Relationship Between Infamy and the Number of New Players Starting Game

Ok, not really a thread for discussion, more a thread for people to think about. (Though you are all free to comment or disagree with me if you wish)
After reading multiple threads on infamy, and where infamy actually comes from, it made me think.
And the conclusion that I reached was that the skill/weapon level to reach a given infamy level will change dependent upon the number of new players entering the game.
Imagine if you’re a new player who’s been playing about a month. If lots of brand new players join in the month after, you will be stronger than them, and (all things being equal) so will rise in infamy.
If hardly any players join, you will have fewer players who are weaker than you, and so you will struggle to maintain infamy or could even lose infamy.
In either case, the player is equally as “skilled” but would have a different infamy based upon the number of new players entering the game.
This infamy variation would ripple up through to the higher skill levels too.

So basically, I’m saying that reaching any particular infamy point can become easier or harder over time dependent upon the number of new players entering the game.
Following that thought on, the players who were playing pre-global launch must have experienced a big infamy boost in the weeks after global launch.
And finally, if you want to increase your infamy, one of the things you can do is encourage lots of your friends to play the game. (Ok, I know that this would have a tiny effect, but if enough people did it......).

And because nightmare players get reset to 4000 infamy every two weeks, infamy is basically a great big Ponzi/pyramid scheme that is reliant upon new players entering the game.

 

Fascinating.
/SPOCK
Definately food for thought. However there are always gonna be players who plain suck at the game, so I guess not so accurate? Idk.

 

Yes, this has been discussed in the past on this forum to great extent. Nightmare also used to be at 3500, and it has since been pushed to 4000. Perhaps it's time to talk seriously about raising that limit again, or creating sub-leagues or multiple reset points in Nightmare?

 

Yes, I read all those posts, and I found it very interesting (where infamy comes from, and where it goes - and indeed these are the conversations I referred to in my opening paragraphs).
What (I hope) I add, to build upon those previous conversations, is that the strength/skill needed to reach a certain infamy level will change over time (depending upon how many players continue to join).
This may be one possible explanation about why some players feel that they’re upgrading their boat but not gaining any infamy. (Obviously other explanations are available - luck, not playing enough, playing just after nightmare reset etc).

 

Sounds like a great topic for discussion, but (tongue in cheek) on you’re own thread please

 

The reset does not work "upwards" - players with an infamy below 4000 at the end of the season do not get a free "uplift" but they do remain in Nightmare.

 

Think about it; If it worked that way, being promoted to Nightmare would be permanent. Every season you're reset to 4000. Which means even if you lose every game, you've still had a "peak infamy" of 4000. So you get reset to 4K and go back to Nightmare.

 

Nope, you've got it. As I mentioned before:

By that same rule, if the team with the lower human player count (1v2) wins, infamy is also lost there (because two players lose -24, one player gains +24) but on a much smaller scale than the Nightmare haircut.