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Aule
04-13-2010, 06:44 AM
<p><img src="http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i302/harowen/smugtie.jpg" width="728" height="679" /></p><p>Title says it all.  Super close match comes down to the last second and.... both teams go over 1500 on the same tick.  I was on blue team, which was ahead by 1 point, and yet we only received 1 bottle of rum.  I can only assume that red team also only got 1 rum.</p><p>How does that make any sense?  What a waste of 20 minutes (and winning).</p>

Britefire
04-13-2010, 09:02 AM
<p>I think its so both teams dont purposly try to tie (dont ask how) and both get 3 tokens, but if both teams hit 1500 in one tick, that should be a win for boh imo.</p>

kcirrot
04-13-2010, 09:11 AM
<p>Sounds like one of those bugs they really didn't account for.  Your battle was so epic you broke the game!  Grats! <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" /></p>

Zabom
04-13-2010, 12:29 PM
<p>Name 1 sport or game where a tie means everyone gets the high prize. I can't think of a single one.</p>

Aule
04-13-2010, 01:43 PM
<p><cite>Zabom wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Name 1 sport or game where a tie means everyone gets the high prize. I can't think of a single one.</p></blockquote><p>Real world analogies are stupid.  Next you'll start listing off all the sports that involve use of magic spells.</p>

AziBam
04-13-2010, 01:54 PM
<p><cite>Aule@Guk wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Zabom wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Name 1 sport or game where a tie means everyone gets the high prize. I can't think of a single one.</p></blockquote><p>Real world analogies are stupid.  Next you'll start listing off all the sports that involve use of magic spells.</p></blockquote><p>For this conversation, a real world analogy is fine.  It's not fine when you start discussing mechanics.  That said, your team should have won. In fact, it DID win.  If both teams were at the exact same point total it would have been a tie.  That's not what happened here.  In the rare occasion when this result happens with both teams crossing 1500 on the same tic the team with the higher total should be the winner.  Seems pretty straight forward to me.</p>

FreddyRo
04-13-2010, 02:13 PM
<p>Same thing happened to me last week.  We were actually down until the final tick.  Final score: we were ahead, but only received one token.</p><p>Maybe split the difference and each team should get 2 tokens for a tie?</p>

Cerec
04-13-2010, 03:19 PM
<p>I can't think of a real world analogy in which there is a contest that has a PRIZE allows for a tie in the first place. </p><p>It's trivial to add code to the BG system in which if the score is that close that it raises the target score by 200 until one group is the clear winner.</p>

Kota
04-13-2010, 03:36 PM
<p><cite>FreddyRo wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Same thing happened to me last week.  We were actually down until the final tick.  Final score: we were ahead, but only received one token.</p><p>Maybe split the difference and each team should get 2 tokens for a tie?</p></blockquote><p>this</p>

Kaita
04-13-2010, 04:22 PM
<p>You didn't win, The goal is to be the <strong><span style="font-size: medium;">first</span></strong> team to 1500points. Neither team won, so you both lost.</p>