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Seasoned Adventurer

6 months ago

Is CG creating a toxic environment in Territory Wars

We all know that Territory Wars hasn't been touched for years however with the ever increasing need for R9s the pressure to obtain them is greater than ever.

That is why we are seeing an alarming trend of guilds going in at 35/50 to effectively punch down to much smaller guilds as a way of obtaining more droid brains.

If you are a non-TW inclined guild then you will average 7 droid brains over 3 wars (2 losses and 1 "dip" war win).
However going in at 35/50 you virtually guarantee an average of 10 droid brains over 3 wars (2 wins and 1 sit out).
When you have guilds at 690m going in at 35/50 you meet guilds at 480m (Still well within the 5 droid brain range). Typically these are smaller guilds who even if they are 50/50 will not have all the toys, omicrons, datacron investment etc and it is easy to see why they would just not even try when seeing "impossible" front walls.

By their continuing refusal to do anything on TW, even periodic reward refreshes, CG have effectively created a situation that encourages larger guilds to "bully" or scare smaller ones, punching down and further discourages anyone to try in TW at multiple levels.

Do you have any thoughts on this?

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PertorTom
Seasoned Hotshot
5 months ago
It's actually quite simple. My guild has 480 million GP and 47 members, for example. That's an average of 10 million. That's a level where people need the rewards, even the consolation prize for losing. That's why up to 45 people sign up every time, even though it's not mandatory.
It should simply not be possible by game design to have to compete against an opponent whose average is 12 or 13 million, even if they are significantly fewer in number.
For us, it feels like trench wars in particular often involves encounters of this kind.
I don't really care whether a guild deliberately sandbags or not. And I don't blame them. Smaller guilds with higher activity are penalized by the current system precisely because of this activity.
TW needs an overhaul .... that's all about it.