**Mastery Loadouts**
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.
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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In theory, a 6m alliance CAN win a 40m alliance. IF they can clear the opposing defenders at fewer deaths and/or equal deaths but have higher diversity. Whether in practical it’s possible or not, it’s a different story due to ability (which is once again subjective). But regardless, the “chance to win” is there, no matter you wanna see it or not.
I suspect this would be enough to get the gist across for anyone interested. Pretend you're an alliance of one, and every time your alliance wins you win, and every time your alliance loses you lose. Adjust your rating as if you alone faced the other alliance. Make the alliance war rating the average of the members. If everyone has been together forever, this is indistinguishable from the current system. If everyone jumps to a shell, the shell instantly gets the same rating they had before. And if just one (or a few) people jump to a new alliance, their ratings will converge over time to the alliance they moved to.
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David Attenborough voice, here we have the classic grounded wisdom forum topic, where he has a few supporters chime in early on and quickly realise they are trying to engage with people who’ve played the game a lot more than them and at higher levels than them. They quickly see sense and abandon the battle, the embattled gw though, tenacious as ever, keeps the battle going by repeating his annoying two small points over and over again, whilst ignoring the fact that he is making no sense, and that his defense of the now extinct system is as pointless as anybody actually attempting to argue with him. The battle for the last word continues though, each group somehow thinking that saying the same point that has been raised on Most of the 50+ pages of this topic, that the old system was broken, and that these few wars now, were unfortunately needed to bring matches based on skill back to the game. Not in the short term, but the long term, for everybody’s benefit .
Do people remember when gw semi retired, how short a topic this would have been over such a Short term issue.
Arguing with gw = pointless, you can make the perfect argument and the perfect analogy and he will just return to an old rhetoric that somebody else has already analysed as incorrect, he just has to have the last word
I average one and a half groups during season (two for five wars, one for seven wars). They already discount half my wars every season. I was in tier 7 and barely made it into Silver 1, because scoring seasons doesn't account for alliances that aren't full. So you're going to have to do better than that. I already get **** rewards every season because the game has no better solution that doesn't penalize everyone else, and I'm in danger of reaching the challenger maps with no reward increase for the same reason.
Wake me when someone has it worse than that.
This is what we have faced so far compared to the usual 10.5k plus teams on a day to day basis previously, and how they fared.
KILL DEATH
G2 7815 18 MIL 97 105
G1 9576 27 MIL 86 90
P3 9462 27 MIL 147 126
This has translated in a jump from T6 to T4.
I take it our next war we will match with an even closer team to us... But our last war we faced a so called p3 placed team. If we faced teams like that constantly, we'd never lose. It hurts knowing that those kinds of teams were all above us in previous seasons.... Because they struggled more than any p3 team should compared to the constant beatings we'd give and take in g1 vs it felt like the same handful of teams we'd face multiple times a season. And always again in off seasons.
I also know first hand how winning actually drops your ranking. Season 17 we streaked into the end and were finally going to land back in P4 winning the last 3 or so in a row as we kept going up with each win (of course a loss hit you like a hammer) . I think we were g1 Rank 3 before our last win . Last war we win again, and we drop 10 spots. That hurt bad. The anger by everyone was palpable. We pretty much discounted season 18 because when we do well we get screwed and when we don't care we land exactly in the same spot. Killed our morivarion.
I’ll be glad once the competition becomes clear and when everyone is facing an appropriate opponent. That should be very soon as each war we’ve played has come closer to our strength and we are back in the tier we were in a year ago.
Middle Korg. They couldn’t get past it at all.
You were talking about lower alliances being skilled? Lol
So answer my question here.
What is deemed a “fair reasonable” war? Have an absolute, objective answer, not just some “oh it’s fair because I think it’s fair” BS. Cause what you think and what I think and what others think can be very different.
If you can’t or won’t answer that, you yourself have no solution to contribute and as I said earlier, are just farming for dislikes and being self-righteous for the “little man” who you THINK you know and understand.
Frankly I'm tickled at the implication that I'm not contributing any ideas, if that's what you're getting at. I've given them every step of the way. I'm not just here crying wolf.
For the record, it was never my intention to only use Prestige as a metric. I don't know how that became the sole deciding factor. At the time, I suggested using it in combination with War Rating to counteract the mess with Tanking and manipulating War Rating. It was an idea I threw out there. It worked, but for some reason it stayed after they decided to freeze Ratings. Which should all be frozen. That's what I've really said from the beginning. Separate the two and there's no possibility of it. In any case, somehow it stayed around. I have no idea if they had to because War Rating was a much larger mess, it was used for quicker Matches, or it was just something that didn't get switched back. I don't know because I don't make the decisions. All I know is there could have been an easier way than abruptly changing it back like this. People are getting hammered.