What's up with the rapid joining of low-level players?

Ercarret

I just found out that some players in my alliance had been slacking off, not contributing to AW. So they got kicked. However, as soon as our alliance got some spots open, we were flooded with players who were waaaaaay too low-level for us. We're a pretty causal alliance where people from all over the spectrum of progression titles play together, but these were around the lvl 4-30 range. Probably not even Uncollected yet. Even as a casual alliance, that's way too low for us. But they just kept flooding in. If I kicked someone, they auto-joined a few seconds later and I had to kick them again.

I eventually had to set the alliance to By Request just to stop it from being overrun with people who have no business being there. And to be clear, I don't harbor any ill feelings against any of the people who joined. It just seems like something is wonky with the system.

Does anyone have any fixes for this? I need to have my alliance open for people to join but...jeez.

Malreck04

I mean it’s inevitable that leaving your ally open will fill it with, well, unwanteds. Even if the system was perfect, if someone looked up your alliance manually and then joined, the game has no reason to prevent them, after all, from the perspective of a robot, an alliance is open for a reason, right?

Always amusing to see people who care about alliance stuff having issues. Can’t remember when I joined my current alliance, and these guys care about as less about what I do as possible.

Chuck_Finley

Been going on for months - I posted here. Posted in the bugs forum, logged a ticket, seen other people complain.

kabam won’t acknowledge it. It’s basically a perpetual kick fest as accounts that have no business joining spam your account. Wasn’t like this before…. Something changed and it made a mess of building an alliance through normal in game means…

Cat_Murdock

Yeah it’s super buggy right now with the auto join. I tried to have mine open and it was just endless spam of accounts with 2*s as their top champ. It never used to be this mismatched. I hope it gets fixed, I’ve gotten a lot of good, long term alliance mates who stumbled in using the auto find. It’s actually a decent feature when it works

Ercarret

Malreck04 said:

I mean it’s inevitable that leaving your ally open will fill it with, well, unwanteds. Even if the system was perfect, if someone looked up your alliance manually and then joined, the game has no reason to prevent them, after all, from the perspective of a robot, an alliance is open for a reason, right?

Always amusing to see people who care about alliance stuff having issues. Can’t remember when I joined my current alliance, and these guys care about as less about what I do as possible.

I'm not talking about people joining who turn out to be a bad fit for the alliance in one way or another. Yeah, that happens, but that's something I'm prepared to deal with when I have my alliance open. It's not a problem, or at least not a problem I'd waste a forum post on.

No, what I am talking about is the game auto-filling my alliance with accounts that has only barely gotten out of the tutorial. Last time I had to leave my alliance open in order to attract new members, it took a while to fill up those six or so spots we had open. Now it took probably five seconds at most. It's just that all of those accounts were useless, and when I kicked them, they just auto-joined back in.

Imagine an email inbox. Getting the occasional unwanted email is unavoidable but if the spam filter completely broke and you were flooded with all kinds of scams and whatnot, then you'd feel like something was wrong. And that's the situation right now for alliances. It's impossible to attract proper new members because of all of the "spam" accounts.

spider_man_guy_123

It’s a little broken. I tried to auto join an alliance on my conqueror account and got put in a gold 1 alliance

captain_rogers

Ercarret said:

I just found out that some players in my alliance had been slacking off, not contributing to AW. So they got kicked. However, as soon as our alliance got some spots open, we were flooded with players who were waaaaaay too low-level for us. We're a pretty causal alliance where people from all over the spectrum of progression titles play together, but these were around the lvl 4-30 range. Probably not even Uncollected yet. Even as a casual alliance, that's way too low for us. But they just kept flooding in. If I kicked someone, they auto-joined a few seconds later and I had to kick them again.

I eventually had to set the alliance to By Request just to stop it from being overrun with people who have no business being there. And to be clear, I don't harbor any ill feelings against any of the people who joined. It just seems like something is wonky with the system.

Does anyone have any fixes for this? I need to have my alliance open for people to join but...jeez.

I think a possible solution might be an option where you can choose the level and story progression for your ally (for example uncollected and level 50 means only uncollected players above level 50 can join your ally)

GoldenDad

Unfortunately the only way to manage this it to keep kicking the small accounts till a bigger account arrives. I think I’ve kicked close to 20 or more at a time. Sometimes takes a few sessions of kicking. It’s time I would have preferred to spend doing other things.

My support ticket reply said it was working as intended! Been like it for about 2 months now.

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/335323/is-there-an-issue-with-alliance-recruitment

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/336604/issue-with-alliance-matching-for-new-joiners

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/337464/auto-join-alliance-is-terrible-please-fix-asap

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/336122/alliance-auto-filled-with-very-new-players

Chuck_Finley

GoldenDad said:

Unfortunately the only way to manage this it to keep kicking the small accounts till a bigger account arrives. I think I’ve kicked close to 20 or more at a time. Sometimes takes a few sessions of kicking. It’s time I would have preferred to spend doing other things.

My support ticket reply said it was working as intended! Been like it for about 2 months now.

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/335323/is-there-an-issue-with-alliance-recruitment

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/336604/issue-with-alliance-matching-for-new-joiners

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/337464/auto-join-alliance-is-terrible-please-fix-asap

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/336122/alliance-auto-filled-with-very-new-players

With all due respect Kabam, if this is intended…. Your intention sucks. Reevaluate it and get it fixed.

SummonerNR

To complete the cycle, 2 others that were links within links of one above, so 2 more original posts.
And I’m sure several more prior to these.

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/335318/recruitment-also-bugged-or-changed#latest

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/335204/low-level-bots-joining-alliance-automatically-now#latest

Has been going on for maybe 2-3 months, at some times more than others, and/or for some alliances more than others.
(I’ve had some continued open spots, and early on in this problem we used to get a lot joining, lately NOTHING even though still “Open” Ally with open spots).

GroundedWisdom

I have my suspicion they're looking into the parameters for the Auto Join. I did a Survey on it.