Cheating World Wars and Sandboxing :-(

[Muschristian]

DOMINATIONS... you really need to get your perspectives right... lol
Have you noticed that at least the top5 ranking alliances are sandboxing by having a handful of Bronze Age bases (which they dont even use in many cases these bases are not running the current update version and cannot be scouted or attacked) to gain easier matchups in wars...
I have contacted Customer Services about this and they basically said if you can't beat them join them and the members with out dated bases cannot make attacks... This is where you need to gain some perspective.....As one of our members the mighty Conrad rightly said, if 1 Active player started a 10vs10 war with 9 inactive bases, he only has to score 6 stars to win the World War.... Come On Nexon, please think about this!
Mus
British Lions!
War Tues, Fri 21:30

 

[Quovatis]

I think the correct term you are fishing for is "Sandbagging", not sandboxing.

And your example is totally flawed. If 1 active and 9 inactive go against 10 active in a 10v10 war, the 10 active team only needs to score 11 stars to win. Having inactives on your team means you have less margin for error for the real attacks.

 

[Aliisali]

You should reconsider that. You can't attack people with out dated versions of game. So bassically if you have 9 of them, your enemy can only attack you (and none of the other 9) and that means 5 stars at max! No matter how active they are when the game doesn't let them attack.

 

[Aliisali]

Nb4powerup This is right. You need to fix this

 

[Sletteer1987]

If you scroll through many top alliances in the Top 100 you will see that there are becoming more and more that are manipulating the system. Unfortunately, this is not fair in the least bit to those that are actually doing it right. For example we may have a few global in The Borg 2.0 but they never take part in wars. So we have IA to MA who partake in wars most of which are Gunpowder and Enlightenment. So we get pretty even match ups with similar alliances like ours. Now if you scroll through there are many alliances now adding 10-15 Iron Age and Classical Accounts and other low level dummy accounts in a Global or Industrial alliance. This is purely to lower the type of match-ups that they get so that they can get higher up on the Glory ladder and to face some of these more balanced teams who have varying aged players. It gets even more frustrating when those lower level accounts don't even attack and when you check out the alliance rosters they haven't been logged in for days.

I know that there have been instances where people were manipulating the Player leader-boards when it came to medals were disqualified from being able to be on the leader-boards. I wonder if something similar can be done from those teams who are blatantly manipulating the system. If something isn't done to stop this eventually the Glory is basically going to be based on who can out manipulate who and not based on offensive and defensive skills within the game.

This is what I posted a few days ago. It is getting ridiculous almost all of the top alliances in the top 15 are doing it now except 3-4 teams our alliance is very disheartened by this blatant abuse of the system but it will not stop them fighting and winning to get to the top. Shame on those teams that are taking advantage of the system just to be on top.

 

[Eddie F1]

We spent a lot of time trying to come up with an algorithm

I'll take that as you didn't manage to do it and used the current one instead.

 

[Sletteer1987]

Just got done with a 35v35 against a great example of those just throwing in dummy accounts to try and scale the leaderboard. We completed 69/70 attacks and they only completed 50/70. Most of those attacks left were from their bottom 25-35. Provided edited pictures below but have the originals just in case. Like I said just over all frustrating. We still won and had a great challenging match just would have been better if we didn't have to see this happening.

***Forgot to mention that 26-35 were all rushed bases that didn't have any real defenses that even the newest Iron or Classical Age player could steam roll. It is almost not fair to ask our guys to take them as the loot is always dismal on these type of bases.

http://imgur.com/a/rXAtY

 

[Sletteer1987]

eieio Thanks it was a challenge as they did have quite a few challenging bases thrown in there but we have a great team :-D

 

[animalc0ntr0l]

Am I the only one that finds it funny when "the borg 2.0" talk about others cheating or abusing the system, when u can routinely see members of this group cheating using more than 16 workers?

 

[Sletteer1987]

animalc0ntr0l, I have no idea who you are referring in this regard but would love to know as I have never seen it. But now you seem to be taking pots shots at people when I was not doing so. Just would like to see Glory fixed.

 

[Muschristian]

Sandbagging... thats the one I was looking for... LOL could have been worse I suppose I could have said too many people on Dominations are Tea Bagging...

 

[Muschristian]

I have never looked. But could it be the Borg have a few Chinese nation players... just a thought.

 

[Toast]

100% agree. I'm proud to be part of an alliance that doesn't pull this sort of stunt. we are 100% fair play and don't resort to underhanded tactics to scale the leader boards.
It's something the developers should really look into as it creates a very unbalanced view of the leader board in this way.

for transparency: I'm part of the Dutch Warlords alliance.

 

[Vixen]

Nb4powerup - is Nexon planning on doing something about this? The glory system is doomed to failure if not addressed!