Shard Chats = cheating
When are the game developers going to do something about the PVP cheating rings (aka shard chats)?
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The "cheat" is when a group of shard chat people lock out other people not in the chat, because they compete with a subset of the shard chat groups payouts. Like how @ewqewqc says his "payout time" is locked because they already have 10 in that payout time... meaning they won't accept new people into the shard chat that share that payout time and actively punish outsiders that try to compete for that payout time, by using members of the shard chat that have different payout times.
The blocking due to a perceived fullness of that payout time, and more specifically the italized statement above, is where the annoyance over "cheating" comes from... imo. People with the same payout times should just compete with each other, without interference from other people in different payout times.
The other "etiquette" rules may be fine (again imo) to "enforce", except when members of the Shard Chat violate those rules themselves.
Like when they attack outside their payout times to maintain a lower level ranking, presumably to avoid having to climb like the rest of us, then it is just hypocritical to expect outsiders to behave one way while Shard Chat people get to behave differently.
@rawman Interesting. But I guess it makes sense this issue would be as old as the game itself.
The blocking due to a perceived fullness of that payout time, and more specifically the italized statement above, is where the annoyance over "cheating" comes from... imo. People with the same payout times should just compete with each other, without interference from other people in different payout times.
The other "etiquette" rules may be fine (again imo) to "enforce", except when members of the Shard Chat violate those rules themselves.
Like when they attack outside their payout times to maintain a lower level ranking, presumably to avoid having to climb like the rest of us, then it is just hypocritical to expect outsiders to behave one way while Shard Chat people get to behave differently.
@rawman Interesting. But I guess it makes sense this issue would be as old as the game itself.
