plk Posted:

Yes, solo vanilla can be and is interfered with, but it’s much more difficult to watch for many people doing solos quickly at different times and interrupt them than it is to catch a raid that lasts for several hours. It’s hard not to notice a klan raid, but you have to pretty much stalk somebody if you want to interrupt their solo vanilla.

Agreed. However, with these changes raids will be restricted to 120 visits (lets call it that for argument sake). Therefore they won’t last for hours. Many users can run multiple smaller (and faster raids). This should make raiding as a whole more common then solo raiding. And with only requiring 10 characters instead of however many contribute now, it would be easier to coordinate. Perhaps we could adjust the yield of solo vanilla to 7 or 6 per dom (so 63 or 54 scoops instead of 72).

The point is, smaller raids, which are easier to coordinate and execute should result in more raids, more competition, and more strategy overall, because you wouldn’t have a windfall of scoops, you’d have an edge over solo players. An edge.

I don’t want domination to be about who has more alts and who can spend more time raiding. I want it to be about strategy and to encourage cooperation.

plk Posted:

The other methods of gaining scoops I only brought up in order to demonstrate why it wouldn’t really be effective to raid with such a small advantage coming from vanilla. If you can make up the difference with other methods and gain the advantage of stuffing brackets with your alts, that is a better strategic choice than raiding.

Agreed, but this is, and always has been true.. but if you look at the top choco earners, they aren’t the one’s dominating the game.. the vanilla raiders are. If we nerf vanilla scoops and choco (or other scoop earners) become the kings, we’ll make adjustments to keep them in check.

Again, other suggestions/alternatives are welcome. That’s why I post these types of changes publicly.