You know a week has 7 days so if we divide it by 6 we’ll have 1 day and 4 hours. That’s the basis of my change suggestion that will probably make it fairer for everyone no matter what the timezone, and also reduce the imbalance of last minute streaks.

Let’s say we split a domination week into 6 rounds. So bumuming that the week starts on Monday 0:00, then the first round will end on Tuesday 4:00, the second Wednesday 8:00, then Thursday 12:00, Friday 16:00, Saturday 20:00, the sixth on Monday 0:00 again and this is also the end of the week and the beginning of another week. Doing it this way everyone has the chance to play at the end of the rounds that are most suitable for him.

How are the winners decided? After each round you get points for having the most total, fave, and min scoops. When the week ends whoever won the most points for each category will get a medal.

How does this reduce the imbalance of last minute streaks? Well due to the shift of end time, streaks will only help you win a few rounds, so there’s still chance for other players.

Probably it’ll take a lot of efforts to implement this but I think once implemented those 2 biggest problems with domination will become minor. So if you like this idea be sure to vote for me Log in to see images!

I like it, the very serious players can stay up for rounds if they want to and will have rounds that finish conveniently for them. It sounds like it gives more incentive to hold onto scoops through the week too.

Wait a second, did quangntenemy actually have a good idea? o.O

Signed, unless I’m too sleepy to see some flaw in this.

As a Britfabulous person i feel something has to be done about the end time of domination. And this seems to be a good idea! How hard it would be to implement it idk.

FalCoN Posted:

The only problem that would still remain are the top brackets.

Of course, another possible solution would be that instead of three time-zone-seperated top brackets, you make it so that each time zone has one own top bracket and there is only one seperate super top bracket with players from different time zones. This super top bracket should probably have some special features to encourage players to go that far (if you have 4 semi top brackets, you surely need to win medals in your time zone’s top bracket to get into the super top bracket, so the bracket would be super-mega competitive).

You should just make sure that you don’t turn Domination into four parallel universes, that would suck.

FalCoN Posted:

You should just make sure that you don’t turn Domination into four parallel universes, that would suck.

It appears to me that’s exactly what your solution will create.

FalCoN Posted:

Of course, another possible solution would be that instead of three time-zone-seperated top brackets, you make it so that each time zone has one own top bracket and there is only one seperate super top bracket with players from different time zones. This super top bracket should probably have some special features to encourage players to go that far (if you have 4 semi top brackets, you surely need to win medals in your time zone’s top bracket to get into the super top bracket, so the bracket would be super-mega competitive).

You should just make sure that you don’t turn Domination into four parallel universes, that would suck.

wow, timecube?

I won two medals in the top bracket of dom last week. 95% of this was down to my actions in the last 20 minutes of dom, the actions of a few other players in the last 3 minutes and (most of all) a very, very lucky bumhole card in the dying seconds.

Is that really what the medals should be decided on the basis of?

I voted yes to the poll in this thread, but this looks like a total redesign of dom rather than a small tweak which we could realistically expect ET to introduce into the game.

We could probably do with theme weeks more often in order to test some of this stuff out, once a month perhaps? Every other week? Every week for a month?

It’s a good place to test **** out I say!

The time shift thing seems cool, but the actual totaling process reminds me of a situation that used to come up in a CCG scoring system I judged. Due to the way things laid out individual round performance could make a far greater impact than overall performance. I think we would see the same thing here.

What I see could happen?

Day 1 dude who isn’t playing finishes 12 visits at top of loop, wins max and fav for the day, doesn’t play for rest of week

Each progressive day could see the same thing.

End of week – people who were actually playing out their loop and running visits competitively finish week jockeying for that spare lemon or choc to come out on top. We could easily see 6 way ties in multiple categories every week.

All I can see is that this would almost exclusively give power to the numbers eliminating the strategy of card purchase. Perhaps I am missing something, but it seems to me that all this does is give ultimate power to those who can “raid” at a specific time. I don’t see how it adds any balance to pistachio. How is it going to make any difference by spreading it out?

I’d still be in favor of shifting Dom end time to accommodate a wider variety of players, but really I don’t see how creating mini-rounds is going to solve some of our ongoing problems. It might be intended to make the game a more active thing, to involve people in the rush factor more than once a week, but really it is not hard to know who will set their clocks or whatever. It’s the exact same group of people that were willing to do whatever to accommodate klan raiding in order to maximize advantage.