I've noticed a disturbing trend in game play that seems to be getting increasingly bad. Especially at the 10 tables but now that the noobies are managing to make it to the 200s it's also becoming more prevelant on the 200s.

So what is Point Farming?

With the way the game is currently designed with Dom and Antes, when one player manages to get a commanding lead over the board it is in his best interest to make sure all the small stacks stay in the game in order to keep paying him the ante. Thus increasing the total amount he will walk from the table with. Typically this will mean protecting someone's 1 stack while destroying the 2nd strongest person so that no one flags but the top guy keeps on raking in more points from everyone.

I think this it is a problem that the scoring system encourages this type of play. I think we need to look at ways to address the problem because it just doesnt seem right to reward this type of play.

If people agree that this should is a serious enough problem, please say something. But I'm also looking for ideas for how scoring can be changed to get rid of this incentive to keep small players around.

Here's some random thoughts.
1. If someone has just 1 land for 4 turns in a row, autoflag them even if they are active.
2. Assign a Dom Ceiling so that the 1st place person does not have the incentive to go from 90% dom to 92% dom

I'm sure other people have thought of other ideas (cough skrum cough)