Thoughts on points farming

[:PC:Dart]

Hello eGO,

So i am curious what is eGO's feeling on people "farming points" by that i mean i have seen several engies now building things on the battlements on 2 fort over and over and over.

I assume this is done to only gain points and i am curious if this is "bad" in eGO's eyes or if that is ok.

Thanks
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[WyrmMage]

Whenever you build an object, if you destroy it yourself you lose the points you got for building it. If an enemy destroys it no points are lost, but if you destroy it you lose the same amount of points as building it. This is to prevent people from farming points as engi. Unless the system isnt working properly or has changed, this should occur and people doing this as engineer are actually gaining zero points. At the end of each round it also subtracts points for any buildings you still have alive at round end.

 

[:PC:Dart]

I understand that, what i was talking about was an engie putting his sentry (often a mini) on the battlements to get shot by a sniper. They do this over and over thus the sniper and him get a ton of points...

 

[? Frisky Dingo ?]

So your mad that he is playing engi with mini sentries...and possibly getting almost no points from kills but only from building a minisentry...really....

 

[IrateDonnie]

It was probably just bad Wrangler Engies trying to suppress the battlements.

 

[noblenote]

So your mad that he is playing engi with mini sentries...and possibly getting almost no points from kills but only from building a minisentry...really....

Lol, i agree

 

[:PC:Dart]

I am not mad i am just wondering if this was something eGO cared about on their severs. It is a really easy way to farm points (you get 5 per building a sentry) and you can just keep building it getting points MUCH faster then trying to kill people for 2 points each.

I play medic/engie so i don't really care much but just curious what eGO thought of it was all.

 

[Shiznoe]

It's not a bad thing to do but it is look downed upon in my opinion because you haven't done it by your self and it doesn't seem right

 

[Mithos Riot]

i play wrangler engi a lot. but i play it because it is fun and effective if you do it right. i get many MVPs while playing so it's not like its just building sentries. you do get a lot of points in gamME this way, but what does that matter?

points in gameME mean very little.

a good medic will get 4 points per assist, and rack up a ton of points. BAN THE MEDIC FOR POINT FARMING IMO!!!

 

[Wilson!!]

If players are going to take the time to do that just to up their points on the leaderboards, then good for them. I personally don't like it, but its just a ranking, its no big deal to me.

 

[GTRRacer001]

I noticed with HL:Sx You could farm points as you didnt lose any from from destroying building, but GameME fixes that

 

[:PC:Dart]

I agree i think it is silly etc people would do that, just making sure it wasn't something i should be reporting.

Thanks for the info
Dart

 

[Fraurrix]

I don't even see why anyone cares about the point system. I don't think they really mean much in a game like TF2. All I really focus on is my KD ratio.

 

[DRaGZ]

I don't even look at my points.

 

[Dutchoper72]

I play for wins and random items...points mean nothing

 

[Raynor]

I play for wins and random items...points mean nothing

+1

 

[Exee]

it's all the same thing, if you just build mini sentries, you will get a lot of points, easy farm, but i think kill over and over again is better than farm points, but it's just my feeling, i like earn points, but not farming. but, it's just points...

 

[:PC:Dart]

The only thing about it that upsets me is when i see people do it on my team. Then i am thinking great...way to be helpful...lol :glare:

 

[codo]

farming doesn't matter. look at Nik 's stats.

And an sg anywhere is better than no sg

good k/d = points, because you lose points for dying.

the engi and medic are the reason for the point system. both need to be rewarded for what work they do for the team(not always killing for the team)

 

[NoTroop]

I don't even see why anyone cares about the point system. I don't think they really mean much in a game like TF2. All I really focus on is my KD ratio.

Caring about a KD ration is kind of weird in such a team based game. Killing a medic 10 times but dying 15 is a pretty fair trade for some classes, but it will make your KDR look bad.

*(I say this because my KDR is terrible)