Loss Streak Changes (Destiny)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Thursday, June 28, 2018, 15:04 (2417 days ago) @ cheapLEY

It doesn't hurt you. You still don't lose as much as you gain when you win. It's just to keep losses from snowballing on you and losing a bunch for a big loss streak.

It hurts you. If you win a game between losses, the next loss is felt in full. If the losses are together, the subsequent ones are diminished.

Let's say you win 50% of your games:

LLLLLWWWWW

Now someone else wins 50% of their games:

LWLWLWLWLW

The first person will only lose the full amount of points on the first loss, whereas the second would on ALL their losses. So let's say you lose 10 points for a loss, and each subsequent loss in a streak diminishes that by one. The first person would lose 40 points. The second person would lose 10 points each time, for a total of 50. So the second person loses a full extra loss' worth of points, all because they have wins in between the losses.

Person one could even lose SIX games in a row instead of 5, and come out ahead even though their record is worse!

If they are going to get rid of loss streaks, each loss should just be 10 points. Period.