EVE Alliance Tournament Discussion

Just for future reference, considering (i think) our recent match was the first time this tie breaker has had to come into play - can CCP shed some light on how it's calculated? It would be nice to know for next time.

There have been rumours that doing things like overheating your guns - will increase your attack bar etc - is this true? Should all teams pre heat before a match?

Does it use the dps calculator from the ingame fitting window or another method? I ask this as the fitting window dps calculator is often wildly wrong especially with ships that don't use 5 drones.

When is it calculated? At match start? At teleportation? Does the ammo you have in matter (should we all load hail even if you want to use barrage at first?)

Does it take into account skills or assume all level 5s?

I ask for this clarification not out of bitterness (we are aware the ship has sailed in regards to our match) but in the hope that things can be clearer for teams going forward - there's a reasonable chance another golem v golem matchup could happen today for instance and certainly in future tournaments.

Cheers for the clarification, not overly keen on this method if that's the case but then i'm prob biased - at what point is the bar measured? Might be important if you want to switch to other ammo before the match starts

In a "normal" match where match stats are available, I think "total damage dealt" for the match would be a better, easy to use measure to tie break.

Good idea in theory, but in the event of the same situation, it wouldn't work. So what do they do if the exact same problem happens again? There would still need to be a backup.

I think it's pretty obvious that this method of tie breaking is designed to encourage teams not to put to heavy an emphasis on playing defensively. If both teams do so (making for a rather horrible match) the team that designed more damage into their setups is rewarded, regardless of how things actually panned out due to circumstance.

While there are several, equally viable, alternatives they could have chosen... this method rather neatly gets to the heart of the matter. That being "If you go totally defensive, and fit with little hope of actually damaging the other team, it could very well cost you the match". Which is as it should be.

Nobody wants to watch to turtle teams pound futilely at each other for the entire match.

Even though it was a terrible experience, nothing would have changed with the normal server performance. The match would go exactly the same way as we were 1 vexor up in terms of dps, while vexor ni and ishtars have approx the same nominal dps in setry configuration.
On the other hand, putting gecko/augmented thermal drones instead of gardes might win the match for SC.

Close one and gfwp SC.

Start applying wormhole/incursion style (not those exact numbers, just use the mechanic) to start progressively dropping resists?

Recon 3/3 style AoE damage to add tank pressure?

Just a couple of ways to force a resolution without a coin toss type scenario.

Probably just down to a coin flip. And no, I don't think the flipped coin will land on its side.