Seige and Incursion Etiquette

[TASHINKA]

Not happening here... I regularly hit rank 10 and keep going on, my view of it is that unless you can't keep up, then no need of being in the pit of fire with me. .

I]Never rest. Extend yourself further in all endeavors. The future is written by those who dare.[/I]" copied word for word from the box.

I'm all for extending yourself, but it seems you're more about kicking sand in people's faces. I too, can put up some decent scores at events, but I also try & help other players when I can - this is supposed to be a "cooperative" game unless you're playing PVP. imo

[Market]

I have a clan mate I frequently do activities with; in the last week or so, we can't see each others names on scoreboards for: arkfalls, warmaster, sieges and incursions about 80% of the time - weird (or should I say - Defiance)

It's almost like the argument of comparing ones self to others in an event is quite invalid, huh?

I'm glad that other people here responded to the "post of ever-dripping selfishness" because I've been biting my fingers over it since its posting. lol

[Binky]

I have a clan mate I frequently do activities with; in the last week or so, we can't see each others names on scoreboards for: arkfalls, warmaster, sieges and incursions about 80% of the time - weird (or should I say - Defiance)

I did a Bolinas siege with Greg (Overload/UT) some months back on a live stream.
We got there at the same time, and were fighting together, but got separated at mid siege when another cap point opened up.
We were both in the top 20 on the scoreboard but we ended up scored on different scoreboards because we ended up fighting in or on different shards. It's all very complicated and involves mysticism and sacrificing goats and chickens to various IT deities, but, shtako happens.

The 'Different Shards' explanation was put forth by Trick.

[DSW]

That's dmg assist, it's 5k for heal assist.

He's talking about heal assists, not damage assists. Heal assists are based on the score received by the player your healing. Since it aggregates if you have enough players linked, you will get a score based on the score of the player who got the killshot (~20k) plus any other players you're healing.

somewhat unexpected behavior to me

[TASHINKA]

I did a Bolinas siege with Greg (Overload/UT) some months back on a live stream.
We got there at the same time, and were fighting together, but got separated at mid siege when another cap point opened up.
We were both in the top 20 on the scoreboard but we ended up scored on different scoreboards because we ended up fighting in or on different shards. It's all very complicated and involves mysticism and sacrificing goats and chickens to various IT deities, but, shtako happens.

The 'Different Shards' explanation was put forth by Trick.

I don't completely understand the shard thing, but how can you be at the same event at the same time as another player and be on a different "shard"?? thinking about it is killing my brain cells

[N3gativeCr33p]

I have a clan mate I frequently do activities with; in the last week or so, we can't see each others names on scoreboards for: arkfalls, warmaster, sieges and incursions about 80% of the time - weird (or should I say - Defiance)

Defiance. Definitely Defiance! lol

[Binky]

I don't completely understand the shard thing, but how can you be at the same event at the same time as another player and be on a different "shard"?? thinking about it is killing my brain cells

When more people showed up, it got crowded.
When it got too crowded for the instance, the server ninja-split the crowd into 2 shards to lessen the crowd density.
During the instance.

[TASHINKA]

When more people showed up, it got crowded.
When it got too crowded for the instance, the server ninja-split the crowd into 2 shards to lessen the crowd density.
During the instance.

thank you - your explanation does make sense - the game doesn't like large crowds - but this has happened at sparsely populated events as well

[Binky]

thank you - your explanation does make sense - the game doesn't like large crowds - but this has happened at sparsely populated events as well

I don't pretend to know it all, but I'm under the impression that it does that when it has to re-shuffle crowds, and at that point it might be shuffling people from crowded #1 and half-crowded #2 into semi-crowded numbers 1, 2, and 3.

[Treasurekins]

It's the return of Fafa Man's dancy dance protocol!
When you get to the top tier, dancy dance!
http://forums.defiance.com/showthrea...ighlight=dance

Thanks for this thread! I ran around healing others while I was dancing in my mind (apparently I cannot do both at the same time). It was strangely satisfying since I knew there was no benefit to going beyond 40,000. I came 6th while others were up at 80,000. Does coming in first place secure me a place in heaven? Does it make all the men fall at my feet in utter awe (yes, I am female)? No, coming first does none of those things. While coming in first is satisfying, I can stroke my ego in other ways.

Two nights ago on PS3 NA I organized 2 successful Warmaster events. I advertised over zone chat for over an hour, had people make a commitment to showing up and then we went crazy on him once we had enough fire power in the room. It was a lot of fun and a few people even got a legendary weapon. I was not the top scorer and I did not get a legendary but I was happier than a pig in poop because others were happy. In my opinion, that is what community is all about.