Algona: Who is belittling who? Nice2HaveU responded to my post by insinuating that some of us don't like a challenge. I responded that we do want a challenge, why are you defending the bully scenario? We are trying to have a discussion about improving the game and making it an actual challenge with fair game play.
Going back and forth every other season between the 850 LP guilds that build palaces and traps (lol), and the 1000 LP guilds that checkerboard the map and don't let you get out of your starting block is not competitive game play. It is not a challenge. There has got to be a better way.
Our guild should be playing in the 925 - 950 range, so we can play against guilds that are at our competitive level. The GBG mechanics make this impossible because there is too much movement. Only 1 in 8 guilds at the 925 level gets the +25 result that we want and only 1 in 8 guilds at the 950 level gets the equally coveted -25 result. Everyone else is pushed into these non-competitive situations that have been thoroughly described.
Our guild, like others, loses good GBG players to the bigger guilds, and for what? So they can log in, check the gbg thread for which provinces to prime, get their free FPs and logout. Then check back later. We know how this works. The only people with the challenge and the competitive games are the people running the grid. Everyone else either gets a bunch of free FPs, if they are on the big guilds, or does practically nothing if they are on the other 5 or 6.
Btw Algona, if you throw a rock into a flock of sheep and one of them says baah, you know which one you hit.