Every time you get commended your commend counter in the profile increases by 4 because it counts each individual category and one post game commend counts for all 4 categories.
I would suggest fixing the commend counter according to the following formula:
commend counter = TOTAL commends in all categories - (3 * minimum of all 4 categories)
Example 1:
[Developer] teaching: 100
[Developer] leadership: 200
[Developer] friendly: 50
[Developer] forgiving: 75
Current commend counter: 425
Suggested commend counter according to the above formula: 425 - 3*50 = 275
Now if the player gets another commend the count will increase by 1:
Example 1 receives 1 commend:
[Developer] teaching: 101
[Developer] leadership: 201
[Developer] friendly: 51
[Developer] forgiving: 76
Current commend counter: 429
Suggested commend counter according to the above formula: 429 - 3*51 = 276 (correctly increased by 1)
Example 2:
[Developer] teaching: 200
[Developer] leadership: 222
[Developer] friendly: 223
[Developer] forgiving: 225
Current commend counter: 850
Suggested commend counter according to the above formula: 850 - 3*200 = 250
The formula tries to make up for the new commends that count for each category. However players who have gotten a lot of commends before that patch and evenly spread out across all categories will lose an unjustified amount of commends. Decent trade-off though I guess?
I would suggest fixing the commend counter according to the following formula:
commend counter = TOTAL commends in all categories - (3 * minimum of all 4 categories)
Example 1:
[Developer] teaching: 100
[Developer] leadership: 200
[Developer] friendly: 50
[Developer] forgiving: 75
Current commend counter: 425
Suggested commend counter according to the above formula: 425 - 3*50 = 275
Now if the player gets another commend the count will increase by 1:
Example 1 receives 1 commend:
[Developer] teaching: 101
[Developer] leadership: 201
[Developer] friendly: 51
[Developer] forgiving: 76
Current commend counter: 429
Suggested commend counter according to the above formula: 429 - 3*51 = 276 (correctly increased by 1)
Example 2:
[Developer] teaching: 200
[Developer] leadership: 222
[Developer] friendly: 223
[Developer] forgiving: 225
Current commend counter: 850
Suggested commend counter according to the above formula: 850 - 3*200 = 250
The formula tries to make up for the new commends that count for each category. However players who have gotten a lot of commends before that patch and evenly spread out across all categories will lose an unjustified amount of commends. Decent trade-off though I guess?
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