Step by step guide on how to defeat the S.H.I.E.L.D Alliance.
Step 1: Murder them while they sleep.
Step 2: You don’t.
I don’t think you need to resort to murdering them…you could hack them and reset their game progress. That’d be MPQ murder…
I think there’s nothing to be afraid. They are tough. They have near perfect rosters. They are dedicated. They are online 24/7.
But we will get there eventually.
That is only a temprorary solution.
They would come back… stronger… and out for revenge…
S.H.I.E.L.D R.E.B.O.R.N
But they would come back, they are like Terminators.
Attention to detail on the letter D. I’d give this a thumbs up if I could. Oh
Gotta take em out from the inside. Someone join their alliance as a spy.
Makes me think about all the awesome stories I read about EVE Online, I love reading that stuff. Corporate espionage and the like. Maybe I’m a sleeper agent and I don’t even know it yet?!?!
Someone will PM me with the codeword ‘bagyourpath’ and I’ll start kicking people from the team at the end of a tourney!
That would work on most of us, but The Ladder NEVER sleeps. 
We can send MechGouki to infiltrate them and if they figure it out, we will deny everything.
Adhemar: And how would you beat him?
Fence: With a stick. While he slept. But on a horse, with a lance? That man is unbeatable.
Manchurian Candidate - MPQ Style!
Haha! Love it!
Haha well played akboyce!
And MPQ sleeper agents…someone call Jack Bauer and Nicholas Brody!
Wasn’t it eve online where one guy killed another over an in-game sword he wouldn’t sell?
“No I will not send you a standard token” stabby stabby
bag-manyourpath
If you want to beat them, tank during LRs and push painfully hard during the end with a 20 man alliance. Thing is, there aren’t that many dedicated players, and the ones that are are already in that alliance. There’s another thing to consider though - that they may extend the rewards from top 1 alliance to top 5 for that bracket. Top 1 is a little BS in my not-so-friendly opinion, and encourages exactly what we’re seeing, almost all of the game’s whales to collaborate and circlejerk at the top.
Must be why d3 won’t Institute cover trading. Some would kill for that spidey blue, GSBW green and hulk black. As a side project, I will create a hack to steal all competing alliance HP mt.gox style. Everyone else will be HP bankrupt.
I agree that rewards will get tweaked but honestly top 250 got nearly same reward of a BP cover sans the HP.
Hahaha, good one. Those HP you want to exclude are 5 friggin hundred. That’s three tournaments worth.
I ABSOLUTELY agree that there needs to be juicier 2-5 and 6-10/6-15 awards for alliance tourneys. 2-50 as a reward tier is super demotivating.
Point of order: We recently outlawed S.H.I.E.L.D circle-jerks, as it excludes the awesome female players on our team.