Everyone in R14

Corpseknife-mankrik · August 18, 2023, 2:03am

Likewise, people can stop getting offended by the label. Blizzard called it bracket fixing so it’s not like its some baseless insult. Obviously it wasnt a positive thing for bg pvp so its not unfair to assign it a negative connotation.

If someone had a different pug or premade experience then it obviously doesn’t apply to them. No one is saying generous and loving. mutual admiration courtesy and respect. friendship driven pvp communities helping each other out purely for the sake of helping others somehow caused all the other premades to go fully deranged and toxic. If you played in the jesus version of a classic wow premade, good for you.

I mean, there’s no nice way to say it. that’s the wrong way to look at it not too mention ironic as all get out. The change is being made because people bent pvp to cater to the only people they cared about - themselves.

Again, this change is being made for the following reasons:

Classic Era 1.14.4 PvP Update

There’s a lot of pressure to grind HKs nonstop - Since players are being ranked vs. other players in their same faction, taking a break might mean that you lose your desired spot in a particular rank bracket. Decay also contributes to this somewhat, though not nearly as much as how RP is awarded.

Since players are ranked based on a percentage of how many PvP participants there are, some players will engage in an activity called “pool boosting” - Pool boosting refers to the process of artificially inflating the total pool of players in the system so that each rank bracket are larger and allow a larger number of people within each bracket to rank up. This is often done through the use of automation (bots). For example, someone will run bots that will kill one another repeatedly until they reach the minimum required number of kills per week to become a part of the ranking system. They then switch to new characters, and repeat.

Bracket fixing becomes the meta - Some players work together to take turns in a top percentile bracket, which allows them to increase the number of people who earn top-tier rewards and lowers the Honor ceiling for each bracket. This isn’t strictly a bad thing as players of the same faction often work together to ensure there is a pecking order and that, over time, more people earn rewards with less grinding needed by effectively capping the amount of Honor each rank needs to earn each week. This isn’t really in the spirit of the old system. Ideally, if players put in the effort, they should be rewarded, and shouldn’t feel pressured to be part of the in-group to earn top PvP rewards. This also often leads to conflict among players on the same faction, when players break the fixed bracket limits for their current rank and essentially raise the amount of Honor everyone else in the higher ranks needs to earn that week to not stall out their ranking efforts or even decay and lower their rank progress.

The old PvP Honor system script is complex, takes a long time to run, and is error prone - Honor is updated each week via a script run against the database which performs various calculations to convert each players contributions to CP and rank players against one another based on their current rank, expected CP, RP, and other factors. This script is essentially unchanged since 2005, and while it is mostly functional, it can become stuck or hit unexpected delays based on various conditions and cause the weekly Honor update to take many hours, or in some extreme cases, days to complete. This makes the entire system stressful for those who are eagerly waiting to see where they landed for the previous week’s contributions. We wish to overhaul and replace this script with a more performant and modern solution.

The top 3 out of 4 all refer to player activities and that doesnt include RMT. If you wanna go the denial route, im not gonna stop you.