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tellarion:
Because it breaks down what little semblance of competition and skill there was left, that's why. Yes, I agree that people from two tags trading their break information freely, without using ops, and manipulating their NWs in order for both sides to benefit is basically the same thing. That's why I wasn't really in favor of doing it that way. I preferred to have an open list system which was basically restricted grabbing. People who don't want to be grabbed are exempt, and everyone else is fair game, within reason(meaning you can't get hit a ridiculous number of times in a short window).
Evo did it this way for years with PDM before it really started to spread(that set laf and rd went fkn nuts and broke all sorts of records). Both sides benefitted, but usually one side understood the math and formulas better, and were able to manipulate it to come out further ahead. That is still competitive without being complete assholes to the other side, and it allows the all-x people to net in peace.
But I digress. This style has slowly been dying off as people go for the more efficient method of hand-holding. Intra-tag trading is just the next logical step...
I won last set without landtrading... And with the exception of enshula (laf), no one was even close.
Landtrading at all is copping out of netgaining competitively, but if people are going to accept it as a form of netgaining, I dont really see why laf should penalise themselves by having to trade with people less skilled so reducing their own gains and thus their own networths, as opposed to everyone else getting to trade with higher skilled players, optimising their gains.
All that said, if I was still leading/playing in laf landtrading at all would be outlawed and most of the alliances on the server would be farm land, there would be wars for reasons, and everyone would be entirely more butthurt. But that's just how I liked to play the game.