Tanking

[Timmy Tee]

Is it tanking or a consolidation season?

It has happened to me, I have missed out on promotion in a very tight league on the last day. After kicking furniture and swearing at the the cat, I take a look at my opposition the next season and cruise to victory.

I've not deliberately thrown a match (yet), but there's a lot to be said for staying down for a season.

[khris]

LOL I am the example of a successful tanking manager, that won 11 CL's of consecutive levels and 12 leagues of 17 different levels without stress... well yea, I was buying 176T some seasons just 4-5 or so too, because I liked that way really.

If we have to discuss here what is "cheat", will be a waste of time... really thats a game and everyone have to enjoy it playing like he wants.
We can say that is a cheat, if you buy and I don't, if I tank and you don't, if you win leagues because you add lower Q. teams of your level as friends to have easy groups, if you decrease Q. of the team to have a easy level cup, if you win a T11 contest and you win 500Tokens, if you are moderator, if you are a developer..... if I am in Spain and can see only 2 videos per day but you in UK can see 100 and obtain 100 greens or 100T too is inclusive more interesting because you dont need to tank... so¿?

A fair game, ...really is a good place where to start.... because, did anyone know a game in what you can not do strategy to have a benefit in some sense?.. no. then, just enjoy people.


Tanking or do somethings that Ive mentioned in the list, is like to play with a bigger ball.


And I liked it 4 now.

[Buffs Mad]

Its always the same in games - "F2P are no-life leechers" or "P2W are no-brain whales" depending on where you are. All are just people looking for entertainment, except ofc Khris , and f2p games need them all to survive. Its up to the devs to ensure that both exist and contribute.

Tankers are ppl too

[nikolgiorgos]

I agree, there is no "cheat" in the game and ofc it's not "fair".
Some people tanking but not have a serial of titles
Some people have a lot of time to spend while others not.
Some people know english and have more info (from forum) while others don't.
Some people can farm a little, some more, some none.
Some buying T, some others can't or don't want.
Some are grown ups and have a job while other players are juniors or unemployed.
Some get paid 500$ /month , others 3.000$/month

It's just a game or a hobby for somebody and everyone must enjoy it with his personal way of playing.
There is no "best" manager/player.

But football itself isn't a fair game. Barcelona or Real Madrid doesn't play the game with equal way (money,advertising, bank loans) but still can loose from Athletic Bilbao or the championship from Atletico Madrid. Ofc I prefer to watch them on tv and not At.Bilbao

[Amane Ito]

When I was level 16 I pretty much had no motivation to play the game. What I did was login only once each day, and TOTALLY NOT USING ANY TOKEN. My self-imposed limit was so complete that at one time my team only had one foreign player, everyone else was spawned from my academy.

My money grow to 2.1b max in less than 3 seasons once I sold out all but one of my foreign players, and the max cash stayed there for many seasons to come. I wish I could buy something without using token, there is none so I end up paying max bonus to the players in every game. Still, it just won't drop, as youths are very cheap to use and I have to sell 2 players per season due to new academy spawns.

From there I learned many things by playing a low quality team. With 5~15q deficit for nearly every game, I perfected my tactics and managed to level up once every 2 seasons.

Despite being a 35-token player with no farming, eventually I have enough tokens and money to buy a whole team of scouts. But what did I do?

I bought 5 players for 5 tokens and proceed to win the league with it.
There is nothing more satisfying than consistantly beating teams full of 5* and a few scouts using mostly 4* players.

Now I don't buy scouts like I once had, it will spoil my fun

[nikolgiorgos]

using the daily tokens and ads

how many T and boosters are you farming every season ?

[mojo121]

Not that many to be honest....I don't get caught up in bidding wars, I don't have a high turn over of players, and usually the boosters I get normally are enough, if anything I probably farm the injury boosters more than the others, and that's still no that much. I don't power train. Right now I have 53 tokens, none of which have been farmed....

[nikolgiorgos]

I think that as everybody has a personal style of playing the game, has a personal view about such things.

But when I see some cases, I just call it ridiculous - like last seasons league of a friend of mine



it's Lee, Mark, David, John and Paul Smith, all from London England

is it the Matrix on t11 ?



no, it's only The Smiths (like the Kellogs ).

[Buffs Mad]

(Lol Nick - beats my experience of 1 guy in my CL with 4 teams with Manager names starting Stuart X, Stewart X, Stu X and Stuie X....all from Dundee )

Tanking isn't cheating or exploiting....its an intended feature. Changes to things that affect it are not to stop it - they call it balancing >.< f2p games developers now that an important aspect alongside cash spend is population - the bigger f2p players swell the population the more competitive the environment for friends of Shirley B.

In f2p games in general you have time and money and folks find their own balance.

Unless you actually think that shiny trophies in the game actually mean something beyond an entertaining foot-note.

The only caution against ppl spending cash on too many T is that most then end up quitting. #harpooned

[pcmacdaniel]

I don't understand the problem with tankers and token buyers.

Without tanking, it detracts from the game play experience of a large percentage of the player pool. Smaller player pool equals less players that can influence other people to play. Tanking also allows managers to step away from the game for a couple/few months and come back with what should be a competitive team for 2/3 seasons.

Without token buyers, there is no game.