Emphasis placed more on the actual objectives of the map.. those who care only about points will be more inclined to participate in capping a CP. Am I missing anything? Isn't the point of the game to win (and fun, duh) by getting the flag or capturing/defending points? Sounds like a descent plan, but planning and what actually happens are two different things.

My only concern with this solution is that it mathematically doesn't really seem to fix the problem vis a vis high ranking players. Despite some people's thinking that I'm only concerned with maintaining a point lead, I'm all in favor of rewarding people more for their kills. But my concern is about the sting of losing points, that if you a) care about gaining and losing points (and if you don't, it doesn't apply to you so stop arguing "who cares." Obviously you don't, but that's not the point), and b) the number of players that take large numbers of points from you is so high, and the loss so great, that you feel compelled to change the way you play to minimize the continual loss.

As I understand your proposal, Killer points would be double the current amount, while the Victim would only lose half that number. To my thinking, then, the Victim still loses just as many points as without making the change. Now, if you simply halved the point loss and kept Killer points the same, or double Killer points and give the Victim only a 25% loss, that would be a change that helps address the concern I'm talking about.

And while I'm flattered at Business advocating sexually assaulting high ranking players, personally I have no ego invested in it. I just play 'em as I see 'em.

As it stands right now, the capper gets 75 points and the team gets 25.

Anybody taking over under bets on how long before someone complains about this new scoring system?

lol jk......

I don't care what we do. I'm hoping that as more people get a bunch of points the losses from dying that players with a shitload of points get will go down and then they will stop complaining. I think we need a system where anyone who isn't in the top 10 gets 1000 points anytime they cap a flag or build a sentry or fucking login until everyone on the server thinks they have the biggest e-penis because they earned 1,000,000,000 points. Or a better idea, give anyone who can stay logged in and playing on the same server for 48 hours straight a 50,000 point bonus, then the stat whores will kill themselves trying to achieve it and we won't have to listen to them whine anymore.

As a semi-serious suggestion that hasn't really been mentioned yet, why don't we just get rid of the stat system altogether?

The system was implemented as a harmless way to get people to come back, to become invested in the servers, to want to increase their score. Yet it seems all the "respected members of the community" just feel like it's become a pain in the ass and would rather attack anyone that wants to engage in serious discussion of its variables. Personally, I'm tired worrying that posting my thoughts on the subject is going to result in a slew of divisive, accusatory comments about how self serving I am, or how little of a life I have. I'm tired of playing differently than normal because of the point loss I'd suffer, and as long as I see "x got 50 points for killing Endyss [GwDR]" I'm going to take note of it (sorry, a flaw of mine I guess. Attack me for it.)

So let's either get rid of the whole thing and let people come back because they just like the community and how well the servers are run, or let's have all the people that doesn't care about the point system quit wasting everyone's time reading their unconstructive sarcasm and insults, and get to work on making it a fair system that continues to draw regular players back for more.

is it possible to disable hlstats messages in-game?