The current setup of sky trail possession favors high BR and very active players (most of whom have spent a great sum of money in game). The premise is you should be strong enough to keep your post, fending off attackers to be able to get rewards.
PROBLEMS:
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PROBLEMS:
- BR growth in wartune is fast. It is impossible for players in newer servers and noncashers to keep up with heavy cashers. Just imagine, as a noncasher, I was able to reach 23M BR in just 8 months of playing (while working). Cashers can do more than this with the amount of time I played. Now, the same players are the ones you need to be able to defend against.
- Rewards system. Rewards are handed out at 1-hour, 3-hour, and 5-hour intervals. Occupy it less than 1 hour and you don't get any rewards, nothing at all, even for your effort.
- Possession rankings is cross-server. This makes this feature with a major leaning towards cashers, can't get any more obvious than that. I am not even sure if a noncasher can make it to top 100.
- This setup can breed harassment of high BR players towards low BR players. You can choose to be annoying and constantly hunt down players from newer servers or those whom you keep a grudge of whenever they occupy posts. Similarly, there are even some players who don't even have the consideration and attack posts that are nearing the reward mark; hence, the occupier does not receive anything. Granted that such cases are trivial and hardly attended to by R2 or 7Road devs, the current setup allows you to do this, regardless.
- There are only 200+ spots that can be occupied (if you have completed sky trail), less if you haven't completed it yet, and this event is cross-server. During active gameplay hours, all spots are mostly full. You can try to occupy one, only to be kicked out a few minutes later.
- Grant a small reward (participation reward) upon occupying a post, whether the post was empty when you occupied it or you luckily defeated the previous holder. Give merit to player effort. By small reward, I mean a quantity less than than the 1-hour rewards on stage 1 of sky trail.
- Upon occupying a post, lock the post to that player for an hour, so said player is guaranteed to receive the 1-hour reward (at the very least) before opening the occupied post for attack (suggestion adapted from Buuurman http://forum.r2games.com/forum/brows...ssession-thing).
- Make sky trail possession as well as possession rankings per server or server cluster instead of cross-server (http://forum.r2games.com/forum/brows...ssession-thing). Better chances for everybody to get rewards.
Please post if you want to support this suggestion or add anything to it than can make sky trail better or if you disagree with what I have posted, feel free to post as well the reason why. Thanks for reading.
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