PENALTY TIME FOR CHANGING GUILD ? YES/NO POLL QUESTION.

[Cesspool]

Yep, we just lost third to guild hoppers this weekend. Has happened multiple times in the past. Very frustrating.

[Kongar]

Still... all related to the speed that hoppers can grind out stars. Which is caused by the star system and matching methods.

Difficult to watch your lead dissolve in a few hours against a single dungeon that moves 40k stars/hour.

But... in the end... inhibiting hopping is only to enforce a lottery system. Maybe easier to just reward more lottery positions, targeted in the 4th and 5th places.

[Cesspool]

All valid points. I happen to head a guild where get stars that reliably have us in contention for top 3 isn’t that common, but top 5 or 6 is typically feasible. At the moment my response to that is to try and get into HC more frequently.

[Xenjahr]

The question isn't precise enough for me to vote.

The manager of this survey should be more explicit about the purpose of this idea, the nature of a penalty time (sorry I don't know what a penalty time for changing guild would concretly be), the duration of it...

Thanks

[purgatoria]

Somehow, after the op 6 months of inactivity, i doubt the clarification you seek will be forthcoming...

But the question is simple. Permit me to rephrase it: Should a guild be permitted to call in additional heavy hitters after a tournament has started?

[HellSewercide]

If you wanted to make it fair, surely you would just do this:

1) You need to be in a guild when the tournament starts (if you're not, then you can't participate in the tournament).
2) Joining and leaving guilds during tournaments are disabled.

This would also make HCs interesting as you can't call for backup so you have to be prepared with your team from the start and they cant go farm half way through when they have made their lead.

I suppose at the end of the day, people that would want this are those who lose to the farmers that sweep in a take those gems during tournaments. People that would object, would be those that can farm, as you're making it harder for them to get gems.

[Kaapie]

At the very least it will stop "spies" hopping in and out. When it comes to the last few hours for guilds that rush push and/or are competing for top 3 positions, they would send either their baby or a minion to spy on score distribution to a guild who is close to theirs and can then judge based on that if its worth it to push for the win or not.

[ZacharyOehler]

A natural environmental solution would be the growth of the community so that each guild is near maxed with competitive players. We might actually just be several guilds which are split up into a thousand pieces. With that thought process you cut the size of a guild in half or more and the playing field will change.

I agree with you on this point that to change the playing field it is necessary to cut the size of a guild. This would surely promote the growth of the community.

[Cesspool]

Ultimately guild hopping is the symptom of disparity in gem and DS offerings for tourneys. That’s what drives the hoppers and then drives the non hoppers crazy. If there was not such a steep gradient in gem and DS prizes in the tournaments, we wouldn’t see this problem. Unfortunately, this is now compounded by the steep DS costs required for immortal upgrades.

[Gonjinn]

I believe these “hopping biz” started way before the introduction of new requirements for training of immortals beyond lvl35.
But the new needs of Dreadstones certainly drives more keepers to go solo and hopping into easier brackets to earn them.