Q&A: Sandbagging Response

"Waqui;c-2024554" wrote:

"BobcatSkywalker;c-2024430" wrote:

"BeralCator;c-2024426" wrote:
I think the question was perhaps not phrased as well as it could be, as it does imply intention to the mismatches.

The following might have been more effective:
"The community has noticed that TW matches with a large delta in active guild members are very noncompetitive and have only grown more so as GP scales while the map size remains static.

With only n*5 spots available on defense (where n is the smaller guild size), a 40-person guild that has an average GP of 5 million has a massive advantage over a 50-person guild with an average GP of 4 million, as their top 160 squads and 40 fleets will be significantly more developed.

Has any thought been put into either a) limiting match-ups to guilds with near-identical active players or b) expanding the map size so that n is the size of the larger guild (or larger)?"

The guild with 50 can have 50 meta malaak, 50trayas, 50 of everything,
Guild with 40 has only 40 meta malaak, 40 trayas, 40 of everything.

In theory, yes, but the members of the 50 participants guild only have 80% roster GP on average, compared to their opponents, and will be less likely to have the same amount of META teams or counters to the newest META teams.

Again assuming that the 80% difference in average gp all comes from meta teams is not true.

it can be true in some cases but there are other explanations that are more likely such as the 80% difference in roster gp comes from the 150 or so non meta characters in their respective depth of rosters... like the guild of 40 having an average gear of g10 and the guild of 50 having an average gear of g7 on the majority of their rosters or vice versa.

Assuming the 20% difference in gp all comes from malak relics or even all comes from meta teams is based purely on speculation and it is a very very unrealistic theory that one guild would have all malaak at g12 and another would have them all at r7. Even so if that was the case the guild with more r7 should win the war BECAUSE they DO have better squads.