Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-10747048-20130720211658/@comment-11368661-20130722054400

AndRollOut wrote:

I have an idea i'm floating around that may work for people like us, who want to move up Tiers without spending too high for it. It involves bankrolling a leader to buy a huge deck then everyone tagging along with us high seeds to cruise to a higher finish than they normally otherwise would. Would you be interested in such an idea? Not to be negative but it won't work. If you want any of this to work, you need to be the test subject yourself. You'll only get one person making it big while everyone else fails and falls.

1. There's no guarantee that everyone on your list will be seeded. That means that everyone will not be guaranteed to move up to a position where they improve like getting higher Tier rewards. I have already factored in that everyone only has each other on their list.

2. Is there a cut off rate of how many people to be a "paid" volunteer? Meaning, if you get 5o people to pay, are all 5o being included in the ally list. If I remembered right, only a percentage of of your list gets seeded. I don't know if there is a certain amount that everyone in your list gets seeded.

3. With that being said, have you already tried reducing your ally list to a certain number as a test and have those same people be called every time you seeded something? For reference, I only have 42 people on my ally list. I randomly seed to different members as they randomly seed me.

2. There's no guarantee that you will spend X amount of $$$ to get enough Raid cards to be competitive for Tier 1. I have several allies that spent hundreds, more than $260, and feel very cheated because they got a bunch of half raid cards. Some even only made it to Tier 2.

3. Theories are theories until they are put into practice. If you spent the money on yourself and that plan worked, that would be awesome. It would be a way for many  to find a cheap way to move way up. Well, the risk being no different then them spending the money on themselves for raid cards. If it works, there could be the potential for another type of ally "system". Until then, no one will be removing these pennies from my pinching hands.

I've been second Tier a couple times as a free player. For me, there's no way to get around hard work and time even as a paid player. There's cheating but how fun is anything when you cheat. I shouldn't say that because that's what I'm technically doing but is exploiting system flaws really cheating? Great, now I'm going to have Mobage watching me. Oh wells. But now you know and knowing is half the battle.