Keep in mind, there are extremes of not doing lvl freezing such as some people decide to level too fast and hopefully you aren't suggest that is a better choice than leveling freezing. If you level too fast especially on a new server, then you will be behind in the long run and eventually be stuck in the higher bracket of sage. I'm sure the sage brackets in all servers will eventually be identical with two brackets. A third bracket would have appeared in some time but due to a declining server population that every server expects to happen causes the bracket to disappear.

Putting power first before leveling is the main idea but you don't have to restrict exp compared to someone who stopped entirely. If you need to level to access a feature, go for it. However, give some time to increase your power before you level to the next feature. During this time, lucky board and missions should be your only focus rather than going for RNG ninjas. Finding that balance is what players should go after.

I've seen several being stuck there because they chose to level to fast, which is why I suggested this warning. Of course this is only in one range of servers but I did say servers in each range of servers eventually begin to look the same. This advice does not apply to you since you know what you are doing. However, for someone, who level fast may not. There are reasons why I see 1-4 players with power 90k at LVL 100-105 when the average power is 130k-140k excluding whales (which is the majority of my top bracket).

It's not.

It's a completely optional tactic within the system that the player base uses. You trade benefits for a possibility.

As for the "bad" aspect, that's saving face for the person asking, considering their morality meter to what one player would do with the said tactic.

I personally don't care for it. The game itself is noted for the player to adapt to the style they wish to have. Regardless of others opinions on it.

In that retrospect, you can rephrase the accountability of the game itself by having any form of advantages towards a certain side of the player base.

The other "fixture" to level freezing without having to change the foundation and scripture of the game (Which I sincerely doubt that'll have for matchmaking as Level Freezing is not an issue that players complain about towards the Eastern side of the game) is to just increase the rewards given towards players at higher levels, (Which has already happened in 5.0)

Either way, as I said previously. It really depends on the player looking at the situation.

I disagree with you saying that the rewards were increased in 5.0. In what aspect? In my opinion, rewards have been decreased or replaced with pseudo currency in lieu of older, more desired rewards.

In SwB, the only thing that was added was everyone who ranked decently got 1-4 adv runes. This doesn't affect anything other than to get more players to participate. Which it did. Before they would get nothing but pitiful summon coins. But even now, this amount is almost hardly worth it.

In Matsuri, you (Oasis, not you personally) took away (replaced) the decent rewards (summon scroll, half summon scroll and half seal scroll frags) for sun coins. While I'm sure you will argue I could use the coins to buy these things, I think the better option would have been to keep the old rewards in there and ADD the sun coins. Also, keep in mind most people reach cap, thus the coins become worthless halfway into the week.

Honestly, the only thing that was changed to be beneficial was changing the rewards of strong approach. While adding moon coins to Team Instances is nice too, as others have pointed out, it does cut into getting tools for growth.

In short, almost every single time when it comes to "free things" that we can get from daily events, we get shafted. I still remember when we went over two months of not getting adv. threads from Strong approaching despite being told that it was just "rng" then, after an update, we suddenly got it every single fight. This tells me that it wasn't added when it was supposed to be added, and then we were lied to about it being implemented. **coughmoodscrollsgroupwheelcoughcough** Ahem....I'm certain that isn't the only thing we were misled to believe.

Maybe they are just lazy to do long fights that why? No one is stopping other people in Gashi's field spending a lot of money and competing with him ? As for fair, they did spend a lot of money to get to that point so it is fair.They won't hardly break even for couple of years and they will miss rewards from some daily and monthly events.At the end of the day, f2p or small/medium spenders won't be able to compete with heavy spenders and they shouldn't be able to;if that was the case, they won't spend or quit.Nerfing their ninjas ,rebates or events just make them stop spending quitting or worse.Hey, if there is no reward for spending, who would spend?it is like throwing money into fire.

This is similar to real life, a person working in accounting job couldn't compete with a ceo making 10k day on his fashion sense; CEO doing 100k watch every month while account can maybe get 1 watch every 5 years. Pure communism doesn't work, that's why even traditional communist countries embrace some aspects of capitalism,mainly open markets to create competition.

Tip:Zenith is totally fair event for people who is asking for fair ones. So, by working hard and winning zenith you could somewhat makeup for you don't get in matsuri,sage,space time or cross server gnw.

Also power can be manipulated quite easily in this game:stacking pos 1,removing items from other positions lvl 1 ninjas as support .To combat such mechanics, they have to program large number of logical checks and each logic check takes a lot of resources.To run that many logic checks on thousands of players in a cluster within few minutes(hey u can register for sage 20 sec before it starts so) they need to spend significant amount of money on servers(we are talking about completely replacing the servers).This will cost couple of millions of dollars and who are going to pay for it ? spenders getting their events nerfed? investors who want best * for their buck? That's why they invented grocery store and sun/moon coins to encourage participation.With new system, people could buy what they want instead of being limited by what is given by the game.Let's not forget oasis is the publisher and tencent has already made the game mechanics like matchmaking.Oasis has very small amount of bargaining power when it comes to game mechanics... hey they couldn't stop cross server thing so....

Snip:f2p having the same benefits as whales should not happen and will not happen.If it was the case, this game won't exist...servers aren't free,staff isn't free and exclusive copyright isn't free.There are some games where only paying benefit is getting a fancy costume(pure cosmetic), but this is't this game and it will not.Moderators only have a limited power and these decisions are made by the company.They will not implement such a drastic change making their paying players and investors unhappy.

Few happy f2p vs few happy whales each spending 20k+every month(or every week) on ninjas or 5 staring them. Easy choice u know?

Putting them in high sage won't make much of a difference because a person who can only spend 20k ingots every month won't spend because he is in a field with bottomless pit of money spending 50k ingots each month(or week).Spenders were against cross server events so you think they be happy about bumping their sage brackets in cross server?I saw 3 heavy spenders in my server(at least 50k each month) quitting after they implementing cross server events+ nerfing crazy slots.You touch sage and spenders will quit like flies.

Businesses give advantages to paying customers not to non paying customers,because they see they get a rebate and they are more inclined to spend.When would you spend more on games? when it is discounted on black friday or full price days? People like rebate and less rebates mean,less happy people plus less profits.People are getting burned out from spending and quitting, sp messing with sage/matsuri wouldn't help.

There is no reason to carter toward f2p or low spenders and make bunch of high spenders unhappy.Like I said before,businesses are mainly concerned about making money and keeping their investors happy.So anything upset their profits(heavy spenders) will not be tolerated? Think like this, so you want to spend more money to implement a system to make spenders unhappy and make them leave thus less profit? Who would want to spend money to lose money?

There are already systems in place to encourage getting xp and enough rebate for f2p(grocery store,monthly events,weekly events).If you find that is not enough, you are free to spend.If not, don't expect too much.Just because a casino gave a lambo to a high roller doesn't mean a person playing $2 slots should get a lambo for playing for 2 years......and no f2p/low spenders and medium spenders should not be able to have same rewards as whales or should have similar power.Then no reason to be a heavy spender?

A food store won't poison a customers tea because they want to make more money by selling his antidote.Why?because ,such tactics will be bad for company images and less profitable in long run.

You have to realize,this is not China where games are regulated...if spenders don't get a good deal they will quit and play another game or find a new hobby.Also, if a heavy spender stopped spending a medium spender can catch up to him and a medium spender stopped spending a small spender can catch up to him .Same if they don't do any events. So there is enough competition.

So far your arguments have been :people should be punished for spending a lot simply because some people can't spend or only spend less. A business would chuck a such argument towards jealousy just saying....

i'm sorry but those that go against level freezing with excuses such as "you're wasting your time" "you shouldn't do it" "it's counter productive" "5.0 makes it useless" are those that have level freezed or have failed to do so and are jealous smart f2p/p2w players who are able to take advantage of it; imo the mods have the right to say what they want abt lvl freezing - because this game wasn't designed to level you up; it was designed to give u the option to :)

~ lvl68freezer

I'm not bragging I was just giving my personal thoughts on it ; Well at lvl 68 I don't have to go through the stress of space times it's not unlocked yet; no one can plunder me; matsuri can be done in 10 mins; gnw treasure isnt yet unlocked but that allows me to save up my seals/coupons and focus more on meta ninjas ; Kage treasure is present at 68 but I like to go about the game slowly collecting ninjas (roshi,han,hashi,sage naruto etc) + I'm not facing level 105s I'm going up against lvl 70-80s where my combo + initiative exceeds those who have progressed further, look ik the way I'm playing isn't 'fun' and it's 'boring' but I have patience, I try to play minimal hours and maintain the same level so I don't go up against stronger pplz swb brackets are becoming a pain so eventually I'll level up more

Just curious, why do you say freezers miss more stuff in 5.0 than before?

I find it is the opposite actually, since ninja test and nine tails give moon and sun coins which freezers can max even without those events. Same for jinchuriki and cat quiz.

Is it because higher levels have higher limit of sun and moon coins or...? How much is the limit at level 90-100?

meh no one cares about power these days its all about initiative and if i can hit 80k initiative at 68 ; lvl freezing allows u to get the hard stuff out the way; levelling up takes only a few seconds so i prioritize hardpower>easybasicpower idk what i'm saying anymore :3 but i like to freeze cuz it means im taking control of the game (metaphorically) and most whales don't freeze >70 so i guess im lucky I SHALL BE THE STRONGEST LVL 68 EVAAAAH eventho im at 70k power i think i can get to 90k+ after buying all the clothes etc :') don't mind me i'm just waffling do what u want ~

Well dude i think its still no worth the money you pay, thats the F2P way... freeze or else we need to face those top 32 guys every day.Even if we level up we need to keep up with the amount you guys pay or else its the same shif ...we would not even touch you guys even in hundred years.,,,,your relationship between players in 105 is making each other to pay and who doesnt will just lose. The amount of critical and stuff will be just nonsense if your power gap is 40k and above. You are really understimating the primary stats. Secondary stats are important but wont make much difference when you lack the primary ones.The ''common'' player you face in freeze is in your power ranger, and by freezing you will become better in that small community you play. I dont have to face you top 32 to have a nice and enjoyable game and even if i do in some events like gnw or space time i wont care i will retreat and just look in my way dude.. You will need to have your wallet emptied every week while i enjoy at fullest a free game in par with the strong players.