Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-11165765-20130810130524/@comment-11490363-20130830195555

CohoLips18 wrote: GoC is an ally of mine and we have spoken about this quite a few times, and I agree with him 100%. I boot any repeat offenders that steal the MVP bonus. I don’t do it to my allies unless I know for sure the boss is up for grabs, which means you know they one cubed it and its sitting out there for a long time.

Having said that - I agree that a general rule is that if you want the MVP bonus, you send it out with the bonus secured. However, I firmly believe that it is common courtesy to not steal the MVP bonus from an ally. Ally = keyword.

When a level 8 is sitting at 51%, you know an ally is trying for the bonus and missed, for whatever reason. What are the benefits to keeping an ally who consistently takes the MVP bonus from you? They made you waste cubes (on a level 8 probably 2), and you lose the bonus on top of that.

Nobody is forcing anyone to play a certain way, and if people don’t like the team aspect that’s fine too, those people will just lose out on the chance to have high ranking people seed them bosses, we really lose nothing. And that is where we disagree. I make no such agreements with my allies, and for you to infer that that is what 'ally' means is just what YOU want from your allies. You have that right of course, but not everyone uses that interpretation. Specifically, it is NOT common courtesy to let someone have MVP just because they seeded, or are 'close' to 50%. You want it? Spend that 1 extra cube. That is all it comes down to, one cube. and it is not like you get no return on it, you get 50% bonus for it. Totally worth it in my opinion. Otherwise you are just gambling.

We lose nothing either. much more than 50% of a seed list is NOT allies, so we still get L8 seeds regardless, which makes me question the usefulness of your approach. Everyone gets the seeds anyway.