Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-101.98.145.245-20140702023741/@comment-184.7.128.178-20140926070956

I really think they NB should just tell everyone exactly how the score is calculated. I mean, really, in what contest anywhere do you compete without having any real clue as to how you're being scored? Even in boxing where there are a number of criteria that can go into a judged decision, you at least know the critieria they're evaluating you on. The TDM was very straight foward - the points you scored in the mission=the points you accumulated for the tournament, roughly.

I assume right now that it is a combination of your score relative to the total points scored in the room, your rank among the players in the room (you were MVP, or you came in 2nd, etc.), the average player rank in the room (the matching points), and the end mission rank. So, for example, if you are a 2000 player in a room with other 2000 players, and you all clear the mission with an S, you score MVP, and have a significant margin between you and the next closest scorer, your tournament points are higher than if you were in a room of 1500-1600s, were MVP and blew them out, and still got the S. However, I expect they have a relativley low multiplier on the room average rank, which means you're better off making sure you score as much points as possible and getting MVP than toughing out a high-rank room where you actually have to put forth real effort to secure a top spot. That might explain why there seems to be more 4v4 matches going on than the 6v6 or 8v8, althoguh it could just be to shorten the time it takes to fill a room and get going on a mission.

What I also wonder is if aircraft rank comes into play, and how much. They went through the trouble of adding that "cost" descriptor, but so far I haven't seen a whole lot of definite usefullness for it. Does a plane with a lower cost get a better multiplier than one with a higher cost if they get the same score in a mission?