Lol , you have hit the nail on the head Udareutake , no new team can reach rank 1 , BECUSE THER HAVE BEEN 4 TRAINING TROPHYS AND 1 ENERGY TROPHY REMOVED FROM THE SERVER !!! If ther was not an army of ALTS ( multiple accounts/multiple players of one account) protecting your team then all the trophys would be in play , this would allow ALL teams , new or existing to reach the top of rankings. Courage drops are not new ? nor is it some thing that Dark Wing is not fammiliar with themselfs ? Every one has also had revis in ther team to ther regret .
Hypothetical no.1 , 1% increese to penalty beyond day 1 suggested by cannonman, i think would be the best option so far , i disagree it would be worse for newer teams than us longer running teams , why they would not be able to hold the trophys for as long as us at the start , the diligent teams would build them self up to be able to over time.
Hypothetical no.2 reseting trophys on the server at set time periods.This idea seems to be disruptive to the server , unless ther was an inactivity and skill objective system added to trophy dispersions , so as to make it more common to end up in newer teams hands , but this would only lead to team hopping i feel.
Hypothetical no.3 I agree is pointless as it rewards the accused.
Hypothetical no.4 Adding more trophys to the server. The amount of trophys needed on any server is only incremental to the amount of players on a server , if ther are teams filled with inactive and alt members then ther is no need for trophys to accure for them.I am sure herozero all ready has a system in place to deal with this.
ADD : Hypothetical no.5 Penalty from trophy holding is ajusted to 15% or 20% per trophy. This would mean , at 15% a strong team could hold 5 trophys, at 20% a team with 5 trophys was sure to loose 1 trophy. This would allow newer teams a greater chance of holding trophys and also to spread trophys between more teams , allowing players in teams without alts to benifit from bonuses.
As your post shows stalemate you forget about the rest of server , you are not the only players that toil , the server is full of us. Your comments are a rave , so i wont.
To conclude , that shows that 3 major opposing teams agree that an increese to trophy penaltys is an aceptable way to solve this problem !
May i add however , the topic of increesing trophy penalty outright has not been discused , yet an indeterminable increese is aceptable.