Matchmaking by tier

I am the leader of a newer alliance. We participated in last war season and probably went about 6 and 6. Most, if not all of our wins were because the other alliance literally didn’t place anybody. Our rating went up more per win than it would go down per loss.

Now with this new system our 2M alliance is getting destroyed for the second time in a row now by an alliance almost 10x our power. I understand the new system and I warned my members before the season that our matches would likely be a little difficult, but this is ridiculous. We are losing members left and right and it is demoralizing to new players.

I will preface my suggestion by saying I am not a programmer, I have no idea if this is even possible to do, and if it was suggested already, I’m sorry. I am not going to read the multiple massive discussions on this topic post by post to check.

I am suggesting that tiers 10 and above be this new war rating matchmaking system, and then 11 and below to go back to the old prestige based system. It will allow new alliances like mine to actually be able to get further than the first fight or two and learn how to interact with the war nodes. If we move up to fast and hit tier 10, we will get squashed back down by some big alliance and won’t be taking one of the bigger alliances ranks. It also could prevent tanking a bit, since if bigger alliances tank past tier 10, they’ll still have to face alliance with a similar prestige.

Tier 10 is just an example, could be lower or higher, it doesn’t matter to me. I just truly believe that unless something is done to protect the new player, that people will stop playing or at the very least completely shy away from that mode of the game entirely.