Tanking is fun!

I have no problem with it, fully understand, because when the game becomes unplayable and no fun, what choice are you left with. Also if you have no way of winning, no-one wants to be cannon fodder for hackers and spenders. Only bad thing about it, if you have boosters, it does waste those, but that's something you can deal with, no one else's business really.

I say tank away, but you may need to drop way down and also the way it's set up, you may need to lose 2 to every good game you win (if you finish first, you can win up to 25 points, sometimes more). Tanking and playing when you reach a level you can play at, can certainly be a challenge and very quickly you can be right back to masters with the way pixonic has it set up.

Not endorsing tanking to anyone, but I fully understand the frustration, and when people tank to get to a level for a better play experience, I get it.. but to tank to exploit smaller players, I certainly have a problem with that, not naming a certain country, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who can see what country seems to have the most players that tank to exploit others.

while i despise tankers , i'm not talking about average players with mediocre hangers who simply can't compete so drop down , i despise those who spend hundreds or more than tank down and can and do clear game after game with little to no effort such as those running multiple max ultimates or max mk3 meta hangers....

i have in the past out of pure spite dropped down simply to burn them to the ground .....i don't have a meta hanger or maxed hanger but i can play very very well when i want too .....quite often back in those days i'd have tankers trying to hunt me down for killing on their bots and in doing so they lose more if not all of them lol and end up losing again and again so much so that whenever they saw me playing they'd just opt out.

when i did this i'd ignore lower level players as they where not an issue (no firing back at all) or if there where no tankers i'd just hang around maybe cap a beacon or two here and there.

here's a hint how i USED TO , join game and if it's bridge or acid map jump off in all bots game done - still counts as a game but negative points lol

So the LPQ still exists? Myself and others I know have been leaving more and more games as of late for numerous reasons. I guess my time in the time out pen is coming soon 😂. Let us know when, if ever, you get out. I am sincerely interested in how it’s operating these days

It let me play 1 game of Dom, and I was out of LPQ. Now simply changing the tanking technique, so thanks for the tips everyone.

Matchmaker is still rigging things, trying to get the account to advance in leagues. It is amazing how many more winning teams its joining now, lol. *sigh* pathetic.

Its pretty clear that if Pig' assigns you as cannon fodder, youre going to be cannon fodder whether you like or not, and if you choose not to be, you are punished. Again, pathetic.

There is no depth of lowness they wont go...

A little post I made on another site where someone, obviously not happy about quitters, raised the matter of the LPQ and posted the official Pix blurb on it.  The 4 parts being:
What can I get in the Low Priority Queue for?
How do I get out?
How do I know if I`m in the Low Priority Queue?
and
What is the Low Priority Queue?

My contribution to the thread (below) seems appropriate for this one:


What is the Purpose of Low Priority Queue?

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Low Priority Queue is a separate matchmaking queue that has been put in place to punish and dissuade commanders from leaving battles once they realise that they have been purposefully matched against far stronger players who have spent large amounts of money on the game in order to get all the most ridiculously over powered latest stuff that is introduce each and every month. Those that don`t spend such large amounts of money with each new event should not expect to have a fun game - they are solely provided as, and are now pushed up the leagues quickly to become, cannon fodder for those that do and who have hangars full of all the latest new ridiculously over powered stuff so that they can feel great and all conquering and that their money was well spent.

Commanders wanting an evenly matched game and not willing to just be cannon fodder as described above are placed in the Low Priority Queue so that they may take some time out and contemplate and reflect on their decision to not play their part in the monetization strategies.

When the leagues reset at the start of each season I find myself up against players down in expert all the way up to champs.

Sadly, a large number of the lower league players seem to be tanking/clubbing so it's the lesser of 2 evils for me to just stay in champ league.

As an outsider (stopped participating in PIX's madness some months ago) it is interesting how attitudes have changed around tanking or dropping out of games. As Oliver Kloesov points out years ago this thread would have faced outrage and derision let alone being banned. I took some pride in NEVER dropping out despite the cheating, tanking, matchmaking or any other insanity. Took my beating with a smile.

Now... different world. 

Find myself nodding my head to all the above points and frustrations. 

I still feel like tanking (dropping from Masters to Expert for example) is futile. When I stopped chasing META I dropped like a rock from Champions all they way down to Masters 3 and Expert. I found ZERO difference in matchmaking or quality of play (lack there of...) Same old same old... just less rewards.

Now... dropping out of a game in the first 30 seconds when you see a full squad of CHN folks or META flash dance. 1,000%... I'm gone. Not wasting my time.

There isn’t much difference between masters and experts or even many low champs atm imo. I think that’s the optimal matchmaking zone now if someone plays with the intent of not always doing as much damage as possible. All tier 3 and 4 bots are viable and there is no need to have gear pushed past 1.12.  If diamonds enter the MMing zone then the game quality seems to plummet. 

Yeah like Oliver said, sure it can hurt the team, but to be honest, not as often as we think.. We did play one today, sure we could of used an extra kill or two or 1 or two beacons, it was that close, we would of won that one for sure,.., but most of the time, reds has a tanker or two also... So it kind of evens out.

But I will say this, the worst thing about the game is hackers... I'm going to post one in a minute, this guy killed alot of our team and killed 3 of my bots, this changes the game entirely to unwinnable.

Oliver Kloesov You are not alone, I have been facing a lack of motivation to enforce the CoC’s policies on tanking here too. I still think tanking is bad because it is simply unsportsmanlike and whoever does it seriously should find better uses of their time (the logic that you are tanking to spite Pixonic because they do not care or notice is self-contradictory), but have largely accepted that I am just old-fashioned. As I said in my Depressed Veterans Club thread last year, Pixonic has really made it hard to encourage people to have fun through non-cynical means. I personally think that if someone is leaving 75% of their matches in the first two minutes, he/she should really take break from the game, but it seems trying to preach good manners in this game would just stir the pot, crazy as crazy as that is to say.

Boy am I happy to not have Twitter or Facebook!

Lots of great points above from many including 079 ...  But the quote above really resonates with me.  Lately, if I start getting muted 2 and 3 times in the first 3 minutes of the match... It's likely I'm out.  Stick your mute right up where it doesn't belong.