Doesn’t this make RvR contribution pretty much meaningless? I mean, if this is how it works, why bother to have “contribution” at all and simply just base our rewards on the random roll of the dice…

Basically what happens is this:

Whenever you zone in, or log into a zone, you will make a hidden roll.

Lets say a roll between 1-1000.

Now this roll will decide the amount of contribution you have whenever you capture a keep in that zone.

Lets say i roll a 1000, i can go to a keep, do absolutely nothing, maybe hit the hero 1x and I will get 1th on contribution. The same thing will happen with the 2nd keep in that zone, and the 3th keep etc.. as long as you dont log or zone out.

When you do relog, your roll will be made anew, and your contribution will change.

Today we captured about 20-25 keeps, and we tried it with different people in different ways. And we came to this conclusion.

This is also the reason why people seem “lucky” sometimes, because they win more golden bags in a run.

Just check it out for yourselves, check the contribution you make in keep 1 by going all out, and then compare it to your contribution in keep 2 by doing nothing. You will notice it will be exactly the same, or almost the same.

Try it in a different order too, do nothing at the first keep. Do you got a bad contribution, relog or zone out, and do nothing at the second keep. You will notice you will get a different contribution.

Etc…

A guild mate had this to say, which pretty much sums up my thoughts on the matter:

I’m guessing they couldn’t find a way to balance all the different activities in keep taking. Dpsing the door, mobs, players, guarding postern door, guarding main door, etc etc so instead of screwing people who were guarding the postern door or creating incentive for everyone to only dps the door, the lord, etc. They just decided to /random it so no one can game the system. Pretty shitty that they didn’t just tell us though.

People have been trying to figure out what RvR contribution is based on since launch. I guess Mythic couldn’t figure it out either, so just coded in a quick fix. Eleven pages of anecdotes verifying the OP’s findings since Monday and still no dev acknowledgment. A simple, “We’re looking into it.” would be nice.

Or maybe, “Thank you for beta testing our game?”

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