I want to take a moment to address what I see as one of the most detrimental facets of the team game in Hero Zero which is leading to a lack of competitive balance and the break-up of good teams for the lure of the easy way out.
The problem, as I see it, is training trophies.
The training trophy, unlike the other trophies, adds a permanent bonus to players who may not have even played a part in obtaining it. Players leave their teams to join the scant few teams that can win and hold training trophies leaving a chasm of competitive discord with any team ranked below #4.
The training trophy is breaking apart teams and making it impossible to put together a team that can compete for the top spot while the top team(s) hoard the training trophies. Players then leave their teams to join these teams, cementing a monopoly of power that cannot be overcome so long as these players continue to take the easy way out of improving their players through organic means. Why join a team that is #6 when I can join the #2 or #1 team and never have to ever compete? All the while hauling in the abundance of the hoarding of the top teams.
It is my belief that the training trophy should be removed.
Further, to bring a competitive balance back to the game, all skill points derived from training trophies should be removed.
I know this sounds drastic, and perhaps it is. But if we do not take steps to break up the monopoly of teams that can obtain and hold a training trophy, then we will be left with a game that ceases to be interesting since it ceases to be competitive and ceases to have even a CHANCE to be competitive.