Sandbagging Guilds Ruining TW
My guild has done fairly well in TW as of late, but as we pushed into the 50million GP zone, we have gotten non stop guilds who sandbag their GP by only queing their best members. So while we que a full 46-50 every time, they are queing 35-40 of their top players. This gives them a lower GP but much better overall members and they get to face lower guilds. This is kind of ridiculous and would be nice if CG was able to implement some sort of a fix. Maybe number of participating players needs to be at or near equal because we are putting a lot of work into TW but get mauled by these sandbagging guilds.
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Penalize all instead of offending a few. *facepalm*
You watch You Tube? Well even those guys guilds are doing it, I know as we have faced them. Why? I do not know, I can only assume they don’t want to go up against a guild as powerful as them?
The only solution is to do what they do, but that means half your guild won’t be able to take part..
Will there be a fix? Doubt it as it will upset the whales, so just do it there way and stop moaning. The current system of total GP has always been to easily manipulated. It’s like fighting just based on age, imagine a fight between two 25yr old cage fighters against ten 5yr olds... no contest lol
Shame, as it really was enjoyable win lose or draw... as long as it was a fair fight. But it’s just not anymore...
This time we're 40 against 30 with our 40 mil GP to their 57 mil GP. Wish us luck, forum folk.
Welcome to the world of not being a cutthroat guild. We routinely face guilds with anywhere between 20m and 50m more than us. We look at it as garunteed rewards for 2nd, and we always do our best to beat them. We beat a guild with 30m gp more than us in a recent TW. Strategy does play a part. Do your best, and focus on what you do well.
In addition by the time the second one comes around we generally drop to around 27 participants.
Perhaps the issue isn’t Sandbagging but that a lot of people find it a chore or just don’t enjoy the PvP aspect.
To be honest, last TW we done we set our best teams on defence and then just let them have ago at us. Didn’t want to give them the satisfaction of seeing how their teams performed on defence. We didn’t even attack once.... just say back and collected rewards for second place, what else is there to do?
I hope CG are looking at participation, as if more guilds are doing what we are them they will see it fall dramatically. They might do something about it if that happens.
As I said, I have no idea why the big guilds are doing this, why don’t they want to have a fair fight? Which reminds me, I need to eat that left over chicken madras from last night.... yummy
I think you have nailed a couple very important points.