Keep Device Specific Rooms.

Remodel the leader board with Thallen's idea.

Add rewards to sparring (500, 1,000, 5,000, 10,000 25,000 50,000)


That's all I have to say about this thread.
Btw sparring isn't dead.  

We should make it so Mac and PC clients can't spar each other.  

Posted by twilit

wat?
I highly doubt that PCs buy significantly more gralat packs in proportion to iDevices.
And as for player count, I would dare to say PCs only make up 15% of Graals population, no more than 20%; and again, there are several that played Graal on iPod before PC was available.

Eh, I disagree.  

I always thought rewarding people with hats would make them boost alot  

Posted by 1.st Unknown

I always thought rewarding people with hats would make them boost alot

Who actually "boosts" now? That would be when you consecutively pause against yourself for the purpose of getting free numbers in your profile. We're long past the Shinta days, so that stuff is practically non-existent anymore. You can't pause-boost using the same connection and you can't spar at obscure areas like AC and and Sardon's anymore. How can you even use that word after how glorified the early boosters of this server are?

You guys sure do exaggerate. I've legitimately seen boosting occur about 3 times in the past year in the Battle Arena, and all 3 times it was either prevented by players disrupting it or they were reset.  

The whole sparring is dying sort of thing I believe that one of the things that's also causing people not to spar is the attitude other sparrers have on there, some will pick on others due to stats and not having a good ratio or not being positive and continue to do that throughout the area causing players to not want to spar because they'll be picked on by pro's who think they have the right to criticize other people's stats. Also whenever people lag and can't help it several players feel the need to cuss these people out or to harass them, like today I sparred against Palestine (Mother) and lost the first time and beat the second time and he called me in his words, a "warping ****." I don't have any control whether I warp or not its due to poor Internet connection where I currently live and player's shouldn't be harassed for this or sworn at. Maybe staff should help keep the battle arena more safe from harassment so that players won't be afraid to spar and maybe if this situation were to be controlled more people would start sparring.  

annnnndddd the battle rages on. 22 pages and still going strong.  

Posted by ufoburan

annnnndddd the battle rages on. 22 pages and still going strong.

So stop posting in it.  

Posted by Thallen

Who actually "boosts" now? That would be when you consecutively pause against yourself for the purpose of getting free numbers in your profile. You can't pause-boost using the same connection.

You can ask a friend to lose on purpose against you, he doesn't have to pause at all.
You can also use a VPN on your device to win against yourself. Get on with your mobile and spar against your PC account, instead of pausing kill him. There are often rooms with 0 players in it, boosting is still possible.
Regarding your first question, I don't really care who boosts and who doesn't, stats are overrated on this game anyways  

I realize that it's possible, it just doesn't happen enough to the point where "boosting" should ever be cited as a problem in sparring.  

matchmaking

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How would it be if you get hats for spar wins? I'm sure it would encourage players to boost their wins. Then it might become a "problem".  

Posted by 1.st Unknown

How would it be if you get hats for spar wins? I'm sure it would encourage players to boost their wins. Then it might become a "problem".

Where is the misunderstanding? Currently, boosting is not a problem. If spar hats return, more players actively spar. If more players actively spar, it is more difficult for players to pause and give themselves free wins in 1 of 4 active spar rooms. If it does happen, they get reported.
???

Not to mention, is it so difficult for an administrator to create a system where RC is alerted if a player beats the same player 3 times in a row without getting hit? 5 times in a row with getting hit? Just completely not count any further wins if a player beats the same player 10 times in a row? It's not rocket science.

Posted by Crono

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They don't need to spar against their second account..
Get 24 hours on a few new accounts and ask friends to give you free wins, they don't need to pause or to log off just to spar badly. And if he already knows about how the RC tracks boosters, he will avoid that.
You could add every GP and start to boost when no one is online. You can't really stop boosting.  

Posted by 1.st Unknown

They don't need to spar against their second account..
Get 24 hours on a few new accounts and ask friends to give you free wins, they don't need to pause or to log off just to spar badly. And if he already knows about how the RC tracks boosters, he will avoid that.
You could add every GP and start to boost when no one is online. You can't really stop boosting.

Pretending for a second this would actually even happen (it wouldn't), when you end up with like a 250-12 spar w/l record yet you aren't good at all, and people are always seeing you and your friends leaving rooms when other people join them and running to empty rooms, it's going to be pretty obvious to everyone what you're doing and you'll get reported and caught anyways even if you avoid any detection systems that are in place.