[GAMEPLAY]/[CLIENT] Party Rewards system stopped working?

Vaati006·3/14/2015, 7:34:09 PM·1 votes·995 views

The last few games I played with a party of people, I haven't been getting any of the "bonus IP reward" that I should be seeing. At least, it isn't showing up on the progress bar thingy at the top of the postgame lobby screen; I see a section for "won game", a section for "matchmade game", and a big greyed out section for "if you had an IP boost you'd be getting this much more!". But unlike the first few games I played after the system was turned on, I don't see a section for "bonus IP party reward" or whatever it was called.

Did they simply disable the Party Rewards system earlier than they said they would? In the original announcement, they said it would be active until March 16th, but its only the 14th today...

tl;dr for below paragraph: from its introduction, I haven't understood how Party Rewards are supposed to function, nor have I been able to make sense of how it seems to be actually functioning. Bugged? or poorly explained?

Also, when the Party Rewards WERE working correctly, the value they gave you was either bugged or the list of "jackpots you might get for parties of this size" was horrifically misleading. The list implied that you would gain somewhere between normal rewards (100%) and 4 times the amount (400%) if grouped with a single partner, and between normal rewards (100%) and 16 times the amount (1,600%) if in a group of five people. However, of the maybe 5 times I did get the Party Rewards bonus, I only ever got 58 IP (base) plus bonus 16 IP, or 99 IP (base) with bonus 18 IP... Even though rewards were supposed to range from 100% of your base to 400% (or more), not once did I get more than 130% of my base IP reward. Did they simply underestimate how rare the "jackpot" reward was? Is/was the distribution nonlinear over the full 100% - 400% range? Maybe it was bugged and giving +16 IP when it should have been giving x16 IP?

2 Comments

WindScorpion3/14/2015, 11:21:18 PM1 votes

As explained in the original announcement of party rewards, sometimes you will not get any party reward. So if you haven't seen it for a few games, don't panic. Keep playing and you'll probably get it eventually.

Also, I agree with you on the misleadingness of the announcement. Most games the reward is 0-5 IP, with occasional pops of 15-40. Last night I got my first "jackpot," and it was awesome, but I feel like the rewards for most games are so small it's almost insulting. Maybe that will be part of this beta test, and they'll even out the rewards a bit in the future.

Shinjiro Aragaki3/15/2015, 2:24:26 AM1 votes

I didn't get any party rewards for half the matches I've played with friends since this started. When I do get it, I get like 1.

At one point yesterday I got 11. That was the highest one I've gotten... lol