# Guild Wars, Point-Scoring for Battles, and You! **URL:** \ **Category:** Official News\ **Created:** [August 1, 2017, 5:31am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/guild-wars-point-scoring-for-battles-and-you/28179 "2017-08-01T05:31:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![Sirrian](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/sirrian/32/35758_2.png) [@Sirrian](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Sirrian)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 5:31am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/guild-wars-point-scoring-for-battles-and-you/28179/1 "2017-08-01T05:31:53Z")
Hi everyone, As promised, I wanted to give you some more insight into how Guild Wars Battles will be scored this week. I say “this week” because we will no doubt tweak the formula as we see it in action (but tweaks to the formula - unless they are obvious bug fixes - will ONLY occur between Guild Wars, NEVER mid-week) * * * First the longest TL;DR ever: Guild Wars points depend on 4 things: - Whether you win or lose (same as before) - How many troops you use of the correct daily color (same as before) - How many troops you have alive at the end of battle (similar to before) - How many turns it takes you to win (new!) - My “Mana Efficiency” i.e. how much better I am at collecting mana than my opponent (new!) - My “Damage Efficiency” i.e. how much better I am at dealing damage than my opponent (new!) Also, points are 300 straight up per battle, to lessen & spread out the effects of RNG in battles as you approach the paragon. * * * Now let’s dive in and examine each of the new ones in a little more detail. Note that we have a weighting here of A%, B%, C%, D% on each of the 4 criteria. We’re not telling you exactly what those numbers are, and we likely WILL adjust them next week, but they’ve been chosen to try and make each of the 4 criteria of equal importance given the data we collected from 1000’s of games about the efficiency and speed of players at multiple levels. I am not sharing those exact numbers for 3 reasons: - Things like this generate 100’s of tickets for our support team, with about 99% of them containing incorrect math - They will cause any discussion here to degenerate very quickly - The numbers we have will NOT be optimal as the game evolves, and we will change them accordingly (with warning, of course! if we de-emphasize or enhance one of the criteria in a future week, we’ll let you know) **1. How many troops you have alive at the end of battle** This is identical to how it behaved before (i.e. you get a bonus for every troop surviving but it has been de-emphasized a bit - about half). _SURVIVAL\_BONUS = NumTroopsSurviving \* A%_ **2. How many turns it takes you to win** By “turns” we mean unique actions (so a goblin who casts his spell, then matches 4 gems, then matches some skulls, has performed 3 actions) You get bonus points for every action less than 30 that you take… So say you get x% bonus per turn - take 20 turns, and you will receive 10\*x% as your bonus _SPEED\_BONUS = Max(30-MyTurnsTaken,0) \* B%_ **3. Mana Efficiency** We base another bonus on mana collected during play: Max(4, MyTotalMana/EnemyTotalMana)… if enemy mana is 0, it defaults to 4. _MANA\_BONUS = Min(4, MyTotalMana/EnemyTotalMana) \* C%_ **4. Damage Efficiency** Very similar to mana efficiency, but looks at damage instead. Some quick notes: - Devour & Death Mark (insta-kill skills) do not count as damage - AoE damage counts its damage for every troop hit, so 10 damage on all 4 enemies = 40 damage - All other damage dealt by spells, traits, & skulls is equivalent point for point. _DAMAGE\_BONUS = Min(4, MyTotalDamage/EnemyTotalDamage) \* D%_ And finally… _ **FINAL\_SCORE** = BASE\_SCORE + BASE\_SCORE \* (COLOR\_BONUS + SURVIVAL\_BONUS + SPEED\_BONUS + MANA\_BONUS + DAMAGE\_BONUS)_ --- _[View the full topic](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/guild-wars-point-scoring-for-battles-and-you/28179)._