Hindersplit the Elder
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I posted a comment and questions to Inno Games a while ago. Their response was “We appreciate your feedback on this topic! While we cannot guarantee any changes which will or will not be made, we will be sure to pass on your feedback”. Yah right. Then the said “We would also encourage you to post your feedback on our dedicated forum thread also”. I can only assume that they want to see how many others feel as I do. So below is my post, slightly modified and updated:
I’m in a small guild. We are active in GbG. The changes you made to GbG were not really helpful to smaller guilds. Let me explain.
Our guild is currently ranked 34 and we have 9 members. In a season recently passed we were grouped with guilds that were: ranked #1 with 79 members, ranked #5 with 75 members, ranked #6 with 61 members, ranked #14 with 25 members, ranked #23 with 27 members, ranked #29 with 32 members.
In our current season we are grouped with guilds that are: ranked #5 with 78 members, ranked #18 with 71 members, ranked #17 with 37 members, ranked #30 with 64 members, ranked #37 with 39 members, ranked #39 with 64 members. Once again my guild is ranked 34 with 9 members. The two larger guilds are in an all-out battle to take and keep 1st place. In doing so, as soon as one guild’s sector opens the other guild rapidly loads and closes it before we can load it even halfway. As such we never gain a sector; we only have our home sector, and we have very few fights/negotiations.
As you can clearly see the large guilds at the top of the ranking still dominate GbG and close any sectors that open before smaller guilds can load them. It doesn’t matter how good you are at fighting, or how good your boost stats are, you will never get many rewards in GbG in diamond league. Not everyone wants to be in a large guild. But through GbG you are forcing them into it. We constantly get requests from medium sized guilds to merge with them so that they can have a large guild.
You keep GE competitive by having guilds of the approximately same size compete against each other. If not it would be an obvious advantage to the smaller guilds. You stated that the changes you made were for more players to be able to be active in GbG. That still doesn’t work for smaller guilds. Why don’t you do the same thing to GbG, which is obviously a huge advantage to larger guilds? Guilds would only compete against other guilds that are a) in the same guild member quantity range first and then b) the same ranking range. As you keep moving up in ranking you will start to face tougher guilds of approximately the same size.
I’m in a small guild. We are active in GbG. The changes you made to GbG were not really helpful to smaller guilds. Let me explain.
Our guild is currently ranked 34 and we have 9 members. In a season recently passed we were grouped with guilds that were: ranked #1 with 79 members, ranked #5 with 75 members, ranked #6 with 61 members, ranked #14 with 25 members, ranked #23 with 27 members, ranked #29 with 32 members.
In our current season we are grouped with guilds that are: ranked #5 with 78 members, ranked #18 with 71 members, ranked #17 with 37 members, ranked #30 with 64 members, ranked #37 with 39 members, ranked #39 with 64 members. Once again my guild is ranked 34 with 9 members. The two larger guilds are in an all-out battle to take and keep 1st place. In doing so, as soon as one guild’s sector opens the other guild rapidly loads and closes it before we can load it even halfway. As such we never gain a sector; we only have our home sector, and we have very few fights/negotiations.
As you can clearly see the large guilds at the top of the ranking still dominate GbG and close any sectors that open before smaller guilds can load them. It doesn’t matter how good you are at fighting, or how good your boost stats are, you will never get many rewards in GbG in diamond league. Not everyone wants to be in a large guild. But through GbG you are forcing them into it. We constantly get requests from medium sized guilds to merge with them so that they can have a large guild.
You keep GE competitive by having guilds of the approximately same size compete against each other. If not it would be an obvious advantage to the smaller guilds. You stated that the changes you made were for more players to be able to be active in GbG. That still doesn’t work for smaller guilds. Why don’t you do the same thing to GbG, which is obviously a huge advantage to larger guilds? Guilds would only compete against other guilds that are a) in the same guild member quantity range first and then b) the same ranking range. As you keep moving up in ranking you will start to face tougher guilds of approximately the same size.