Sevenless wrote:You're missing the point of the new update entirely.
It's not designed to take away grinding advantages in the slightest. If that guy has been playing 16 hours a day raiding ant hills, he could easily have vandalism by now. Each queen easily gives 10k lp at max LA. Not to mention the more time he spends online, the more time he can spend stat grinding. I'm sure there's someone who's managed to get murder at this point. That's even without using any of the exploits or bugs (I think loftar mentioned they caught a guy with 1-2 million LP already, they deleted that char and were trying to find out how he got that LP).
So what's the point of the new system? In communal settings, it levels the playing field slightly between casual players and hardcore players. That's assuming the hardcore players feed the casuals decent Q curios (I'm actually helping my girlfriend out in that way atm). But mostly what it's designed for is to curb the benefits of botting. As one person mentioned, the aim of this new system seems to be an attempt to make the LP ratio of botters to your average player go from 1000:1 to 10-5:1.The best LP gains right *now* aren't bottable. Ants for beginners, and hunting curios if you've got the attention for them from what I've heard.
Stats can still be botted up, and I'm sure there'll be something in the future that comes up, but it won't be anything like the stone botters from last world.
Swing batta batta. several mistakes here bud, let me go in order
1: 16 hours a day? you kidding me? 3% chance, that's three out of 100 ant hills. That is not a 16 hour program to get enough to have a constant flow of them unless you have a swarm of dun dun bots.
2: The 10k was a recent nerf, used to be 20k
3: Stat grinding is meaningless to LP in general to mentioning it is awkward at best
4: To get vandalism you need 100k LP so I'm sure 130k isn't far off, I have that so i wont say he couldn't have done it legitly as previously stated.
5: Leveling the playing field has already been beaten over the head with the ugly stick because of all the exploiting people. AND it is impossible for new players or casual players to catch up because TIME is a variable to going the correct way.
6: It was 1.6 bil, not mil.
7: Assumptions are deadly, remember that. Assuming that high tier players will help low tier players out is a horrible assumption since high tier players are hardcore and do not want to be in line with casual players MOST OF THE TIME.
8: As someone else already states, the decrease in botting benefit is merely a positive outcome and was not the original intention. Also Botting WWS and other such things would not be hard and creating bots that farm on ant hills also not too hard I PRESUME, i don't bot nor could i thus i don't know but i d know people have made some pretty elaborate bots already.
9: I have hunted many bears down already yet i still get a hype for ants because the empress takes 3 hours and gives 10k LP but the boar tusk i estimate takes 50 hours WITHOUT CRASHES, and i dont know how much LP they give anyways. Also empresses take 6 slots but tusks take 15. so you can see the delima when your low tier not trying to farm INT till your pants explode.
10: You missed the point of my original post to a alarming degree. Either you didn't read the main post or you read the topic and not anything else. I pray that's why or else I would suggest more blueberries in your diet.
11: It would seem you missed the point of the new update more then me.
12: Cause this post is long enough, one more shouldn't hurt.