Abusing arena with discord
Hello. Faced with a problem where >20 persons joined discord chanel and cooperate to give each other good rewards by nerfing their squads and to not give others by attacking them in PO time. I'l...
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"Solus_Imperius;c-2285458" wrote:
CG has refused to comment on this. They could change the ToS so it's no longer a problem. But effort.
It clearly states NO ANTI COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR. Cooperative behavior is the opposite of Competitive behavior.
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We have several solutions to this problem.
Remove the anti-competitive behavior language because you don't enforce it.
Switch arena to a points based system rather than a simple ladder.
Allow for shard migration every 6 months to a shard of similar or older age to prevent advantages.
Actually enforce the ToS as stated and start punishing the anti-competitive behavior.
Actually, I disagree that cooperation is necessarily anti-competitive. Example: teams in competitive racing. Do you think NASCAR and Formula 1 are not enforcing competition because they allow teams of drivers/racers?
(If you do, that's fine. Your opinion is yours and other may agree too; but it's not the only opinion.)
Anyway, some of your ideas might possibly help and I myself would like the ability to switch shards too, but I doubt it's gonna' happen.
The only sure-fire way I can think of to easily eliminate shard chats and cooperation, would be to eliminate rotating payouts and make it one single daily payout per shard. But that would create other problems (lower total rewards for everyone) and disparities (favors people who happen to be able to play in the hour before payout).
Nothing is perfect, and ultimately I don't have a huge problem with what's in place now - just hope you're lucky enough to be in a less competitive shard or one with a good (i.e., not toxic) shard chat. Toxic shard chats do exist, but I agree with Drathuk916 - I don't think they're the norm, but definitely can make life hell if you find yourself in that boat. That and potential leveling of competition in general are why I would support the ability to switch shards (with limits similar to changing payout times).
