ToS:
14. engage in any behavior that is contrary to the 'spirit of the game'
as defined by Three Rings in its sole discretion. This includes the
manipulation of the game environment.
Do you guys think, boosting points in GLD violates the spirit of the game? Not giving other guilds the chance to legitimately show their worth in the leader boards? Watching guilds try to beat team after team, wasting crs and ce to overcome a certain guild. JUST to lose it because they boost rank points on their alt. guild. It's depressing to see how they manipulate the boards, after a guild's hard earned work goes to waste. Just knowing minutes later, not only as one guild surpassed you, but their alt guild is right behind.
Common excuses from a guild that "shall not be named" (cough cough ahem ahem.. rhymes with empire).
"There's no one to play."
- Well when you play at 2-4 AM, of course majority of Guilds won't have a 6 man team. So, you take advantage of this aspect and start playing their alt. guild. So, yes this excuse is just perfect. If you want to play each other so badly, why don't you take advantage of RLD and Q together like what a lot of other guilds do to have fun in this game.
It's funny to observe what they would go though when this empire guild sees the leader boards being taken over. They automatically go to their Minion guild. It's like clock work. Someone is in the lead. Minions to the rescue! Let's get a big 20k rank point lead.
What's the difference from someone Looping on their alt.? OOO clearly got rid of looping a long time ago. They're not particularly gaining crs or ce, but they're gaining rank points. There's no point trying to convince this empire team that these tactics are just discrediting their so called accomplishments.
Just once, I'd like to see this empire team, actually prove they're so called fake gloating that they're the #1 Guild in GLD history, and not stack points. In my opinion they have killed GLD. It's funny to see when the Empire guild Q up, and then all the other guilds just UnQ. Not because they're scared. Because this guild's tactics are nothing but... Unsportsmanlike. The spam, the ce revs, and the ce revs. Another reason why there's no one to play. You killed the spirit of the game play.
There's not much left that can be completely entertaining with SK. So once you've done vana and depths a 100 times over it's nice to go and play a little LD or GLD, but when you have an entire guild trying to manipulate the game for their "accomplishments" well, it just gets boring. People stop playing. Retiring. Quitting. Etc...
Do I take this game too seriously? Probably. But at least I don't spend hours on end to stack points. You can say all you want about this post, but I know there are a ton of people that have been wanting to say this. Am I an Alt.? Probably. It's good to be anonymous sometimes, because I can openly express my thoughts, the thoughts that A LOT of people agree with. I probably won't come back on the forums to read your responses, but it's nice to spread the word. :)
I'm in no means part of those big LD guilds like Rig, Aequi, EoS, and or Imperv nor do I represent any of them. Just an old school player that doesn't like to see where this game is heading. I do respect those guilds though. For having the patience to deal with such blatant use of unsportsmanlike conduct.
From the best thing to dunk your nuggets in,
Sweet-Chili-Sauce
You lost me at Guild Lockdown.