On L world, all of the "top" guilds are basically lackeys of the "#1" guild. There is a pervasive mentality by these players that if they fall in line everything will work out for them. What actually happens is the #1 guild gobbles up the rewards while the remaining guilds feel cool by association, and their members fall further and further behind. My guild is the highest ranking guild not in the alliance, and we stomp GBG but we can't take control of GVG since it's usually a 10-on-1 fight for us. GBG is nice that it makes alliances far less impactful than they are in GVG. This is why I said above Inno's ranking system is flawed since our world's "top guilds" aren't actually stronger than us, they are manipulating GVG by just casually flipping sectors between each other to keep their prestige higher than it should be.
So the reason is simple: we don't want to be in their club, and they don't like losing. So they are willing to double down on their loss if it can cause us "pain". Ironically, it's backfiring on them. We managed to get the guild in 6th place in this round of GBG to move into 4th place, and they are about to take over 3rd in a few hours. If they commit harder, they will actually be able to finish 2nd, so these 4 guilds may all take a lower placement as well just to cost us some fights.
I see where you're coming from. But GbG
cannot decide the rankings because that would be an end to any control that guilds have over their rankings. If the best guilds were decided by who can turn out the most troops and win the most fights then this game would be broken beyond repair. Your whole scenario sounds strikingly similar to my home of V.
GvG should always decide the rankings because it allows guilds to stand up to the big guys like you who do turn out the most troops and win a lo of fights. It prevents you from being a dominant tyrant. If you think guilds are sucking up to the #1 guild now, it would be 10x worse with GbG rankings. Picture it...
"Please, let us get second this round so we can be ranked higher"
"We can do whatever you want as long as you help us in GbG so we can be ranked well"
The best guild would hold ALL the power. You could decide rankings of all the top guilds. You could take bribes and let everybody bow down to you. That sounds awful.
If you dominate GbG, awesome. But you need to recognize that you get dominated in GvG. So just because you are good in one aspect of the game doesn't mean you deserve a nice ranking. You need to find a way to succeed in GvG so that you can solve your issue. Become the best at everything and then you can deserve a good ranking.
Finally, thanks for the insight in the situation in L world. I have a small diamond farm there and I have done a little GvG. I am lost trying to figure out what's going on. Thanks for the info