The only way to test this would be to put all characters on an even playing field. Levels of characters randomly assigned by slice chosen.
Each time slice has multiple possibilities..
All chars lvl 270
All chars lvl 166
All chars lvl 94
collect data. This way you can test scaling for vets and newbies alike, and see how things scale at different levels with community scaling off.
? Why would you change your system completely for a single test as opposed to using the representative newbie/veteran brackets that would occur if you used the actual system? There’s more than just 2 shards per time bracket, yet many people treat it as if there’s only 2, new or vet.
So im guessing we will not know the outcome of this until say UMMMMMMMMMMM
mid aug.. i think it took around 2 months before the pumped PVP started after the test…
i would rather see it turn off for good. i had more fun in Pve this time then did for months. then again i spent way too much time on the game this last week.
Why the hell would anyone want to play a PvE where every opponent is lv270?
not opponents. your roster.
People play differently, and have diverse rosters. Imagine if you could use any of your chars either buffed against higher opponents, or under leveled against weaker ones.
See if scaling is effected by keeping all chars at 94, or if maxing them out helps scaling better, or level capping 4*'s at 166
This would answer quite a few questions many have been asking.
They (demiurge) already know, and there is incentive for them to not make it fully clear to the user base.
It was actually one season… The test was at the end of season 12, 13 was old format with new matchmaking, 14 was season of the boost