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Flag Race Grouping

CielliCielli
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edited June 2017 in Suggestions, Feedback, and Requests
Flag race is an oft overlooked aspect of the game, and is supposed to be a way for fair and friendly competition between active guilds, regardless of the player's strength or levels. Unfortunately, for the longest time ever, certain guilds have been abusing the grouping system by taking in all their lower leveled mules into the guild and going into flag race using them, resulting in entire races consisting of only their guild members, where they could take it slow and wait for all members to finish for an unfair amount of points compared to the other races with guilds competing against each other. This is extremely detrimental to the concept of flag racing, as the meaning of competition is lost in the face of such ludicrous acts, and all it serves to do is boost the already-inflated egotistical prides of said guilds.

People who have run flag races in active servers will have experienced this situation and felt troubled or annoyed by it at some point. I implore for the changing of the grouping system for flag race, where instead of grouping players into races based on their levels, players are assigned to different races randomly, which will reduce the chances of these ridiculous situations happening, make said guilds work for their points, and most importantly, make flag race competitive again.

P.S. For members of the guilds I'm referring to who may chance upon reading this: You know who you are, if you have the slightest ounce of dignity, stop your ways and play fair, and help make flag race more enjoyable.