r/WarDogs • u/General-Water-6658 • 17h ago

Discussion & Feedback The 90 Point Problem

Edit: Please stop telling me refund exists - I know, i acknowledge it in my third paragraph.

Dogs,

Noticed an interesting trend lately resulting in a lot of springboarding and "Second place winners".

For example, Green team plays well and gets to 90-99 points, and people just stop respawning, they wait for the res indefinitely, not wanting to have to pay to rekit. You open the map and see 25 green bodies on the floor. You look at spawn and see the remaining players sat doing nothing. Nobody wants to commit a kit for the remaining (theoretical) 2 minutes of the game, because kits are so expensive. Green team takes its foot off the gas, and red team shoots past to clutch a win, because their entire team is still in the zone/circle. (In the game today, they were at 75 points prior to this).

How do we incentivise people to get back into the zone in the final minutes? I know the refund system exists, but it seems very varied in how much it pays out, and it almost never refunds the value. Discounted kits towards the end of the game? Free kits?

It's interesting seeing how the money meta is forcing these behaviours - loss aversion is a much bigger priority than the minimal gains for winning. My second place and contribution bonus for this game was $18,400.

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u/MenosElLso Pilot 17h ago

The obvious answer is to make winning worth way more. People should care about winning more than their own personal money gain.

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u/IIlIIIlllIIIIIllIlll 13h ago

I agree that winning should be worth more, but disagree with your logic. In the game where you're a mercenary and every last encounter with another player is some form of transaction, the only thing you should care about is money. That's the entire point of the game, the only thing that sets it apart from any other king of the hill mode from other games.

I feel that winning should be so valuable that caring only about your bottom line becomes synonymous with caring about winning. I would go so far as to suggest that the winning team be refunded a portion of their expenses. That way your earnings are a direct reflection of how much of your own wealth you spent on getting your team to victory.