We will see. I think competing for a win needs to be incentivised, after everything that has been going on with Gbg in the past years, and if the incentive is then changed, or there is an easier way of achieving it, without wasting goods or troops, it would not be far fetched to expect a much higher percentage of guilds opting for that. It seemed that there was a desire to get Gbg to be a competition, guild against guild. When you throw in a new factor, such as, a weaker guild getting ranked higher because it didn’t even have a competition in a weaker league, and then add to it that it gets a better prize than one that did compete and faced off in the higher league, you may quickly see that people deem the experiment a failure.
Quite.
I didn’t say anything about fairness. I said that it is skewed. The building is a new prize, it should be obtainable by those who compete in the higher tier more easily (or with bigger opportunity, if that is clearer) than those who don’t compete at that level. Pure and simple.
But guilds don't farm because there is no worthwhile competition. They swap sectors so that their individual members can get more rewards from winning battles - losing a sector and then retaking it doesn't benefit the guild, but allows the members of both guilds to profit personally from fighting repeatedly over the same territory.
That's not accurate and only valid for a small amount of players from Zerg Guilds. There are many reasons to set up a swap zone/sectors especially when the battleground is already settled at the top. Zergs zerg so whatever but for top players detail matters including keeping what's alive in a battleground running. I do or try to setup a swap sector or two so I can still continue to have a normal amount of daily fights without disturbing ongoing battles for spot 3/4/5 and to give the other top guild in the battleground sectors for their members to do their daily fights/negotiations.
Quite apart from not having had a forum account when those buildings and mechanics were launched, so never commented, that is a different thing altogether. And you know it. You keep talking about how players took advantage and thwarted the intended mechanics of this feature. Here I am as a player telling you what I see as unworkable in the long run of the feature as currently devised and how it will play out for quite a few guilds. I have explained exactly what this new problem looks like, and how it will play out. I am doing so again. Focus on that please, and maybe try to engage with the argument at hand rather than the feature such as it was anno dazumal.
Maybe it would not be a bad idea to change all individual rewards to Guild rewards. Gather everything players win during the season and divide that under the members that participated at the end of the season.
So let's say, if all players of a Guild of 20 gather 900 diamonds during the season each get 45. That way, the high active selfish players that wait for the easy opportunities to score, will share with the other players that create those opportunities for them
In any tournament it has always been the case that some teams will get an easier 'draw' than others - it is generally reckoned to even out in the long run.
Or you know, do what we do. Don’t pick anyone, just sweep the map and let them fight it out after. We have a good map once again, as to all top Gbg guilds in my world. I assume they too will take it as the competition it is. Irrespective what your score is, at least expect them to do something of their own accord.
