SG94 Posted:

Just voicing my agreement with Vuron on nearly every issue here. The alternating **** brigade thing I’m not sure about though, that could easily be gamed and could lead to screwing newbies out of dom even more. My tactic at least would be to only compete when I’m not in **** brigade. Any non-raiding player (the vast majority) in a bracket with me is sort of screwed in that case.

That’s not necessarily true. There are two fairly large raiding klans right now… there’s less than a snowball’s chance in hell that all of us are going to medal in the same week and have **** brigade become THAT big. In fact, it’s more likely that there will be more vanilla raiders *not* in **** brigade any given week with the suggestion to have only medal winners from the past week in there.

Within the next few weeks, I expect dom to start looking again like it did toward the end of season 1. The top bracket will be the highest/current medal winners. The next two or three will be right behind, and on down the line from there. I actually liked the way that worked and set us all up with approximately equal players over time. The only part of it that sucks is that eventually, the newbies will never be able to catch up. In the meantime, the newbies are in the lower brackets with other newbies and learn as they climb.

In fact, I think I found part of my answer on how to “fix” this… at least in my own mind. The way the seeding for the brackets was done toward the end of last season was ideal. I think it’s a valid (and easy because it already exists) solution. The first few weeks of a dom season are going to suck as players shake out with the seasons rolling over the way they did here… so maybe the season rollovers need to take previous medal counts into account for seeding purposes, but they’re still “wiped” from the current season counts. (I’m not entirely sure I said that at all clearly)