7* alliance event encourages leaving small alliances

PandingoPandingo Member Posts: 1,068 ★★★★
So, nothing is perfect, honestly I thing 7* have been one of the best handled new introductions I've seen in the game, fun, not entirely game breaking, and accessible. But the alliance event just feels unfair. It encourages higher accounts who spend a little or have played longer (im both)to abandon alliances that may need them. I have been fine helping out my current alliance, I like the players, and I understand it's a little below my skill and accnt level but I can play with family and enjoy the game. Now though I feel as though I should leave because I'm missing out on so many rewards since most of the alliance isn't paragon and a solid chunk are ftp, there was a video about how to contribute 40k as ftp but tbqh it involved a little credit hoarding and revives that aren't available anymore. It just woulda been a lot better if there were rank rewards and a lower shelf for contribution rewards.

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  • SquirrelguySquirrelguy Member Posts: 2,654 ★★★★★
    Oh, this has been a thing for years. I understand on one hand, because you have to give better rewards to groups who do “better”, but the association of what is better could be different.

    I want to applaud you though for playing in a lower rank alliance than you could especially when the game incentivizes the opposite. I’ve been in alliance for years that has been (on average) multiple progression levels below me. I’ve missed out on tons of rewards from alliance events, gifting events, etc, but I stay with them because of the camaraderie. I’ve been Paragon for ~7 months or so, and my alliance has three other brand new paragons, a handful of TBs, and a number of people who are still working on Cav. Makes the game fun, but the rewards (and alliance events) much more boring.
  • Vegeta9001Vegeta9001 Member Posts: 1,708 ★★★★★
    edited May 2023
    If you're in a low level alliance you're going to get lessrr rewards, just how competitiveness works. I've accepted that compromise, my alliance will barely break a million.

    Also isn't the cutoff timer pretty big? Leaving wouldn't be a thing for too long.
  • Pizzaslayer11Pizzaslayer11 Member Posts: 25
    So SA, AQ, War, and every alliance event don’t do the same thing?
  • DeewillDeewill Member Posts: 84
    Ok can someone help me.. I had retired for 3 months.. I had made me and alliance and called it I quit.. but when the 7 star event came out my old alliance had been trying to get me out of retirement.. and I finally yielded.. but every since I’ve been there it’s saying I don’t qualify for rewards.. the event had just started when I got there but it’s been saying it every since I made it there.. it was 13 days left in the event.. is this a glitch or do I not really qualify for rewards and if that’s so.. I seen a guy in my other old alliance I use to be in but I still talk with them join a bigger alliance.. around the same time I did and his screen says he will qualify in 2 days mine never said that..
  • DeewillDeewill Member Posts: 84
    Deewill said:

    Ok can someone help me.. I had retired for 3 months.. I had made me and alliance and called it I quit.. but when the 7 star event came out my old alliance had been trying to get me out of retirement.. and I finally yielded.. but every since I’ve been there it’s saying I don’t qualify for rewards.. the event had just started when I got there but it’s been saying it every since I made it there.. it was 13 days left in the event.. is this a glitch or do I not really qualify for rewards and if that’s so.. I seen a guy in my other old alliance I use to be in but I still talk with them join a bigger alliance.. around the same time I did and his screen says he will qualify in 2 days mine never said that..

    @kabam
  • FurrymoosenFurrymoosen Member Posts: 4,031 ★★★★★
    Deewill said:

    Ok can someone help me.. I had retired for 3 months.. I had made me and alliance and called it I quit.. but when the 7 star event came out my old alliance had been trying to get me out of retirement.. and I finally yielded.. but every since I’ve been there it’s saying I don’t qualify for rewards.. the event had just started when I got there but it’s been saying it every since I made it there.. it was 13 days left in the event.. is this a glitch or do I not really qualify for rewards and if that’s so.. I seen a guy in my other old alliance I use to be in but I still talk with them join a bigger alliance.. around the same time I did and his screen says he will qualify in 2 days mine never said that..

    If you joined an alliance after the event started you will not qualify for any alliance rewards.
  • DeewillDeewill Member Posts: 84

    Deewill said:

    Ok can someone help me.. I had retired for 3 months.. I had made me and alliance and called it I quit.. but when the 7 star event came out my old alliance had been trying to get me out of retirement.. and I finally yielded.. but every since I’ve been there it’s saying I don’t qualify for rewards.. the event had just started when I got there but it’s been saying it every since I made it there.. it was 13 days left in the event.. is this a glitch or do I not really qualify for rewards and if that’s so.. I seen a guy in my other old alliance I use to be in but I still talk with them join a bigger alliance.. around the same time I did and his screen says he will qualify in 2 days mine never said that..

    If you joined an alliance after the event started you will not qualify for any alliance rewards.
    That’s crazy it’s an 14 day event.. so if a person starts gets kicked and have to find another alliance they just lost out.. and in my case since it’s what made me want to play again I don’t get rewards so I should just quit again that’s crazy.. I’ve never seen anything that takes more than 7 days really this is stupid stupid and can’t be right.. the event had been going for some hours when I joined not even a full day I don’t believe..
  • CoppinCoppin Member Posts: 2,601 ★★★★★
    Deewill said:

    Deewill said:

    Ok can someone help me.. I had retired for 3 months.. I had made me and alliance and called it I quit.. but when the 7 star event came out my old alliance had been trying to get me out of retirement.. and I finally yielded.. but every since I’ve been there it’s saying I don’t qualify for rewards.. the event had just started when I got there but it’s been saying it every since I made it there.. it was 13 days left in the event.. is this a glitch or do I not really qualify for rewards and if that’s so.. I seen a guy in my other old alliance I use to be in but I still talk with them join a bigger alliance.. around the same time I did and his screen says he will qualify in 2 days mine never said that..

    If you joined an alliance after the event started you will not qualify for any alliance rewards.
    That’s crazy it’s an 14 day event.. so if a person starts gets kicked and have to find another alliance they just lost out.. and in my case since it’s what made me want to play again I don’t get rewards so I should just quit again that’s crazy.. I’ve never seen anything that takes more than 7 days really this is stupid stupid and can’t be right.. the event had been going for some hours when I joined not even a full day I don’t believe..
    Gifting event and Banquet event were the same...if u retired for 3 months u have seen them...
    The only difference is that this one they didnt announce it
  • SirGamesBondSirGamesBond Member Posts: 5,203 ★★★★★
    Deewill said:

    Deewill said:

    Ok can someone help me.. I had retired for 3 months.. I had made me and alliance and called it I quit.. but when the 7 star event came out my old alliance had been trying to get me out of retirement.. and I finally yielded.. but every since I’ve been there it’s saying I don’t qualify for rewards.. the event had just started when I got there but it’s been saying it every since I made it there.. it was 13 days left in the event.. is this a glitch or do I not really qualify for rewards and if that’s so.. I seen a guy in my other old alliance I use to be in but I still talk with them join a bigger alliance.. around the same time I did and his screen says he will qualify in 2 days mine never said that..

    @kabam

    😆
  • ErcarretErcarret Member Posts: 2,921 ★★★★★
    I think the game has a general problem with rewarding alliances composed of different tiers of players. Generally speaking, everyone has to pull in the same direction in order to get the "proper" rewards. If you have players in various progression tiers doing various amounts of spending, you'll constantly end up in weird situations where the top contributors are held back by the others.

    It's the most noticeable in events like this, but it's honestly a problem in many areas of the game. That's the reason I was so annoyed with the BG alliance event. I had hoped that BG would be the one ongoing activity where everything laid in my own hands and I wouldn't be held back by others not pushing as hard as me (or feeling as if I held back them if I concentrated on other things certain seasons, such as the EOP:A or 8.2). But nah, Kabam had to alliance-ify Battlegrounds too.

    I'm not sure what the solution is. I've wanted a system where all alliance rewards are progression-based for some time now, but maybe that'd be too complicated to implement (especially all throughout the game). But until something happens, I'm going to continue feeling rather put off by all alliance-related things in the game since they simply aren't very rewarding.

    Unfortunately, my alliance mates are a lovable bunch of people so I'm not terribly inclined to leave them for different pastures either.

    (Sorry for my TED Talk/dead-tired 2 AM rant.)
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