When doing well gets you punished. Tired of it.

(RyuKaiser) #1

I’ve kind of had it with the negative credits taken from me because reasons. Your automatic server finder threw me into a 2 v 2 that was going on, and I ended up being the 3rd on a team. I pushed the objective, I made the kills, I did a ton of awesome and showed my skills… and you took 35 credits from me out of 60 credits. Yeah. -35 penalty out of the 60 credits that I worked for.

I’m sorry, but did I miss something? What did I do to deserve having over half my earnings RIPPED from me? I’ve been having these problems for a while now where I’m losing -10 to -30 credits EVERY SINGLE ROUND. What the hell is the point? Did I do something wrong? Did I play too well? Usually I suck pretty badly, but I was doing well and having fun, and you decided to rip over half my winnings out of my hand.

In between the paltry money I get from daily missions and ripping my earnings out of my hand, I’m not seeing any reward for sticking to the game, for playing long term, for supporting it by playing, or even doing Daily Missions (1800 x 14 days to put out a new Merc = 25200. New Mercs are 50k!). How am I supposed to tell my friends that this game will gladly take half your earnings from you? That they expect you to make 50k every 2 weeks, or give them $10 for a single character, and still have to pay credits rolling for Loadout cards?

(Zenity) #2

Calm down, it’s an anti-abuse mechanic to prevent a couple of people going to empty servers and farm for credits. There are penalties for lack of players, and for unbalanced teams.

It sucks that right now it’s so easy to end up on half-empty servers (which don’t fill up quickly), but that is also a symptom of the game being in closed beta. If you don’t want this to happen, all you can do is wait until one of the more busy servers has an empty slot and join manually (or just leave whenever the server isn’t filling up).

(mOist) #3

Even tho i agree the amount you get is crap at best you played on a stack team and this is how the game rectifys it (rather than team balance) silly i know but for the time being its what we have to deal with.

(RyuKaiser) #4

So, because a few people are jerks, they punish honest, decent players just playing the game… even when their own matchmaking THROWS THEM onto the server in question.

Yeah. I’m not seeing any excuse for this.

(Litego) #5

The game does a poor ass job at telling you why you got a penalty. If they wanna keep this system they need to make it crystal clear, otherwise it will piss off a lot of people.

(yakcyll) #6

So, because a few people are jerks, they punish honest, decent players just playing the game… even when their own matchmaking THROWS THEM onto the server in question.

Yeah. I’m not seeing any excuse for this.[/quote]
Excuse me, but you are making a gigantic fuss with big words over thirty credits. Thirty virtual credits. Calling it ‘ripping earnings from you’.
If only you queued for another game or opened a server browser and picked a populated server, you’d have earned ten times as much in less time than it took you to create this thread.
Am I missing something or are you agitated for some reason and just want to vent?

(Viquel) #7

If you use the auto-assign, no penalties should occur. In fact, you should get more credits because usually, you’re going to replace someone who QQ’ed seconds before because they got steamrolled - nice, 3vs8 on a losing match, loading the map took longer than you were able to play, because you got killed while confirming that yes, you will start with the first merc you selected. And you get like 4 credits for 10 seconds before they finally finish :smile:

(Thai-San) #8

Well, I can see why he’s pissed. Currently the income is way too low and the costs are way too high. I play dirty Bomb every evening, do my missions and play a few rounds more. Right now I’m saving up for Arty but when I decide:

“Hrm, I’m not really happy with my current card, might build myself another one”

it throws me days back in my grind for a new merc.
I get like 60-200 for the matches I play and especially when you get 100 or less credits and you get a penalty of 30 thats like 1/3 of the already low income. Makes the grind even longer…
Right now you have to ask yourself: Would I like a good new card for which i use all my earnings for the next weeks or and new merc for which I use all my earnings for the next weeks. And don’t get me started on real money. I love free to play and micro transactions are a good thing. But 10€ is not micro. I can get myself well fed for 2-3 days with that money.

Sure, the game is fun enough even without unlocking new stuff. But c’mon: New stuff is always a good motivation. And we all love to have a goal when playing games. In Single Player you want to get through the story and in f2p fps you want to get good and get dem nice goodies :wink:

(DadoPeja) #9

@ThaiSan u wanna get Arty - you know he is pretty bad ?! Have you tryed him when he was on rotation?

(Thai-San) #10

Yes, I tried him. And I really like his Dreiss AR. Yeah it could be better but I think if I spend some time with it it’s going to be a solid choice. Also his Artillery strike might not be that map covering rain of destruction like Skyhammers ability, but the fact that you can use it across the map with pixel precision every 25 seconds is really appealing.
Who knows, maybe SD will even buff him some day. The latest updated already showed that they’re putting some thought into him.

(Szakalot) #11

you get credit penalties if:

  • the server has less than 10 players (the closer to 10 the smaller the penalty)
  • you are outnumbering the opponent by 2> players. So 8v6 will give the 8-team penalties

They apply for each minute one of these occur, so if it was 8v5 for 30seconds it won’t be a big deal but if a whole match was 4v2 you can expect big penalties (esp. for the 4-player team)

(Terr) #12

I’m about fifty times more worried about stacked, un-scramble-able teams than I am about the strongly-advantaged team getting a minor credit penalty.