Question about AW Tier and Multiplier Calculation
thanks4playing
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We've been stuck in tier 4 AW for awhile, but we feel very close to tier 3. For instance, we have never lost more than one war in a row and have had some winning streaks but still at tier 4.
Earlier this season, we were matched with a lesser alliance, and the war room said (as indicated in the screenshot): tier 5 but the tier 4 multiplier (4.5 instead of 4.0). So we interpreted that as still getting the benefit of a multiplier of 4.5 whether we win or lose.
We ended up winning the war, but we only got the 4.0 multiplier (see other screenshot). I contacted Kabam support and they are ensuring us that having the 4.0 multiplier is correct despite the screenshot indicating a 4.5 multiplier. I asked a few follow up questions, but they insist that the calculations are correct.
I am confused and would love insight from those of you who are knowledgeable/experienced in this. Why would the screenshot indicate 4.5 multiplier if we are only getting the 4.0 multiplier? And how can we dip to tier 5 so quickly after only losing one war (we had won 2 wars in a row before that loss and our war rating has always hovered in the ~2300)?
Any. insight on this would be greatly appreciated.
Earlier this season, we were matched with a lesser alliance, and the war room said (as indicated in the screenshot): tier 5 but the tier 4 multiplier (4.5 instead of 4.0). So we interpreted that as still getting the benefit of a multiplier of 4.5 whether we win or lose.
We ended up winning the war, but we only got the 4.0 multiplier (see other screenshot). I contacted Kabam support and they are ensuring us that having the 4.0 multiplier is correct despite the screenshot indicating a 4.5 multiplier. I asked a few follow up questions, but they insist that the calculations are correct.
I am confused and would love insight from those of you who are knowledgeable/experienced in this. Why would the screenshot indicate 4.5 multiplier if we are only getting the 4.0 multiplier? And how can we dip to tier 5 so quickly after only losing one war (we had won 2 wars in a row before that loss and our war rating has always hovered in the ~2300)?
Any. insight on this would be greatly appreciated.
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As to war tiers, the tiers are not defined explicitly by war rating, they are defined by your percentage ranking among all other alliances. In other words, if your rating stays exactly the same but everyone below you wins, you will drop in tier. Conversely, if everyone above you quits, you would become a tier 1 alliance. Because tier is based on your relative position among other alliances, your rating itself only loosely defines your tier.
Basically, your tier is not just affected by your own war rating, but also by the alliances nearby. It is like a track and field runner who runs his best race ever but still comes in fifth place because all his competitors ran even faster that day.
I know you said that you didn't know the precise specifics, but based on the screenshot, shouldn't our score have been multiplied by the multiplier in the screenshot? I would understand if the multiplier had question marks or was blank, but it explicitly displays 4.5, not 4.0.
It may have something to do with the fact that tiers have to be recalculated after every war across all alliances (because they are percentage based, not numerically based) and there might be some sort of race condition in that displayed value. Meaning the code is referencing a stale number before tiers were recalculated, and the two are slightly out of sync. But the war results panel is using the numbers being used for scoring calculations directly and are more accurate.
As you are in top 2-3%. You are in tier-4,which is correct.
But the alliance you are facing is definitely Tier-5. You matched an alliance from a different tier.
100 points difference looks right.
Now when An alliance match An alliance from Different Tier, the game coin flips and chose a default tier for the current war.
You were playing tier 5 wars, and that's why you got tier 5 multiplier.
But that still doesn't explain why it even display the 4.5 multiplier. If it were the t5 multiplier, then it should say 4.0 or if it needs to flip a coin, then why not just leave it blank?
I'm really trying to understand the situation, but I can't find a logical explanation as to why it would indicate 4.5 multiplier (before the war even began), but multiply our score by 4.0 instead.
But I think you get that, even with the visual bug, you were given the correct point multiplier you played the war in.
It confuses a lot of players and we see these same posts every season. And at the end of the day the only thing matters is the points, which are awarded correctly.