Infamy Tanking Penalty Should Penalize Infamy Tankers Not Everyone

Rovio stops.
I am not a good player, since the day I began, I could not go over 1k infamy because of the gameplay I try and high ping of my connection.I do not care about infamy, as I enjoy the game I am playing with my stupid ship and "drop a mine and run, bomb from far away" gameplay. I am moving up and down around 400-800 infamy nowadays.

That gameplay has ups and downs. if 3 people from other side are hitting me as soon as they see me, I am sunk. If not, I can drop a mine and expecting a surprise )
I honestly enjoy seeing players sinking over the mines I dropped even after I am sunk )))

I had vip, yet I got 1 week suspension, then 1 week gameplay, now I again got 1 week suspension. Why? Intentionally losing, meh.
There is not even one game where I have not fired a shot, or dropped a mine to trap people, yet somehow verdict is "intentionally losing" - infamy tanking.

I wished there was a different infamy or reward system based on damage dealt / repair done.

Imagine a team with 4 good players+1 floater. Floater is dealing 0 damage, getting infamy without even doing anything. Or shooting one time with cannon, dealing 150 damage and suiciding, getting prize+infamy. How is that fair compared to another player dealing 10k damage and getting same infamy as the floater?

Probably devs would find a better solution to that infamy thing, till then, holiday mode on )

 

Fair enough. Maybe I'll eventually get suspended for it too. The good news from my standpoint is that I haven't had to recently. For whatever reasons, I'm able to play as hard as I can and I'm capping out at a reasonable infamy level for my gear. That is a much more fun way to play the game.

And yes, you're not the first person to complain about the infamy system, the matchmaking system and the tanking rules. You are the first I've heard of though suspended for tanking. That's particularly annoying if you weren't actually doing it. At least in my case I've been quite open about it so I could hardly be angry if they suspended me.

Regarding fairness, I just treat floaters as just another hazard of low infamy. They go on the list with the guys who use all mines, torps, mortars and the guys who think they are Chuck Norris and the healers who like to lead from the front and the defenders that defend from the rear, etc. etc. Both teams get them. In my opinion damage would be an awful way to judge rewards since it has little to do with winning. They already give somewhat too much weight to it in the match scoring. If they started using it for infamy you'd never see another boat but a full on mortar/torp boat.

 

I guess the problem with having an infamy floor, is that people would just keep suiciding and closing the game, in order to get the loser rewards quickly.

You could do that multiple times, in the time it takes to play a real game, and if your infamy and rewards can’t drop any further, then there is nothing at stake.

 

Battle performance varies from ship to ship. As a speeder I'm almost always rank at 3rd or 4th and sometimes 5th. Doesn't mean I have lost on purpose. A shooter with seal clubbing tactic can out damage me every battle while I go out front taking damage. Performance based decision? Not good Imo.

 

Well I have seen people using low level weapons. At least they have somewhat reasonable excuse with guild quests but still not acceptable. You will do it on purpose? I don't know what to say. Maybe there is someone else on your team on the verge of getting marked as tanker and is playing with all he/she is worth. Would it be fair just cos you won't get marked and someone else does?