Shell Alliances Restricting AW Season 2 Multiplier Points
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Because AW tiers are based on percentage/war rating, shell alliances continue to slow active alliances AW tier progression. Shell alliances don’t affect AW Season 2 Rankings, but they do affect AW tier multipliers.
There are 9+ shell alliances in the top 325 war rating alliances. That may not seem like much; however, tier 1 includes around 20-30 alliances, and tier 2 includes around 150-200 alliances. This means alliances who are trying to move up AW Season 2 rankings into platinum and master may not be receiving the appropriate multiplier for their AW points.
This was not addressed in Season 1, will it be addressed in Season 2?
There are 9+ shell alliances in the top 325 war rating alliances. That may not seem like much; however, tier 1 includes around 20-30 alliances, and tier 2 includes around 150-200 alliances. This means alliances who are trying to move up AW Season 2 rankings into platinum and master may not be receiving the appropriate multiplier for their AW points.
This was not addressed in Season 1, will it be addressed in Season 2?
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you literally don't understand the tiers and multipliers then.
Thanks for reading my OP. If this is true my OP is moot, I’ll believe this when confirmation is provided. By confirmation I mean Kabam explaining what kind of criteria is used to determine wherever or not an alliance is “inactive” and how the matchmaking process makes use of such criteria when assigning AW matchups.
Again OP is looking at war rating only on the leader boards. That has nothing to do with season rankings.
I've not seen kabam announce that previously and I'm not sure how they would make it happen?
@Demonzfyre This is what my OP is based on, not war seasons. AW tiers are based on the top % of alliance war ratings. Unless Kabam has taken steps to prevent this which they have not provided details how they have done so, high war rated alliances that does not rank in war seasons still take spots in high AW tiers.
I remember a post like that, but my interpretation of the post was that the alliance wouldn't show up in that list either once they were inactive.
Kabam said inactive alliances would lose war rating points, but one of the alliances pictured above has been inactive since the beginning of season 1 and still has a top 30 war rating. Examples like that are why I’m asking for specific details on this topic.
I'd be much less surprised if in fact every shell is preventing another alliance from moving into the next multiplier bracket.
An alliance who has a high war rating but participates in few wars (or none at all) wouldn't necessarily be preventing anyone else from moving up to a higher Tier since the former wouldn't be earning many points for their season score. Any alliance that is actively participating in wars could easily earn more points toward their season score, allowing them to move past the alliance with a high war rating but low participation.
This is understood but that's not what the OP is asking. If an inactive alliance is sitting at the #10 spot in the AW rating leader board with a very high rating that never changes, they are preventing another alliance from taking that spot. Not a big deal except that AW rating position directly affects the tier you are in and therefore the multiplier you get. There are a number of alliances who ate not getting the multiplier they should be because a shell alliance is getting it.
Why not actually do something about the shell alliances? Creating more complicated and separate scoring systems and multipliers doesn't seem to be the fix.
I would like some clarification please, if you have time. Tier and Reward bracket are completely independent. You could be tier 1, and not fight in any wars, and not be in a reward bracket. However, the concern here is that an alliance in tier 1 is preventing another alliance from having a higher multiplier towards seasons. So an alliance is dead, not gaining season points, but they have a war rating that determines multiplier. The question here has nothing to do with reward bracket, but multiplier and tier.
Example : If we were one spot away from tier 1 but one said inactive alliance is keeping us in tier 2 we are losing a multiplier of 0.8 each war. That’s roughly 100-160k points each war. It can average over 2 million points throughout the season. That is very significant.
@Kabam Zibiit My OP was not referring to AW Season tiers like master/platinum/gold, it was referring to AW points multiplier tiers like tier 1/tier 2/tier 3. In case you overlooked my post that provided a visual explanation, here it is again:
AW tiers are shown above have been categorized by % long before AW Seasons started. @LeNoirFaineant summed up my OP’s point perfectly, AW points multipliers are based entirely on war rating and have nothing to do with AW Seasons. If these points multiples have unique mechanisms when AW Seasons is ongoing that disqualify inactive alliances from being included in AW tiers:
1) Kabam has not explained how such hypothetical mechanisms work, let alone if they exist.
2) Kabam has not explained precisely what criteria qualifies an alliance as being “inactive”
Thank you @Kabam Zibiit
Let me see if I can help you understand what the OP means.
THERE IS A LIMITED NUMBER OF ALLIANCES THAT CAN EARN POINTS THROUGH A x7 MULTIPLIER.
Shell alliances are part of that limited number alliances. They aren't scoring points towards AW though. The only thing they are doing is preventing other alliances from gaining access to that multiplier.