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[Eudemon]

[headline]The Crew Leagues[/headline]

We heard of the 'Leagues' and some of their bullet points in the recent Patch Notes for June but now we have a full rundown on what exactly this new addition will bring when it hits on June 3rd. For starters there are four Leagues: Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum, and each of these are divided up into four divisions. Everyone will start off at the bottom in Division 4 of the Bronze league and the goal is to do your best to progress through the other divisions right up to the Platinum League where you will be fully entitled to bragging rights and free bacon sandwiches*. :p

 

 

[subhead]I better get something for doing this![/subhead]

Of course the time, effort and no doubt frustration you will experience in making your way up will not go unrewarded, no sire it will not, as from as early as Division 3 in the Bronze league you will unlock some lovely shiny things, including stickers, colours and rims for your moving machines made of metal. [Ed - you mean cars?] To give your brain a help in understanding this, we have generously placed the Bronze and Gold offerings below.

 

 

Each division also entitles you to wear a rather lovely and fashionable numbered sticker that will show to the world just how pathetic and useless you are unless you have the number one. [Ed - bit unfair that!] Being part of a league means you need to accumulate points to progress up the ranks and in The Crew you do this by racing. Who'd have thunk that? With some genuinely clever foresight the designers have realised that you should be able to do this with as many or as little players as you can get together, and so depending on the amount of players in a race your final position will determine how well or how awful the result will be attributed to your standing. Finish behind in a 1v1 and you obviously are going to be penalised but finish 4th or 5th in a full lobby and you will stay neutral. It's actually on paper a decent scoring system but the proof will be in the actual racing itself and whether other players will actually race, or more likely will be barge fest at the first corner and the need to spin people at virtually every opportunity. :( The full scoring depending on the amount of parsnips racing can be seen in the table we have stolen from the official The Crew Blog entry below.

 

 

[subhead]Dumb vs. Dumber[/subhead]

The game will also try it's best to match idiots like you up with others like you, but unfortunately it cannot guarantee an infinite amount of those and so at times you will find yourself paired with, or on the grid with the better skilled. There is benefit to be gained if this does happen as should you beat them - as unlikely as that may and will be - you will get a nice bonus in positive scoring which makes climbing up the ranks that touch faster. There is also a League Store where all the rewards and trinkets you receive will be available to purchase and should you fall down in the rankings worry not as you will not lose the goodies you have accrued providing you have purchased them.

 

Get the full skinny at the official The Crew Blog posting by clicking the sauce [source] link below!

 

Sauce: The Crew Blog

 

*awaiting confirmation on this made-up poor attempt at humour by us

[Camel]

This seems like a vast improvement over the old ranking method. Even if you won a race, you're world rank could still go down. :umm:

 

I was in the top 1000 and won an 8 player race and went down a few thousand ranks iirc. :hmmm: So hopefully this system will work!

[Ryzza5]

Good to see that things this big can still be added post-release but personally I need the driving experience to improve first.

[Andreas¹]

I like it. :hmmm: June 3rd, coincidentally the day after my exam. :cheeese: *will play*

[Ryzza5]

*moves thread out of staff area so that others can reply* :cheeky:

[Eudemon]

*moves thread out of staff area so that others can reply* :cheeky:

I see what you did there. :(

[nfsMIB]

Hopefully this will "revive" the PVP a bit.

Nice that they added some rewards too :P

[Andreas¹]

I've played quite a lot of PvP, it's more fun than racing the AI and a great way to make money. Hopefully this is more of the same.

[Ryzza5]

Factions will also be adjusted starting from June 3

 

 

Faction Changes | | News | The Crew

[Ozzmcom]

so this is pretty much the equivalent of adding new furniture to tdu2

[Eudemon]

so this is pretty much the equivalent of adding new furniture to tdu2

In your eyes sure, for others it is a chance to compete and a reason to play the game more.

[Ozzmcom]

[RobikV3]

What makes me play are new cars and useful features