Quote Originally Posted by Altiplano View Post
Once upon a time, many moons ago. The great God Nordeus said, "let there be Top Eleven!" And lo, Top Eleven was born.
And in this wonderful world of Top Eleven individual managers competed for individual trophies. Season after season, each unto his/her own. Free players, token buyers, tankers, the informed, the ignorant all played the same game, with the same objectives - win as many trophies as possible. Be the best.
But lo, one day the great God Nordeus, in a pique of boredom said, "let there be associations!" And lo, Top Eleven began its slide to disaster.
In this corrupt world of associations managers could work together to manipulate player ratings, exploiting loopholes within the game to boost player condition hundreds and thousands of times, compiling squads bursting with legendary 9 star players. Individual managers could create dozens of teams to fill their associations. Total control.
And now, thanks to the obscene amount of tokens available as rewards within associations there exist managers whose interest in the league, cup and champions league has waned. Their only reason to play is associations. Season after season with the sole intention of avoiding the 20% drop that levelling up means they "TANK". Distorting the beautiful game that was Top Eleven. Season after season - play to lose, getting their kicks by trolling managers genuinely playing for trophies.
And so, and lo, the demise of Top Eleven continues. And the great God Nordeus does nothing.
Just reduce the amount of tokens on offer through associations and redistribute the rest to league positions.
League positions 1st to 8th win tokens and level up.
This should encourage managers whose only current interest is winning tokens through associations to come out and play in the league.
Oh.
AND, tanking for consecutive seasons could also be penalised.
I think the problem is more serious than just tankers in general, There is without a doubt in my opinion a black market for tokens (especially non english speaking places, this makes it very hard for them to be identified and banned) and these guys aren't interested in any aspect of the game cup, league or CL just a quick way to farm free Tokens. I have a game ''friend'' who was 4 levels above me and now he is 3 levels below me. He doesn't compete anywhere and wins the occasional league once every 3 seasons (nothing special or exciting.) He changes associations all the time and I have no idea why?
In case of players like me, those Tokens are vital to continue playing normally, otherwise the balance I have created will be destroyed.

I will go as far as to say that associations are not fun in general even if tankers and exploiters would not exist, the results feel random and forced, nothing interesting happens. I just collect those Tokens at the end of the month and I shut-up, I know my association will never be nr 1 so I focus more in the real game play.