Evil Trout Posted:

The sisterhood’s 300+ scoop raid was definitely impressive, but nobody honestly has a fighting chance when another player in their round has 300 scoops. At that point it becomes a purely sisterhood race to the top.

Well, that’s not strictly true. Right now the Flamers have 3x our members, so even with a “mere” 150 scoop raid, they out-vanilla-ed us overall. And believe me, we’ve been feeling the sting of those bumholes. But the one-scoop change will impact them exactly as much, so it’s still cool and makes things better for those un-raid-clanned people.

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I’ve been told that the 300+ raid was done with somewhere in the range of 20-25 people. Since that Klan has over 100 members, that means that a lot of people got a huge amount of scoops for doing nothing. Obviously this throws a lot of unbalanced vanilla into the domination economy and we can do something about it.

The plan is to add a new tab, “Raids” to the Klan section. On it, a klan administrator or officer can start a raid which will start a 2 hour countdown. At that point, members have to join the raid on the same tab.

Only the members who have opted into the raid party will receive the vanilla scoops, so it’s important that everyone who participates does it!

Klan admins and officers can also kick out members who aren’t pulling their weight.

I for one welcome our new alien overlords.

... what? Oh yea, and fully agree with the new Vanilla Raid system. 2 hours should be time enough, even if because no one can stand raiding for longer.

Sancdar Posted:

Maybe you guys can’t keep it up that long, but we ladies can just keep coming and coming Log in to see images!

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If that becomes a problem, I believe what *really* must be done is extend Raid Time to 3 hours, and the Raidmaster being able to make invite-only raids (the extra hour is for preparation, waiting people arrive, briefing, etc etc etc)

Perhaps increase solo vanilla to 2 or 3 scoops upon pwning 4 forums? The most scoops you can get from 12 visits then would be 18 or 27 vanilla scoops, much closer to the 36 lemon scoops one could get with those 12 visits and nice for those not in (raiding) klans.

Vuron Posted:

I think this would definitely be a decent idea as it would allow solo players and klan members in non-standard time zones to have a decent chance of netting a small number of vanilla scoops. Combined with speed runs and pistachio loops a good solo player would likely be able to at least consistently compete for min scoops.

I also wouldn’t mind there still being a 3 scoop bonus if your clan can pwn 24 forums simultaneous instead of the current 12. That way there would be an incentive to organize big, risky raids.

No.

A) Upping the scoop # from solo raids would make klan raids completely meaningless, because we’re generally giving up lemons and pistachioes when we raid as a klan, but when you’re soloing vanillas you get lemons and pistachioes as well.

B) 3 scoop bonus would be an incentive for.. oh gee, what stupidly mbumive klans do we know that can supply 30-40 people per raid? Log in to see images!

Lust Posted:

B) 3 scoop bonus would be an incentive for.. oh gee, what stupidly mbumive klans do we know that can supply 30-40 people per raid? Log in to see images!

I know what klan! Ooh! Ohh!

(It’s us, isn’t is?)

Edit: I meant both of us, but I wasn’t very clear about it.

markchd edited this message on 03/19/2008 5:11PM

Evil Trout Posted:

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I just put the finishing touches on the new raid tab. I’ll launch it tonight, sometime after this round of domination ends, maybe a couple of hours later depending on how things go.

I think it works pretty well. It’s just a big bumon to get it started, then any member can join in with no hbumle.

If you kick someone out of the raid party they can’t join again until the next raid, so be choosy about using that link Log in to see images!

P.S. I wont be around when Domination ends tonight, so if something goes wrong be patient for an hour or two! I’m pretty sure everything is running smoothly though.

Yup, I just pushed it. New vanilla rules are in effect.