scullyangel Posted:

– A limit on the number of times any given character can join a raid in a week. I would suggest 2 raids as a trial number (this would allow those who wanted to to use 12 visits at two different raids and leave a few to either save for next week or solo run.) A limit on joining would bring things more in line with the idea behind the original vanilla nerf by preventing characters without visits from getting tons of scoops. (And no, an option requiring a character have visits in order to join wouldn’t work – everyone would just leave one visit sitting there, so they could rejoin.)

I’m not wholly opposed to this, but if we’re going to make it happen, I’m going to lobby hard for increasing the amount of time on the raid timer. When there were fewer forums, turnover was faster and you could actually burn through 12 visits in two hours or less. Even when we only have 5 people raiding, it’s still damn near impossible for everyone to burn through their 12 visits in two hours. I’d like to see a 4 hour timer… that should give a decent amount of time for people to burn through their visits for the most part.

scullyangel Posted:

– A more severe restriction would be to award klan scoops only to those who control one of the 12 forums. This would be really a pretty mean restriction on the larger klans, but one that could be managed. It might be too strong a condition, since it would definitely be the scenario most open to player hate.

In theory, I like this idea. The one major drawback I see is that it’s skewed in favor of people who can actually pwn and hold the “anchor” forums. Granted, there aren’t many low level people participating in raid very much anymore, but the ones that do are going to get screwed just taking the lower level forums that keep the turnover going.

scullyangel Posted:

– Introduction of more Domination cards. There are some awesome ideas in the Domination card suggestion thread – I’d love to see 6 – 10 new cards come into the pool. Cards are generally not a good deal unless they guarantee a return on your investment. Currently The Shield is the best investment as it will always save you scoops – exactly when you want it to. Turning in 4 scoops for a Modest Improvement isn’t sound math, but it is safety. You may have half the scoops, but no one can get them until you decide. If the odds of getting those two cards are dramatically decreased things become far shakier.

– Change the way The Shield works to force auto-equip. Once you put it up, they are all up with no option to take them down. Put them up early – they could all be destroyed leaving you wide open. Don’t put them up until late – you are vulnerable during any active raiding when you don’t have time to card down between klan pwnings.

Please? I love that the moddies/shields strategy has worked so well, but it’d be nice to shake things up a little. And there actually HAVE been times when I’ve wanted to unequip a shield… that would be nice if we could.

scullyangel Posted:

– A hard cap on the number of characters one player can have in Domination in any given week. This hasn’t been talked about in awhile, and we all know the alts in the same bracket isn’t supposed to happen, but it still does. It’s one thing for klan members to work in support of each other, it’s quite another to be able to run 2 characters personally in order to achieve maximum results. In the current round there are alts of the same players in several brackets. I had alts in the same bracket last week. Sometimes it just falls that way when you have alts with similar medal counts. So say any player can have 4 characters in Domination in a given week. Unless they are all making Forumbuildr submissions, it is very easy to determine exactly which character earns a scoop first, so it wouldn’t be a problem with not getting your main in or whatever. The other thing this would help is reducing the excess klan vanilla.

I’d much rather see the seeding algorithm get fixed so alts can’t be in the same domination team. I (and a lot of others) actively play dom on multiple characters. *I* focus on the main and let the alts win if they can survive a barrage in the last hour or so, but I love playing different strategies with different chars. Hell, half the time the alt plays just to have fun throwing cards at other people. (Come on guys… admit it… you love it every time you play an bumhole card on someone!)