Just gonna make a quick point here, and then go on to address some of scully’s specific points.

As it stands, the best strategy of domination is “buy a ton of alts, and raid with them.” A limit of ~5 characters per account, or ~10 characters per raid, shifts the balance of power from the raiders to the current solo strategy of “medal your alts, and cram them into the same bracket”. It’s closer to the ideal situation of strategy actually being the determining factor in who medals, but it’s still pretty far off. Far closer is to simply eliminate alts from dom entirely. 1 character, per week, selected with a radio bumon on the “My Characters” page.

scullyangel Posted:

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.

If it took you that much time, you’re doin’ it wrong. We’re all predictable. Actually pay attention to patterns.

scullyangel Posted:

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.

For the record, I used 3 visits during your solo. You happened to be running your solo at the same time as DoctorSpunny, who I bumume coincidentally (as it isn’t an alt of anyone I know), was running the same forums as you were. It was pretty funny.

Just one thing I want to bring up here. True, it may cost you 56 visits to block 56 klan vanilla, but that isn’t the way you or any other solo player plays. It will cost you far less visits to cram your alt into the same bracket as your main, solo a couple times, and buy some bumholes to blast those 56 scoops away. It is an effective use of visits for “solo” players to cram their alts into the same bracket to blast alt-raiders. Likewise, it is effective for alt-raiders, to interrupt solo players and their alts.

Once again, the issue here isn’t raiding, but alts. Remove ‘em entirely if you want balance and strategy. Log in to see images!

scullyangel Posted:

The number restriction is likely only going to serve to break up bigger klans into smaller klans or groups within klans.

That’s honestly why I think the number restriction in raids is a bad idea. The advantage to raiding, should increase with each person you’re able to get to raid with you. It’s coordination, planning, teamwork, and all that good stuff that we should be encouraging with more scoops. Anyone for a cap wants to keep raiding groups small, and I don’t really see any reason for this, other than “you can just buy medals with a bunch of alts” and that’s far better addressed by simply eliminating alts from dom entirely.

scullyangel Posted:

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.

Any clumping following or prior to my thread (which, by the way, asked that the “alts in the same bracket” issue be fixed) has been entirely unintentional, at least for me.