Grayson81 Posted:

Shouldn’t it?

If the rewards from solo vanilla are good enough, then isn’t it reasonable that a solo player can’t use his alts to buy free vanilla and that a clan of two or three people won’t be able to raid as successfully as a 10-man crew?

I wonder what would happen to raids if the number of forums needed was raised from 12 to 20.

You say that as though larger klans raiding don’t use alts to buy additional vanilla. You have just joined BF, but they regularly use alts to achieve more scoops during raids, they just don’t rely as heavily on alts due to their larger player base.

Solo vanilla compared to klan vanilla is very decently balanced. The fact that klan players can earn all their klan vanilla without using a visit is a problem. The fact that klan or solo players can manipulate alts into the same brackets together is a problem. Both of these things push things out of balance on a large scale. What “should be” and what sounds good on paper, is often very different in practice.

What would happen if the number was raised? It would take 5 more minutes at the start of an organized raid to get going. It would become very difficult for a small group to interrupt a large group, but very easy for a large group to interrupt a small group. It would eliminate the free scoops currently being earned by 24 hour non-raiding in the largest klans.