Open Letter to Guilds
Recently I've been thinking about the guild TUF. I understand their policy of being a secret guild is in keeping with the Thief series. I question if it can play a role in TUT, in a matching environment. I have several concerns with TUF:
1. If we don't know who they are then how do we know that they aren't fielding players in matches that aren't actually members? These players rarely play in the public servers so there is no way to verify IP's etc.
2. I understand they have no issues with recruiting or holding members that are in other guilds. In fact, one of our CTG members was approached for recruitment. So if you're a guild planning for a match with TUF it's very possible for a member of TUF, who is secretly in your guild, to feed your strategy to the other members of TUF. I consider this cheating.
Now the above are only concerns and may not actually occur. I'm willing to concede that. What worries me is we have no basis for trusting they won't use these tactics because we don't know who they are.
There is an honor system in the Turf Wars that to me is unspoken. I trust the guilds not to field players that aren't in their guild or to recruit spy's in my guild. I have no reason to trust TUF though. I actually have a reason to distrust them since they have attempted to recruit one of our members.
There is a lot of room for abuse by TUF. I'm unsure I'm willing to trust a bunch of players I don't know.
-Grank
Recently I've been thinking about the guild TUF. I understand their policy of being a secret guild is in keeping with the Thief series. I question if it can play a role in TUT, in a matching environment. I have several concerns with TUF:
1. If we don't know who they are then how do we know that they aren't fielding players in matches that aren't actually members? These players rarely play in the public servers so there is no way to verify IP's etc.
2. I understand they have no issues with recruiting or holding members that are in other guilds. In fact, one of our CTG members was approached for recruitment. So if you're a guild planning for a match with TUF it's very possible for a member of TUF, who is secretly in your guild, to feed your strategy to the other members of TUF. I consider this cheating.
Now the above are only concerns and may not actually occur. I'm willing to concede that. What worries me is we have no basis for trusting they won't use these tactics because we don't know who they are.
There is an honor system in the Turf Wars that to me is unspoken. I trust the guilds not to field players that aren't in their guild or to recruit spy's in my guild. I have no reason to trust TUF though. I actually have a reason to distrust them since they have attempted to recruit one of our members.
There is a lot of room for abuse by TUF. I'm unsure I'm willing to trust a bunch of players I don't know.
-Grank
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