9 years ago
Arena Draws & TO Teams: Time to Revamp?
It is my prediction that TO (Time Out) style teams are going to quickly become the new Meta of fighting. And it'll quickly destroy the spirit of the game, IMO. If our favorite sports always ended in draws, heads would spin and the rules would quickly change. This can't be what the designers had in mind when developing this system.
Now before y'all say no, just hear me out: Yesterday, I activated BarBiTO (Zarriss, GK, Chaze, and 5z). I gave my Leaderboard hell for about 24 hours. And guess what? I felt like crud for it (I really did). I stay 1st often, but I truly play hard to maintain that, but I also don't screw others out of their payouts (save for yesterday, and maybe a time or few here and there when I was less mature). Now tonight, one of the gents who I compete with on payout, who loves to copy my teams (lol, all in good fun), copied BarBiTO. Now, the word from fellow players in my Leaderboard is they'll follow suit with similar setups. I quickly changed back to a non-TO team. Uhhg!
To put those who are, IMO, unfairly disadvantaged by TO methodology, and give a more even playing field, I propose we ONLY allow Draws to occur when each team has the same number of toons left on the board. Otherwise, the team who has the most toons left should win. This would be short of getting rid of them, but would help repair the damage that has already begun and is now getting worse.
Edit: As @ObviouslyNot just mentioned below, this proposal wouldn't work. Back to thinking.
Now before y'all say no, just hear me out: Yesterday, I activated BarBiTO (Zarriss, GK, Chaze, and 5z). I gave my Leaderboard hell for about 24 hours. And guess what? I felt like crud for it (I really did). I stay 1st often, but I truly play hard to maintain that, but I also don't screw others out of their payouts (save for yesterday, and maybe a time or few here and there when I was less mature). Now tonight, one of the gents who I compete with on payout, who loves to copy my teams (lol, all in good fun), copied BarBiTO. Now, the word from fellow players in my Leaderboard is they'll follow suit with similar setups. I quickly changed back to a non-TO team. Uhhg!
Edit: As @ObviouslyNot just mentioned below, this proposal wouldn't work. Back to thinking.