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Not sure how it goes in your flight, but in mine, the point of a dom bank is to provide funds for dom efforts, so that you don't have to rely on wealthy individuals doing everything for the week. No matter how much people hate it, "dom efforts" is going to necessarily include buying mercs if you want to win. I have no idea where you're getting this notion that it somehow costs less when individuals are the ones buying, but it doesn't track, and I'm baffled that you seem to think it's fair to cover other dom efforts that cost money, but just leave people to their own devices when it comes to this one.

The point of a dom bank is to fund flight programs that run during a dominance push. If both flights choose not to purchase mercs, then no, buying mercs is not necessary to win. You do realize that flights had dom battles before mercs were a thing, and that flights have chosen not to use them on multiple occasions since then, right? Putting limitations on battles is not a new thing. Individuals can choose to purchase mercs if they would like. No one is forcing them to do so. Yes, dom banks should ease the personal cost for flight members during a dom push. But dom banks should not be required to cover every expense that individual players have during dominance. It's completely unfeasible and unrealistic.

Exactly what I was getting at. ( I'm the one that called it an illusion of being cheaper)

This feels like a shitty strategy from the era when mercs first started and no one wanted to make buying them official.

I'm not sure what flight you're in, but mine handles buying mercs, providing fodder at prices so that I don't have to eat losses to fodder floor, and lots of other things. And they keep logs of all of the fund usage. When you're used to those logs, you see it as a part of the whole cost.

This may come out cheaper than Water vs. Earth, but it's only by hiding merc costs by burdening individuals with them.

AYRT
I think we agree on about everything!

My flight does buy mercs, and I'm happy to have my donated funds used for that purpose. I got some of that currency by doing my own mercing, turnabout is fair play!

Sometimes it's annoying, but it's also very funny to me when people complain about mercs and yearn for the mystical before-times when dom battles didn't cost anything. Those days never existed, and mercs are far from the only strategy that costs the flight. The focus on them feels very ahistorical and silly. Battles have always been expensive, and will only become more so as the site grows. We're never going back, and the attempt just makes people look silly and cheap as hell.

Who exactly is yearning for mystical before-times? Dom battles have always been expensive. With or without mercing. I don't think anyone expects to go back. Calling a flight cheap for not mercing once in a while is ridiculous. The amount spent on raffles alone is astronomical. That's not even including in-flight programs that drain banks once fodder prices go up. Even if you don't factor mercing into the equation, both of these flight's dom banks are going to be mostly dry afterwards because no one is battling anymore and everyone's hib dens are huge.

Mercing is literally a cash grab for levelers who decided that public buy prices weren't high enough. Why even bother with public buys at all at this point? There's no benefit to sending to them when you can get higher prices for mercing and you get zero raffle tickets. Let's be real. This has nothing to do with whether a flight decides to spend money on mercs or not. It has everything to do with the fact that other flights expect increasingly large payouts for their support and are mad when they don't get it.

So true, bestie! Why bother with having merc buys at all, when it's even more profitable to list on the AH and make everyone buy at the maximum price? It's not like people have various levels of commitment to helping another flight in their battle vs wanting to profit! It's not like raffles and PBs continue to pull in large numbers of dragons in every battle, proving that they're still useful strategies! This is definitely all about the nasty mean people who don't want to go broke over somebody else's battle, and you should continue to whine about them because it's not the least bit entertaining to see how intelligent and in touch with reality your opinions are.

Hey bestie! What a great idea <3 <3 <3 It must be because you are so intelligent and in touch with reality! While we're at it, we can continue to whine about how broke we're all going to go because we're only going to get 15k for a level 5 that takes less than 2 minutes to level instead of 25k. I'm so glad we bonded over this.

Yeah, this place is littered with comments complaining about 15k prices! Just another example of how smart you are. That's why I like you so much. <3

what are you two fucking talking about

We're being extremely sarcastic to each other

(random DA that just saw three new pages of replies)

You two are being extremely childish to each other in my eyes, but sure, whatever helps you sleep at night.

You just know it’s two Karens typing at each other lmao

tbh I think their passive aggressiveness towards each other is funny as hell lmao

Honestly, I love when folks do this instead of resorting to slurs and insults. Makes me think of growing up in the South when I saw two family matrons have a Passive Aggressive Sweet-Talk-Off because both of them brought potato salad to the potluck.

anyone in this thread smoke weed

"Why even bother with public buys at all at this point?"

Well, on this subject at least, because coordinating with a merc group is more social than some OOF trainers (myself emphatically included) want to be. Open receiver sheet, copy username, sell dragons is already enough non-anon interaction for my tastes.

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