silmarilen wrote:
what if pp was working as intended but nobody knew the intention?
before pp, there were score ranks.
people complained that score ranks were "all about farming" instead of "actually being a good player" which would translate to "doing good plays"
so then score ranks were replaced with pp, with the obvious intention to correct this issue, i.e. to sort players based on their play ability and not based on how long have they been farming easy maps
it only makes sense, that, pp's goal would be to be a system that rewards play quality and not farming
however right now pp is a farming-based system. it encourages to retry easy maps instead of doing actually good plays
so, what did it accomplish? nothing
normally any sensible person would just ignore pp's existence since the information it provides is completely random and meaningless but lewa makes a very good point that a lot of newcomers who have no idea how this game works end up getting the wrong impression from it and being misled.
PP's flaws were known from the very first day it was implemented. "competition on a map" is a very poor scale for ranking considering that the harder a map is, the less people "compete" is on it, since less players are able to play it or even try to.
At the very least, PP should be renamed. What's up with all of the people who say "performance" and "skill" are not the same thing? They're synonyms. This system clearly does not measure skill, so it should be named something else.