Demeter7
Squire
- Reason
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The current GBG placement uses LP (League Points). This results in drastically bumping guilds up and down between leagues from season to season. This forces guilds that win one battle in Platinum up into the top level of Diamond, facing the strongest guilds in their world. The opposite also occurs, where a strong guild places low in Diamond when facing other very strong guilds, to end up next season on a map in Platinum or lower diamond with guilds that are too far below them to be a challenge. Guild league placement bumps guilds up and down too far, often above or below their ability.
This does not encourage guilds to fight to their full ability, because they are pushed too far up with one win.
This also results in guilds sitting out seasons as they are beached, or else they are bored on a map with guilds who can not keep up with them.
Some guilds intentionally lose to move themselves down to lower leagues. This gives them easy wins over weaker guilds. This has been evident with the recent GBG changes. Guilds try to get to lower Diamond to get the win, so that they get the Tournament building fragments. They are using the LP method to choose what level they want to be in for the next battle.
- Details
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I propose that league matches are determined by Total Player Points of all guild members and Total Fights Won of all guild members. This information is already available in the Player stats listing, so it does not require additional record keeping.
Use these totals to come up with an average of Points and average of Wins based on the guild member count.
Use these 2 averages to group guilds by a logical, predetermined range per league.
- Balance
- This would improve balance in GBG and would not affect other game features.
- Abuse Prevention
- This would prevent abuse of the current LP system. Guilds would be assigned to a league based on their guild ability.
- Summary
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With this change, guilds would no longer be able to work the LP system to fight in a league with weaker guilds for an easy win. It would also avoid guilds being forced into leagues above their ability, thus avoiding frustration.
All around it would improve attitudes in the game.
- Have you looked to see if this has already been suggested?
- Yes
I suggest replacing the current system of GBG guild league placement with a more accurate method based on guild ability, rather than LP.