To make sure you win the top spot, just ask a guildmate to secure the 2nd spot.
Huh, that is exactly what I wrote.
Nor really.
So he gives 570FP and gets 570FP? Or in other words, he could have taken the top spot without swapping in the first place? Why then would Joe then even accept the deal? If that were the case, I could make this same argument without an Arc:
- Al asks Bob to swap.
- The top reward of Bob's GB is 570FPs.
- Al will swap 570 FPs with Bob.
- Al will put 570 FPs in Bob's GB, so he's now at 9,430 FPs in packs.
- Bob will put 570 in Al's GB of choice. So Al has a net value of 10,000 again. 10,000 - 570 + 570 = 10,000
- But when Al collects, he gains 570 FPs.
- Net value of 10,570. Back at 10,000 FPs in packs, but received 570 FPs for free.
Without an Arc? Hahaha. Very funny. Try to win the top spot without a loss or without the help of a 2nd and 3rd donator to share the loss to secure the spots. Your example doesn't make sense at all.
Usually, when you do daily swaps, if you can win back more than 30% of your swap, you are lucky. Because you end up on the top spot all by yourself, secured a long time ago and when it collects, the reward won't be more than 20-30%. The only time you can get more back when you swap, is when a friend/guildmate asks you to swap to level a GB, usually, it will be a good reward on your swap, but that's called Packs Swapping in my book. It's not daily swaps.
Now, not only you can win back 100% of your FPs, you even get for free the basic net reward another time. Doh!
The only way Gertrude and Joe can do this, is because they have 90 and 80% bonus from their Arc, otherwise they wouldn't be able to secure the top 2 spots. My suggestion to drop it to 0.1% after level 10 is for a reason.
Even worst now, is that with such high Arcs, they don't even need now to put 90% and 80% more FPs, they can often make a net profit on top of that.
For example, since I need to be very precise with numbers. If the top reward is 300 FPs and the Arc bonus of Gertrude is 90%, she doesn't even need to put 570 FPs to win the top spot, with the help of 2 friends/guildmates, she can simply put 500 and it will secure her top spot. So, getting even more free FPs.
Geez, look at the New Ranking thread, even there they write about how the Arc is too powerful. Only people that don't like this thread are the ones abusing it and even some that abuse it are mature enough to admit it is too powerful.
I only have a level 11 Arc, 32% bonus and I can already see the power it can bring me. I earn over 100 FPs per day. So, if I lose 50-60 FPs to secure 5-6 BPs, I don't care, that's not even half a day's worth of FPs. I will be laughing my socks off when I will be at 50%. Before my Arc, losing 25-50 FPs per BPs was acceptable, now, if it's more than 10 FPs per BP, I will find another GB to snipe.