#Allow passwords for regular battles instead of just pvp.

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alpine shadow
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So, while I've noticed this in the past, it just recently started becoming a problem. I've identified these groups as "one offs".

Essentially, I'll start up my stream and the first battle or two, I'll just have my viewers dropping troops and we'll do fine. By the 3rd battle, I get a bunch of random people who drop a troop, maybe two. My numbers will go from 20-40 troops, to over 100. Great, we destroy the current battle. They may stick around for a couple or few more battles, or I will suddenly end up with my normal 20-40, but now the enemy size is well over 100 and we lose the next 2-3 matches and I have to spend tokens each time, hoping that the number of enemies we go up against drops low enough that we can win the current battle, or that the "one offs" show up again and we get through it.

I'd love to see the password system implemented into the regular battles so my viewers are the ones who are joining and we're not be overrun by all these extra players who drop off one or two troops and make our numbers skyrocket.

Screenshots from tonight.
1st battle = 35 Allies, 68 Enemies (Win) (No One-Offs)
2nd battle = 125 Allies, 122 Enemies (Win) (Full of One-Offs)
3rd battle = 140 Allies, 118 Enemies (Win) (Full of One-Offs)
4th battle = 47 Allies, 231 Enemies (Loss) (No One-Offs)
5th battle = 50 Allies, 138 Enemies (Loss) (No One-Offs)
6th battle = 42 Allies, 68 Enemies (Loss) (No One-Offs)

After 3 losses, we decided to leave SR alone for the remained of the stream.

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teal gulch
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Do these placements tend to form a perfect circle around the captain unit? With no free spots? Gibberish usernames with no actual words in them?
Those are most likely bots. SR has a serious bot problem that seems to hit mostly smaller, non-affiliate captains

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And do you see a pattern with those accounts disappearing on loyalty chests? The bots reportedly dodge loyalty chests until they hit gold or crystal loyalty

alpine shadow
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It really feels random. I've been partnered with SR for a few years now. They do tend to place somewhat near me.

languid lava
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Looked at your VODs.

1: love the beard.

2: you're being botted 100%, there has been a huge uptick of botting recently - but especially this month.

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The bots place with you as long as you are not joining a Loyalty Chest battle.

  • 5 days ago, you got to the Loyalty Scroll Chest, bots stopped joining - you lost.
  • 4 days ago, you got to the Loyalty Boss Chest, bots stopped joining - you lost.
  • 2 days, you got to the Loyalty Super Boss Chest, bots stopped joining - you lost.
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I don't know whether you, or other people passing by, know the Loyalty System, so I'll elaborate on why this might be happening:

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  • The Loyalty Chests are capped.
  • Only if you hit 100 Loyalty with a captain for the event you'll get all rewards from a Loyalty Chest.
  • You only get a set amount of Loyalty Chests each event. For example 65 of the Loyalty Gold Chest, 30 of the Loyalty Super Boss Chest, etc.
  • This does not keep in mind whether you got only 1, or all 4, of the rewards of any of the individual chests.
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  • If a player hits these limits during an event - easily or not, they might opt in future events to skip Loyalty Chest battles until they hit Gold Loyalty (50) or full Diamond Loyalty (100).
  • Gold Loyalty nets you 3 rewards from those battles, Diamond Loyalty 4 rewards.
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  • It is not an option to join the battle, then click the button that dismisses the victory rewards quick before the captain granted the rewards.
  • This still counts to your limit, but now you got 0 of the 4 rewards instead. ||(learned this the hard way, terrible feature - can't even try contribute to the battle)||
languid lava
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It's a frustrating system. It was in dire need of improvements before they added diamond loyalty, and yet here we are ...

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But hey, who doesn't get frustrated? Bots.

languid lava
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Something to be aware of:

  • A ban wipes an account's loyalty with you. If you hit an innocent bystander, they'd be back at 0 Loyalty getting just 1 reward from loyalty battles.
  • A banned person cannot find your battles. Unless they notice the hints of the ban, they might not approach you about a false ban. Not great either.
alpine shadow
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Banning process seems to have helped a bit. Had to wait until they joined, which took the numbers up a little, but they only got one troop on the board instead of many.