Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-24567858-20140219184613/@comment-7743566-20140220070233

the exact formula for calculating points is only roughly known, I do believe they USED TO make it so a high level player attacking a low level (relatively speaking) player received reduced points compared to attacking someone of the same relative level, but they had to change that because people were abusing that by stuffing overpowered low level players into guilds that woulod then abuse the opposite effect the extremely low level player that managed to attack and beat the high level player got huge amounts of points relative to the points the high level player could get by attacking back. also due to the various events that require a ton of questing, there are many 500+ level players that would become adversely affected and their contributions grealy diminished in guild wars as most of their opponenets would only have a couple of comparatively levelled players, and the attack screen(topmost) does not show player level so they'd have to waste several minutes simply trying to find the near level opponents, such a system was therefore considered unbalanced and they changed the way points are calculated to the current one.