**WINTER OF WOE - BONUS OBJECTIVE POINT**
As previously announced, the team will be distributing an additional point toward milestones to anyone who completed the Absorbing Man fight in the first step of the Winter of Woe.
This point will be distributed at a later time as it requires the team to pull and analyze data.
The timeline has not been set, but work has started.
As previously announced, the team will be distributing an additional point toward milestones to anyone who completed the Absorbing Man fight in the first step of the Winter of Woe.
This point will be distributed at a later time as it requires the team to pull and analyze data.
The timeline has not been set, but work has started.
There is currently an issue where some Alliances are are unable to find a match in Alliance Wars, or are receiving Byes without getting the benefits of the Win. We will be adjusting the Season Points of the Alliances that are affected within the coming weeks, and will be working to compensate them for their missed Per War rewards as well.
Additionally, we are working to address an issue where new Members of an Alliance are unable to place Defenders for the next War after joining. We are working to address this, but it will require a future update.
Additionally, we are working to address an issue where new Members of an Alliance are unable to place Defenders for the next War after joining. We are working to address this, but it will require a future update.
Regarding Brian Grant’s Most Recent Video
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1. There are some very smart people playing this game
2. Given the difficulty with which I am having deciphering some of these posts, I might not be one of them
You can make 100 accounts but you would have to put in days or months of effort for it to be equal to to now where you can get the same in less than a fraction of the previously required time
Speaking as someone who made 6 accounts last year (thanks Boris for ruining Christmas), all of those accounts had to be manually played and I was through Act 2 by the time I could auto fight, now it’s going to be even later with the condensed size of the acts which means the ability to run multiple accounts simultaneously is not really viable unless you have 6 hands or the hand to eye coordination of an Apache pilot. Not only that, it took a toll on me, I had an extremely boring ~10 days sitting and grinding throw away accounts. I challenge somebody to do this 8 hours a day on 3 accounts/day until Christmas lol.
Here's a better analogy. Back in my day, some classes allowed for note sheets. You could bring one sheet of notes, front and back. I was the master of this kind of test, because back then I had the tiniest handwriting you had ever seen. I could fit a dozen pages of notes onto a single page. I could bring basically anything I wanted into a test like that, because I could fit vastly more stuff on a page. Technically, this meant I had an advantage over other students that had nothing to do with academics, but this was considered an acceptable advantage.
And then laser printers came along. Now you could print in 3pt font and practically squeeze the whole text book onto a sheet of paper, if you had the eyesight to read it. This was considered an unacceptable advantage, and they started prohibiting laser printed note sheets. The question was one of degree. They were fine with students competing with each other over who had the tiniest handwriting, but they were unwilling to accept where that arms race went when technology opened the door to ludicrous extremes.
As you say, most people who attempt to do this at all are likely to attempt to do this on one or a couple accounts. They don't look like a problem, and they aren't the problem. The problem is one of degree. There's no single bright line that separates acceptable from exploitive: there is no one number of alts that defines this, any more than there's a font size that defines unacceptable note sheet. Rather, there's a point where we acknowledge the extreme is too extreme, and then we change the rules to prevent that extreme from getting out of hand.
I will say this though: you state that if someone does this on a hundred accounts they aren't just gifting to their mains, they are either botting or selling, and both are against the TOS anyway. But that's not the only way to end up with a hundred alts in an alt farm. Another perfectly reasonable way to do that - assuming Kabam took no longer term action on this - would be for an arena grinder to make one or two of these every Sunday, when arena grinding often throttles down due to the Sunday arenas being less attractive. A hard core arena grinder that is already used to grinding several hours a day could easily make one or two of these alt accounts every Sunday, and end up with something between 50 and 100 of them by next Christmas. If Kabam takes no action at all, 100 alts is unlikely by this Chriistmas, but it is possible by next Christmas, and every Christmas after that, without any activity that is more strenuous than what is already being done by active arena grinders.
Instead of being able to receive Gifts without the obligation to send anything back make it a requirement that in order to receive gifts user has to gift back an equal exchange.
so you could change Gifting event and instead make it a present exchange event. Similar to how offices do xmas exchanges at work during holidays.
for example i would exchange with you a GGC and you would send one back to me in order to receive my gift “present exchange”
It was a little more work than grinding arena, and honestly I like my Sunday break from arena so I'm unlikely to do this for 52 straight weeks. Also, if I want units that badly I can just buy them. But for me personally, I found this to be a practical way to earn a lot of units quickly if I was not in a position to buy them.
I will say though, that if nothing else this has gotten people to make the claim that grinding arena is more fun than something else, which is an assertion I thought I would never hear.
The question is: how many people are actually likely to do that?
Of those that are likely to do that, how many are going to gain an unfair advantage? Considering they are people not from a highly competitive alliance and are not already spending to be at the top
Is this such a big problem that people here think will upset game balance in a healthy way? Or as you had mentioned in a earlier post that the content will get significantly more difficult for the rest of the people who haven’t advanced their rosters or abilities without these 100 alt accounts
Mass gifting from alt accounts is nothing new and the degree bots already do it won’t be matched by players taking advantage of early acts.
Sure, IIRC you at least need them added as friends, but...
But wait ... Lemme create 20 new accounts and buy the starter 625 unit pack for $5 on all 20 account ... Paired with the alliance and solo events during gifting that's about 1200 each account ( 625+40+275*2) ... 1200*20=24000 ... Hey! I can spend money on my alts and get 8 times the amount of units ( in this case GGCs ) I would get from buying an Odin on my main account
But let's ignore that huh? Why? Ohh i spent money!!! That's makes it legit right?? Right?????
No, I'm not kidding.
Side note, someone ask BG what his wife thinks of him tying up thousands of dollars in new devices while locking himself away to play 12 accounts for 8 hours a day and foregoing his upcoming holiday plans so he can farms dem big units over he next 45 days.
How are you going to separate them and the supposed farming accounts?
It’s completely not fair to those people. I have always ran a few accounts. Switch between them here and there. I’ll get bored of the big leagues and go to a baby account and enjoy the ranking process.
You saying you won’t tell us the requirements is bull! How will those with multiple daily accounts know what they need to reach before the event?