Sorry about the prolonged radio silence on this issue. Regretfully I don’t have more news right now. It’s unlikely we’ll be able to dive deeper into it until the new year.
Just wanted to touch base to let you know we haven’t just closed the book on this and moved on and if we’re yet able to determine there was some mistake with the data we pulled for the rewards in this event we still want to rectify that.
…and a month later we’re still here wondering what the hold up is.
I understand if there needs to be recounts to the data to include potentially missing players, but the PLEX and BPC prizes have already been distributed. Where are the medals for the players that have already been confirmed to have participated?
I don’t want to be that person. And i appreciate the suggestion that there should have been more for those who did more. However considering the timing of everything that was going on in game and outside, not to mention the the AT and the quickly approaching Holiday season this feels like that suggestion should have been applied to any future events of this nature and not tagged on to this event a last minute thing. It seems like its only created more issues/frustration than what it may have been worth.
And i do understand the frustration of those whose names aren’t on the list at all as I have an alt of my own that is missing despite the fact that she did a few plexes as well.
I reactivated several accounts to get involved again in FW, which I have been extremely active in previously.
All of those accounts have slowly deactivated, because the excitement I had has just gone
This was an absolutely needless overcomplication that resulted in nobody getting any medal at all, including the original proponents of this idea who failed to qualify for any rewards at all.
Advanced Trolling trained to V right there.
I’ll get back to winning Eve. Since this thread and the issue are very obviously being left to die.
I have a reponse from analytics. They confirmed the criteria they used for the leaderboard published at the conclusion of the event on Sisi are as follows:
Find the LP earned by each character:
Filter it to only between 202210-26 1400 and 2022-11-04 1400
Filter it to only Minmatar/Amarr
From that, we went and answered all questions:
Top 10 Characters for Amarr
Top 10 Characters for Minmatar
Top 5 corps that earned most Amarr LP
Top 5 corps that earned most Minmatar LP
List of all character IDs that earned any LP
So the leaderboards will stand as they are. Apologies to anyone who feels that they were entitled to rewards that they didn’t receive but we will stand by the results as determined by our analytics team. Since there have been concerns in the community about our ability to deliver accurate results for the final standings we will reconsider running events like this on the test server in the future lest they lead to further consternation amongst players.
Aside from that I personally apologise for how long it has taken to declare an official result. As the organiser of this event this was solely my responsibility.
BPCs and PLEX have already been delivered to the previously established winners. Medals are still outstanding but we still intend to deliver those according to the tables published earlier in this thread.
I will also be relocating this thread from the Announcements forum to the Test Server Feedback forum as a significant amount of time has passed since this event was held.
Thanks for the response and for going above what was originally promised with the medals etc. It would be a pity not to do something like this again, but I can see how it turned in to a rather large headache at a busy time. Perhaps tighter criteria on what is required to be recognised as a participant in future tests.
Looking forwards to seeing what the medals look like
If the results are correct, would it be possible to post the LP gained by each character so that we can compare the results from the analytics team and our own numbers?
No the consternation was because you listened to feedback from someone who didn’t even participate in this event.
You then changed the event accordingly and made a rod for your own back regarding overcomplicating it.
If you had done the event as previously described it would have no doubt been easier and faster to do.
The event itself worked. The fact that you listened to a demonstrable troll did not. It delayed the outcome and created extra work for yourself during a busy period.
Events can be enjoyable, please don’t punish the players willing to participate in them further by not hosting more of them in the future. As much as we might be sour, we wholeheartedly appreciate the content they provide, thank you for hosting it and don’t beat yourself up over it too much, mistakes happen.
That being said, for the wellbeing of those who might spend a little too much time on events like this, try not to offer rewards without first verifying that the determining metrics can be accurately measured and are clearly defined in the event’s ruleset. I got a lot of LP across the 15 accounts I was running battlefield sites with, yet only one was on the participation list, not that it really matters but it does sting a bit.
One of our guys was really confused why mordus legion gave him a medal. Was slightly funny.
You still havent really addressed why my alt who earnt less lp than my main was on the leaderboard but my main wasnt. But its soo far back and clearly your analytics gang can’t get to the bottom of it either
Thanks for trying and overall good attempt at an event. Definately increased numbers of participants in the test which is the aim. Hopefully not too long before we get to do something like this again… maybe test the idea again and if you can get it working better use it on live. I 100% guarantee a well run event like this with a leaderboard would be something players in FW would love.
They are already trying to achieve it themselves - see pandora eve.