Let's fix TW Sandbagging....
Let's face it, there is a lot of intentional and unintentional sandbagging in TW. Currently the rules are that the number of defensive teams is based on the guild with the fewest members. While C...
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Those who claim guilds sandbag. Do you ever have other stuff going on in real life which means you can not play as much? We all have the choice to sign up for GAC for this reason. In these “sandbagging” guilds because they can get max tier rewards with some of the guild and do not want to support a bunch of back pack yodas or experience the frustration of low activity costing the game. They simply expect only those with the time for TW to sign up. This means if you are busy it does not impact your guild and everyone participating has a better experience. As someone who used to be in a guild that required 50 members for a chance of a droid brain. This is much more reasonable and fun experience. Thier advantage is activity. Those 0’s on the board from players you force to sign up are why you lose. Those 50 banners to steal everyone else’s effort is why you lose. Not other guilds which permit there players to choose if they want or can participate meaningfully and then set minimum participation standards. Sort your own guilds activity and strategy out.
Yes, having only 40/50 sign up because 10 people have better things to do is still sandbagging. And there is nothing wrong with doing that. My guild has 5 or 6 members who only join TW sporatically. We usually only have 45 or 46 participate.
But that doesn't change the fact that it rewards the members who do sign up with an easier match up and punishes the guild with 100% participation when they get matched up together. This is the problem I am trying to solve, not pointing fingers as guilds who do that.
No it’s not sandbagging, there is an algorithm which match makes on quality of roster so it ‘should’ be balanced. But there is limited matches in certain brackets and it avoids re-matches so it’s not perfect. They did not reveal specifics at the time to prevent exploitation. If you are on a lose streak you have an easy match up, if you are on a win streak you get a punch up battle. And as I pointed out main discrepancy on the difference in sign up is activity. If there are players signing up they factor into the “sign up quality” if they do nothing or little then you will be punished for their inactivity by facing a more challenging guild without their help.
It is sandbagging, definitely. What happened to my guild quite a lot of times: After loosing 2 TWs, instead of getting an easier opponent, we meet a top level guild with up to 590mio gp, where only around 35 signed up and they beat the s..t out of us. Happened several times. This is what has to be adressed. Same guild where almost everybody participates 100% in Naboo raid, but only 35 in TW? It is sandbagging.
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