medal dropping

[shukra]

medal dropping ... placing one infantry just to intentionally lose and drop medals.... is a not-fun mechanic.
i hear the designer's argument that we should just play ... and win/lose as it goes ... but given the consequences of losing planes it's not rational.
smart players (especially german) will intentionally do a losing streak to fight at a specific desired range.
.... and it's boring, really boring.

we should have the ability to drop medals with a touch ... and make it more appealing to be at higher medals through the rewards boat or other incentive.
since this is a fundamental consideration, it seems unrealistic, a big change. however, imo it would be better.

 

[FroggyKilla]

I don’t think that’s a great idea. Medals can’t really just go into the trash can.

 

[Tsamu]

I drop medals this way and it doesn't have to be boring. Scan the base for the best spot to deploy your infantry to get the most loot. It takes a few seconds longer per base but it makes it somewhat interesting and I quite often get over 100k food with my one little soldier.

 

[Manifesto]

I drop medals this way and it doesn't have to be boring. Scan the base for the best spot to deploy your infantry to get the most loot. It takes a few seconds longer per base but it makes it somewhat interesting and I quite often get over 100k food with my one little soldier.

Yes, agreed. Who says you can't get rss on the way down. Even if it takes 10, 15, 20 troops, who cares if you're medal dropping?
Silver linings people!

 

[Alexey]

Let’s consider this idea on a simple model. Suppose we have a playerbase out of ten players, one of them being stronger than the others, and he is a medal dropper. At first he climbs on the top by defeating every other player, and everybody except him is loosing medals. When he’s at the top, he switches his medal count to the bottom without adding medals to the others. And then he starts to go up again, moving everybody down. So in this model everybody will be constantly loosing medals, and higher leagues will be soon unavailable for everybody.

 

[Bootney Lee Fonsworth]

Depending on the age one is in it seems like more of an effort to get to low medals than it's worth. I don't think I've been below 1500 in six months or more because I'm hit by an endless stream of raiders or medal droppers when I log out. I'm not sure but it seems that the attack range is +/- 1000 medals anyway so there seems little point to dropping below 1200 as it is. Of course this is only true for my CWA account. My enlightenment one rarely goes above 1000 and my industrial one parks in the 1000-1200 sweet spot.

 

[Tsamu]

Depending on the age one is in it seems like more of an effort to get to low medals than it's worth. I don't think I've been below 1500 in six months or more because I'm hit by an endless stream of raiders or medal droppers when I log out. I'm not sure but it seems that the attack range is +/- 1000 medals anyway so there seems little point to dropping below 1200 as it is. Of course this is only true for my CWA account. My enlightenment one rarely goes above 1000 and my industrial one parks in the 1000-1200 sweet spot.

Too true! I have managed to get below 1000, but I rise back up to 1300 while I'm sleeping. I do want to try getting to 600 though. AbbyVille has posted screen shots of some outrageous loot attacks down there.

 

[Centurion96]

I agree, that there should be some kind of automatic medal dropping. Medals can't go into trash that's for sure. It should be implented in a way like it's happening in a real play, so as an automatic loosing to randomly selected MP opponets.

 

[shukra]

i like that ... a 'surrender' button on the 'find match' screen.
we need a different word though ... it's a big convenience perk that shouldn't be phrased negatively.

 

[Manifesto]

Maybe Nexon could implement something that doubles the medals lost if the match lasts less than 10secs? Except, I wouldn't want those extra medals added to my total.
Possibly add a button that says ''Are you sure you want to lose double your medals'', for the people who could complain ''I didn't mean to cancel so quickly''

 

[Sanjeev Tripathi]

I do alot specially when my Mills and Markets are full.

 

[bapia]

ha ha ... they are dropping medals , So even 10x loose should be welcoming .

 

[Attila]

Just press next until you find a base with empty mills, accessible farms and all the traps are visible. There is often around 300K food in those farms and you can get it all with a few troops. Happy days.

 

[Baba Magnus]

Well, the Problem is, that Medals are given/Taken by Players... So why can't we just get Medals from the Game? and give them back to it. So my win/loose history does no longer concern others!?!

 

[oddin]

the last few days, medal dropping is a nightmare. For the first time, I dropped to 400 medals just to see how things are so low. And guess what? Within 24 hours, I was back at 1200 medals. Without actually having played a single battle. I was attacked 43 times!!! All by players using 1 soldier and sometimes by a few raiders. WTF?? People at 500-600 medals wanna drop even more?? This is not good for anyone. Now I have to spend another 2-3 hours to drop back to 500 medals. This can't go on though on a daily basis.

 

[Alexey]

It looks like ice age (rebalance) caused a vast resettlement of players)

 

[Manifesto]

the last few days, medal dropping is a nightmare. For the first time, I dropped to 400 medals just to see how things are so low. And guess what? Within 24 hours, I was back at 1200 medals. Without actually having played a single battle. I was attacked 43 times!!! All by players using 1 soldier and sometimes by a few raiders. WTF?? People at 500-600 medals wanna drop even more?? This is not good for anyone. Now I have to spend another 2-3 hours to drop back to 500 medals. This can't go on though on a daily basis.

The last few days? It's been happening for years. Like a boring rollercoaster.

 

[No Angel]

I've been a medal dropper and I love dropping medals with a couple infantry

 

[shukra]

it's an immersion-breaking clumsy exercise, but it's better once you get a little stronger.

now with completed offence my cwa base can attack comfortably in gold league for resources, and even fight up to imperial for ego needs.

 

[No Angel]

Actually I've been in low medals for a long time. So I can't understand your frustration about dropping and gaining medals overnight . It's really fun going around below 800 medals. Plus you can always meet strong bases that leave their resources out. Yummm!