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However my only problem is that I believe that however small it maybe there has to be a punishment for losing a spar this would be worked out by taking away the equivalent in points to whatever ratio you have. So for example I have roughly a 3:1 ratio therefore for losing a spar I would lose 3 spar points, its really not much. For those that have negative ratio there would be no punishment for losing so not to discourage or put them of from sparring and to encourage them to continue sparring to improve their ability.
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I look at that and agree that it would shape the leaderboard so that it was more true to showing who the "best" sparrer is, but I think it would have the same exact problems that the current leaderboard shows. People will camp and otherwise find ways to abuse it, and then the people who play the board legitimately will struggle to reach the number of points that the abusers are at, and they'll just camp. The sparring community is not confident enough and too afraid of risk. I think it'd work out if it was used properly, but I can see it being abused. It'd basically be impossible to camp at the #1 position in the way I propose, unless you're someone who goes into no-life mode for the first 2 months and you're something like 10,000 points ahead of everyone else.
Wasting the time in a lost spar to gain 0 points and adding a loss to your stats permanently is a pretty considerable punishment.
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As for the sparring hats I'm really not a huge fan of them as I can see them being easily abused by boosters or selective sparrers that in no way deserve them nor do I wish to have the sparring community turn into a bunch of hat chasing buffoons. I recall you being very close to the 9000 points landmark so if sparring hats were to be introduced I believe they should be for such a feat as with the current system I believe this is extremely difficult to achieve which I don't believe anyone could discredit the ability of the person who achieves this, as well as being near impossible for boosters to get to such a point. Of course this 9000 point landmark should be adapted to the new system you've proposed which after one season of implementing you'll get a rough idea of what the landmark should be.
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"Hat chasing" is an idea that doesn't personally bother me, but boosting and stuff like that does. Rather than spar hats for win milestones, I would much prefer if the seasonal leaderboard "winner" was awarded some prize. It'd only be four prizes every year. Towerers (essentially PKers) are awarded way, way more than that amount per year when you consider how many guild reach 1K hours.
Not to mention, I'm not seeing any progression towards a singles tournament. If staff would actual restructure the leaderboard in a way that would make it extremely competitive and impossible to game and manipulate, I'd be satisfied with the leaderboard itself being a substitute for a seasonal tournament.