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The new end date will be May 1st.
About 2 hours .. matching is running and we can’t find a ear
Realny
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We are making matching about 2 hours ago and nothing yet..we restarted it once and nothing yet too.. There’s alliances started matching after us and found war in 10 minutes.. what should we do ?!.. it’s less than 4 hours and we will pass war ☹️☹️
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Patience Daniel San
I dunno if this is exactly how it works but If matching making is a queue then restarting it would mean you lose your place in line.
find a match instantly every time. longest ever waited was 15mins.
avg is bout 2 mins.
today it was about 3 seconds
What do you expect mods to do? Force a match for you? This issue has come up for many and mods have only said "sorry".
My rough estimate based on looking at the numbers is that there are about 600 alliances in each war tier from tier 4 through tier 10. However there are only about 420 alliances in tier 3, 120 alliances in tier 2, and 30-60 in tier 1. It kind of depends on how you interpret the tier breakdowns because the numbers are nonsensical and you have to take a reasonable guess as to what the developer who wrote them meant.
If you assume that the majority of alliances trying to be remotely competitive will attempt a match within the first eight hours of match making, that means for alliances in tiers 4 and lower you have about 70-ish alliances looking for match at roughly the same time you are (within an hour or so) or more. Assuming you don't have a wildly weird alliance rating, you should be able to get a match within minutes.
Above tier 4, it starts to get interesting. It is five times harder to find a match in tier 2 than tier 5, simply because there are fewer alliances in that tier. Even accounting for the fact that matches take place based on rating and not literal tier, it suggests things thin out quite a bit and it is much easier to find yourself without a dance partner.
Here's another way to look at the numbers. Again based on some reasonable guesses I had to make to approximate the data, I can take a rough guess as to how many alliances are within, say, 50 rating points of your rating. If your rating is 1700, my guestimate is that there are about 500-1000 alliances within 50 rating points of your rating. But if your rating is 2700 my guesstimate is that there are closer to 50-100. Above that the numbers can drop into single digits. Among the top 20 alliances there are on average only a couple.
Mods can make the suggestion but they can't make it happen. They look after a forum.
thanks kabam for wasting our efforts. We will be gold 1at last of the list
We are tier 5 though so that might have something to do with it aswell.
His search took over 6 hours. This is just not always true. Last season we had a spell where every search went long so we had to start the next war later and later. We missed the third war after the search again took hours and it screwed up our whole season. Everyone agrees that you shouldn't have a problem....and yet people still do. If you are that One Certain Alliance you can have your points manually adjusted. Otherwise you're just screwed.
Chill out, you haven’t even missed a war yet.. we start all of our wars 2 hours before close. Usually the last war we start matchmaking an hour before close and have yet to miss a war in 7 seasons.
@ing all the mods is against the forum rules plus it’s not going to get you help at all, and theres nothing they can do.
Would you rather wait 6 hours and match someone of your caliber or would you rather match a Masters tier 1 alliance just to force through your matchmaking.. you want them to get it right or you want matched quick...
ii have done similar calculations before myself. and i would think about the same.
i spend alot of time looking at all different variables in war.
i have seen how matchmaking algorithm has changed multiple times.
i cannot comment on top tier from experience but can from extrapolating calculations.
yes there are less alliances in the top tiers which is what leads to both the "unfair matches" that peeps complain about and the longer times peeps complain about.
this is not as much of an issue the further you go down because of the bigger pool of alliances and the ease of quickly finding a similar opponent.
but yes. the higher you go the more likely it is that no similar opponent is looking for a match at the same time.
but what people need to understand is it is hard to get a quick fair match at the top.
if kabam widen the matchmaking algorithm it will speed up matchmaking but will result in more unfair matches.
if kabam narrow the algorithm to produce more fair matches it will likely extend matchmaking times even further.
it is a very fine balance to get it right.
really it requires a whole overhaul of the matchmaking system.
exactly how that should be done i am unsure.
but i feel that prestige and war rating should be a part of it. but i dunno the right answer.