, it was a slight* exaggeration meant to highlight my point that OP has done a lot of “suggesting” on this topic

 

[kilgore_trout]

That's true as well. Lol

 

[StarTrekAlliance]

Dvicious - Not really...my threads cover different topics, although there maybe some overlap. Remember the 'Rebalance'? How many threads were started on that topic?...100? My threads are not meant to be negative but geared more toward trying to figure things out and make suggestions for improvement. The first Event had serious issues because Space Age research allowed those players to inflate XP to the hundreds of thousands, even millions via Artifact leveling, while folks CWA and below never stood a viable change at winning. This new Event is much improved, but the issue now seems to be about grinding versus skill based XP, and segregating the Ages to make it more fair. Who wants to buy an Event Pass to grind for endless hours? Both related to the Events but very different substance.

I'm hopeful these Events will find a medium that results in more fun and fairness, less grinding, and an additional revenue stream for BHG. The Events are new and the situation dynamic and changing; feedback from players is important and will hopefully foster improvement and increased player satisfaction. All good.