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Originally Posted by Eckstein 4 Prez
I feel like talking about "the whales" moves the focus off where it should be. "The whales" and people like me - free riders who enjoy the card-collecting minigame - should be bothered by the same thing, and it's a thing OOTP has thus far shown no interest in dealing with.
It's the people who are the wannabe whales who use shenanigans to spend a lot of time in lower leagues in order to rack up as many PP as possible. That should piss off the whales because it devalues the money they spend on PP. It pisses me off because it's not fun to have teams in your league either deliberately underperforming or suddenly turning it on and winning 90% of their games. (That's distinct from whales, who might dominate your league on their way up, but who aren't going to interact with other people much beyond that.)
There are lots of ways to police that and it'd be incredibly easy to crowdsource appropriate ways to deal with it, but it would take a significant allocation of time and resources on OOTPD's part to find all the permutations of the problem. Right now that doesn't exist. If and when it becomes something they want to deal with, we can start having a conversation about how to detect and stop it from happening.
Until then, everyone is just pissing into the wind. If/when the whales start griping, I suspect they'll take it seriously. Otherwise - get used to it. The game is, and will continue to be, unfair.
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Our moderation has never been stronger and more stringent than it is right now. People make it seem like tankers are this huge percentage of users when in fact, they are not, and they ones that are, get reported, investigated and dealt with.
So before you go hurling around the "we don't care" sentiment, which is blatantly false, remember you are talking about the <1% of teams trying to find loopholes to succeed, and they will fall into moderation sooner rather than later.