Practical Game Design

Prestiging totalizers

Prestiging itself is a concept popularized by Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, where players can reset their in-game progress after reaching the maximum experience level, and receive a cosmetic token in exchange. In the context of special events and totalizers, prestiging allows players to complete the same totalizer multiple times, with full rewards gained for each playthrough.

Prestiging shifts the focus from simply finishing the totalizer (which may be hard to do if the score requirement is high), and onto completing a shorter totalizer the maximum number of times. Prestiging can be used to democratize the rewards and make the events more accessible for the weaker players and groups.

In Transformers: Earth Wars, we often ...