NPCs for Tournament: Still Completely Worthless

[Drium]

35 wins this week against assorted NPCs: ~1800 points.

Letting a friend lose to you 35 times: ~5000 points.

This is on Excalibur.

Now I completely understand that NPCs aren't meant to be a replacement for playing against other players, but what's the point right now? It's factually more advantageous to just get a friend to lose to you. Not even 35 wins against King Elmer will even come close to that (and your odds of getting 35 wins against King Elmer aren't THAT great that you'll nail them). At most, that'll reach 79x35, 2765 points. That's barely HALF of what you can get organizing yourself easy wins.

There needs to be diminishing returns when winning against the same player over and over, or NPCs need to pay more.

Or, you know, completely redo the way tournaments work, because this is worthless right now. Find friends to rig the results for you or don't bother.