Killing vs. Capping ... what gets you most points?
Because ... whoever scores the most points wins, right?
Roy: "Very good Pris, now show him why."
Points you get from Killing Tanks
Killing a red tank scores 25 points.
On average, the winning team kills about 15 more tanks than the losing team, let's be generous and say it's 20
so they get + 20x25 = +500 points
+500 more points than the enemy, for the whole match. (remember this number)
Points you get from Capping
If you hold a cap zone, the enemy loses points, every 3 seconds.
The more cap zones you hold, the more points they lose, per second.
AND, as the game goes on, you get EVEN MORE more points per 3 seconds, in the 3 phases of the game.
Something like this:
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5 points per cap, every 3 seconds, in the first phase
- caps change location - -
7 points per cap, every 3 seconds, in the second phase
- caps change location again - - 9 points per cap, every 3 seconds, in the third and final phase
NOTE: The numbers of points varies (I think), from map to map; as does the number of caps, so the figures are approximate.
"Well how many points, in total is that? ", you ask
If the map has 3 caps in each phase, &
If we say it takes 1 minute to arrive at a cap zone, and capture it,
therefore: all the caps are held for 4 minutes, in a 15 minute match.
First phase: 3 caps x 4 minutes x 5 points x 1/3 seconds = 1200 points
Second phase: 3 caps x 4 minutes x 7 points x 1/3 seconds = 1680 points
Third phase: 3 caps x 4 minutes x 9 points x 1/3 seconds = 2160 points
That's potentially 5040 points!!
A more realistic scenario:
is your team gets cap 1, the enemy gets cap 2, and you fight over number 3.
so really you are only going to get +1 cap more than the enemy, if you see what I mean.
So:
if you hold +1 Cap more than the enemy, for all phases of the match, you get + 5040/3 more than the red team.
= +1680 points.
Kill: +500 pts <-- this number is small
Cap: +1680 pts <-- this number is way bigger!
Over 3x the points of killing, AND anyway, the team that caps most, ALSO usually gets the most kills!
[tl:dr] Or to put it another way ...
The points advantage you get, for killing all the tanks in the ENTIRE MATCH (+500),
That 500pts can be wiped out, by just ONE guy, in an AFV, sneaking into ONE cap zone,
and taking it, and no one bothering to get it back, for about 3 minutes.
PS. If I've messed up the maths, please tell me and I'll sneakily change it, and then deny it was wrong in the first place :-)