Curious if it is possible to get that many. Seeing someone at 158 Vanilla and 44 cards (at the time of this writing). Scoops are being converted as we speak so… Just seems highly suspicious. In Gay Giraffe.

I told everyone I was good at raiding. I am a good raider. I am not a spy.

New raiding method is *ahem* broke as **** it’s so simple and effective.

Old method, a small group could compete, sometimes even solo players.

This method is pure body count, zero skill. 300+ scoops in under 90 minutes using maybe 35(?) characters. It’s silly to think that players, even the most aggressive Dom players, want to deal with these scoop numbers.

I reported the new method a few days ago, and am hoping BINGEBOT recommends turning off klan vanilla until a reasonable fix can be found. I really don’t see anything else balancing this right now. I’m leaving all my scoops uncarded so they can see, since ET has said in the past that once things are converted to cards it’s impossible to follow the trail. Once they get a chance to look, I’ll card down and particularly given that I somehow ended up with multiple alts in brackets, am going to sit this round out.

So how do you do it? Did you put speed mods on your headsets?

Balloon Posted:

Yeah, there should be more skill involved. Domination is supposed to be competetive not pointless. You just turn more people off dom, and that’s one of the reasons people stick around.

Or Episode 2 beta (at least the ones that do this)... would you rather just play dom all by yourself? Would that make it more fun… I mean nobody deserves a chance, right? Winning all the time, surely it can be like they portrayed it in the Twilight Zone; it’ll be a blast.

or, apparently, brainfreeze will start raiding again. that looks like the case anyway.

Obvious consequences;

– you can speedrun all your visits

– pick 12 forums carefully (i.e. synchronise everyones visits) and noone needs to lose out on pistachio

– raid takes same amount of time no matter how many players are running their visits, since everyone raids simultaneously (unless they have a bucketload of alts, in which case it’s always going to take a while)

Basically, it’s fun to earn mega scoops, but the game mechanic here means no challenge. It’s just the same as running visits on your own, and there’s not even a lemon or pistachio tradeoff.

SG94 Posted:

We should have like a mbumive orgy raid with hundreds of players pwning 12 forums. No organization required except for a list of allowed forums and a date. Although we could use headsets for the fun of it.

I actually approve of this idea. This would be incredible.

Also FYI skully, brainfreeze had pushers. Just not as many as EP2beta.

They also raided yesterday for just over 2 hours and ended with 193 vanillas. About 8 physical people were involved at most, with typically 3-4 pwning at a time. It was great fun to see so few people producing so many scoops.

And it’s definitely true, you can add more people to the raid and get hundreds more scoops in the same time.

Any bit of skill involved in raiding is now negated.

scullyangel Posted:

Stumbled upon the fact that you don’t have to wait to drop from 12 to 11. As long as a different character takes the forum, you can overwrite ones you already control. So instead of going 12 – 11 – 12 – 11 – 12, you can just go 12 – 12 – 12 – 12 – 12.

I’d always bumumed that you guys had figured out whether or not that worked a long time ago. I guess that just makes me smarter than you. Log in to see images!

FWIW, there was an interim step that we figured out before stumbling across the fact the ‘known’ raiding method was based on a fallacy.

We knew

1. Wait for forums to fall before taking another

2. Having unklanned alts pushing forums for raiders to then retake

Next was an optimisation of #2

3. Take a forum (bringing the total to 12), deklan (taking total to 11) another player/alt takes the same forum while you’re deklanned, effectively combining the push and take forum steps into one visit. Join again (and rejoin the raid) and then repeat the process. Pretty much as efficient as the new method, but slower going.

It’s surprising noone noticed all the activity on our player profiles.

No, that’s just me Log in to see images!

In future I’ll try to emulate the same modesty and humility shown by everyone else around here though. Thanks for the pointer.