Hypothetically, let's say a player didn't care about their score, but wanted to minimize their opponent's. Does posting a single team serve that function, or has scoring been adjusted to give max points for empty battles? (In which case it would still impact ability to complete feats)
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Hypothetically, this would be extremely childish and anyone doing this should be banned from future GACs. This is about as close to griefing as you could get in this game and should not be tolerated.
Polling the audience is my choice.
So far it’s only if you set nothing.
The "best" way is to set a defense in which your opponent cannot clear a single team.
However, if you do what you describe, it will give only points for the single win, and then the conquer bonus for each territory. They will win the round and get an additional 1k GAC points. They will miss out on feat progress and extra points from winning on offense, as well as credits.
Before the first real GAC, CG really needs to do something about this.
Players will do it and they will get away with it. So there's that.
Someone is getting screwed either way. If you give them max points then it’s unfair to people who are competing against those guys in the rankings.
I honesty don’t see any good way to make league advancement based on points earned in battle. I just hate it.
At that point you are really parsing hairs for your perfection of fairness. The amount of unfairness that is introduced into the system would not be positively propagated, as the in defending player wouldn't positively progress and fair competition would like check the very few people that received some benefit in this fashion. It is thus a bit self-policed in that fashion.
Your concern for fairness in this small % of cases is not warranted.
CG should just put it in the algorithm that the playing opponent gets the total win as freebies. You can't cheat and pick your partners. The percent occurrence of this has to be below 10%. But whatever. Instead they would rather have 10% or such of their GAC players feeling cheated.