This is the real meta, and it needs a nerf

"benacrow;1006638" wrote:

"Nebulous;1006635" wrote:


It sucks being on the wrong end of it. That being said, perhaps it would have been better to be a team player rather than attacking people outside of the accepted group's code of conduct.

This is why people collude in the first place. There's always that one arsebag that snipes people outside of their own payout, and communicating with your fellow shardmates prevents this from happening.

Even with a dedicated Discord channel for my shard that about 15 or so of us in the top 25 have set up, there is a counter group of 3-4 that sometimes throw a wrench in the machinery -- the aforementioned arsebag variety, who, have some penchant to hit people outside their payout -- it runs about as smoothly as one could hope.

Additionally, we have who I will dub Whaley McCryAzz who is one of these types who has some curious need to be #1 at every possible hour of the day -- he actually requested that we msg him once we've each reached payout so he can immediately climb back in 1st. But he's not so insufferable as to hit us back at payout; according to him, he "lets us get paid." (rolling my eyes.)

As for the main group, as I see it we're not "colluding" as much as we've coordinated to not unknowingly hit one another near our respective payouts. That's just semantics I guess.

TL;DR to the OP - sounds like you are dealing with chumps but do your best to tolerate them, you don't have to be their buddy but some flexibility and coordination on your part will result in a net Crystal gain.