Loss Streak Changes (Destiny)

by EffortlessFury , Thursday, June 28, 2018, 21:33 (2416 days ago) @ Cody Miller

It is never a negative to win a game.

Both Fury and have have detailed where a win absolutely hurts you:

It is very clearly negative to win games in certain situations with this system. No you can't predict the future, but that makes it worse! You are ostensibly trying to win every game, so if you manage to do that at the wrong time IT SHOULD NOT PUNISH YOU.

it should be plainly obvious why: under the new system a losing streak means your penalties are less, so winning means increasing the penalties for a loss. This is the exact opposite of how it is now, where a win decreases your penalty for losing. Winning a game straight up punishes you in their new system.

It's like they have no fucking clue. Absolutely amateur.

They have to know, though...right? Like, if I were running through ideas for the system, the first thing I would do would be exactly what I posted earlier: some specific use cases. Then I'd try to plot a graph up to some N number of wins/losses and compare the systems. I'm not statistician but I feel like this is the base level of investigation.

Either they know and chose to do it anyway for some reason...or...the alternative...which is a little frightening.