Loss Streak Changes (Destiny)

by Robot Chickens, Friday, June 29, 2018, 09:55 (2416 days ago) @ Cody Miller

You also haven't addressed the fact that at any given moment, the incentive is there for you to win your next game. There is never a scenario in which losing is preferable, unless you knew the future and were guaranteed a certain number of wins and losses.

THIS DOESNT MATTER! If you can look at a stretch of someone’s games, and they would be better off having lost a particular game rather than winning it, then the system is broken. Period. It doesn’t matter if you can’t predict the future and exploit it. If winning ever makes you worse off the system is garbage.

It also doesn’t matter that everyone ranks up faster after the change, because there can be situations where you would rank up faster having lost a particular game rather than winning it! Again, pure broken garbage.

Even regardless of the actual numbers, the principle is stupid: winning carries a penalty in the form of a higher point loss on the next game you lose because it resets your losing anti-streak. Winning should never confer any kind of disadvantage or penalty ever.

SANTA CLAUSE: Good news kids! I'm giving out more gifts this year to those who have been good. I'm even relaxing the rules so that you are less likely to get coal in your stocking. It may still happen, but you will get substantially less coal than you previously experienced.

CODY MILLER: This system is garbage. I'm not after gifts or being good. I just want to minimize the amount of coal I'm getting. If I were to do one good deed in the middle of an evil streak, I would get more coal than if I had waited until the end of my streak to turn a leaf. Garbage!

SANTA CLAUSE: I guess that's true, but you'll be getting a lot less coal than you would have in either case.

CODY MILLER: Garbage. Clearly you're an amateur at this. People need to feel punishment more explicitly or they'll never change.

SANTA CLAUSE: So... even though everyone is getting more presents, or fewer pieces of coal, you're upset that your good deeds are not always equally weighted?

CODY MILLER: Look man, I'm just trying to figure out the minimum amount of coal I can get for being passively bad. If I accidentally do something nice, I don't want to get penalized for doing it at the wrong time. So yeah, I'd rather have more coal if my punishment was at least consistent.

SANTA CLAUSE: I clearly don't understand kids these days. I've got to get out of this game...