Skill trees

[tokamak]

Excluding issues with exploitation, XP/Hr would work better if the XP awards are balanced across the classes (i.e. a Soldier doing a great job earns equal XP as a medic also doing a great job). But it’s also more complicated than that because when XP is used as a pure incentive it displaces some of the skill based aspects. Examples: Giving XP to switch to the objective class, giving XP to change sides when teams are unbalanced, giving one class more XP because in general that class plays a more important role (medics?), etc.

Switching to the right class is a part of being skillful as well. That’s the great thing about xp, you can reward meta-choices as well.

[brbrbr]

Victories only say something about the team effort though, not the skill of the player itself.

thats actually my point.
cuz:

1. players, rotating their gaming habits around own retractable ego and statswhoring, usually play DIFFERENT games. not TEAMPLAY-targeted.
2. who cares about “player skill” ? both in wining and losing team. in both cases, its just weak excuse/reasons, to do anything about[chatbitches is just exception/proof].

[tokamak]

Yeah but we’re talking about a personal skill indicator here. Whether you care about that or not is not the point.

[brbrbr]

Yeah but we’re talking about a personal skill indicator here. Whether you care about that or not is not the point.

wrong!
we’re “talking” about “Skill trees” © here, nothing else.
so ignorant offense in “i don’t care if you don’t care care im or not enough to post such nonsense”-style is just waste of characters[&time of readers].

[tokamak]

We digressed into personal skill indicators. And using win/loss ratio is a terribly inaccurate way of measuring that. You’re not arguing for basing the skill trees development on the win/loss ratio are you?

[LyndonL]

Hahaha brbrbr. It’s the pot calling the kettle black if you’re going to say that he’s wasting the time of the readers with what he writes.

[brbrbr]

We digressed into personal skill indicators. And using win/loss ratio is a terribly inaccurate way of measuring that. You’re not arguing for basing the skill trees development on the win/loss ratio are you?

no.
im arguing “basing” xp curve on ANYTHING, else than actuall ingame performance, is creepy idea.
thats include using[what for ?] “win/loss” ratio numbers for example.
ETQW have good example of how that should be done.
in smaller scale and around narrower things.

[tokamak]

You didn’t say that but yeah I agree with that xp should be limited to the ingame performance yes.