Tanking

[Fail G]

Am I the only one who doesn't know what 'Tanking' is?

[t11_fan]

Am I the only one who doesn't know what 'Tanking' is?

Tanking is strategy which managers use to avoid promotion in order to strenghten their team for next season on same level. They put illegal formation and players on wrong position (red triangle).

[Sully]

Tanking is strategy which managers use to avoid promotion in order to strenghten their team for next season on same level. They put illegal formation and players on wrong position (red triangle).

not entirely true. your first sentence is true, but you dont have to play illegal formations to lose. It helps, but really, you can swap an ST with your GK and that helps even more than an illegal formation.

[miekul67]

Tanking is strategy which managers use to avoid promotion in order to strenghten their team for next season on same level. They put illegal formation and players on wrong position (red triangle).

Yeah this is really annoying and basically cheating booo

[mojo121]

Tanking is for losers and cheats....The one thing I hate about online gaming is people finding ways to cheat. I mean c'mon....for what? Oh yeah, look at me, I won the league....although i cheated, and what do i get for it....hhmmm, nothing!!

It's like cheating with your handicap in golf. it doesn't make you a better player to chop strokes, at the end of the day you're still a duffer....just enjoy the game FFS....

[Sully]

Tanking is for losers and cheats....The one thing I hate about online gaming is people finding ways to cheat. I mean c'mon....for what? Oh yeah, look at me, I won the league....although i cheated, and what do i get for it....hhmmm, nothing!!

It's like cheating with your handicap in golf. it doesn't make you a better player to chop strokes, at the end of the day you're still a duffer....just enjoy the game FFS....

no, buying tokens to better your team is for losers and cheats. If you cant do it with the daily tokens and ads, then you are a cheat and a loser, not necessarily in that order. Any other way is just ingenuity and smart thinking.

how else do you suggest that one competes in a game where spending money gives you a better team? If I can find a way to have a better team without spending money, how is that cheating? we are not manipulating the game or how it works. We are not using external applications to change things. We are just losing on purpose to stay on the same level and build the team over 2-3 years. People who buy tokens can do that instantly, so I repeat, how is tanking considered cheating?

And I do have to admit that cheaters are losers, but losers are not necessarily cheaters.

And believe me, I do enjoy the game much more when I have a great team ready to compete. Sure, we all love to cheer for the underdog, but who wants to always be the underdog?

and I just love your nonsense example with golf. Golf is a real game where there are rules and everyone knows them and they all know how to play the game. T11, is not like golf. Sure you have rules, but they dont explain the game and its rules to the point where everyone knows what is what. Nobody is "chopping strokes" as you say. They are purposly shanking and missing putts so they dont get promoted. Consider it "practice"...we prefer to stay on the course and get better at it before we win it.

I still cant believe there are people out there bitching about tanking. It is a fair thing to do. Some call it unsportsman-like, but then again, so it buying tokens and using them to make your players better.

So just leave tankers alone and take your own advice: enjoy the game FFS

[mojo121]

no, buying tokens to better your team is for losers and cheats. If you cant do it with the daily tokens and ads, then you are a cheat and a loser, not necessarily in that order. Any other way is just ingenuity and smart thinking.

how else do you suggest that one competes in a game where spending money gives you a better team? If I can find a way to have a better team without spending money, how is that cheating? we are not manipulating the game or how it works. We are not using external applications to change things. We are just losing on purpose to stay on the same level and build the team over 2-3 years. People who buy tokens can do that instantly, so I repeat, how is tanking considered cheating?

And I do have to admit that cheaters are losers, but losers are not necessarily cheaters.

And believe me, I do enjoy the game much more when I have a great team ready to compete. Sure, we all love to cheer for the underdog, but who wants to always be the underdog?

and I just love your nonsense example with golf. Golf is a real game where there are rules and everyone knows them and they all know how to play the game. T11, is not like golf. Sure you have rules, but they dont explain the game and its rules to the point where everyone knows what is what. Nobody is "chopping strokes" as you say. They are purposly shanking and missing putts so they dont get promoted. Consider it "practice"...we prefer to stay on the course and get better at it before we win it.

I still cant believe there are people out there bitching about tanking. It is a fair thing to do. Some call it unsportsman-like, but then again, so it buying tokens and using them to make your players better.

So just leave tankers alone and take your own advice: enjoy the game FFS

I have never tanked. I don't buy tokens, never spent a penny on this game. Take it season to season, using the daily tokens and ads, and seem to be pretty successful. I don't need 2-3 seasons to 'rebuild'!

Plus I didn't say this game is like golf. I used golf because when you cheat in golf you're just cheating yourself....and if you're going to tank and win the league every 3 seasons because you 'cheated' your way into an inferior league, then you're cheating yoursel also....

[Sully]

I have never tanked. I don't buy tokens, never spent a penny on this game. Take it season to season, using the daily tokens and ads, and seem to be pretty successful. I don't need 2-3 seasons to 'rebuild'!

Plus I didn't say this game is like golf. I used golf because when you cheat in golf you're just cheating yourself....and if you're going to tank and win the league every 3 seasons because you 'cheated' your way into an inferior league, then you're cheating yoursel also....

you focused on the most non-important point: golf, and neglected to really address the main point which was that tanking is NOT cheating, unless you also agree that using tokens to increase the quality of your team is also cheating. But even if you tank, it is not cheating, no matter what, simply because you are choosing not to progress to the next level. It may be viewed as unsportsmanlike, but it is 100% not cheating. Using tokens, on the other hand, to increase skills is 100% cheating. It is giving an advantage that the majority do not choose to use because it uses real money in a free game.

How you can fail to address this is just proof that you have no clue what tanking is and what its purpose is.

[mojo121]

you focused on the most non-important point: golf, and neglected to really address the main point which was that tanking is NOT cheating, unless you also agree that using tokens to increase the quality of your team is also cheating. But even if you tank, it is not cheating, no matter what, simply because you are choosing not to progress to the next level. It may be viewed as unsportsmanlike, but it is 100% not cheating. Using tokens, on the other hand, to increase skills is 100% cheating. It is giving an advantage that the majority do not choose to use because it uses real money in a free game.

How you can fail to address this is just proof that you have no clue what tanking is and what its purpose is.

Using Tokens is part of the game. that's what they are there for. Whether you choose to buy them (which I dont) or use the ones you are given, also watching videos or downloading apps, this are all legit....Tanking however, is purposely losing to gain an advantage, which I would consider, a form of cheating. I don't want to compare this game to real football, because most of the time it doesn't compare, but a lot of people make the comparison, and so taking that into account, how many managers, in the real world, deliberately lose....?
And as I said before, where's the fun and fulfillment in purposely losing for a season or 2, just so you may win 3 seasons later, in an inferior league....Face it Bubba, it's a form of cheating....!

[Staggy Stagg]

There are different forms of tanking. One way is to deceive T11 in to thinking you have a poor team and get into a league where you can win. The other,which I have employed, is to get promoted and then not improve your team for a couple of seasons. The reason I did that was because I did not have the tokens or money to improve my team. I spent a couple of seasons resting on my laurels until my money and tokens were sufficient to build a new team to be competitive. Is that tanking?