Q&A: Sandbagging Response

"leef;c-2024562" wrote:

It's irrelevant to the discussion at hand, which is in no way insulting to guilds who don't enforce particiation.
There's no difference in terms of gameplay between facing a guild that sandbags intentionally and a guild with non-mandatory participation (assuming they signup with the same amount of players).
On top of that it's also irrelevant what you, i or anyone else thinks about guilds who intentionally sandbag since it's not against the rules. It's not like putting a halt to intentional sandbagging stops the problem either.

I never said there was a difference in gameplay, and I explicitly stated that there was no difference with regards to a fair matchmaking solution. But given the original point was them wanting to see evidence of a guild doing this to try and gain an advantage, CG's issue is with intent. Also when people are complaining about people sandbagging and saying its "Gaming the system", or even ruining the game, then I would be hesitant to paint the vast majority of the playerbase with that brush without being willing to defend the people who do it intentionally. I don't see much benefit to the idea, I don't think it's that prevalent, but I do know guilds with low signup rates are rare and don't necessarily win more often, admittedly from largely anecdotal experience. It may not solve the problem, but I hope you can at least see where I'm coming from.