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I havent seen anyone talk about this, but what if there were a set of orders for both casual and ranked play? It would definitely increase the incentive to play ranked modes, though I havent put much thought into it outside of "what if ranked has orders" so hopefully this gets a good discussion going.
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In two minds about this. On the one hand I do think other modes need some player activity and maybe orders specific to them might help, on the other, I don't like having to alter my playstyle to get steel, so 24 takedowns as a heavy (I don't play heavies) and things like that. It's worth noting that there's a community order on atm for deathmatch and yet deathmatch is every bit as dead as it ever was, or it certainly was last night. People just seem to love dominion. Not entirely sure why, or what can be done to encourage play in other modes, but players play what they like I guess.
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If there were a complete seperate set of orders not including the ones we already have, I would be down for that but I'm in the same boat as DefiledDragon.
I don't like being forced to play certain modes or characters, tribute/deathmatch/duel orders always go uncompleted because not only is the mode boring or frustrating(tribute) but playing Dominion nets you more XP per round anyway. If the Tribute match goes the distance and isn't won early, it's not worth the time invested compared to Dominion, Steel and XP wise. I can't stand duels, it has all the cheesiest type of play going.
If there were seperate orders that you could do in ranked Dominion, I would play that, or at least try to.
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The only way for Ranked to be successful is to have the whole community take part in it, or at least incentivize it so many do. People need to move out of their comfort zone and a good incentive will do that. F.e. issue Ranked Duel orders. I don't buy the whole thing "we don't want to force people into it". The thing is, you don't, people can chose not to complete the order.
I did a post a while back on this. But so far only two of my five (six) points have been implemented. It's not going to be enough I'm sorry.
How to remedy Duel Tournament
https://forums.ubi.com/showthread.ph...uel-Tournament
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The contract orders used to be very specific when the game first launched: (number) takedowns in Skirmish PvP with a Knight, (number) zones captured in Dominion PvAI as Samurai, stuff like that. Then they generalized it and took out the PvP/ PvAI and allowed them to count in either. Next they simplified it even more and made it how it is now. One contract order I would love to see back is the one where you had to kill enemy soldiers.
