Scoring in vMSA ?

raasdal

I just now have begun vMSA (a bit late, i know.)

Got a 504k score on my Sorc. That is with 3 deaths and some sigils on 6th and final stage.

Question is; How do i best improve the score? I know i just need to do it quicker with leas death and less sigils.

But what is more important? How much does each sigil cost in points? How much does ie. 2 minutes less on time, add to my score? How much does each death cost in points?

Basically - what is better for a high score; Time or Deaths/Sigils?

DRXHarbinger

Sigils on each normal round eat 750 points. Ash titan round 1500 and last boss 1500. Deaths 1k each. Timer gets a huge boost of I think for each 5 mins is about 10k when score is under 1hr. So a sub 1hr with flat out no death or sigil is about 520k. ..do it like supernatural in 30 mins it's 600k deathless no sigil.

Darlon

Time and deaths are kind of related..

Usually a death (for me at least) comes at a point where a round is going for a bit already... having to do it all over costs quite a bit of time.

MakoFore

all about time

Asayre

ZOS_Finn wrote: »

One thing to keep in mind is that all times are measured in milliseconds on the server, so those conversions need to happen. Here are some hard numbers we use for Maelstrom.

TargetTime: 5400000 (90mins)
TimeDivisor: 10000000

So, if you do the whole thing, your base points are 270000 (this may be lower as there may be a bug with the final arena only giving 15000pts. and we will get that cleared up for TG). There are 168 possible Sigils @ 750pts apiece.

If you take no Sigils and come in at the exact time, your score should be ~411000 or so.

If you come in over the time, you will start to have a negative TimeModifier which will subtract from your score.

The formula however is: FinalScore=Points+(Points*[(TargetTime-ActualTime)/TimeDivisor])

There is an abosolute minimum however so that we don't divide by 0 thus destroying the world.

Thread source: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/231937/vma-scoring/p1

raasdal

Thanks for the answers. Those numbers tell me it is better to take a sigil and save time (to avoid death / burn boss quicker to save 2 min) than to play safe at a slow pace.

Thanks!

Unfadingsilence

Yep yep just burn burn burn the faster you are the better the score

reesenorman

DRXHarbinger wrote: »

Sigils on each normal round eat 750 points. Ash titan round 1500 and last boss 1500. Deaths 1k each. Timer gets a huge boost of I think for each 5 mins is about 10k when score is under 1hr. So a sub 1hr with flat out no death or sigil is about 520k. ..do it like supernatural in 30 mins it's 600k deathless no sigil.

29:54 is 600k m8

Paulington

I have a huge post on this somewhere on these forums but I can't recall where. Basically the scoring for vMA works like this:



The only difference with VMA is that "Points + Vitality Bonus" becomes "Points + Vitality Bonus + (750*SigilsNotTaken).

Basically, each sigil you take is worth about 1.5 minutes of score, so using sigils only worth it if it prevents a death.

If you'd like to play a bit more, I have a Trials Scoring Calculator on Google Sheets, just go to vMA down the bottom and edit some numbers to see what you would get based upon vitality/time/sigils used.

EDIT: Found the post, it's just here. Scroll down to vMA.