Stats Reset and 200 kills...

[Striker]

Okay, does anyone realize it's near impossible to get your first 200 kills as a medic since the system does not reward you for assists?

I've only played a couple times since the stats reset and it seems every time I'm playing our team needs a medic, so I switch. But this in turn keeps me from getting 200 kills...

Would it be at all possible to reward (only for players that dont have their 200) half a kill per assist as medic or something? At least something that's not going to discourage new players from playing a medic. I'm gonna keep playing medic regardless, but it would be nice to be ranked up there with the other big dogs.

[YevGenie]

Striker, that is one of the reasons that the medics get more points per kill assists, sure you don't get more than two for killing, but you do get more per assist. I think thats the reasoning behind it.

[Striker]

But as hlstats keeps saying, you dont get "normal" points until you get to 200 kills...

[Dog]

Hmmm he may have a point.
The 200 kills was originally to protect the high ranked players from new players

[Stevo]

[quote="Striker";p="73331"]But as hlstats keeps saying, you dont get "normal" points until you get to 200 kills...[/quote]
The normal points only apply to kills I believe. It means you can gain only 2 points per kill, instead of up to 25 with regular points. You still get 4 points for every medic assist regardless.

[Striker]

Ah okay, that makes sense. Perhaps the message needs to be changed then?

[Hubert]

[quote="StrontiumDog";p="73333"]Hmmm he may have a point.
The 200 kills was originally to protect the high ranked players from new players[/quote]

Now that players gain points for kills, but don't lose the equivalent amount for being killed, that sounds like a good idea. You don't have to worry about the high rankers complaining about huge lost points for dying, and you allow the newer players to get reg points quicker.

[Striker]

It is my birthday today...did nobody notice

Edit: Oh, I guess it's not visible to anyone except "friends."

[YevGenie]

Hubert, I think the current point system is going to go up for vote sometime or other, I would imagine the admins don't want to change anything permanently just quite yet.

[Hubert]

[quote="YevGenie";p="73362"]Hubert, I think the current point system is going to go up for vote sometime or other, I would imagine the admins don't want to change anything permanently just quite yet.[/quote]

Oh OK, I didn't know this was a test phase.

[mr_s]

So when are the stats being wiped eh?