Originally Posted by Nordland

Quick question for all who would like to have some input:

How did you like the Coliseum event? Would you like to see more events like that in the future? What are some things you would change if we did get another Coliseum event?

We'd love to hear some overall feedback.

I really like this event.

As far as changes I'd like to see, there are a couple:

1) It would be nice to be able to see what rank our battle decks are. I can see that there's not much free space in that area of the game's interface, so I'd understand if that might not be possible.

2) Something that's *really* needed is to change the behavior of the battle list when no filters are selected. As is, the listing randomly chooses *any* level to put into the list. ...This is bad for new players, since not only are they not equipped to handle high-level players, they aren't going to be familiar enough with the game to know how to specifically search for players their own level. Newbies could end up going through the entire event feeding easy defensive wins to high-level players without realizing it. Please have it changed to default to only show players that are the same rank.

That's about all I can think of right now.

I'll chime in with the same review points everyone else seems to be making.
The event has been extremely rewarding, I don't know how well it treats players without a strong lineup but i'd expect they are still able to rack up a good number of rewards by playing lower ranks.
The Rock Paper Scissors... err... Moe Babe Sexy aspect of it would be more interesting if it were not so easy to avoid the element of chance by refreshing opponents until you find an opponent you know you'll win against.
Lastly, players who I can only guess are using alternate accounts to rack up huge numbers of defensive wins are extremely demoralizing, and the activity really should be clamped down on, and stopped.

Purge? i don't see 2 players that was above me in ranking (pos atm, 22, before server reset was 23-24) and gaps between pos are notorious (Tenhou is now below me)

EDIT: This was written 3 hours before ending of first half event. Perhaps that nutaku finally catched smurfs and purged them. I need to sleep, emergency job.

EDIT 2: I hope that my link with Safety Pay is purged too. Shit, still here.

Originally Posted by chillinfar

Purge? i don't see 2 players that was above me in ranking (pos atm, 22, before server reset was 23-24) and gaps between pos are notorious (Tenhou is now below me)

EDIT: This was written 3 hours before ending of first half event. Perhaps that nutaku finally catched smurfs and purged them. I need to sleep, emergency job.

EDIT 2: I hope that my link with Safety Pay is purged too. Shit, still here.

3hs before the what? The first half of the event still has half an hour left right now...

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I was about to clock out of the first part with an atk count of 666, but I realized I had just won 2 more Pero Puddings, and good placing won over lulz

Server was closed for 1 hour, 3h before event ends. Then i noticed the purge.

did they purge all the top?

Nope, just defense victories coming from smurfs, smarter idea than bannning people.

P.S: Dailies are reset? No puddin and no cards after gaining daily killstreaks (was 72 before ending of event).

So we're about an hour and a half into the second halve as of my writing this and there's lots people off to a big head start. The vast majority of people in the top 50 have 0 defensive wins or in some cases less than than 5 defensive wins...there's an even smaller number of people over 10...but 1 person who's already at 37. I can't help but feel like they've blown their cover, they've got to be organizing people or perhaps just alt accounts to lose against him
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I was considering uploading a screenshot but it just seems unnecessary, I think it should be pretty clear to everyone there are definitely some cheaters in this event. It's a bit frustrating but I don't care enough to completely throw this guy under the bus. The people who could even do anything about it surely have to tools to figure out who's cheating.

there is no way to cheat in offensive victories for strong players it's natural to win almost everything, i dont lose at rank 1 fighting other rank 1 very often and using puddings it's no surprise people get ahead fast

My main gripe about the def win alt laming wasn't even the act itself, but the fact the top10 players have decks strong enough to not even bother with that... Heck, if they were to spend all the puddings their alt account must have had thrown at on getting atk wins, they'd only get around 10% less wins (from the natural focus regen the alt gets), and still reach the 2k wins by event's end.

I can admit I've alt-attacked myself a few times, in order to get those 2 or 3 atks missing to jump another place up. However, those never accounted for more than 10~15% of my def wins, which is only a bit more than 1/3rd of the amount in my atk wins count... Making it less than 5% of my win count.
In the end, that means that, instead of 80th, I would have placed 90th. At worst, I'd have needed a bit more of a push to stay in top100.
Seeing as I'm farming puddings for next guards, I actually have enough of those to double or triple that amount if needed.

I'm actually glad Nutaku has purged that huge disparity.
As I posted a few pages ago, the huge amount of cheating was prevalent on top5. More than half of top10 was actually playing relatively fairly.

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Last minute important retraction:
Checking the final results of the first part, I can positively tell you there was absolutely no purge in this.

The top5 are still the same players (Just 1st pulled the wool over everybody's eyes and did a 2k def wins upswing in the last 2hs), with the same amount of ridiculously cheated numbers.

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Originally Posted by Unregistered

there is no way to cheat in offensive victories for strong players it's natural to win almost everything, i dont lose at rank 1 fighting other rank 1 very often and using puddings it's no surprise people get ahead fast

I fully agree with you on this.
I lost 5 of my first 20 battles, and then got a 353 win streak. The only reason I lost that, instead of being in a 500 win streak right now, is that I got a bit impatient and attacked some people I knew were going to be trouble.

But I have a 75%/25% win/loss ratio on rank1 vs rank1 random battles.
Searching for known weaker opponents? I could as well do a 1k win streak for the whole event.

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I can see, however, a nice turn-around on this exploit amongst the top10 players.

Most seem to not even be bothering with def win laming.
Sanae seems to be keeping it on the down-low, with a 5 to 1 ratio of atk/def wins.

However, some of the usual suspects are still keeping it up:
ARM (2nd) has a staggering 1 to 10 atk/def ratio, while Harl and roysyj (9th and 13th respectively) are keeping close with a 1 to 5 ratio.

There's a few adventurous players with a 2 to 1 ratio, but nothing as shamelessly obvious as those 3.
Tytek, ru4real777, Zeithurlais, and Narisa (the other 4 biggest offenders in the first half) seem to be at 1 to 2 ratio (the first two) or completely absent (the last two). They might not have started playing seriously yet.
We'll have to see standings by tomorrow.

BTW, Sanae just went up to 3 to 1 ratio. I guess I spoke too soon.