Alliance Quest - adding weak players

Denslo500

Does adding summoners, with a much lower rating than your team average, hurt your score?

Are we better off staying small?

DNA3000

Denslo500 said:

Does adding summoners, with a much lower rating than your team average, hurt your score?

Are we better off staying small?

Four things affect your score. Your alliance's starting prestige, which map you do, how much of the map you complete, and how many battlegroups you run. Your alliance's starting prestige is the average prestige of all of your players, which itself is the average base rating of their top five champs.

If you are currently completing AQ 100% and you add more players with lower prestige (rating), and change nothing else, your score will likely go down. You're doing the same map, you're still completing 100%, but your starting prestige will go down. But the point to adding players, I assume, is to get better: to either do more battlegroups, or do higher maps (assuming you complete most of the time already).

One way to add new players that are lower if your alliance is small is to make a third battlegroup and put the new guys in that, and have them run a lower map. Your overall starting prestige will be lower, but you'll be generating more points and more crystals (even if they are map 1 or map 2) and you should be rising in prestige throughout the AQ week.

The alternative if you already have three battlegroups is to shove the new guys into an already strong battlegroup and increase the map for that group by one, so if you were doing map 4 then go up to map 5, and see if the new guys can either help with paths that already have players assigned, or see if they can double up on one path so the combination of two new players can complete a single path.

In general there's nothing wrong with being small, if that's what you want. But if you do want to grow or take on new players, there are ways to integrate them into the alliance in a way that ends up growing your AQ points rather than reducing them in most cases. But the specifics of your situation would be important to determining the best way to go.

Denslo500

Thank you for the information.

We are a 6 person Alliance who have no tolerance for drama.
Growing seems to require drama.