BINGEBOT 2015 Posted:

We had 39 raids started this week. Not sure how many were successful, but with the changes this week raiding will be easier to keep track of (you’ll at least know how many forums you’ve pwned).

1 of those was me trying to see how alts could affect anything, if at all. I’m sure I’m not the only one that did that. I’m really curious to see if anyone was successful in a raid. Most of the scoops I’m seeing in the top bracket are in line with solo runs…

BINGEBOT 2015 Posted:

You aren’t guaranteed the Lemon scoops currently, and pistachio is only really beneficial every 3 weeks. If you plan your raiding there’s no reason you can’t get Pistachio while you raid. Lemon is a lot harder though.

I’m working off optimal numbers for the solo. Let’s say that no one is more likely to screw up a streak in a raid and add those 60 scoops back in. I still need 7 unique bodies in my raid to come up *equal* to a solo. And I need all of those people to have full visits and never lose an extra forum and never overpwn… and to hell with a payoff for the extra effort it takes to coordinate a raid.

BINGEBOT 2015 Posted:

Allowing alts back into Raids would just make the Leeching issue worse. Right now you can leech at the cost of 12 scoops. If alts were in your raid they’d just help with that. I’m not seeing why we should allow alts into raids. Get 13 people together, I’ve seen this happen many times. Would you rather we lower the number so you can get less people? Cause I’ll gladly do that.

The issue isn’t the limit… the issue is that we’re required to have x number of unique bodies present to match or exceed a solo raid. BoD doesn’t even have that many unique bodies in the klan. Brainfreeze and GGM don’t often have that many bodies in the same place at the same time all willing to spend the time to dedicate a full 12 visits to a raid.

The *limit* is fine. The fact that you need 13 distinct people there to make it worthwhile is where things are screwed up right now.