Taking the top with teamwork! (in General)

There's a new clan forming, and it'll make those in it at the top. If you want in, CM me. You must either be in the first month of your NUB or capable of making a NCB character. For information on exactly how this will work, CM me. You may apply here, but only if you fight enough to reach around 100k MPR within several weeks. After that, I won't care how much you fight - how far you want to go will be up to you. Yes, this is legal - not cheating or taking advantage of any bugs. Just CM me for the info *ONLY* if you are interested and serious about this opportunity.

Current members will be:
Oddbird
Lonewolf
Vampire king
hi im jake

To clarify, there'll be a set strategy to this clan and set ways to fight, etc. It will be *very* organized. We have room for 5 more tops, so CM us if you are interested.

Don't be left out. This idea is ingenious.

Clan starts tomorrow, and I'll create it tonight. There's room for *one* more who fits the requirements. Trust me, this is going to be big, its proven. I need one, post here if you are interested.

can i join? :P

So the great mystery is that it's an econ clan?

I would contribute if you'd have me

I still don't understand. Can you "DRAW" me a picture?

Yes, I can draw you a picture it looks like the number 1-10 spots!

Closed, nobody else in. We have everyone we need.

this is the most hilarious cocamami sceme ever, it needs thirties style the sneak music behind it.

what is this "cocamami" of which you speak?

it's likely actually spell differently...let me see...
cockamamie

ah, okay. cockamamie as in incredibly good? or cockamamie as in just plain incredibly ridiculous? It certainly works well, that's for sure. ^_^

as in, if this goes on for more than a week I'll eat my hat, prepare for Jon to make draws worth nothing.

jon won't make draws worth nothing, that would suck a lot

Perhaps he'll just make them very, very costly for members of e-clans. :)

This looks interesting.

You're all crazy though, that's for sure.

Well, what can I say? OB and I are either psychotic geniuses, or genius psychotics.

using an exploit in the system for personal gains, tsk.

I dont get it, someone paint me a picture.

look at their battle logs.

No painting here, Tez, only drawing.

Exploit, or ingenious strategy akin to Myth's clan rotation system?

Oooh you sneaky bunch!!

It is not an exploit.

I don't get it... how does it benefit them to only fight those opponents they draw against?

Both sides of the fight get exp and CB$ rewards. They're trying to double up on the gains from fighting. Although their virtual PR will slow down those gains.

both get exp..^_^

wow that wuss comment astounds me...
I'm inclined to believe Jon has things runed well enough now it's not going to produce exactly the results they want...but it should be insteresting.

It happened on CB1 too. Tourney farms.

Because with a draw they still get exp and money while the other also gets exp and money for the draw. This means they are getting more exp and money by drawing each other even when they are not playing. Get it now?

Ah yes, I didn't notice they were fighting each other...

actually it's not just doubling exp it's = (number of players -1) times.

no, it is doubling exactly. If all 10 fight all 10, they get 16 of each other's BA for 16x10=160 BA from the others (per cycle). If 2 fight each other, they get 160 of each other's BA. No matter how many are in it, if they all fight each other equally, it's exactly double.

No, I believe Kitty is right. If you have N members, then you get N(N-1) the amount of XP - you're approximately squaring the amount og XP you get, not doubling.

wow...this is gonna be grusome, scores are gonna keep going through the roof..

I have to wonder: why is "og" in the spellchecker? Naturally, that should have been "of" :p

this is pretty hilarious. I wonder how this is going to work out.

nah, they're slowly dropping. Also, I *am* right about it Maelstrom. Think about it. If there's 10 members spending 16 fights on each (assuming they fight 10 each) then they give 16 BA to each person. So each person receives 16 BA from all 10 others, and get 160 total. Whereas if two fight, one person spends 160 BA on the other, and vice versa. As I said before....it's the same amount of exp no matter how many are in the clan. Trust me, I've worked this stuff out.

but, i order for this to work, you all must fight each other the same amount throughout, otherwise on or two people *will* pull ahead of the rest, and start full out winning against everyone else. So you must stay on top of this everyday, to make sure that doesnt happen.

haha, it is pretty funny how everyone has the same score though....688k throughout

can't they just make sure they train comparatively.. leaving some VPR if necessary.

Smallpau1, you are wrong about someone pulling ahead and eventually winning instead of drawing. Look a little closer.

No he means one or two people will get more fights against them, thus pulling ahead MPR wise.

Which is no matter as they are not equal MPR going in.

we could, Oxtetor, but how would that help anything? I don't see much of an advantage in that for anyone...

I guess since your HP is so low you will all draw no matter how high your FB's are?

are you guys not training? Because if you dont train then there is no problem with what i said there would be. But then you wont gain exp later on, instead, you'll be getting the same exp the whole time.

we are training :) that way when we get to a point we can learn just a little HP that way we dont get farmed lol

look at it this way

        Person1(100 fights)                                                   Person1 total = 100
              /\                                                              Person2 total = 50
            /    \                                                            Person3 total = 50
          /        \                                                                 
        /            \
      /                \
 Person2              Person3
     (50)               (50)                                                        totals +



                                 Person2(150 fights)                          Person1 total = 100 + 75
                                       /\                                     Person2 total = 50 + 150
                                     /    \                                   Person3 total = 50 + 75
                                   /        \
                                 /            \
                               /                \
                        Person1                 Person3
                        (75)                       (75)

    Person1 total = 100 + 75 + 100       Person3(200 fights)
    Person2 total = 50 + 150 + 100           /\
    Person3 total = 50 + 75 + 200           /   \                                                                                                                                                          
                                          /       \
                                        /           \
                                      /               \
                                 Person1             Person2
                                   (100)               (100)


Person1 total = 275 fights
Person2 total = 300 fights
Person3 total = 325 fights


****This means, they have to fight the same number of fights everytime, otherwise it will dish out uneven exp****

wow this took me forever to make up....lol

using pre tags still didnt help that much.  Haha!  O well, that's my stand on this matter, and i think unless
they fight the same number of fights exactly each and every day, this wont work in the end.  But this is a great idea
if they can work out the same # of fights for each person.

This better turn out how it looks in the preview........If not, sorry, hope you get the picture otherwise  =/

I'm sorry, but it is an exploit anyway you slice it.
by definition:
Exploit: Use or manipulate to one's advantage.

Others have followed the rules as dictated by the game and been punished for it, so explain to me how this doesn't fall into this category?

They can use this against each other all they want, but FB-only tactics were only competitive against teams ~1/2 their MPR before the latest nerf.

but i dont know how jon can do anything about Draws anyway without making draws = stalemates.......ugh, stalemates.......

I guess he could make Draws = Win * .5
and nothing for the defender, and stalemates the exact opposite.

Just make draws lower your score instead of raise it is one possiblity.

this is not something OB discovered or thought up

Well, they might be getting more exp, but I guess not, because I think Draw will not give you as much exp as Win. Something close to it, but not the same amount.

And they are dying with every single draw where you need to heal completely which is... costly.

So I guess it is something like wacky XP time... more XP less money 24/7.

Although I don't have an opinion yet if it is legal or not.

so u want the great hyrule in your clan?, i hear in rather good.... :D... lol... or so i hear... from me........*sigh*

We are gonna have to wait for a result, then if popularity becomes overwhelmingly lame, we'll all just suck.

Why an econ clan?

if it was a standard clan..... we would get farmed realy badly because of the CP points we would give and also the fact that it would be impossible for us to get a bonus as standard clan

you'd make a lot more than the 10k it takes to start the clan again...a lot more.

......we would be attacking clan members. There's no bonus for that. We'd lose out entirely. The econ clan is simply for organization.

you don't want the bonus, you want the other clannites attacking you creating more draws and lowering your scores...

draw awards reduced 50%.

A blow, but not big enough to stop this plan, I bet.

We'll see. I'll keep track and see how badly this affects rewards.

it's better than nothing!

You incited change! Well done!

/me thanks OB for ruining it for the rest of us :P

Nice, Jon.

Although, Vampire King, you and OB are CB's psychotic geniuses?!

*MrC gives an undignified sob*

I thought I still held that title! ;)


On a more relevant note to all of you who thought this up; It's been thought of before a few times but there's a good reason why it's never been tried, and that's because it's naive to think that you could last even a month without it being nerfed.
I believe Jon's change here is more than enough to make this strategy no longer cost effective. However, I stand by my comment earlier, it's an interesting strategy you guys are using so goodluck with getting to the top with it! :)

Sorry. I know you were relying on draw rewards for your main income, but I just had to take that away. xP

You're absolutely right, Chuckles. This change was seen coming, although I never saw it coming *this* quickly. However, we'll see if we can adapt. ^_^

CB1!

nah, that was a pretty blasted effective nerf. I disbanded it. Time for a new game plan! ^_^

Haha, shot to the ground in flames....=P~

*Shrug* if this was giving 100% XP and Cash bonus (roundabout, based on the number of times everyone else fought compared to you) this recent change would just make it a 50% increase.

That's far better than being in the top clan.

My rewards doing this suck at the moment, but that's because most were far below me in MPR. But as they increase, so will the rewards.

And really, who cares about score! ;)

>_<... slap me around with a wet kipper... I must be tired today...

it's not a 50% bonus... it's just normal rewards...

*Slap*wet kipper* slap slap slap

I bet you enjoyed that! ;)

Me? Enjoy humiliating someone with a big wet fish? nah....