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Free Transfers and Leader boards sniping
So with the free transfers, won't people transfer for the easy leader board ranking? Because then they can transfer and then get merged into the big server.
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Pardon my formatting, I wrote it as I was trying to make sense of it in real time, because it's kinda vague.
So basically in game it says leaderboard season ends on September 11th.
But they changed the end date to September 13th in that post.
But they're letting people transfer for free starting on September 6th.
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On their page, they wrote "Note: The current Battleground season (Season 2) will end on Thursday, September 13. Winners will be determined within a few days of the end of the season and will receive their reward by parcel post in game. A new season will start after the merge is complete."
I don't know what they mean by "within a few days of the end of the season." Do they mean that winners will be determined on the 11th like it says in game, and then the season will officially end and reset on the 13th? I'm unsure about this, because with the previous leaderboards season they claimed they were unable to declare a winner early and forced everyone to wait an additional 5 days for the season to end before they could do a maintenance and award prizes. So even though this interpretation makes the most sense to me, it also DOESN'T make sense based on what I've been told they're able to do. If they can freeze ranks now and determine an early winner now, why couldn't they do it before? Will they determine winners on the 10th because that's "within a few days of the end of the season?" On the 13th because that's the new day the season ends? On the 8th? 9th? 5th? Who knows! It makes me glad I didn't bother participating in it at all this season.
They also wrote " The current state of the rankings will not be transferred." so I GUESS that means people won't be able to transfer their pvp rankings over right now, but idk how they'd manage to do that when, as far as I can tell, that'd mean actually changing how the game functions and I can't see BHS caring enough to roll out a patch like that just for us when they wouldn't even freeze ranks last time, or just award prizes early. It's a big jump so I'm skeptical. Like, people asked them to do this last season to prevent server transfer rank sniping and they just sat around pretending like it wasn't an issue. Now they can suddenly do it? Someone should test it, just move over and see if your pvp records transfer. Because otherwise yeah, people can totally just freebie transfer and destroy rankings.
As you can see, I'm unclear on this as well. From what I've read and struggled to interpret, winners will be determined at a vague date a few days before the end of the season (why??), and somehow, by magic, pvp rankings won't be transferred over if you server transfer during that time. Sounds great, but I'm skeptical simply because asking for these things last season made it seem like an impossible task (people straight up begged EME to end the season on the appointed date and they said they couldn't do it without a maintenance and dragged it out 5 more days; people cried for those five days about getting their ranks sniped by transfer players during that extended season time and EME sat by and watched it happen) and now suddenly they're able to do all of those things without a problem.
Hate to quote my own post and double post at the same time, but OP's question was answered today. Some dude free-transferred today and jumped straight to the top of the pvp ranks. So there you have it. Screenshot and such. This really begs the question of what was meant about "The current state of the rankings will not be transferred," since his ranking clearly transferred with him; he hasn't even logged in to change his name and he's already got a score from his old server. But yeah there you go OP and anyone else who bothered with season 3; ranks are set to get decimated unless EME bothered to snapshot the ranks beforehand -- which, judging from last season, I doubt.
For better or worse, it's referring to the server merge, not server transferring. The current season will end before the merger, and the new season will start after the merger, so the current ranking season will not extend through the merger.
If you or anyone had given me that interpretation a few days ago, I'd have called that a strange reading of the FAQ because when I read that "the current state" of rankings won't be "transferred," I just assume they mean the rankings as they are now won't move with your character if it transfers during the free move period before the merge. I also wouldn't think such an answer would warrant a place in a FAQ, since anyone could just look at the dates if they were worried about merges affecting the season end date; the two events are a week apart and obviously would not conflict in any way. But! Here we are, and now they meant future rankings, not current rankings, and they meant merges, not transfers.
Yeah, almost the entire document is about what happens in the merger, completely unrelated to server transfer. But really, they should not have used the word "transfer" at all when talking about the merger, because the document also mentions "transfer" in a few places to talk about server transfer before the merger. For example, instead of "the GvG status log will not be transferred" it should be "the GvG status log will be reset following the merger" or something like that...
Maybe you should start questioning yourself and see what you could do to get better instead of complaining someone took over your rank.
On the flip side, did you really earn or deserve the rank if you accumulated points on a living server and then had to transfer to a dead RP server at the last minute to win it?
first, i didnt.
second, if it was based top all na we wouldn't be having this discussion
third, it should motivate the "dead" server to push themselves if anything
Cheating/ abusing unintended mechanics isn't skill fyi
fyi, last time i checked, they didnt give masks to pit people because of that.
1. Just as your post talked about "you" in a general sense, so too did mine. I didn't mean to accuse you personally of anything.
2. I actually agree, which is why I think transfers shouldn't be allowed to carry their ranks over. Leaderboards are a server-wide competition; it's absurd that someone who won their rank in another server under different conditions should get to carry that over imo.
3. A dead server should be motivated to push harder than a living server on the off chance that some guy transfers in during the final day(s) of the competition to scum his way to a mask? Alright, lmao
They might as well be, since people just transfer around and cross queue their way to the top anyway.