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Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
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Apply blackout periods for AW the same as AQ
KML15
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There really needs to be a blackout period on rewards for anyone that joins a new alliance. My alliance usually stays in tier 2 where we win a little more than half the wars. If we ever go down to tier 3 we usually win all wars in the tier with ease. However, this past week we absolutely got steam rolled out of tier 2. Once we were in tier three, once again we got destroyed. We then went down to tier 4 for the first time in ages. First match, crushed once again. The alliances we faced were absolutely stacked, no doubt tier 1 material.
So I reached out to a few buddies that are in tier 1 alliances to see what is going on. Here to find out alliances are forming a secondary alliance. When one alliance is in tiers 4-2 they go to that crew while matchmaking is down. While they stuff their tier 1 alliance with beginner accounts. Then once the tiers of both alliances switch they follow.
He showed me screenshots of some of their more recent wars in tier 1. Alliances with 2200 war ratting but with less than 500k alliance rating. So I took it upon myself to go back on our war logs and see some of the alliances that we got steam rolled by. The ones that were now in tier 1 are filled with beginner accounts.
Kudos for the strategy but there should be a blackout period the same as AQ.
So I reached out to a few buddies that are in tier 1 alliances to see what is going on. Here to find out alliances are forming a secondary alliance. When one alliance is in tiers 4-2 they go to that crew while matchmaking is down. While they stuff their tier 1 alliance with beginner accounts. Then once the tiers of both alliances switch they follow.
He showed me screenshots of some of their more recent wars in tier 1. Alliances with 2200 war ratting but with less than 500k alliance rating. So I took it upon myself to go back on our war logs and see some of the alliances that we got steam rolled by. The ones that were now in tier 1 are filled with beginner accounts.
Kudos for the strategy but there should be a blackout period the same as AQ.
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I remember seeing this once in a former alliance about 8 months ago. Our AW rating was around 2400, tier 1, and we faced an alliance with similar war rating but very weak champs and that had obviously swapped with another alliance.
I have a friend whose alliance does this too. They don't care about AQ blackout or being down an AQ tier either because many of them have expiring t4cc. They want easy 4 and 5 star shards. They just drop to an alliance with 1400 AW rating. They'll win 10 in a row or so and switch again once they're in tier 1. Then rinse and repeat.
Of course but, They would more than likely not war at all that week (if there was a week blackout). Which in turn means there's a better chance for normal T4-2 alliances to have a fair matchup.
Those guys are absolute animals. We were at like 2600 war rating and they went 100% on all 3 BGs. If you face them do NOT spend. Interesting though, I think you violated some terms of the message board here. You may face your own blackout LOL.
Honestly, BG2 seemed to do the most damage. They killed everything they saw and rarely died. The weak link being some dude with Mordo as his avatar.
Sig 100 Iceman.
I'm just saying BG2 rules and don't spend if you see us. Call it a public service.
Then why were you refering to your alliance in 3rd person?
https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/11950/rewards-timer-for-war-same-as-aq#latest
https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/13600/new-game-format-alliance-wars-brackets
Temporary solution would be to incorporate AQ with AW. A cost / resource of some sort that can only be earned in AQ which is required to join AW.
Maybe some sort of penalty system for losing. To make it competitive!
You want shards? Must fight and earn it. None of that DO NOT SPEND bs. All out WAR!
@Immortal how would this be a solution for high powered alliances jumping to low alliances so that they can win every war by having easy matchups? You want to punish the low alliance who just got destroyed?
Now the so called low alliance who gets destroyed... aren't you all doing the SAME EXACT thing by not giving it your all each war so eventually you get to match against us?
Like the saying... you can't have your cake and eat it too...
Allies always end up in the tier they belong. Nothing has changed now. You lose this one and win the next instead of win this one and lose the next. No long term changes have happened.
You want us to pay more for something we already have? How about no. I bet you just want it based on prestige like AQ so you can reap the rewards of simply having higher prestige champs
I'd like to see a normal and honest T4 alliance beat a standard T1 alliance.
Your statement was that a T4 ally can't progress to T1 because of these allies swapping. I'm saying if they can't beat a T1, then they would never make it to T1 anyway. So nothing changed, they just faced a better ally this war.