Apologizes, @Whatevertoo. Something much more striking has just happened to us, although in this case we have been the beneficiaries. I explain it here.
For perspective, because people are getting hung up on our 6 players only Alliance - I THINK that even if we were one BG in an alliance of 26 players and the other 2 BGs were dead even with the opposing alliance in diversity and wins/losses, we STILL would have lost simply because they had THREE more points in Diversity but STILL had less Diversity than we did in general. If someone that is better at math can tell me… but I’m pretty sure that holds up - which is crappy to us. It’s a waste of time and resources to us in our opinion, so we probably won’t play another season unless the scoring changes…even if we get more people, make dummy accounts, merge with another alliance, etc.
No, you are bad at math. They had a possiblity of placing 40 unique defenders but they chose to place 32 unique. You had an opportunity to place 30 unique and placed 29. They gifted you 240 points in diversity by only placing 31 unique defenders. When I say gifted, I mean they could of had an extra 240 points if fully diverse. They closed the gap for you.
None of what you said is accurate.
First, sorry for the late response- I WAS letting this go but saw these messages anddd…My math was fine, as I was talking in percentages. My goal when I was running my bigger alliances was 100% diversity through each BG. We managed it consistently.
So in this case, they’re overall Diversity was 80% and my overall Diversity was about 96.6% for what we each placed. So in percentage, we still kicked their respective butt$, which is why I said that, but you do THAT math - maybe I missed a decimal..?🤔
As for solutions I DID come up with a few that I didn’t post and I actually liked where SummonerNR was headed with their earlier suggestions. Real life intervened sadly, so I couldn’t continue the convo on their thoughts but I’ll post my suggestion as my last comment in this post and start a new one and see how it turns out.
Losing on merit (exploration etc) due to having less active attackers is valid but losing to a "participation award" merely because they placed more defenders is why we created alts too.
Yep, I definitely get it as we already have dupe accounts now….just wish it weren’t necessary
I think it comes down to what is expected while only running wars with limited people.
If you are not running a full 10 (and opponents didn’t either), neither side has a right to claim that something was unfair and that they should have won the war.
It is what it is, when running short-staffed. If you win, Great. If you lose, Oh Well. Take what rewards come (keep in mind any ancillary rewards like Solo Objectives, Solo War Points Event, etc), and be satisfied.
If you are really that bent up about a certain war's outcome, then you need to be in a fuller alliance. If you aren’t wanting to be in a fuller alliance, then be glad for whatever rewards happed to come your way.
I was actually thinking your work around might be good. I even thought of a way to keep Diversity from overdoing it’s importance while literally keeping it’s importance - I think you said this: score Diversity on percentage. In my case with this particular war, this is why I say I won in Diversity as well. Based on their overall placement, they’re overall Diversity was 80% and my overall Diversity was about 96.6% for what we each placed. That doesn’t change the amount of players on each team, doesn’t change the amount of fights won, lanes completed or overall completion - even in 9 lane maps. No handicap needed at all. I don’t expect an answer to this after all this time, I just finally had a moment in real life to go back and look at the comments one last time…
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So in this case, they’re overall Diversity was 80% and my overall Diversity was about 96.6% for what we each placed. So in percentage, we still kicked their respective butt$, which is why I said that, but you do THAT math - maybe I missed a decimal..?🤔
As for solutions I DID come up with a few that I didn’t post and I actually liked where SummonerNR was headed with their earlier suggestions. Real life intervened sadly, so I couldn’t continue the convo on their thoughts but I’ll post my suggestion as my last comment in this post and start a new one and see how it turns out.