Sir Chap of the Helm
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Calling all guilds to boycott GBG until Inno sort this mess out.
Assuming everyone did this, how are you going to know when it's sorted out?
Even better fix is to eliminate SC so that a strong guild cannot just sit and take over a bunch of sectors at once. Make them work for it, gain the attrition and then have to sit and wait for the reset. Allowing 0 attrition allows one very strong player to be as strong as a guild - since they only need to have a very large supply of troops and that person can sit there and keep taking over all sectors by his/herself. As well, a guild that gets too far ahead of everyone else in VP should have additional attrition placed on the guild,Even better fix: limit SC bonus stacking up to 72% chance for no attrition (3 SCs). Then this 80 member strong guilds won't have to sit around forever and they will be free to use their time on some better things.
The algorithm is broken and has been for the last 5 rounds at least, every single time we are matched with the same 4 guild that can not be how it is meant to work, especially as it is not the way it worked up till 5 rounds ago
but inno will not acknowledge there is a problem
Ariana Erosaire said:Sadly it is not random. we have confirmation in our world that guilds with 1000 are being sorted by GUILD ID NUMBER which goes back to when they were created. it explains why we see the same 4-5 guilds without fail because we happen to have been created around the same time in 2014. And the only variety we see are picking up 2 or 3 guilds created after or before us, depending on who got -25, -75 etc to get bumped below 1000, still we see the same match-up from only about 10 guilds, just every other season if they take a trip below 1000.
Someone was able to predict all our matchups exactly for this season and prediction was correct by guild ID for all the diamond boards among guilds with 1000. you can see guild ID on a site like <REDACTED> the ID is right there in the link, 10726 happens to be my guild.
There are 32 guilds with 1000 and 56 total in diamond, yet we are sorted among approx the same 10 guilds, over and over. I have racked my brain trying to decide if this is new or just enough guilds have all gotten to 1000 that now we notice it. Was it ever random? I thought it was too... but it isn't now. There were times we used to get matched with a bigger variety of guilds, including those who are far away from us in guild ID number, through the end of 2020. but in 2021 we have settled into this pattern with no variety.
Except at the end of the day - you still have absolutely no idea if it is random or not. All you can do is make assumptions. Certainly some of the assumptions seem very reasonable - but again, they are only assumptions. So until someone is 'officially' comes out and gives some answer, will not know what is happening. Certainly it is worth being frustrated that nobody 'official' will give any answers, but it is also just as frustrating coming to these forums and seeing the same whine and dance going on constantly every day, if not almost every hour, for the last few weeks.@Ariana Erosaire: Your original post about this, as well as a couple responses were deleted by an (over-zealous?) mod because you linked to an external site. But it was an interesting post, and worth reposting with just the link redacted (which is what the mod should have done):
My reply was also deleted, but the jist of it was, nice bit of detective work. Assuming the analysis is right, then the order isn't random at all. Which is what a lot of players have been saying for the last few weeks.
@Ariana Erosaire: Your original post about this, as well as a couple responses were deleted by an (over-zealous?) mod because you linked to an external site. But it was an interesting post, and worth reposting with just the link redacted (which is what the mod should have done):
My reply was also deleted, but the jist of it was, nice bit of detective work. Assuming the analysis is right, then the order isn't random at all. Which is what a lot of players have been saying for the last few weeks.
I have been trying to think if it's possible the matching has been the way it was all along and we just got enough guilds all hitting 1000 every week that now we notice?