New AQ Game Modes locking alliances; effecting recruitment

I am actively recruiting for my alliance, but I am finding it difficult to bring people in because the AQ events of Raids, Coliseum, and Rampant lock your alliance, meaning recruits who join after it starts cannot participate or receive rewards for that week.

This can be frustrating for leaders/officers recruiting and summoners too. Each week grants radiance, a premium resource and people are unwilling to move and risk losing it. Here is the timeline as I see it:

Week 1

4/6/26 at 2 PM EST - AQ Raids begins, locking your alliance

4/6/26 at 4 PM EST – AQ Regular provides rewards

4/7/26 at TBD – AW season ends and rewards will be coming shortly

-----------Now this is when guys want to move freely to other alliances, but cannot

Week 2

4/13/26 at 2 PM EST – AQ Coliseum begins, locking your alliance

4/13/26 at TBD – AQ Raids provides rewards

Week 3

4/20/26 at 2 PM EST – AQ Rampant begins, locking your alliance

4/20/26 at TBD – AQ Coliseum providers rewards

4/21/26 at TBD – New AW season begins

Week 4

4/27/26 at 2 PM EST – AQ Regular begins, NOT LOCKING your alliance

4/27/26 at TBD – AQ Rampant provides rewards

-------------Now guys can freely move but it must be in a haste because AQ Raids will begin on 5/4/26

This is a new problem with the new alliance quest game modes. It seems there is a short window of time to leave an alliance without penalty, but then you must make sure that there is enough time to get your 5 wars in with your next alliance. If there isn’t then you have to wait a month to the next short window of time because you don’t want to miss out on AW rewards.

I am sure this is not the intention of Kabam, but something must change. With all the content the game has, recruiting time is dwindling and is becoming more difficult because of the short window of time to switch alliances. If I am wrong, please tell me, I would be happy to be wrong about this!

Comments

horrendous_too

It absolutely is a problem. I understand that kabam wants to make alliance hopping difficult. But changing it to there only being 1 day per month when changes can be made without people missing rewards they worked for seems extreme to me.

And it wouldn't take much to make it a little easier without making it so everyone can jump whenever. Making rampant evo aq 6 days rather than 7 would work. And then we could have 2 days per month where we can make changes.

FrozenLogan

You’re not wrong. Currently players need to choose which rewards to give up if you want to change alliances. Which is maybe Kabam’s point.

obsidiman

It's a pain especially if you have BGs doing different things during the week. If raids or ramp. evo. are on and a single BG isn't running either but instead a regular old map 6, a new member is locked out of the map 6 BG for the whole week.

Osborne

Lol, true

TadzioToster

True 100% but it’s know issue for loooong time and they don’t give a **** about it

ThatGuy6

Dang, really? I guess I have been under a rock then!

Nameless_IW

Youve got some of your info wrong

4/6 is Raids

4/7 AW season ends

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4/13 Which AQ format do we have here??

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4/20 ?????

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4/27 Alliance Coliseum (3 days) - Gentle

horrendous_too

4/6 is raids

4/13 should be regular aq

4/20 should be rampant evo AQ

4/27 is ally coliseum

5/4 should be raids again

All assuming they are continuing to follow the week 1-4 cycle they put out with the rampant evo aq announcement.

ThatGuy6

yes, not wrong; just I wrote it 2 hours before when they announced AQ coliseum. But the point still stands…

Nameless_IW

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2943442#Comment_2943442

Ok if this is correct then most teams will be making their personnel changes on 4/20 since you can push the regular aq starting day and make it Tuesday or run the map with 9 depending on their situation and/or map

horrendous_too

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2943875#Comment_2943875

Changes will happen on the 13th, because after raid rewards drop you can push aq till Tuesday and then have almost 21 hrs where people can move. On 4/20 rampant aq starts before aq rewards drop.