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Suggestion for future tournaments - looting
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Skyler Hawk
The Tuskers
The Tuskers Co.
#1 - 2014-08-31 18:59:45 UTC
A few matches in this and previous tournaments have been dragged out long after they were effectively over because the winning team wanted to loot the field. While this is entirely understandable and very much in the spirit of the game (especially when a flagship has died or there are expensive drones and ammo to grab), it makes for dull viewing and makes it harder to keep things on schedule. Might it be better to automatically have all loot on the field teleported to the hangar of the winning team's captain at the end of the match?
suicide
Dreddit
Test Alliance Please Ignore
#2 - 2014-08-31 19:38:33 UTC
THIS IDEA IS AMAZING.

(and I was going to post it)
Dante Tsaronis
#3 - 2014-08-31 19:45:51 UTC
Or make an exception to the "no deployables" rule for mobile tractor units. Hah
Soldarius
Dreddit
Test Alliance Please Ignore
#4 - 2014-09-02 16:59:26 UTC
Dante Tsaronis wrote:
Or make an exception to the "no deployables" rule for mobile tractor units. Hah


Was going to say, MTU. However, the vast majority of the cash left on field is usually in the form of Augmented drones.

http://youtu.be/YVkUvmDQ3HY
Tyrus Tenebros
State War Academy
Caldari State
#5 - 2014-09-02 18:37:31 UTC
hmm. This would be a nice way to augment the winning team's loot. Teleport it to the Captain's hangar on return to the station that (s)he left from (i.e. i get teleported from Jita, all wrecks and drones on field are auto-looted and returned to my hangar in jita).
Aldstealth Senx
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#6 - 2014-09-03 00:33:27 UTC
The idea is awesome (and I was gonna post it too) but the longer ended matches are not so hard to watch when the commentators know how to just chat.
Sakura Nihil
Faded Light
#7 - 2014-09-03 01:48:40 UTC
Or alternatively, just allow time after the end of a match for the winning team to loot. A solid minute or two would be fine to get most of the good loot, on the whole.

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Faife
Dreddit
Test Alliance Please Ignore
#8 - 2014-09-03 21:54:02 UTC
Sakura Nihil wrote:
Or alternatively, just allow time after the end of a match for the winning team to loot. A solid minute or two would be fine to get most of the good loot, on the whole.


it'd slow the whole process down even more. just teleport it to the hangar of the winning team's captain.
Theon Severasse
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#9 - 2014-09-04 07:34:05 UTC
Logically the match can't go over schedule because of looting, since they can't do it past the time limit anyway. If all the matches are scheduled around every match going for the whole time then there should be no issue.
Tyrus Tenebros
State War Academy
Caldari State
#10 - 2014-09-04 13:15:26 UTC
It's not about the ISK as much as it is about preventing the viewers from getting bored watching the garbage time of the match.

Might as well just corral it all to the winning team
Mr Epeen
It's All About Me
#11 - 2014-09-04 14:35:27 UTC
The only purpose of having commentators for anything is to keep the viewers occupied with interesting stuff to fill in the slow moments in the action.

If you are bored, it's because they are not doing their job.

The looting mechanic is fine. It's the poor commentating that is the problem. Maybe CCP should watch some televised sporting events and learn from them. Find some good pairs that play well off each other and stick with them. Problem solved.

Mr Epeen Cool
Apothne
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#12 - 2014-09-04 17:51:02 UTC
Mr Epeen wrote:
The only purpose of having commentators for anything is to keep the viewers occupied with interesting stuff to fill in the slow moments in the action.

If you are bored, it's because they are not doing their job.

The looting mechanic is fine. It's the poor commentating that is the problem. Maybe CCP should watch some televised sporting events and learn from them. Find some good pairs that play well off each other and stick with them. Problem solved.

Mr Epeen Cool


Geela
Rayo Atra
Guardians of the Volatile Wine
#13 - 2014-09-04 19:01:20 UTC
props for the commentators being better than ever.


also


larry son, larry.

Tell you what I do like though: A killer. A dyed-in-the-wool killer. Cold-blooded, clean, methodical and thorough.

-Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg
Mr Epeen
It's All About Me
#14 - 2014-09-04 19:33:06 UTC
Apothne wrote:


Geela
Lorenzo
Aldstealth Senx
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#15 - 2014-09-04 21:22:21 UTC
Faife wrote:
Sakura Nihil wrote:
Or alternatively, just allow time after the end of a match for the winning team to loot. A solid minute or two would be fine to get most of the good loot, on the whole.


it'd slow the whole process down even more. just teleport it to the hangar of the winning team's captain.


Agreed Faife. Sakura's idea is useless.