its true that there should be an award but u are very wrong when u say that she cant top dmg and stuff like that.. She might be even one of the most powerful demigod's. u just have to know how to play with her.

I agree that there should be a support award.

Though it is entirely possible that the kind of gods that would throw some demigods into an arena and make them beat each other into a bloody pulp are not the kind of individuals whose favour you gain from healing the wounded. Bastards.

But then how do you balance the favor?

I don't see how any other DG could beat a determined Sedna to the award. Then you just get 'I turned up' favour (provided a lot of people dont start playing Sedna to get the new favor award)

If thats not the case.. Do you count self healing? Do you only count healing done to other DGs and minions? It becomes a bit of a problem to fairly allocate the award.

I daresay somebody who ran around supporting like crazy would be pretty miffed if somebody playing a regen Erebus bit more people than a hospital full of rabid and emotionally disturbed teenagers and won the "helping other people" award.

That is an awesome idea transitive, I'd welcome that.

I agree to a "best support player" award... like for assisting, healing, buffing, etc. But not strictly a heal award as Fixmyfavor had already stated.

Also, all demigods can heal if you purchase the universal gadget.

Reward for doing damage is biased against support demigods who can't do the same damage as other demigods. therefore it is inherently unfair. Therefore it is a very bad, unbalanced award.

Could have it an assist is worth shielding, healing, or stopping damage equal to the demi's health. Sedna still has a huge advantage but really you should be rewarded for playing them like that.

Yes exactly ubersmurf I agree. Which is why I said I agree there should be an award and then proceeded to present some serious issues with implementing one

Hang on a minute there.  What you said being valid is dependant upon if damage by Generals' minions is counted as damage by the General DG himself/herself in terms of award.  Is minion damage attributed to the DG in award calculations?

It isn't really that complex.

Healing would get points for every point of useful healing done to allies (no points for overhealing).

Shields would get points for every point of damage absorbed to protect an ally (so, no points for shields that do nothing).

Then, when the game is caluclating award winners, you scale the healing, shielding, and assist points for each Demi to determine a winner.

Well, the absorbtion buffs (like Bramble Shield) have a function that decrements the shield. Adding some code there to increment a score varible for each point blocked would be easy.

Invincible buffs (like Oaks Shield) set a variable that gets checked when the player takes damage. Adding a check to see if they are under the influence of a shield buff would be easy. If the check comes back true it could increment a score variable for the amount of damage that attack was supposed to do. This may also require an extra line or two in the BuffAffects.lua file as well.

All in all not much work, really.

i think they should just expand the assist  to have  the healing anf sheilds  then  lazy asses who surrport people can  get the assist award

I'm speechless and not in a good way.... i've re-typed this post like 3 times trying to articulate how idiotic that statement is but the english language just doesn't have the means to express it.