Split ladder

[PurplePants]

TM2 is turning into a time attack game, which gets boring quite rapidly. But that's what you have to do if you want to make ladder points, so as a result the more interesting modes have fewer players (and, generally, those that don't care about points). Also, I seem to recall that laps servers in TMUF couldn't go to more than 60K or so.

So... how about a ladder for time attack/rounds and a separate one for laps/stunts?

[bel1be]

Do you copy others original post , to put it here , but i your short words
I posted this some hours before you with this content

Does nadeo have to change the ladder system ?

Postby bel1be » Yesterday, 20:51
First some facts
At this moment 914 Servers active
on time attack the are 770 servers
on round the are 77 severs
on rounds the are 22 servers

20% from the servers the are people driving
and for 95 % on time attack
Nice when you like it , and for the moment on sever with more than 40 people , you get very high and easy Lp points
All other modes are not so many people on , so very low LP distribution

I remember the time that Stadium dirt round race killed all other servers om TM1
On All other TMU modes en environment you dit not find a lot of people
So Nadeo invented DOUBLE POINTS on Coast , Rally snow , island ,to get back people to does servers
Witch success

So Why not the same for the round and rounds servers >>> Double points .... it will get more people to it
And personal i find this 2 modes more difficult to drive than time attack
Just a idea
What you think about it ?

[PurplePants]

Sorry, didn't see your post. I've been thinking about it for some time and only got around to it yesterday.

As it happens, I started the post and then got called away for dinner, which involved watching the TV for a couple of hours. It's entirely possible that you posted your comments between the time I started writing and then click submit

[bel1be]

Sorry, didn't see your post. I've been thinking about it for some time and only got around to it yesterday.

As it happens, I started the post and then got called away for dinner, which involved watching the TV for a couple of hours. It's entirely possible that you posted your comments between the time I started writing and then click submit

No problem ,i think many OM drivers have the same opinion about it , it s really wrong the ladder system under 70.000 LP

PS OM >>> Old Man driver in age and time that we play this game

[roke]

... i think many OM drivers have the same opinion about it , it s really wrong the ladder system under 70.000 LP...

As an OM driver I just wanted to cast my vote... against (sorry) the proposed ladder split.

I do my driving on TMUF stadium tracks always driving rounds since there is no time attack for 80K+ LP. I could do this in any other environment where I get double points, but stadium is my choice. So "half" the points is my choice as well. Driving stadium with all other more rewarding (LP-wise) options available for me (for which I have paid getting TMUF) makes me a marginal minority, as I'm told. LP-wise I should also play ROC each weekend, as an another minority does, but I choose not.

Coincidentally, earlier this week, I decided to find a bay server, and it turned out that there were whopping three of them in the 90K range.

It boils down to personal choice. I strongly believe that you should have all the fun you want the way you want, but you should not expect special treatment because of the choice you made in the grand scheme of it all.

I play my fill of rounds (up to 90K) and then go play time attack, which I prefer, unrewarded because the idea of honing my mediocre skill at my own rate and learning the track during the first session already feels more right to me than driving constant high average times on 4-6 timed laps that essentially means relatively safe driving as opposed to pushing myself to the limit.

In TMUF all the different environments share the same ladder, splitting a ladder over race modes in a single environment seems an overkill.

[PurplePants]

That's a very .err.. mature approach, roke. But the thing is that it's not one shared by everyone, or even a large minority. And it doesn't fix the problem that this thread is about, namely to encourage people to play on other than time attack servers. There are lots of rounds and laps servers, but no-one plays on them. And because no-one plays on them no-one else is going to play on them because there are no points in it, and most players play for points.

TMUF had to boost united servers to get players on them. That could be done here, but I think it's the wrong fix and amounts to a bribe. I don't see a big problem with more than one ladder - in real life the pole vaulters don't share medals with long jumpers. Even 400m runners don't share medals with 800m runners. That seems particularly pertinent when laps requires a very different strategy (not to mention maps) to time attack.