Anyone get pissed off at how Medals and MVP's are earned?

It seems most times that to get the most medals, and therefor, the most MVP votes, you need to almost not do the warzone objectives?

I mean, ill play huttball, and i can run the ball really well. Ive gone in alone, and capped 4 balls, but because i only got 4 medals, and somebody else got 7, they get 3 mvp's, and i dont get a single one. I know MVP's dont give that much bonus, but its just like wtf.

Not only that, but the MVP's, as well as medals (which give more bonuses also) are given to a playstyle that doesnt really promote objective based gameplay. I see alot of people just flat out PvPing, rather then protecting the ball/control point/gate so they can get that 200k dmg and 25 kills so they get 7/8/9 medals, and then get 4 MVP votes, and then not care if they win or not because they still got plenty of warzone commendations, valor points etc.

I just feel it promotes selfish sloppy play.

So while i sit alone at a control point/ capping the ball/ protecting a gate... some other douche is fighting between control points/ fighting on the other side of the map from the ball/ fighting nowhere near a gate and getting more valor/commendations then me.

end rant

I can't really speak for it all because I've only played 1 game but the only one I played, a guy who had almost no kills and quite a few deaths, but hundreds of thousands of healing won almost every MVP. He only had like 2 medals.

I only played one and it was Huttball. The two healers won the most medals in there too

Edit: I hate Huttball

This post was edited by GameLucky21 on Dec 19 2011 09:39pm

sometimes that happens. Im a heal spec sith sorc, and have had hundreds of thousands of healing done. Even had people in chat say "holy shit nobody's dying, healing is amazing" and only get 1 MVP.

ive won a few MVP's, but thats not really what im getting it, its the playstyle its causing in BG's.

Rather then have quick, objective based game (when i play with my guild, games end in around 5 mins (huttball/ 10mins point control map), unless its the gate defense and we're defending first, then its like a 20 min game. Then i get in and out of games faster, for more XP, and still a good amount of valor/commendations since we win/lose quickly.



Huttball is my fav, because of two reasons.

#1 if you queue with people, and are cordinated, games are so fast.

#2 if u queue solo, its the one BG that u have the best chance of carrying ur entire team on, since a smart sneaky player can cap balls on his own while his dumbass team runs around PvPing.

This post was edited by Hockeygod9911 on Dec 19 2011 09:44pm

I agree that scoring in huttball should give a medal everytime you score a goal.

Yeah I agree, me and Xeno played Hutball and carried alot of games, scoring the majority of the goals by ourselves, but we always end up like 3-4th in the rankings..

But the whole MVP thing really doesnt give much anyways so it doesnt bother me too much, yet.

that would be awesome.

or placing a bomb/deactivating a bomb on the gates. Maybe capping a point (besides the firt cap of a point) in the base control BG as well.

This video shows more or less the issues i have with the PvP in SWTOR.

Will be fixed in some upcoming patch for sure man. Game is not even released yet. Be patient and you'll be served