I know that this was somewhat discussed in another thread, but since this is regarding one aspect of the outage, specifically the outage compensation, I wanted to make it separate.
I want to start that after my conclusions, I thought that the outage Compensation was mostly fair. Here’s why:
I took screenshots of my before and after scores from today’s S1 end and compared them. As node rewards don’t change (except for points) from sub to sub, I thought this fair.
Iso-8: I earned 5,020 Iso-8. (This includes 2 intercepts for 1,000 Iso each, so really 4k from clears).
HP: I earned 10 from an intercept.
Given the above, the compensation was somewhat fair given that it was 1,000 more iso than we would have earned anyway and 250 HP more. There could be an argument made though that anyone not in S1 basically double dipped in those iso rewards though.
Now where it is not fair are the event points and the Red-Iso.
Before anyone makes the argument that all S1 was affected so don’t worry about the points and placement, let me say the following. Overgrinders had a distinct advantage for this one sub, but hey, what’s one sub? Maybe a lot, maybe not.
Today’s S1 end netted me 9,625 extra event points. I know subs increase in points per node as the event progresses, but given that I could not actually start the event until 3 hours after it started, I figured that lacking about 10k points in overall total was a fair estimation. So while the over grinders cleared early and will have less than that, they’ll still have a non-zero amount of a point advantage. I know I usually place t10 to t50 and in the affected sub yesterday, I placed t200, so there were a fair amount of over grinders.
Where the inequity really comes into play is that the point amounts will be unaffected is slices 2-5. Which means if an alliance happens to have an uneven distribution of players that play in S1, their overall placement score will be severely impacted by 10k (or more given the 3 hour late start on the next sub) per person. Any competitive alliances know how tight top 10 can be so this could be significant. I have no solution to this. I’m just bringing it up that some alliances may be forced to relocate s1 players if they’re too negatively impacted. Again, not saying that my alliance would do that, but it is something that might happen.
The other item was Red Iso-8. No compensation was given for Red Iso, yet standard end of sub clears reward 1,750 Red Iso. Should I contact customer service to be granted this? The answer should be a resounding yes. Many S1 players may not have realized this, so I urge them to do the same (unless you are an over grinder and to that I say, DON’T BE GREEDY.) ![]()
Anyway, just wanted to throw this out there. Thank you devs for the compensation. And good luck keeping that new hamster happy and healthy that runs the servers! ![]()