Elf Priest JZaanu
Constructive!
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Today I enjoyed completing many of the missions and engaging the bomb collection. Uniquely enough, I ended up on the leader board. As I was participating in this war today, I kept pondering, has this brought the community together? In prior posts, I mentioned there must be restraints on varium advantages. There are other ways one can create like war feature armor and weapons. The other element I notice now is the daily leader board. I think it undermines players' ability to play as a community. When one is competing for this achievement, essentially they are playing against their own affiliation. I think it is undercutting a player that works hard either by effort or uses varium to compete, and eventually fall short because someone works harder or adds more varium to gain this achievement. I remember with my faction named Candlelit Rainbow, I just recruited a player and he happened to be competing for the war kills board. He invested 50 dollars to gain the top spot. One hour prior to server reset he had a commanding lead over the others noted on the leader board, so he logged out. About 20 minutes prior to server reset a player entered the leader board who was not there present and won due to a tad more varium investment. It was the risk the player took by leaving; what saddened me most is that he exited our faction and left a message on our board. "I lost" said this player. He spent $50 dollars for opportunity for an achievement; this young child must have been extremely hurt to waste such money on what is essentially gambling; risk. This Daily chart now is about the same. It is gambling, and as long as there is a money element in it, many players will steer away from participating, and if they do, and they loose, it will be very painful. This is not a community element at all. Many adults and privileged children can alter this game with the power of their own money, and this is very dangerous in regard to community building when competing is involved. For future, I do suggest eliminating this board, and create a top 100 board. For all players who worked hard in the entire chapter of the war with a compilation of effort through missions, bombs, and daily participating should be rewarded once the war has concluded. The top 100 would obtain a true war hero achievement for the simple reason, participation. A true daily achievement is not really possible with this war chart now. One has the ability to sway the advantage through varium bombs, and one is also able to save bombs from previous days to use on their day to compete for achievement.
< Message edited by JZaanu -- 1/11/2012 0:02:19 >
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