Coming to the end of season 5 in this format and the need for change is urgent. 7 guilds on the board, 7 guilds have built HQ buildings and have taken some sectors. Looks like success? Think again. 4 guilds are vying for spots 5-7. They can’t win. But note, they are not competing for 2-4. That is the complete absurdity of the system such as it has been devised. And none of this is down to there not being fights available, half of the board is open at any given time, their support is left if they have it, and they deliberately do not tip a sector. Those 4 guilds are, according to the current completely skewed championship ranking, ranked 9, 12, 13 and 20 in my world. On the only ranking people will see once the Gvg-based ranking is removed. The only guilds in that rank, besides 1-3, that actually can fight to win a 1000 lp board, and would, are ranked 10 and 11 (based on one win each) and 22-24 (no wins). They would beat these four guilds we have on the board and even the two others any day, and do, coming 2nd-4th. Yet, for some reason only known to devs, this system was not addressed, deliberately, as per the announcement regarding feedback on feedback. Among those more active guilds who would always fight but can’t win a season more than occasionally, interest is down, and interest among those who are competing for the championship and its main prize will most likely also vane, because facing this kind of competition for weeks is boring.
Suggestions for improvement and much more equitable ranking
- Limit the diamond league to max 2 full boards, 16 guilds, and base the Championship main ranking on the internal victories and vps within that group.
- Increase the prize available within that group, and reduce it commensurately from the next tier down, to incentivise competition rather than the race to be relegated.
- The alternative, as has been said before, is to only count 1000 lps as diamond, remove the Championship tower from the pool available for any guild below 1000 lps.
- In conjunction with that, as has also been said before, weight vps and victories achieved in lower tiers/leagues differently, so there is no automatic carry over to top league.
- There have been other suggestions of how to place guilds in leagues, this current one is not working.
The only option I see is to make the seasons significantly shorter. If this is the main event, waiting for Guild Raids, and as an event it is a busted flush from the first hour of the first day or in the very best scenario, on the first Monday morning, give us an option to stop the season or freeze the board as it is. If ranking and championship is the main concern here, there is no point in keeping seasons such as our current one running for 11 days.