There has been much corruption on weekly leaderboards, since they were invented, especially PvP. After the Permban of the 2 Pilots abusing this system I think there was set a sign to prevent others doing this. However, there is still a problem with PvE. You can’t really accuse someone of abusing the system by not finishing the Mission. Maybe it was just for fun, not to complete it, but to try to farm as much bots as possible. A competition in the squad for example, and you can’t chose to punish them for chosing to play a PvE Mission the way they like (as there is no rule for a 4 Person Squad to finish it, if I remember correctly).
So my suggestion is, to set Weekly leaderboards on the time the missions were finished. Pilots have to compete then, trying to finish it as fast as possible and there would be no possible way to abuse it. 24/7 PvE farming is allowed, kinda boring, but it is the Pilots decicion.
good idea, alternative to completing it the fastest maybe the efficiency that counts for the leader-boards will only be accepted if the mission is succesful but then again this could be abused still and have lots of people just farming round 3 in a mission and then completing objective with 10 seconds left on the timer… hmm
It would be nice indeed if PvE leaderboards would be like fastest time + best score, some kind of math that gives you point based on the relation speed-effectiveness. I’m horrible at maths but I think it can be done.
Besides, in PUG PVE in 90-95% of the battles I’m the only one going for the objectives. Was always like that, has nothing to do with the leaderboards.
I think many are using bots in PVE, too. In HMS if you cap the beacons out of order like I always do you sometimes see those guys move to the “next” beacon that you already capped and keep sitting there. Bad bot programming. Or just really dumb people. Hard to tell the difference usually because most people are really incredibly stupid.
It’s hard enough to get a match in the first place and I’m there for the synergy. There is no synergy bonus for finishing the map quickly, but I do want to finish it. Pick up groups are not meant to be relied upon for speed runs in the first place.