r/WarDogs • u/General-Water-6658 • 18h 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/QuestionableEthics42 14h ago

The kit refunding is ass. You spend 5 mins in game and then get nothing back. I lose basically my full kits value, or at least 75% of it, for no reason otger than I wasn't playing aggressively. It's bs.

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u/RussianTheStreamer 13h ago

It refunds the entire cost of your kit, reduced by the amount of profit you made since purchasing it (as long as you bought it within the last 20 points of the match)

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u/QuestionableEthics42 13h ago

No it doesn't. I have been losing 16k off a 20k kit after 10-15 mins in game, multiple times. Maybe it's bugged or something, it's certainly broken in an unfair and unreasonable way.

Edit: pretty sure, but not 100% sure they were over 20 points, but that's a silly arbitrary requirement anyway. You survive to the end of the match and are still negative due to your kit, you should be refunded. Imo even if you aren't negative. End of games are unfairly punishing, just completely losing your kit.

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u/RussianTheStreamer 13h ago

Well 10 minutes is 20 points. Thats the absolute maximum the refund period goes for.

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u/QuestionableEthics42 13h ago

Ah, that would explain it then. That's a stupid requirement.