I hate this 50 banner threshold for rewards

"robjeyaraj;d-268096" wrote:
I couldn't put teams on defence, now we're being wrecked by an overpowered guild. 4 GLs and Reva team flushed down the toilet. 2 hours later I'm still at 30 banners ?. This is ridiculous. I won't earn rewards now this is the third time it's happening. Bring back the early rule when it was 30 banners to gain rewards not 50.

24 hours is plenty of time to set 2 teams on defense. Plan ahead next time and you wont have to worry about it

I understand the need to gate f2p players from end game rewards. But I'm pay to play, I have 5 GLs, executor, profundity and close to leviathan.

Sounds like you either need to be online to set defense before the last few hours before TW start or you need to have a chat in your guild around not setting too many teams on D and blocking out those who aren't around for the first few hours.

I honestly like the 50 banner rule, it guards against complete freeloading and only require bare minimum of guild planning to allow everyone to set D.

"robjeyaraj;c-2456242" wrote:
I understand the need to gate f2p players from end game rewards. But I'm pay to play, I have 5 GLs, executor, profundity and close to leviathan.

How are the rewards gated for f2p? I’m f2p and haven’t missed TW rewards for a veeery long time… by setting teams on defence. It’s really not that hard.

"robjeyaraj;d-268096" wrote:
I couldn't put teams on defence, now we're being wrecked by an overpowered guild. 4 GLs and Reva team flushed down the toilet. 2 hours later I'm still at 30 banners ?. This is ridiculous. I won't earn rewards now this is the third time it's happening. Bring back the early rule when it was 30 banners to gain rewards not 50.

As someone that regularly runs TW for my guild, I can tell you it's really frustrating to leadership when people wait until the last minute to set defense. Too often we've been in a situation where we have to put down sub optimal teams to back-fill because too many people waited too long to set defense. The easy solution is to set D as soon as TW starts. If you do that every time, this will never happen. Losing out on rewards stinks and I'm sorry that's happened to you - the good news is, it's totally within your control to avoid it.

"robjeyaraj;c-2456242" wrote:
I understand the need to gate f2p players from end game rewards. But I'm pay to play, I have 5 GLs, executor, profundity and close to leviathan.

What does not setting defense in a timely manner have to do with f2p or p2p

set at least 3 teams and do your best on offense. Personally I would be embarrassed if I didn't set the same teams as the rest of the team. you also could choose to not sign up if you are too busy. would actually help your guild.

"Warrior_TI;c-2456348" wrote:
set at least 3 teams and do your best on offense. Personally I would be embarrassed if I didn't set the same teams as the rest of the team. you also could choose to not sign up if you are too busy. would actually help your guild.

You only need 2 teams (30 per squad, 34 for fleet) on defense to meet the 50 point minimum.

I see both sides.

I find the 50 banners rule to be annoying.

I regularly set defense & with 7 GLs, I'm unlikely to not be able to pull off 50 on offense, but the rule itself is not a great one.

If you have freeloaders in your guild then its on the officers to boot them.

That said, it should also be on the officers to list what is needed for defense & no one should be dropping their entire force on defense blocking others from having any shot.

Now, if you show up to deploy defense w/ 30 minutes left, and found it full, well you shouldn't have waited so long.

The solution should probably be a lower figure, like, 5-10 so a single success on a previously hit team counts v/s 3 moderately successful hits on fresh opponents.

Obviously skipping defense is bad, but, I can honestly say with a grocery shopping trip Friday night & an HOA Board Election Saturday morning that I missed defense on our last TW with the distractions.
It happens.
I still hammered offense for 300-400 points but I can see if your guild happens to be facing some OP target that puts up GL walls that your not equipped to break that it might be a problem occasionally.

"Schwartzring;c-2456417" wrote:
I see both sides.

I find the 50 banners rule to be annoying.

I regularly set defense & with 7 GLs, I'm unlikely to not be able to pull off 50 on offense, but the rule itself is not a great one.

If you have freeloaders in your guild then its on the officers to boot them.

That said, it should also be on the officers to list what is needed for defense & no one should be dropping their entire force on defense blocking others from having any shot.

Now, if you show up to deploy defense w/ 30 minutes left, and found it full, well you shouldn't have waited so long.

The solution should probably be a lower figure, like, 5-10 so a single success on a previously hit team counts v/s 3 moderately successful hits on fresh opponents.

Obviously skipping defense is bad, but, I can honestly say with a grocery shopping trip Friday night & an HOA Board Election Saturday morning that I missed defense on our last TW with the distractions.
It happens.
I still hammered offense for 300-400 points but I can see if your guild happens to be facing some OP target that puts up GL walls that your not equipped to break that it might be a problem occasionally.

I wouldn’t mind them dropping it to, say, 10 points, but at the end of the day that threshold has to be arbitrarily set somewhere.

Playing devil’s advocate on the theme of IRL distractions, yes, sometimes life gets in the way, and a player might miss def and depending on time zones they might miss a lot of the offence phase as well. But in those cases the player hasn’t actually contributed to a victory or loss for their guild, so….

do they then actually deserve any rewards?