Poaching Players From Other Alliances

Leugenesmiff
Leugenesmiff Posts: 401 Mover and Shaker
edited December 2014 in MPQ Alliances
I'm not sure if this is a common tactic in MPQ, but I wanted to go on the record and say I think it's a classless one and should stop. I just formed a new alliance, AARP AVENGERS, and within an hour after posting here looking for interested players I had simeone not only posting in my recruiting thread but actually leaving his alliance to join mine and posting in our in game alliance chat to specific players about joining his alliance. We've hopefully cleared that up but it's hard enough getting an alliance off the ground. Having to tend with maneuvers like this just makes it harder.
Has anyone else run into this type of thing? I wonder if it happens often. There should be a way of reporting this stuff.

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  • jimstarooney
    jimstarooney Posts: 576 Critical Contributor
    edited December 2014
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  • Arondite
    Arondite Posts: 1,188 Chairperson of the Boards
    Quit crying.
  • GothicKratos
    GothicKratos Posts: 1,821 Chairperson of the Boards
    Arondite wrote:
    Quit crying.

    There's absolutely no reason to be rude. It'd be just as easy for another forum user to tell you to stop being lazy and look up roster information or what benchmarks Alliances use for recruiting, since all that information is readily available, but they don't, do they? No, they don't.

    Also for the actual topic at hand, competitive people are going to do things like that from time to time. It's just like competitive sports. It's probably bad sportsmanship, but it does happen. Same goes for players "mercing" out to another Alliance for an event to get a better cover reward for themselves.
  • d0nk3y
    d0nk3y Posts: 213
    Leugenesmiff wrote:
    I'm not sure if this is a common tactic in MPQ, but I wanted to go on the record and say I think it's a classless one and should stop. I just formed a new alliance, AARP AVENGERS, and within an hour after posting here looking for interested players I had simeone not only posting in my recruiting thread but actually leaving his alliance to join mine and posting in our in game alliance chat to specific players about joining his alliance. We've hopefully cleared that up but it's hard enough getting an alliance off the ground. Having to tend with maneuvers like this just makes it harder.
    Has anyone else run into this type of thing? I wonder if it happens often. There should be a way of reporting this stuff.

    Yeah, I've seen it happen a good bit, especially when the alliance rewards are 4* characters. I'm with you - I've never supported and never will support this type of behavior. Is it part of the game? Sure. Does it hose a group of people someone's supposed to be in an alliance with? Absolutely. I don't mind the large alliances doing it between their various farm teams, as it only affects them. I don't like it when suddenly my alliance score drops by 130K points because someone got a better offer.

    I really wish the devs would implement a cooldown to quash alliance-hoppers. 72 hour cooldowns after quitting an alliance would force people to tough it out, finish the event and make better tactical decisions.
  • Arondite
    Arondite Posts: 1,188 Chairperson of the Boards
    GothicKratos wrote:
    Arondite wrote:
    Quit crying.

    There's absolutely no reason to be rude. It'd be just as easy for another forum user to tell you to stop being lazy and look up roster information or what benchmarks Alliances use for recruiting, since all that information is readily available, but they don't, do they? No, they don't.

    Also for the actual topic at hand, competitive people are going to do things like that from time to time. It's just like competitive sports. It's probably bad sportsmanship, but it does happen. Same goes for players "mercing" out to another Alliance for an event to get a better cover reward for themselves.

    My post was a request for information.

    His post is a complaint about the way someone else plays the game.


    One of those is productive and leads to at least one player growing and becoming a better part of the community.

    The other will not deter the behavior in question and, instead, just serves as a petty free shot on someone if they don't see the post to defend themselves, or degrades into a name calling he said she said if they do.

    I wasn't being rude, I was being succinct, and I stand by what I said. There is nothing wrong with offering members of an existing alliance a spot in yours. They'll go where they feel they should go and that'll be that.

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