So, I wanted to get everyone's take on this. How do you feel when club members have bonus players, but only try to "snipe" CvC without contributing to the clubs event total? This drives me nuts, because myself and a few others bust our butts in daily events just for someone to come in and steal CvC without playing daily events.
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If you play cvc in a club, you should be playing all other events too.
I ask because the club I'm in reset to bronze this past Monday, and after doing so we have managed two top 10 finishes and a top 20 (getting at least some version of each day's accolade), and we're hovering around 15 so far today. But we haven't been using any kind of delayed start, so I'm wondering if we should do that as well going forward. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Just my $0.02, I think this situation goes away if the reward for winning was much larger than the reward for MVP/high round. I'd rather deal with "he didn't contribute as much as I did!" than the messy, ethical arguments of who gets to play at what point in the timer. I'm sorry, but that's all this really is.
It's a slippery slope at that point. Now you need rules of when a player is allowed to play in cvc, and that rule is being determined by the people who have no rules-based complaints, but stand to lose because they didn't play more.
I get the scenario isn't as innocent as I might be suggesting, but I tend not to support unspoken rules that gerrymander around the actual rules because one group of people lost something they feel they should have won. Bottom line, whoever scores the most points wins. It's up to the player how much they want to invest.
Again, making the individual rewards drastically higher than the team rewards creates this issue. That's the real problem, in my mind.
I'm curious because I've seen a couple people say that delayed starts don't matter but they only say they didn't start playing the event until later on. They did not say if they logged in near the beginning of the event.
The theory I saw floated before is that your bracket is determined by the first person from your club to login. Simply avoiding playing the event wouldn't matter if that were the case.
This subject kind of fascinates me even though I have no hope of exploiting/testing it in the casual club I am in.
Since I am the biggest scorer (sometimes by a very wide margin), I usually play one manual entry for 10 or 20 points as early as possible, then check back in with 5 minutes to go. If the team is trailing, I play enough to win it, but no more. I only pass the person in line for MVP, if that is what it takes for the team win. We also tank one occasionally, so we get a better matchup next time.
Then I go hard in the last matchup, so I get at least one MVP/high-round for myself.
Certainly not a perfect system, and somebody screws it up at least once a week, but generally very effective. The key is communication, and deciding who gets the MVP shot before the matchup starts.