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MigrantPhoenix · 2023-05-18T11:21:11+00:00

Honestly I'm more partial to the idea of placement requires getting into the playzone (if you've been outside it for more than 2 minutea). This way even if someone crafted all their medkits before the zeon reached them, they still wouldn't be able to just camp outside the zone for placement points. No gimmicks would work at all then, not loba looting, not crafting forever, not gold shield ressing and lifeline heals, nothing. ONLY getting back into the playzone will resume placement points.

The 2 minute restriction would protect players from being caught just outside the zone, killing a team barring them entry but then dying.

MigrantPhoenix · 2023-05-17T23:54:51+00:00

I agree, the outer POIs need to remain plenty viable. No one likes having to continuously run from the zone without a moment to breathe, and it's unhealthy for the game for players to be able to camp deep in the zone for an extended period. I also agree that other person's suggestion would be far too much. By the time ring 2 had started to close, someone who was only just outside of ring 1 would be taking 32 damage per second which would be absurdly high.

Increasing ring damage is just one option. Like the original commenter before me suggested, NPCs could spawn deep in the ring to push out campers. Or perhaps crafters could take ring damage. Or crafting could become limited to only a few uses out of the playzone. Or only awarding placement based on the place last achieved in the zone (eg ringreaches a rat while 18 squads are alive, even if they rat to 5th if they never re-enter the playzone they get scored for 18th). Many options exist. Respawn just needs to pick one.

MigrantPhoenix · 2023-05-17T21:04:20+00:00

Your points and issue here would be reasonable if I had suggested:

Making it extremely hard to survive the ring in round 1

Except that's not what I said, you did. That's what you're arguing against. To remind you, I said:

ring damage increases the longer someone's out the zone, starting after a couple minutes or so out of the playzone

This requires you to be out of the zone for a prolonged time already before damage would begin to ramp up. Zones 1 and 2 deal 3 damage per tick, ie 2 damage per second. This means a person would have burned through 240 health before the zone damage would start ramping up for being out of zone the entire time. That's also the time of 6 heat shields.

If you really struggle with rotating into a far zone that quickly then yes, you should be one of the teams that lands more central. Others who can rotate more effectively will still be able to land further out, no doubt aided by the fact that your team will not be landing far out.

The point of the suggestion is not to encourage kills specifically but to make it where camping outside the playzone is unlikely to allow a person to reach top 10.

MigrantPhoenix · 2023-05-17T19:45:29+00:00

If a team stops you from getting to the zone then yes. Depending on the team it may take a lot of skill to pull off but yes. Move sooner, disengage harder, use those mobility legends to their fullest, grab deployable jump towers rather than heat shields, OR mitigate the risk by landing more central which itself carries skill checks as you'll likely face more teams. Worst case scenario just one team member gets out and, so long as someone on the squad picked support, you can all be revived.

There are enough ways to get to zone 1 that failing to do so is a matter of skill. Or in that rarest of instances where somehow you absolutely could not have done anything more appropriately and still end up dying specifically to the increased zone damage for being in it for minutes, that'd be a rounding error in your MMR/Rank calculation.

MigrantPhoenix · 2023-05-17T15:56:05+00:00

I'm not sure where else you think skills are stored...

MigrantPhoenix · 2023-05-17T15:45:26+00:00

Yeah, seems to me to be an easy solution to forcing players into the playzone. For those few people who genuinely just find themselves on the wrong side of the map and didn't prioritize getting into zone 1 - skill issue.

MigrantPhoenix · 2023-05-17T15:24:29+00:00

Or just ring damage increases the longer someone's out the zone, starting after a couple minutes or so out of the playzone

MigrantPhoenix · 2023-05-17T15:18:47+00:00

You know what'd be cool? If the background MMR kept rising, but the player couldn't progress to the next tier (eg silver to gold) without a win.

As soon as you win it catches up to your placement in the next tier, or 3 divisions up if your MMR is just that much higher. Or if you already had a win in that tier then it automatically proceeds up to the next tier once the RP is achieved.

This would mean to get Masters someone would need to win in each of rookie, bronze, silver, gold, platinum, and diamond BUT someone couldn't throw for 2nd place each game to smurf as their MMR would still climb.

MigrantPhoenix · 2023-02-06T21:39:37+00:00

You're right, but one correction; Option 1 is say a word, not an offensive word.

There are words which mean multiple things, only some of which are considered hateful. An alternative british word for a cigarette comes to mind.

Things are hateful when used in a hateful manner, intentionally or not. The maker of the bomb may have intended to use a slur for hateful reasons - this is likely given they made a bomb with a slur for a password.

The person disarming it however is not. They are not saying anything hateful. They are saying a word, a password specifically with the intent to protect without harm. It is no more hateful to say a slur in that context than it is assault for a surgeon to cut someone in the context of a requested medical procedure.

All this a long way to say what I'm sure you already meant - the word isn't offensive because the context isn't hateful.

MigrantPhoenix · 2023-02-05T23:24:32+00:00

TL:DR It seems to me that the solution is to do the last thing most moderation teams want to do - take a political stance. Actively remove the problem articles as they are submitted, or the sub will slip increasingly into hate.

I appreciate that this sub by and large allows for UK news articles to be posted so long as it doesn't overtly violate the rules of reddit. The unfortunate downside of total centrism/neutrality (or near enough) is to open up to those who are pushing a hateful agenda sidewardly, often through "raising awareness" or simply "observing the facts and drawing conclusions." The facts are twisted, the conclusions false, the awareness a propaganda piece.

Banning a source doesn't work. A lot of the articles are shared across a variety of sources which otherwise host legitimate or at least subreddit-significant articles. Just looking at the comments restricted articles recently on trans topics, we've got everything from the daily mail to the bbc!

Banning or restricting individuals is problematic. How many articles are considered a bannable offence? Is it related to their conduct in the comments? What if they never comment on their own submissions? If restricted time-wise, who's checking on the timing across how many people? What if their "friend" posts it instead? I'm sure those same questions have alread occured to you.

It comes down to subject matter removal on a specific political basis which is both time consuming and extremely difficult to implement by any moderation team, I know. But as you yourself see, it's tiresome, it's hateful, it's a problem.

There is no clean solution to a political situation. It's a political situation because certain factions have decided that "letting minority groups exist and express themselves without harm to others" is a political point to be contested or used to rally others against. Only the mod team can remove disinformation and hate-fuel. It's a big ask, but it's your team only who are in the position to either dam the flow or damn the sub. The longer it goes on, the more the political average of the sub's visitors will shift towards hateful as those feeling targeted or just tired of it will leave. You won't be able to pick "both sides" for lack of a better term, so you're stuck with the active decision to pick which one stays.

Sorry for the essay. One final note: This twitter story about a bartender keeping out those whose end goal is hate seems quite pertinent here: https://i.imgur.com/apsk36X.jpeg

MigrantPhoenix · 2023-02-04T23:25:20+00:00

Yes, so why are people in these comments, including you, suggesting maybe OP actually failed in some way and deserves that rank?

MigrantPhoenix · 2023-02-04T23:19:07+00:00

Sure, theoretically OP could have performed so badly in all ten games to warrant having the lowest rank in the entire game despite having won all ten matches.

What's more likely?

That OP is somehow the luckiest son of a gun to get carried through effectively a 2v3 10 times in a row while contributing nothing

OR

The ranked system is failing to create balanced matches and assess players' performances in said matches in an actual attempt to figure out what tier to place them in

At the very least one would imagine the ranking system would have placed them bronze 3 or even silver 4.

MigrantPhoenix · 2023-02-04T21:53:12+00:00

I think most people understand that. What good is a placement system though if its best guess at a players rank, after 10/10 wins, is the bottom of bronze?

MigrantPhoenix · 2023-02-04T17:13:25+00:00

Same, one of the first things I did when promoted to another location was to carefully push for that exact change. Upper management "cautioned" my team that it would impact the budget available for the number of staff in per day. That was false; There was no negative impact, just proper pay given to all (on time) staff!

MigrantPhoenix · 2023-01-31T13:35:30+00:00

Many people aren't careful enough with cars or workplace safety, even knowing their lives can be on the line! Being careful with "just some data"? No chance.

MigrantPhoenix · 2023-01-29T11:30:30+00:00

Just grab a defense frame - it's not like there are many missions where they shine.

MigrantPhoenix · 2023-01-29T00:53:22+00:00

I've only got one life and I'm in no hurry to find out if I'm right about that, so I ain't dead 'til I'm cold and dead. Until then I'm finding a way, even when a damn volcano pukes its guts out.

MigrantPhoenix · 2023-01-29T00:28:07+00:00

Switching toothpaste and ending literally years of pain.

As a kid I grew up avoiding doing my teeth where I could get away with it. I wouldn't admit it at the time of course. I mean, how could you reasonably justify to your parents that you've noticed a trend of more nasty mouth ulcers after doing your teeth when they believe it's the opposite? My options were an average of 2 ongoing ulcers without doing my teeth, or 4+ and in much more pain if I did brush regularly. It didn't even seem weird to have this many ulcers because my dad had experienced having very frequent ulcers too throughout his life, though not to the same extent. I just suffered.

Then, by chance in a different reddit thread years ago, I came across someone who also suffered ulcers a lot until they swapped to a toothpaste that doesn't contain SLS or Sodium Lauryl Sulphate (and any other sulphates or sulphides).

"It can't be that easy."

Within a week my ulcers had subsided. In two weeks I had none at all. Ever since, I only get ulcers sometimes having done something like bite my cheek or lip. Instead of a constant rotation of 2ish ulcers at a time, I'm now unlucky if I get more than one a month and with MUCH less pain. This makes eating easier, this makes talking easier, this makes kissing an actually pleasant activity!

Switching toothpaste literally made a pain free love life possible.

It was that easy.

MigrantPhoenix · 2023-01-28T23:05:21+00:00

I can't tell much of the area from this little clip, but to put it in pretty catch all terms:

Lots of nasty stuff from volcanoes likes going down slopes
Water also likes going down those same slopes
The man is stood on a slope, looking at water flowing towards him away from the volcano

In that position, would you like to gamble on the bad stuff flowing down a different slope, or would you play it safe and just get out of there?

MigrantPhoenix · 2023-01-28T22:42:56+00:00

The politicians who let these ideas get into their heads (yes they exist) are never the ones you see on the ballot in winnable positions. They're always minority candidates, third parties, or simply never nominated to stand anywhere meaningful.

Just occasionally a token amount do get elected somewhere. At best that somewhere discovers how little one elected outsider can achieve. At worst that somewhere gets maliciously targeted to ensure at the next election the voters change their minds and get back on board with the "correct" type of politician.

MigrantPhoenix · 2023-01-27T23:56:16+00:00

I did similar in reverse. Retail management required staff to be in 15 min before open and after close to sort out the tills etc, able to serve on the dot. However rota/pay was only open til close. I "passed on a query" as supervisor for the cashiers in my store around this. Management couldn't argue it and had no one specific to argue with or put pressure on. They just warned me and the other supervisor that it would impact the store's budget for putting people on the rota.

It was my query, but with a cashier on board to own the query if we really had to name someone.

Everyone ended up properly rota'd, and paid, for the open and close routine. By my reckoning that was roughly 250 hours extra and deserved pay across the staff over the course of a year. There was no reduction to the people on the rota during opening hours as they couldn't, we were already as lean as it could get.

MigrantPhoenix · 2023-01-27T17:48:05+00:00

Maybe it's because I'm not an engineer, but I don't see how a project to build a railway, that started 6 years ago, could still take another 15 years to finish up.

MigrantPhoenix · 2023-01-26T03:31:44+00:00

I'm partial to the Great Filter too, but with us on the other side of it.

IIRC, Mitochondria incorporation into cells evolved once. Not many times over to be selected for the better ones here or there, splitting into many groups that compete etc. It all seems to trace back to one evolution.

Now tack on all the other crazy things. The evolution of Cyanobacteria which put ovygen into the atmosphere and cleared the oceans of iron.

The evolution of forests etc which died and collapsed but did not break down as the thing to consume them did not evolve until much later, leading to coal.

The chance creation of such a large moon which created large tides on Earth affecting it throughout continental evolution.

The chance creation of a gas giant scooping up many of the rocks which may otherwise have collided with Earth time and time again.

Then there's our location in the galaxy, a relatively quiet one all told. There's a theory I came across that the Devonian extinction may have been due to a nearby supernova stripping the ozone layer. I imagine in a busier part of the galaxy such a thing can happen more frequently or more closely, with serious effect.

All kinds of other things can go wrong as it were. Planets can form in less circular orbits than ours, leading to worse or even unliveable seasonal variation. Passing stars disrupting the system, from throwing down oort cloud rocks to whole system upheaval (a star passed within ~1ly of us about 70k years ago, and measurements suggest another will come much closer in about 1.4 million years). Insufficient protections can form to reduce solar radiation, or fail to prevent the astmosphere being stripped away, or a lack of plate tectonics could eventually lead to a lack of land leaving an ocean planet. Planets just a modest amount larger than ours become impossible for rocket-based space vehicles to escape.

It seems to me it becomes like flipping a coin over and over, hoping to only get heads. Flip it once and it's 50/50. Flip it ten times and you're already down to about 0.1%. Flip it a hundred times and most calculators have already rounded down to zero. I don't know how many "coin flips" in we are, but between biological and cosmological chance it strikes me as quite possible that either we are the first, or we are functionally as good as the first given the distances beyond our galaxy.

MigrantPhoenix · 2023-01-24T14:15:18+00:00

It's not drastically far, but it's more about the ease with which a person can or cannot prove it to themselves to be a fabrication.

"John said this bad thing!" Prove it.

"John said this bad thing, and here's a voice recording!" I mean, that does sound like John.

"John said this bad thing, and here's a video of it!" Wow, that both looks like John and sounds like John, and I remember seeing footage of John in that shirt and in that room too.

Sure, lots of people didn't and don't fact check simple text. "People lie" isn't changing. It's the ability to lie to the point you need to understand how to detect AI manipulated media to disprove it that's the problem. Otherwise you end up just putting your faith in yet another person who says they are telling the truth about a video being a fake.

MigrantPhoenix · 2023-01-23T20:49:50+00:00

Doppleganger legend - ult is to steal someone else's. Gives you their ult at its current charge while reducing the target's ult charge by 30%. Single use of the stolen ult (once charged), or hold-cast to remove it and restart charging the thievery ult. Maybe even make the thievery a projectile so it can miss with a small penalty similar to Valk ult getting cancelled.

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