Measured Battlegrounds Being Worked On
July 31, 2009 by Angelo Fernandez
Filed under PvP - Battlegrounds
There’s some talk right now in the forums about a system for Measured Battlegrounds because Blue poster Crygil admitted it’s something the development team is working on. As usual they don’t have a time table for this feature, which means that it would probably be a while before we can see it.
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What is Measured Battlegrounds? I’m actually not sure exactly what it is but I seem to have an idea based on the discussion going on in the forums.I guess the vagueness also comes from the fact that we don’t have a system in place to define it. This is how I understand the basic concept of what Blizzard is trying to come up with. When fighting in a Battleground, players will be measured somehow for their contributions to the success or failure of a given match. While honor does this to a certain extent, it’s limited to activities that give honor and does not show the whole picture. For example a player left to defend a flag is just as important as those capturing a base in an Arathi Basin match but honor would favor those on offense rather than those on defense.
If I’m correct this measurement system would affect the player’s rating and would move up or down based on that player’s performance. There’s talk about rating the team instead of the player but I’m not sure how that would work considering players usually come from different realms to join Battlegrounds. This sounds a lot like the old honor system in that your success in Battlegrounds determines how you rank and also a lot like the Arena Tournament for the same reason. Maybe players have an individual rating and the system would match you up with others players with roughly the same rating as you.
It seems like Blizzard wants a system where individual contributions to every important aspect of playing in a Battleground that contributes to the goal of winning is credited somehow. I’m not sure how they’ll be able to marry the concept of individual achievement with a “winning through teamwork” outlook since we’ve seen that players often overlook teamwork for a chance to have the most kills or the most killing blows and things like that.
This is the dilemma that Blizzard faces and it’s a tough one to tackle. Guess we’ll just have to see what they do to really see what kind of system they will implement.
What are your thoughts on this Measured BG System?
