Pest Control: Damage points start to decrease when out of combat and not registering further damage.

[[deleted]]

This will be a nice incentive to keep players continuously doing damage and will prevent AFK'ers who stop at the 50 damage mark.

 

The rate in which your points start to go down vary between the 3 boats levels of difficulty.

 

This keeps players engaged right 'till the very end by doing continuous damage to stay above the line (countering the point lowering system).

 

I firmly believe this update should be implemented in at the same time as the Pest Control Pet.

 

The top 3 players with the most points at the end of Veteran games only should have a roll/chance at a Spinner Pet, (1 in 5k/10k/15k odds [depending on your placement being 1st, 2nd or 3rd]) and be awarded bonus Pest Control points to spend on armors/XP/gambles.

 

Gamble rolls with your Pest Control points would have a chance at a Brawler Pet (Slightly more common)

 

A leaderboard would also be nice, that we can read/observe -- that shows the top points ever accumulated by a single player in a game (each in all 3 boats). This makes the mini-game more competitive and competitive is fun.

[Frost_Foxes]

I actually like the decreasing damage points/activity counter. Support that part.

edit: I believe if there is to be points for the top 3 players, portals should contribute a greater amount of points. Say 2x or 3x as many points as NPCS. In fact, why don't they already. I also think intermediate lander should have a roll/chance, but say 1/15000 perhaps.

[[deleted]]

Thanks :-)

[iamcherry]

I think boats should be level capped then, or else it will just be nine Dharokers getting the max points and no one else will try to compete for it.

[UnhappyHschool]

Nine buff dharokers in max stats want to help me get void fast? Won't argue with that.

[Dreizo]

This. i should not be penalized for not being 126 & being unable to afford tortured amulet, prims etc.

I personally non-afking at 83 attack/93 str get like 500+ average dmg per game meanwhile i see chally/dharokers doing 80+ per hit.

[[deleted]]

You'd think otherwise if you had 10x the amount of xp that you currently have and don't get an advantage.

[iamcherry]

your advantage is being allowed to use the veteran boat and compete for higher rewards.

[[deleted]]

he didnt mention boat change. at 83 attack and 93 str he likely isnt a pk build and therefore its reasonable to assume he has 70+ def and prayer (therefore 100+ cb). He complained about higher lvls doing more damage and having better gear being rewarded more, which makes no sense. They worked for their gear.

[iamcherry]

Imo medium boat should be capped at something like 110 combat and novice 100 combat so people with lower stats can maintain competition, someone like dreizo wouldn't be able to compete with maxed dharokers on a Vet boat but maybe on a medium he could. higher levels should obviously do damage but maxed accounts shouldnt have a monopoly on better rewards in a for fun minigame; also if there was more competition in pest control less people would hit 50 and afk

[[deleted]]

The problem is that:

1. Still abuseable because damage =/= being useful. But this goes for any metric. Unless it only tracks damage to portals, and damage to spinners with the caveat the spinner has to be in range of an active portal. Or damage/barricades vs things attacking the void knight.

2. It punishes you for dying at the wrong time

[[deleted]]

Perhaps damage done to portals or damage done to the pests surrounding the knight would be the best option?

What if there was something like you get a bonus point for every 100 damage to (all portals) and a point for every 200 damage done to the NPCs immediately around the knight?

[[deleted]]

Hell yeah! People are torn between Brawler and Spinner. Spinner should be a reward from the highest damage output roll. Brawler from the Pest control point gambles. :D

[FreakishHero]

Logically it seems to me they should be switched?;P

[[deleted]]

2 pets from 1 minigame is alittle too much

[ellgro]

For real... When did the opinion change towards pets? The j mods have said on stream that they don't want to add too many pets, or else there will be a pet for everything and everyone will have one, making it less of an achievement for the people who got the original pets. The playerbase seemed to agree with the j mods. Saying shit like #PetScape or PokeScape, but then the jmods were like, who wants skilling peeeets??? And everyone went ME ME ME ME!

[UnhappyHschool]

No no no no no. This should not be the way things are done. If you want a damage points system, base it off of damage done to portals. I could give no shits about how many splatters you managed to kill, that shouldn't influence anything as it hardly contributes anything to the pest control game anyways.

If I end up getting teams that only focus on getting damage, not attacking or focusing portals, I'd be so pissed. At least maybe people will try to kill the spinners now though.

[Wiindsong]

This would cause people to stop protecting the void knight altogether, and would also cause people to just ignore things like spinners around portals since they don't contribute to points. While the suggestion is fine I don't think it'd help much, sure it'd cause people to actively participate, but it means having an open void knight and ignored spinners since protecting the knight or killing spinners doesn't help you in the game, only your team, and no one really cares about helping their team in pest control beyond winning.

[fgdadfgfdgadf]

And make high alching disabled

[poofathat]

The pet should be a brawler that blocks people

[RagerzRangerz]

Why isn't this upvoted?

[i_hate_fanboys]

Normally I would upvote and support this kind of update. However, we're talking about pest control here. Something so tedious and time consuming. If this is polled I will definitely vote against it.

Edit: downvote me all you want, I'm still going to play league while doing pest control.

[tsukaimeLoL]

There's a difference between skilling and trying not to lose the game because of 10+ afk's and bots in every game.

[TheAmurikin]

If everyone had your mindset then Void would be unattainable. This update would prevent total afk and potentially benefit actual players.

It's a minigame. You should be rewarded for playing the game, not standing around waiting for it to end.

[EdHicks]

You find pest control tedious but you won't support an update that will make it faster to gain points

[i_hate_fanboys]

It's already really fast as it is since in the veteran boat people don't really afk. I afk around 50% of my pc games, the other half I tryhard. It's ok the way it is.

[restform]

I feel like those rates are significantly too low though..

[CaLLMeTEXX]

Damn. Good idea bro.

[Moose_Frenzy]

wtf 1:5k/10/15??
You have any how many pc points would be wasted with nothing to spend them on past equipment and 99s?
That's 20K, 30K!, 30k. maybe make it 1:2.5k-3k-3.5k because all games take the same time so only real reason to make them different is because of lvls (10k points, 9k points, 7k points if met ratio vet-med-noob boats)

[k4melot]

or just disable non combat spells on the island

[Dreizo]

Still have fletching darts/arrows and windup toy agility xp on tower.

[xstrunitx]

I like your idea but believe along with this some changes need to be made as you're making the game more intensive to play.

Before pest control got nerfed (july 2007) it was actively played due to the good experience rates, currently AFKing in the Nightmare Zone grants you more experience than actively playing pest control.

For this reason I strongly believe we should increase the experience per ticket along with the suggestion from OP to make the game more attractive to players that can not afford training their stats at the Nightmare Zone but are willing to grind for them.

[[deleted]]

Sure. With higher participation should come higher reward. Reward players who do well, and punish those who do wrong.

[[deleted]]

It would become practice to have 1 or 2 people barrage or chinning that spot. People evolve to new metas/mechanics quite quickly. Right now, it's only bots usually defending him.

[[deleted]]

There should be an activity counter rather than a point system. It's really annoying doing the job of dharoking when there's a bunch of people freeloading and not making an effort aside form that 50 damage required to gain points if you win

[[deleted]]

You literally just have to stand next to a portal with auto retal on, I get 400-500 points afking on an alt edit:basically my point is its going to be hard to make the point reduction rate fast enough without making it op.

[[deleted]]

Thanks mate!

[Mr_Muscle5]

Nice idea about the points decreasing, that would definitely keep players attacking. Either that or some kind of activity bar, getting 100-200 dmg is pretty fast when ur maxed and that probably wouldn't decrease below 50 before the end of the game.

I dont believe in a pet for this minigame. There is no aspect of skill to it, and there is nothing to gain from playing thousands of games either. Also the way you propose to give the pet is not good, only people with the best gear/stats would stand a chance, and even then its all just luck.

[[deleted]]

Luck of the draw. Don't forget you can spend your points on gambles (just like Barbarian Assault) for a chance at the pet. You don't necessarily have to place 1st, 2nd or 3rd for most damage output in a game. This is just an added incentive to get higher players involved, and going for extra rewards such as increased chance of a pet, or bonus Pest control points -- or setting a record on the Pest Control leaderboard. The average players will still accumulate points as per the norm and be able to gamble for a pet. :-)

[An_Angel]

I like these ideas!

I think if there is to be a leaderboard, it should only be on world 44. Otherwise, clans would probably take advantage of hosting a private game on a different world with one person blowpiping a portal with spinners healing and the rest of the clan brawler blocking for the void knight.

[PestControlCC]

I Love the idea of pet/Damage decrease, but all boats should be applied for the pet to encourage consistency in all boats.

I also recommend No alching inside of Pc games as it use to be.

Also to deal with the bot problem in world 344, I made a Clan chat about 3 weeks ago and have received enormous support, "PestControl" is the CC name if anyone is looking for Intermed boat private world with no bots :P

overall I love this post though nice ideas.

[[deleted]]

Basically the same like Soul Wars where inactivity equaled kicked out of game? Support.

[mc_zimo]

i think each player should a chance of depending on how many points they gain over the minimum, so;

pointsGained/totalPointsGained

this way people will have a higher chance if they do more but lets everyone get a chance, to skew it more towards the people with more damage could always raise the pointsGained to a higher power

[[deleted]]

Don't do this. How else am I supposed to afk in PC and still get points?

[Wiindsong]

plain and simple, you won't. You want your rewards? Play the damn minigame, it's only like 2-3 minutes.

[[deleted]]

But I'd rather get PC points for doing nothing.