How does Lp for tft work?

Hytyrant·7/26/2019, 11:27:51 PM·2 votes·817 views

I thought they said 4 th place and above would let you gain lp in tft, yet i have loss lp for 4th and 3rd place even being demoted from it, while gaining only 20 lp for 1st and losing 60 for 8th these numbers don't make sense how is a person suppose to climb if you get punished for 3x's the amount of what you can gain and only 2 places are guarnteed positive lp. Can someone please explain this to me.

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PORKOMALEDETTO8/20/2019, 2:02:36 AM1 votes

I'm new to this game (never played LoL, but i like this much) and yet i see a handful of design and technical issues that are never explained and then suddenly fixed. I see everyone saying 'Welcome to Riot' as the typical answer, so probably complaining and reporting is a drop in the ocean.

I agree the LP gain is really messed up, for a number of reasons:

There's no reason to hide how it works. Players will appreciate and probably complain less if there's more transparency.
Whoever thought "if you're paired with weakest players, you should win": • probably was guessing that you're paired with plants and not with humans • probably never lost 30 minutes gaining 15 LP for placing first • probably never lost 30 minutes LOSING 30 LP FOR PLACING 4th
Pairing a player with lesser ranked opponents and penalize him/her for that feels really horrible. I mean, if I win I get few LPs; if I lose it's a complete disaster. The chance to gain something is really low, if you combine it with the actual struggle to beat 6-7 players (I repeat, they're NOT PLANTS... ok maybe 1 or 2 could be) and the actual time spent, that's always to be considered for the majority of players
Small technical issues can ruin your game, but bugs are acceptable (losing LP because of a bug could be okay)
Big technical issues (connection, launcher) can ruin your entire day (losing MANY LP and 30-40 mins of inactivity IS NEVER OKAY)

As Hytyrant said, the last reason is definitely the unbalanced W/L ratio. I discuss it separately because it's a more subjective than absolute topic (those above can be considered facts instead). Everything depends on how much Riot wants this game to be difficult to climb, I mean, if it's hard to climb that is for everyone, so there should be nothing to complain about. Just to say: The game is really good and I think it's a waste to see passionate players drop it because they can't afford a >66% winrate (getting 8th wastes TWO entire 1st places) to climb. And there's NOTHING to do except climbing, so i would definitely listen more to my users' complaints, even if this point is actually balanced (well, it's hard for everyone)