is YT combined with leaderboard bad for server population

[Tradesonred]

On its own YT wasnt so bad, but with leaderboards iit makes twinks farm new guys in rags for leaderboard points. Makes people plug more than they would. Gives out the location of where a noob group was xping, where someone got three hitted, blown up by a twink.

I would remove it, would you?

[pgerman]

just go level in lowbie kunark zones if you suck

not that hard + even with the grief, people get like 5 levels a day on this server with the group xp bonus

[Tradesonred]

Originally Posted by pgerman [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

just go level in lowbie kunark zones if you suck

not that hard + even with the grief, people get like 5 levels a day on this server with the group xp bonus

You seriously trying to frame twink vs ungeared as a skill issue?

Youll have to deal with twinks no matter what, but i think surely its an added incentive for people to farm newbs in rags. I know for a fact some guy was in RnF bragging about his 60-0 leaderboard ratio, posting pictures of him looking at cloth pants in loot inventory. Im sure some of these twinks would be in heaven if they could have a leaderboard that tallies the number of times where they were the last people that killed a player before he logged off forever.

[Susvain2]

alot more than 5 levels in a day if you go hard in a decent Unrest or MM group

[JayN]

YT not classic

[daasgoot]

i started playing on red right around the same time jeremy made his leaderboard live, so my first experience without a leaderboard was during this recent downtime.

while the leaderboard was down i noticed people were more willing to fight 1v1, less likely to plug and generally willing to take more risks in pvp.

that being said, since the leaderboard has been back up and active, i noticed pvp has been booming.

from my own experience, there seems to be more pvp while the leaderboard is active than inactive.. this is not scientific fact tho.

in regards to twinks in low lvl zones, i don't think the leaderboard really promotes it in any way. I believe people that twink a toon to stay at lvl 30 in mm and kill people will do it with or without the leaderboard. Nobody looks at the leaderboard and thinks to themselves, wow silvers is really fuckin good at this game... i am sure 95% of the twinks in MM/CB are aware of this.

ps. while the leaderboard was down, twinks were still logging in and killing rags/noobs.

[El Camacho]

I have noticed certain people don't post nearly as much since the couldn't link to the leaderboard in every post.

Seems like it brings out the worst in game and the forums.

[pharmakos]

yes

[Madbad]

lol certain people

[Xaanka]

season 1 ended with a deleveled showeq using 54 druid topping the boards.. sounds about right