Well, one thing for certain, it played into the hands of the Bot Users and Mega Guilds. Top Three Guild on Old system, 30 in new system... Guild was set up for GVG, not GBG. Fighting 280 repetitive battles is so boring, no hint of adventure at all, and watch the Bot's clean up.
that's been the path for quite a while. I've reduced diamond usage by 50% and boy, does it show.
Trouble is, this was to mask getting rid of GVG, probably the biggest mistake ever. GBG is just a money making farm using ideas I put forward to improve GVG. The trouble with GBG is itself. Get to Future and stay there, grab some AE/OE/VFE troops and you're laughing, no need the misery of Oceanic future as there is no reason to move forward. There are no new challenges, no new 'Viking Build' or anything else. The rewards on GE are pointless after Future (and probably before).
I've reported more players than most people have had hot dinners. I used to be an IGM. Don't go to denial mode. TW was destroyed by bot users as was (nearly) Travian. I was an IGM on those as well.
Just edited my post, I meant a similar Championship. With similar issues, yo-yoing guilds, big but more competitive guilds in 1000 lp losing interest since they see very little return on their goods, troops and maybe dime investment, except each season. We are already seeing those guilds losing players in my live world, and that will likely continue. If you want to compete, you go to a competitive guild, and if you are less interested but still want one level of the main building, you go to a good enough guild that can stay 5th in high dime and win lower dime. Those who are too strong or proud to drop down will lose people until they are no longer strong enough to hang on, most likely.
Agree about match up, but that is easily fixed if they fix the leagues and encourage the competition. Plenty of people care enough about rank to wonder how they are seeing a guild with 10 players beating a more active guild with 70. What becomes difficult is player motivation in the guilds that end up ranked way below where they are actually fitting in the result board, compared to what their championship rank looks like.
It's not just the rankings that are messed up. Guilds strong enough to remain consistently in 1000LP league are deprived of Tower fragments.
Fair points all and I am not trying to convince you. I am stating what I see in my world. I still find these changes an improvement, but if the season which just ended is an indication, it will go south fast. There is no incentive to compete if you can’t win and there are only two guilds on the board. Spend the minimum and be done with the season. Even if there are 3 guilds on the board, you can do the same. Agree to not fight, save guild treasury, you’re not going to fall out of league. Simply because it doesn’t actually matter, all that matters is the win. If you can’t have it, you don’t fight.
Maybe we are talking about different features or care differently about how they might work. For me, this is a collective feature where the stated objective is to win. The guild could sit and do nothing for 11 days, having taken the board, and it wins. Mission accomplished. Is it fun? No. Do the individuals benefit? Hardly, although the occasional break is nice too. But is it the aim with this new format of GbG to have guilds sit out the season once the first hour is done? If so, make it 1 hour and give us a feature where by common accord we pull the plug on it, and stop the season entirely.
In this particular example it is obvious. We can discuss specifics till the cows come home, but the overall issue remains. We have several guilds with 3-10 players sitting higher in ranks than guilds who beat them when they are on the same board, because those smaller guilds achieve their wins in other leagues. For anyone who has ever tried to lead anything, that is problematic. A 2nd place and victory over another guild can mean nothing, when that other guilds comes back two weeks later with an achievement they could not get while competing against you, and you may not get unless you are very lucky on the board you are fighting in. That situation affects 1 guild for sure on every 1000 lp board, and potentially up to 3 guilds on every 1000 lp board.
The top guild managed to score enough to take a decisive lead fairly early on, but not to completely dominate the map; we made a tacit non-aggression pact with the sideways guild, who proceeded to spread sideways in the other direction, and concentrated on battling numbers One and Two. Massive struggles for second place, involving both of us getting pushed back to our home sector at different points in the season, and fighting for sectors that required up to 320 battles to win (and where our neighbours were deleting traps and using diamonds to increase the fortifications just as my attrition was running out!) In the end we got second place (or 'won', as we deservedly regarded it) with about fifteen hours to spare, and hung onto it.
I find GBG much more enjoyable and exciting than GvG.Does anyone seriously consider GBG a good feature? Whats exciting about shooting fish in a barrel? GvG is 100% better to play. We have had around 10 years of fun with GvG, Now we will get 10 years of total boredom with GBG,,,,,,Well done Inno
