If we are going to continue this dark comedy that is AO an filled with mega alliances. A world in which everyone admits that nothing is working as intended or desired. We should start asking ourselves why the developers are just shoveling rewards at it and the guilds.



If the system is broken, stop rewarding all the people who are using it to simply harvest game rewards for themselves. There is absolutely no reason that the rewards should be anything near as high as they stand now. It's been the same anti-competitive mess for years. The fact that some groups slide up a spot at the end of the season, or others drop a few spots, doesn't mean anything. It's been the same core organizations since the dawn of time. Occasionally disband and reform under new branding, but we are still talking about the same people doing the same thing, and being rewarded for it like they have been fighting tooth and nail not to be run out of the game.



People will still fight over the season objectives even if you cut the rewards in half. It may not be the same people doing it, but if you put loot out there, up for grabs, people will fight over it. It may not be the same veteran backed mega-alliances though. Which is a GREAT thing. If the rewards for the season are so astronomical that the richest and largest groups are willing to do anything and everything to hold on to control of their developer designed guild welfare payment system, then lets take a look at that welfare payment system.



Every season point is also siphoned energy. Take a moment and go add up the season points of the largest guilds and calculate that as a sum in silver terms. But, hold on first, that is just the beginning remember. These poor guys aren't just fighting over those billions of silver. At the end of the season SBI also hands out battle mounts to the guild leader and his 299 best friends. So sum that up and add it to all the siphoned energy. We can ignore the income generated from holding territories or rent they charge other players and guilds. It's too hard to estimate, but it exists as well.



Everyone, the 80% and the 20% all agree that alliances are not working correctly.



If the entire organizational structure for the part of the game that revolves around the season and its rewards is not functioning correctly, and we all agree about it. Why are the rewards so astronomical. Would any reasonable person give the same prizes out for a rigged game as for a competitive one? I don't know of any. But here we are filling the pockets of the very people who are circumventing and abusing every possible mechanic they can to get the slightest bit ahead of their competitors, who are behaving no differently than they are.



Don't for even a MOMENT think that no one will fight in a world with less rewards. That is a complete fiction. In a world in which 40 guys dive an RD to murder a handful of players, don't pretend that we need to reward people billions of silver to suit up and fight people. Players are constantly telling everyone about how the rewards don't matter to them at all, that they are just there for the fights, and I choose to believe them



Cut the rewards. Remove a percentage of these people who are just there to get rich off the broken systems of the game. Make the game better for everyone.