Player Raids

Player raids are a part of life in the Team Challenge. However, someone has begun to hurt Tigers - a lot - with the latest set of raids. We lose about two players per day, silently, with no messages on the profiles. That fairly well balances the two or so per day that fall in from the open recruiting that I do in Diamond Slots, except that we are exchanging some powerful long-term players, for mostly new players.

We lose in that exchange. From the handful that I can readily identify, of the players leaving, I think there are two teams involved. But - the key - since I do not have all the players yet entered into my little spreadsheet, I cannot identify most unless they show in the Team Activity Feed at a time I am looking. Thus, I cannot really say that there are two teams (and only two teams) working to take our members.

Here is my best suggestion: If you are approached in chat, to leave Tigers, and join some other team, we need to know which other team, and what arguments are being offered to induce that switch. Most such arguments are either totally false, fabrications, or are fallacious - illogical extensions of what is true. It is possible to counter such inducements by simply publicly stating the truths that reveal those lies. Yes, I used that word - for some of the persons I think may be involved are known to me to be rude, obnoxious, and liars. First, though, we need to identify the false and fallacious, in order to find and show the truth.

Please let me (or the entire team) know of any such approaches to you, and of the source of the approaches.

***** I saw a departing player delete a recruitment message, while I was on the player's profile page preparing to post myself. The team was Wounded Warriors - a great cause, since my own son is an Iraqi/Afghanistani vet. I came really close to joining them, before swinging to Tigers.
When the player in question then left Tigers, and joined WW, I lost my last vestige of cool, and posted words like despicable, deplorable, unprincipled, and so forth on that player profile, with the request that those messages be copied to WW team forum. Then I said very similar things on the Tigers team page.

I had applied the concept of an honor code in terms of recruitment: I always checked the profile of the prospect, and proceeded to post the profile only if there were no other team present there, or if the prospect were from the ADA. Maybe that is a silly limitation, but it seemed right to me, that players for other teams - even direct competitors - could come and go of their own volition, and without my instigation. If a player were NOT on a team, then my feeling is, and was, that they SHOULD be on a team, and should be recruited posthaste.

I am rethinking that position. Perhaps it would be as despicable, deplorable, and unprincipled for me to post all the WW players with recruitments to Tigers, as it seemed to me to be for them to initiate such activity. Perhaps, though, that would be the only way to combat the tactics being used against Tigers. First answer comes from whatever leadership is established for Tigers, after TigerLadyJo is found, or not found. If the leadership approves, then it is likely that I will begin just that campaign at the first of next month. If that leadership is reticent to launch a base retribution, then I will not. The second answer comes in any comments left here, regarding becoming the thing we proclaim that we deplore; or engaging in survival by being the fittest.