Curse

Hephaistion · Nov 13, 2008, 09:22 PM // 21:22

Random Arena (RA) is suprisely full of Team Arena (TA) teams. Recently I meet every evening around 10 fully synced teams running spike and balanced among them.

Why drives people to do this? They want more glad points? Cannot they win in TA? Are they just people with no honour who like easy wins?

Occasional syncing between a friend or two can be fun, but this is systematic, on purpose and with the aim of exploiting Random Arena's. Anet can solve this by truly randomising each team, not taking the party members from one district - they sync by all entering in nearly empty districts such as Japan - but from all districts together.

Team Arena is unsuprisingly made for teams of friends. While Random Arena's should remain RANDOM!

eximiis · Nov 13, 2008, 09:32 PM // 21:32

It's simple.

You have 1 human, 1 computer and an opportunity to cheats = eventually everyone cheats.

Glad points and balth points is there goal !

Secksy · Nov 13, 2008, 10:02 PM // 22:02

My guild syncs sometimes cause it's fun.

Yes, I just admitted to occasionally doing it.

masta_yoda · Nov 13, 2008, 10:20 PM // 22:20

tera u been out of this game too long, u do realize TA is dead and the next thing to do is sync

Jeb Bush · Nov 13, 2008, 10:56 PM // 22:56

My guild did some TA the other day when we didnt have enough on for GVG. Almost every match we won our opponents would accuse us of sync. Point being that just because you go into RA doesnt mean you cant be put on a team that already has 10 wins and is going into TA. It may happen more than you think.

Strife17 · Nov 13, 2008, 11:04 PM // 23:04

why sync? because TA has

r6 glads EVERY RED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GOING TIME IM ON, which makes it impossible to get more then 7 or 12 wins..

i always run into these r6 glads or i run into shove spike..

its just meh, screw TA. there are just too little players active in TA. which makes only the hardcore/diehard/no lifers continue and pwn everything else.

Arcane Spark · Nov 14, 2008, 12:05 AM // 00:05

If you fail hard enough to sync RA because you cant win TA, quit GW

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or i run into shove spike..

any team with a ranger that has eyes should just dshot shove every time, and either you score one kill and wait five mins, or they realize they lost and /resign

Hephaistion · Nov 14, 2008, 12:31 AM // 00:31

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Originally Posted by Strife17

why sync? because TA has

r6 glads EVERY RED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GOING TIME IM ON, which makes it impossible to get more then 7 or 12 wins..

i always run into these r6 glads or i run into shove spike..

its just meh, screw TA. there are just too little players active in TA. which makes only the hardcore/diehard/no lifers continue and pwn everything else.

I could agree on that. Personally I stopped doing Team Arena's recently for those reasons. So syncing could prove much more of a fun factor. But this is solving the problem incorrectly. Random arena should stay random arena. Anet should address the elitist aspects you describe, so people can have fun again in TA. However, proposals to achieve such things should rather be made in another thread.

steel singer · Nov 14, 2008, 06:50 AM // 06:50

So you are just saying that g6+ people just should stop playing TA?
That's just retarted..

sLiceR · Nov 14, 2008, 12:14 PM // 12:14

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Originally Posted by Hephaistion

Why drives people to do this? They want more glad points? Cannot they win in TA? Are they just people with no honour who like easy wins?

most of them are trash guilds (who manage to lose in RA even after they synched 4/4), very few do that for the lulz..

Hephaistion · Nov 14, 2008, 02:54 PM // 14:54

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Originally Posted by steel singer

So you are just saying that g6+ people just should stop playing TA?
That's just retarted..

I carefully weighed my words in the previous post not to imply that. Skill changes could be for example part of the solution.

Strife17 · Nov 14, 2008, 03:24 PM // 15:24

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Originally Posted by steel singer

So you are just saying that g6+ people just should stop playing TA?
That's just retarted..

it's retarded to try and beat glad6+ in TA while you can get same points in RA by syncing.

when you recieve 2 glad points it doesn't say "beaten glad6+team"

moko · Nov 14, 2008, 03:38 PM // 15:38

no, it's not. try it, get better, improove as a team. that's worth more than 2 gladpoints. in the long run it's waaaay better than farming your couple of glads in RA. you think the current high glads havn't started low as well?

steel singer · Nov 14, 2008, 10:19 PM // 22:19

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Originally Posted by Hephaistion

I carefully weighed my words in the previous post not to imply that. Skill changes could be for example part of the solution.

How would skill changes help?
And kinda every g6+ team plays balanced?

Div · Nov 15, 2008, 08:15 AM // 08:15

TA is too hard for me. Brb syncing RA.

urania · Nov 15, 2008, 08:36 AM // 08:36

we all know that u're a nab deep inside.

Strife17 · Nov 15, 2008, 12:37 PM // 12:37

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Originally Posted by moko

no, it's not. try it, get better, improove as a team. that's worth more than 2 gladpoints. in the long run it's waaaay better than farming your couple of glads in RA. you think the current high glads havn't started low as well?

in the long run we're all dead.

icedwhitemocha · Nov 16, 2008, 04:33 AM // 04:33

When a strong team is in TA and I don't feel like buildwarsing them, I see no shame in doing a short RA sync run or two.

I really don't care that its not helping me improve as a player, I do it for the balth faction.

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Are they just people with no honour who like easy wins?

honor, lol.

Dmitri3 · Nov 16, 2008, 07:09 AM // 07:09

If you sync with 4 people and lose, you're really pathetic. Excuse "we're not really coordinated" doesn't fly because truly random groups aren't coordinated either and they didn't have a chance to take advantage of each others builds.

Really, is it worth losing your face? Maybe you don't give a shit... but if you do care about your gladiator rank (which is why most ppl sync), then you obviously care enough about your reputation. And in the end, you simply lose more that you gain.

Strife17 · Nov 16, 2008, 10:17 AM // 10:17

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Originally Posted by icedwhitemocha

When a strong team is in TA and I don't feel like buildwarsing them, I see no shame in doing a short RA sync run or two.

I really don't care that its not helping me improve as a player, I do it for the balth faction.

honor, lol.

British: honour

USA: honor

lol @ you.