I do not think it would have been much of a problem at all considering that there is only very few 14th year Veteran active accounts out there and that the limitation of 1 transfer token per month would have allowed only to a round trip every 2 months even if the represented shard had been allowed to get changed from one month to another.
From reading what you've written, you have no clue how these things work.
To have a "round trip", you use 2 vet picks, one for your home shard and the other for some different shard. There is NO ROUND TRIP if you only choose one shield. You MUST have two shields to make round trips a reality.
The basis of my argument was that the represented Shard Shield could be changed from one month to the other.
I said "
....the limitation of 1 transfer token per month would have allowed only to a round trip every 2 months even if the represented shard had been allowed to get changed from one month to another."
Now, let's make an example of my argument.
The Shard Shield was not fixed, it
could be changed from one month to another (this is the basis of my argument and hypothesis...).
Player A is a 14th Year Veteran Player on Atlantic and wants to go to Pacific and come back (round trip).
Player A picks a Shard Shield Veteran Reward, sets for the going month the represented Shard as Pacific and claims the account bound token. First part of the task is done.
Now Player A sits on the Pacific Token not using it, waits for one month until the Shard will be eligible to change the represented Shard and changes it to Atlantic, claims the pertaining account bound token to Atlantic.
Task finished, now player A, over the course of 2 months has obtained 2 account bound tokens, one to Pacific and one back to Atlantic and can effectively make the round trip over the course of 2 months using 1 Veteran Reward pick.
It took 2 months to be able to make such a round trip with 1 Veteran Reward pick which is what I was saying in my post.........
As far as I'm concerned your comparing apples and oranges. The vet reward shields, from what I can see are more for "visiting" other shards rather than the all out move. You want an all out move with packies and all, show em your gold.
A permanent and continuous mass production of 1 account bound transfer token always to the same one shard to "visit" ??
I do not think I could need to "visit" always the same one shard every going month...... Once in a while, perhaps, but every going month that there is ?? I would not....
Personally, the way they currently work, these Shard Shield best use looks to me more for "business" than mere occasional "visits"........ That is, go back and forth
always the exact same 2 shards (because of the "fixed" Shards representations...) to buy low on one and sell high on the other Shard, and this, every going month.......
Or, use a scarcely populated shard to safely "farm" Powerscrolls at Champ spawns and go sell them onto a highly populated Shard and do this back and forth every going month that there is......
But I really disagree with such an use for the Shard Shield. I would rather much prefer it to be used to "explore" (that is, "occasional" visits...) Shards other than one's own main to see what they are like, what the player population on those other Shards might be like and things like that. "Occasional" visits to other shard, that is...
To visit, occasionally, other Shards' Communities......
But for that to really work, the represented Shard would need to be allowed to be changed from one month to the other, IMHO.
Infact, if, instead, the represented Shard was allowed to be changed from one month to the other, then yes, the Shard Shields would allow occasional "visits" over time to various Shards......... How ? Simple, by changing the represented Shard from one month to the other and thus picking an account bound token every month to a different Shard to "
visit"...