BINGEBOT 2015 Posted:

I still think that leeches will leech.

Then you have to give everyone else a reason to care or eliminate any benefit for doing so.

In the upper bracket(s), there are only three medals to win, two of which are fairly closely tied together (Max scoops and Fave Flav). We’ve established that klans would rather rotate who wins than fight amongst themselves for them.

If there’s five klan members in the top bracket, and the klan has decided three of them will win, why *shouldn’t* the other two let those three leech? What benefit is there to them, who have already decided to lose, to stop someone from leeching?

In the lower brackets, you need far fewer scoops to be a contender (since the real contenders dominate for the first few weeks, until they’re in the top). Why shouldn’t eight other klan members in lower brackets just let them leech? What benefit is there to them, who don’t need the relatively small number of scoops the leecher isn’t giving, to stop them from doing so?

Domination is set up so that a klan has to choose who is contending in each bracket, once a certain number of alts are present. Why wouldn’t that klan then do all they can to make those selected contenders win, regardless of how many actual players are playing?

Allowing full solo vanilla in a raid eliminates most of the reason to leech (as there the only benefit is reduced interference), but it also means that a raid is purely extra scoops and a detriment to any player who isn’t in a klan that is capable of raiding.

But, given the added difficulty inherent in staging a klan raid, it will always be purely better than not raiding. I would say that the best way to manage that would be to allow a person to use all of their own alts to raid, so that a solo player can at least get some of the benefit themselves, which would be allowing alts to join the raid and gain scoops.