Suggestions for Season 2 of AW
I wanted to offer my suggestions for the future AW Seasons after having experienced this one. Not every idea is my own original one, some I saw elsewhere, some are mine. I think all of these ideas would serve to vastly improve the AW Season experience.
1) A season should be shorter. 2 months is a long time. Morale in a lot of alliances is flagging. I think having each season be a month long would be ideal, but if that is too short, perhaps a month and a half long with a half month cool down in between seasons could also work.
2) Ties need to be fixed. Right now a tie is a loss for both sides. That really sucks, as a tie should be better than a loss. I think the rewards for the individual war should be exactly half of what they would've been for a win, and the 50K bonus season points for winning should be split with 25K to each team.
3) The number of attack points available needs to increase from 3 for mini boss and boss nodes. Nothing is more frustrating than being more diverse than your opponent and dying less than them and still losing due to kill concentration. I would suggest it increase from 3 to 5 for mini bosses and from 3 to 10 for bosses. Side meta note, current system encourages alliances to put their best defenders on lanes instead of as bosses and minis. That's just weird.
4) The same map every time gets stale. Why not use the same function Modok's lab does, and create new maps each week? That gives officers more to do during the 24 hours for placement, and also will give arise to new strategies for both defense and attack, improving the war experience on both ends. Furthermore, nodes like Villiany and the one that reverses healing might lead to more diversity in the choices people make for their attack phase team. This idea might take some time to implement, more than my other suggestions, but I feel it is the most important one. It would really keep war fresh fighting on a map 3 times then getting a new one.
If anyone else has any suggestions or feedback about AW Seasons, feel free to add them to this thread.
