A quick write up on the pace of Living Legend leading into 2025. No paywalls! #fabtcg cardgamer.com/games/tcgs/f... - ThreadSky

mansant.bsky.social • 23 days ago

A quick write up on the pace of Living Legend leading into 2025. No paywalls! #fabtcg

https://cardgamer.com/games/tcgs/flesh-and-blood/how-living-legend-will-impact-flesh-and-blood-in-2025/

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rathetimes.bsky.social•23 days ago

Great piece here. You have a very positive perspective on LL from a macro standpoint, and that is good for people to consider. I just wrote about this topic myself earlier this week - I'm having a harder time accepting MST's short lifespan.

mansant.bsky.social•23 days ago

I think what makes rotation at the ~year mark feel more acceptable is just how many heroes are coming out (now THAT'S a part of the game I don't agree with). The longer heroes last at the top breaks the illusion of change that new sets are supposed to give the game. I'm a player/viewer first.

fabrary.net•23 days ago

Will be interesting to see how LSS rounds points during RtN + PQ seasons

Rounding down RtNs resulted in ~1,200 points instead of target 1,500 and will have compounding effects each time it happens

fabrary.net•23 days ago

For e.g. if I'm remembering correctly these would have changed with "full points" instead of "rounded down" (assuming results stay the same and final week results shift over after Vis LLs)

😈 Viserai LLs 1 week sooner
🐅 Zen LLs final week
⚡️ Aurora gets 100+ more points

fabrary.net•23 days ago

The upcoming PQ season has 587 CC events (all events are CC) and if they use the same rounding down to not exceed 1,500 points then each event will be 2 points and 1,174 points will be given total

⚡️Aurora would need to win 153 (26%) of events to LL

mansant.bsky.social•20 days ago

Looks like they are doing 3pts! So 1761 on offer from PQs alone

fabrary.net•20 days ago

Aurora only has to win ~17% of events and gone - how many LLs can we fit into a single season?!?!?!

👋✌️😘

fabrary.net•20 days ago

Personally glad to see things picking up again after only 1(!) LL last year but sucks for people who love Aurora to see her leaving so soon

mansant.bsky.social•23 days ago

Oh that's interesting- I didn't notice it was rounded so heavily.

fabrary.net•23 days ago

If they use a natural rounding this season then it will award ~1,700 points instead

1,500 / 587 = 2.55, round to 3 => 1,761 points total

That would mean Aurora only needs to win 102 events (17%) to LL

mansant.bsky.social•23 days ago

I'm a rotation fiend, give me 1761!!!

compliant-hornet.bsky.social•23 days ago

This is wild to me; I'd think that rather than rounding each event to an integer, I'd round hero winnings per week (ie if aurora wins 11 of 26 events for a week where there are 300 points, you'd do 42.3..% of 300, and she'd get 126.92 points rounded to 127)

Still has compounding error issues though

compliant-hornet.bsky.social•23 days ago

300 points being because it's 20% of the events for the 1500 points to be clear- I realize that definition was a little recursive, but character limitations

fabrary.net•23 days ago

As long as it rounds up as often as it rounds down it'll all even out - just makes individual seasons less consistent with each other

Definitely ways like you described to make it more consistent, could also use decimals as they go

fabrary.net•23 days ago

The LL page has this note about rounding up OR down but I believe for recent RtN season a natural rounding would have resulted in 4 points per event instead of the 3 that were awarded - that would have had an even bigger impact.

fabrary.net•23 days ago

Interestingly the first update to the leaderboard after week 1 of RtNs DID use 4 points per event but it was updated shortly after to use only 3

fabrary.net•23 days ago

Update: it looks like 3 was the natural rounding given the 446 events this RtN season

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