Board Thread:LOC General Discussion/@comment-108.35.154.66-20130911165857/@comment-5428123-20140402054723

Hemphlev wrote: @BeBoper

I still think binding all pp, not allowing dead trade storage, and then adding a 500-card storage box would make the game better. 99% of players dont chea tor exploit loopholes and it wouldnt affect them. The other 1% that have several account and loads of potions and cards because they exploit features of the game not intended for the purposes they are used for can just suck it up or move on. I wouldnt be sad to see all those players leave. Maybe give the little guys a chance to do well in an event once in a while. i see the same people or the same peoples "alts" winning every event. Not fun The problem is that those things don't really fix anything, and really only makes things worse. Binding potions prevents newer/poorer players from improving their deck through trades, since no one is going to want to trade good cards away for junk, and prevents them from being competitive in events, since events give crap amounts of potions, forcing them to turn to card packs and potion deals. The elite players won't really be affected, since they probably only trade using cards anyway, and they'll just end up spending money for the potions they need. If anything, this will just encourage them to spend for pots through outside means.

Dead storage trades are a useful way of storing cards, and is a perfectly valid way of saving space. Getting rid of it doesn't stop people from accumulating potions, since they can just dump them off on alts and in presents, and really only hurts people with only one account (like me). Adding more card storage boxes would be nice, although I don't see Applibot going beyond an additional 100 card box in addition to the boxes they already have.

As well, I don't really consider alts to be cheating or exploitation. As far as I'm concerned, as long as you have an additional device, and your account was created legally (no jailbreaks) I think you should be allowed to have alt accounts. Most people with alts created them legally, with only a few doing so through hacks.

And really, you may not like seeing the same people winning every event, but the reality is that most of them do so through hard work and smarts. As long as you're willing to put the time in, you can easily compete with the top players. I know of several people who save up, then grind like hell for specific events and end up really successful (top 20 finishes), and they don't even buy event cards.

What I would like to see from Applbot is better measures to prevent actual cheating, such as people who put the same account on more than one device to double and triple grind. It's this kind of cheating that needs to be taken out, not the people who earn their cards through hard work (or even large budgets if you roll that way).