Alliance Tournament League-Based Modifications

Qaal wrote: Edited to add:  I'm not endorsing assassinating anyone's commander during a tourney, just speculating on possible mechanisms that people might want to employ. Edited to add: though maybe I disagree about not assassinating commanders...might cause a delightful amount of mayhem...

IMO, the problem with any city attacks is that it is sort of a slippery slope... If someone doesn't have assassins, then is it ok to attack the city then to kill the commanders?, etc...

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Edited by Kumomoto - 21 Jan 2012 at 15:41

Without leagues, this proposed tourney will have very similar results as tourney #1.  So we would see contests among VIC, Dlord, Peace, H?, Curse, etc.  Alliances outside the top 10 would only be playing spoiler and earning XP for Cmdrs.

Leaning towards teams?
Each alliance fields as many teams as they can/want to and the teams are assigned to leagues. This seems to solve every issue stated except outside assistance (which cannot be stopped).
The teams represent their alliance. They are fairly equal. We can pick our favorites to root for.
What more could we ask for?

Good points.

"One problem would be trying to remember who is on what team."
Teams can be posted on alliance summaries as well as by the devs.

"There would also be logistical problems with coordination, especially since two teams might come from the same alliance -- in which case they would be likely to collaborate against other teams, defeating the purpose of dividing people into leagues."
Limit each alliance to a single team(which could cause competition within alliances, SC's "friction").

I've only been through the last tourney so I'm limited in experience but it seems to me that there were only a few of the usuals dominating which is what happened before. Is that right?
TLR is small and has only a handful of members who were interested enough to try and that was limited by size. The idea of teams appeals to me for that reason. It would even the field more than just a simple population based league structure. I also understand that if I were a vet, in a vet type alliance that I wouldn't care at best and probably be against it for that very reason.
The only real problem I see with teams is that some, in the larger, more active alliances will be left out. The reserve list could help that and of course this isn't the last tournament.

I suppose teams isn't as popular an idea as I was hoping.

Kumomoto wrote:   IMO, the problem with any city attacks is that it is sort of a slippery slope... If someone doesn't have assassins, then is it ok to attack the city then to kill the commanders?, etc...