Incorrect amount of RP received this week

[Bal 0]

Last week I was sitting at 49533 RP or 90.67% through rank 11. After today's calculation I am at 49882 RP or 97.64% through rank 11, which means I received 10255 RP for standing 64.

Now using these two screenshots and some math, the amount of RP I received is incorrect.

 

This image shows a member of the horde with standing 5121 that was taken today. I will use this as the high end or amount of players used to calculate brackets. (However, this number should be higher - realmplayers shows someone with standing 5405, but I will use ingame data rather than a website.)

using the left side BreakPt % and the highest standing of 5121 we get the following:

5121 * 0.002 = 10.242 or bracket 1 = standing 1-10

5121 * 0.007 = 35.847 or bracket 2 = standing 11-36

5121 * 0.017 = 87.057 or bracket 3 = standing 37-87

Then, the RP received at each of these standing should equal standing 10 = 12000 RP, standing 36 = 11000 RP, and standing 87 = 10000 RP

Therefore, there are 50 positions in bracket 3. This week I was standing 64, therefore the calculation should be (87-64)*20+10000 = 10460.

I should have received 10460 RP points this week, when I only received 10255 RP points.

This is incorrect and if it could be further looked into that would be nice.

(This same calculation was done with the participant pool being 5405 or the highest standing shown on realmsplayers and my RP would then be 10528)

Thank you,

Bal

[Hudson 16]

The best place for this would be the GitHub bug tracker.

[Fiers 0]

It does not appear as though your RP gain for last week is incorrect.

There were ~5500 people in the PvP pool last week on Elysium horde (5488th is the last visible on realmplayers). That'd mean bracket 3 is approximately standing 38-93. But that's close to the numbers you used.

> Therefore, there are 50 positions in bracket 3. This week I was standing 64, therefore the calculation should be (87-64)*20+10000 = 10460.

That's not how the RP calculation works, which is surprising to see from someone almost rank 12.

I can't see what honor standing 38 had, but standing 35 had 401194 honor, so we'll assume #38 was around 380k. I can't tell what honor standing 93 was, but #82 was 222k, and #104 was 195k, so we'll assume #93 was about 209k. Those two numbers, and your own honor value, are what determine your RP within a bracket's min and max. Not your standing.

To get 10255 RP using those approximations, that'd mean you had ~253k honor. Your info for last week isn't updated on realmplayers, so I can't confirm that, but #59 had 265k, so I feel pretty comfortable saying I'm probably within about 5k of your actual honor farmed, which means the RP you got is correct. Sorry.

 

Unrelatedly, while on the topic of improper RP gain:

Bracket 4 has only been calculated at .32% of the population, not .037%, as far back as my records go (to the start of ZK/Elysium). All brackets other than 1, 2, and 3 are using incorrect numbers AFAIK. But that's a separate issue from the one you're experiencing.

[Bal 0]

Maybe I am misunderstood on the topic. This week I had 250k honor.

So lets say hypothetically the same ends for bracket 3 were used (38 = 380k & 93 = 209k) and I had 300k honor and the same standing of 64, I would get more RP?

[Fiers 0]

Yep. If you had 300k honor instead, that'd be around 10530 RP. Which you can try to approximate with less accuracy just by noticing that that honor is roughly half way between the approximate upper limit and lower limit (though we're not using the true upper and lower limit in these examples, since we'd need to know the honor of #37 and #94 too, but it's close enough for this conversation). Whether you're standing 39 or 92 in this example makes no difference. If standing 40 through 92 all stacked, they'd all get the same RP, and how much they got would be determined by the honor they got, and the honor of #37, 38, #93, and #94.

It's a little different when you've got big gaps between brackets, where the top of your bracket is significantly lower than the person above them that set the bottom of the higher bracket (i.e. if in these examples, #37 was 500k, or #94 was 150k), and/or when the bottom of your bracket is significantly higher than the next highest person. There are a few other hiccups that can mess up the calculations, like if brackets are bigger or smaller than expected, but this will get you within a few RP of the actual number almost every time.