Promote/demote players
The idea is simple: once a month, promote the three strongest players in a shard to a slightly tougher shard. At the same time, drop the bottom 100 players down a level. Discuss.
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"JohnTS676;654990" wrote:
Nice idea but I think that active high level players finishing in the top 3 would abuse this and just sit outside the "promotion" zone when it is close to the time, effectively eliminating some of their opposition. This would require some sort of table from the devs to calculate average place overall for the month and I don't think that it is ever going to be a priority for them. What might be a better issue for them to look at are the groups of people who work together to effectively "lock down" the top 5 or so by fighting each other around the payout times so that other people can't challenge the top spots. Not sure how they could go about it without seriously overhauling the way arena works though
This infighting doesn't have to really be a cooperative action by the players. It's more just a function of the arena that is set up. Winning means "nothing" only holding the position and the only way to do that is to be locked in a battle. I never communicate with other shard mates but I attack them to lock in position when I can. And since from 1 you can only hit out to 4, you are going to lock in one of those positions as well.
