Shard Chats = cheating

The devs don't give a kitten.

I'm curious, what do you expect them to do?

Do you have a solution in mind?

have rotating shards?

They can’t control what people do outside the game so don’t expect this to ever go away

Rotating shards by their date is a perfect solution.

Just curious. Why u call that cheating?
Did they break any rule? alter any part of the game basecode? Do they exclude anybody from participating?

It turns a PVP match into PVP+P+P+P match. In a free for all competition teaming up defeats the purpose.

You ever read hunger games? It's the survival (or in this case staying on top) mentality

Bunch of cheaters trying to rationalize. Quite sad.

Even if just for the sake of keeping your opponents and fights fresh, I wouldn't mind a shard mixup (based on start date, of course)—I'm kind of tired of fighting the same people over and over. Breaking up the circles at the top would just be a side benefit.