Nothing wrong with poaching other players.

"I don't know if all clans keep recruitment vs. training investment vs. return data, but those that do should be able to easily see the WL is a context where building up your players on the inside is much more efficient than trying to go for known stars. Really, the hand-waviness of the community here makes it almost a replica of the MLB circa Moneyball."

I agree with this a lot, however the idea that clans can cultivate their own players into stars is much much more difficult than it seems in theory. The reason for this is because a player requires a competitive nature and burning desire to become great in order to do so, and the majority of players just do not have that passion and motivation, and when they do they will often go elsewhere.

There's also a small selection of training clans, and if a player with insufficient skill really wants to seek this kind of training, he or she will most likely join a clan like 101st which is renowned for their efficient training services as opposed to clans whose desire to train and number of resources to accommodate their players' needs are lacking. Furthermore the reason there is an alt problem on Warlight is partially because the number of these players are lacking as well.

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Well no matter what you think about poaching, I guarantee clans are going to do it a whole lot less, at least for the time being. Too much tension built up about it right now. #thanksmike

To be honest Farah did not want to come with but I won him in card game when I thought he was a woman. Trust me, everyone in Masters was disappointed when I came back with a tiny dutchman.

wait

farah. isn't. a. girl. ?

@Math Wolf: Wanna join CORP? :)