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Hey guys - for comparison I consider Diamond “highly competitive” , upper Sapphire “competitive”, lower Sapphire “competitive/casual” and Platinum “casual”
For most of my time in WD I have played in D1-S2 anyway last season I decided to take a break, play more casual for fun in my dads team to focus on some projects.
I just wanted to compare my experience playing S1 vs playing P1 in atlas.
S1 Experience APR 50-100
In S1 we had some big enemies often fighting top 10 TAs - atlas was very active both defensively and offensively.
On the defence side it was common to wake up with most prims dead everyday and with 70% revive penalty it meant I struggled to maintain 200k troops.
Heck when DomOm was hitting us I got down to 50k troops and seriously thought about quitting.
Often top tier teams would run attackers with back up so my troops were punished and my glory was low given lots of hits were from mini (1k-2k loaded siegers)
Offensively was also busy. I had to hit L580+ for max glory and often my targets were L650-700. These types of bases are always defended usually double but sometimes triple defended. It meant some hits I would land perfectly and some hits I would splat which can give up and down glory.
If you hit a castle then you can expect retaliation. Sometimes 24 hour retaliation 7 days a week even on public holidays.
I could literally farm for 3-4 hours with 1k-2k snipes to get 100k glory.
My point? I had to earn just about every point of glory. No free lunch.
As an officer I also had to watch castles for 3-6hours every night. I was exhausted and burnt out.
The P1 experience APR 300-350
Completely different world. Some L500s are max glory to me. Just about everyone is worth at least 50% glory even like L200s.
It’s pretty rare my prims get hit even though at L650 I am max glory to everyone in the game.
I can attack almost any similar APR team and bubble it solo. No one shows up to defend. No one does anything people let the castle bubble. I can earn 100k glory in 10 hits no problem in 35-40 minutes.
Funny thing is if someone does defend they usually hit me with a 20k loaded trapper and they give me 5k+ glory for 1k loss on my side.
This glory hunt event I got 850k kills on day one with basically no effort and minimal time spent.
And my troops? Well including hospital with 400k in there at the moment I now have 1.15mm troops. They are going up. Most fights my revives are 90%.
I don’t need to watch castles. No one cares if castles bubble in low leagues. No one wants the castles so they won’t get conquered.
Summary
Players competing for glory in high APR teams are working way too hard for the glory they earn.
There is literally no point maintaining high APR. The effort per point of glory earned is ridiculous.
I was thinking of returning to S1 or D2 next season but why bother? If my objective is to have fun after work and maximise my season then its more efficient to sand bag.
I can finish atlas season in half the time. I don’t need to watch castles for hours. And my troops go up only.
I can auto fly my opponents bases for max glory while typing here on the forums.
I thought going down leagues would wreck my glory season but its improved my season 10x. Sandbagging is rewarded and encouraged.
Solution
Honestly I think higher APR teams should be rewarded with extra glory to recognise the extra effort required. High APR players are getting shafted in the great glory heist and they don’t even know it!
APR isnt the best metric but I honestly believe there should be glory bonus for high APR teams to recognise greater effort. Greater effort in the fights. ( cant auto fly 3D bases ) greater effort in watching castles. Greater effort in defence. Smaller micro hits of 1-2k siegers. And in the high leagues no chance you can sit on a castle with 50k troops and zero it down without someone enfeebling you, trapping you and then krelos nuking that fat prim!
As Deadpool would say high APR is “MAXIMUM EFFORT”
Why put in maximum effort when you can get double the outcome with minimum effort?
