plk Posted:

Yes, I mean with the current implementation, raid scoops don’t guarantee wins. Last season when people were interrupting all our raids and stuffing the brackets with their alts from their own solos, raiding wasn’t winning medals. So now we have to interrupt solos so that the top bracket doesn’t have 3-4 alts from the same person again, which is what was happening last season.

You are aware that the serious interruption you are mentioning required a dedication of damn near around the clock watching of the klan Dom board in order to catch you guys raiding. The effort required those doing the interruption to look at it like it was more than a part time job for about a month. To imply that raid interruption on a serious scale is a constant threat is completely ridiculous. No one should have to put in that kind of time and effort to have a 50% chance at combating a balance problem.

It’s almost like you’re saying because you raid you don’t deserve any interference and that is pretty funny considering you guys interrupt solo players every single day of the week.

For a little real world perspective: Ricket used 8 visits (on an alt he doesn’t use for anything except pushing forums down with) last night and cost my solo run 56 vanilla. Had I used 8 visits interrupting your raid it would have cost you – 8 vanilla .

There might be some random raid interruption happening, but it takes 56 visits to cost a raider 56 scoops. Again that is 8 visits to cost a solo player 56 scoops and 56 visits to cost a klan raider 56 scoops. And at the end of the thing the solo runner will have zero visits left, while a serious klan raider will still have 12 visits to run solo. We have a bit of an epic gulf in interruption power.

For the millionth time to everyone else out there reading: serious raiders don’t use the visits on their main during the freaking klan raid unless they aren’t actually planning to medal that week. Whether it is an unlimited free for all or limited to 10 per raid, mains will join and alts will feed. Pistachio is not even a factor because the character you care about gets to run pistachio and solo vanilla later. The number restriction is likely only going to serve to break up bigger klans into smaller klans or groups within klans.

I don’t really see a solution that will be balanced until alts allowed to participate are limited. Raiding is ruled by those who have alts to push or pull. Raid interruption of any kind is impossible for anyone who wants to play for medals unless they have alts. Bracket manipulation, there’s not a lot to manipulate unless you are getting your alts bracketed together, and once they are in there they can either guarantee medals or close to guarantee the denial of medals.

And while plk might not be stacking her alts in brackets, her klannies are not innocent little flowers in this regard. Ricket and Ronnie have both been clumping alts together a few minutes after the new Dom round starts since the new season rolled out, hell Ricket openly posted that he was going to abuse the system.

Pretty much every problem that comes up, every issue of balance seems to be due to alt manipulation. Alt restriction still seems like the most solid chance at balance. Would we need all these wacky rules for raiding if things were set to 1 raid per character per week and a max of 4 alts playing per week? Hell if a cap of 40 characters per raid was put in place the forum overwrite mechanic could be put back in place to actually encourage klan raiding again. Time reduction plus simplification, balanced by the inability to set up more than 4 characters for any one player.