"Any flight that's actually committed to winning can (and has) beat their default (or even fest/notn) exaltation levels without hosting a raffle/pb."
I don't think that's been proven, and I'm skeptical that it's true (at least these days). Some flights have done solo conquests and succeeded (like Wind), but to use mine (Nature) as an example, it's either taking OOF dragons in some form or profit pushing, no in-between, and no matter how hard it feels like we're trying (I always train my ass off and pre-hoard through IF programs, and I see many others say the same), even if we're the only flight with any kind of a push going, we get beat by Earth. Maybe we could do better if we called it a solo conquest, but I feel like the flights that do that have IF raffles at the very least.
This isn't an anti-Earth rant or a dom ratio rant or a rant at all really. But I still don't think the quoted statement necessarily holds.
Re: N v P "battle terms"
I don't think that's been proven, and I'm skeptical that it's true (at least these days). Some flights have done solo conquests and succeeded (like Wind), but to use mine (Nature) as an example, it's either taking OOF dragons in some form or profit pushing, no in-between, and no matter how hard it feels like we're trying (I always train my ass off and pre-hoard through IF programs, and I see many others say the same), even if we're the only flight with any kind of a push going, we get beat by Earth. Maybe we could do better if we called it a solo conquest, but I feel like the flights that do that have IF raffles at the very least.
This isn't an anti-Earth rant or a dom ratio rant or a rant at all really. But I still don't think the quoted statement necessarily holds.