Salsuero
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Interesting discussion so far, but Salsuero's use of the word "attrition" in the above post is/could be confusing. Attrition is an entirely different aspect of GBG. Better to use attempt, encounter, or advancement in framing that argument. Just my two coppers.
I used it as intended. Attrition is what slows guilds down. The fact that you can have more members doing the same activity means the cumulative attrition is spread out among them and that means they don't hurt as much to put forth the same effort as a small guild. Since GBg is built around attrition as a penalty of participation, the fact that a large guild has an opportunity to spread that penalty out is inherently mismatched in my opinion. I don't have any issue with them putting guilds that are "roughly" similar in size AND participation together. But I'm just not in agreement that a guild 4x larger is fair by any means... because participation varies and guilds might take a week off when in a higher league, lowering their stats, dropping them to a lower league, where they can dominate again. If that happens, why put large guilds with small ones? Put them with other large guilds who have similar participation and let them find a way to get more participation from what they have... not force smaller guilds to spend more in attrition to get the same results. We'll see if they do start doing that down the road... but they asked for feedback now, not down the road... so I gave my feedback for what I've seen "so far" not based on guesses about the future. It appears as though they are comfortable putting large guilds with small ones. My feedback is that I don't find this to be a fair matchup. They can take that into consideration however they like.
You have no idea what's going on in those other guilds
Uh huh. Because you don't? What makes you think I don't have friends in different guilds who play this game with me? That's funny. Just communicate with guild leaders. They'll share all sorts of things with you freely... including alliances against you they've made (which you can see are true by how the map gets played). It's really not that hard to figure out what's going on if you're friendly and ask. Can they lie? Sure. But when you see the results match up to what you're told... it's not all that hard to believe them either -- especially when you're friends with those people.
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