**Mastery Loadouts**
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
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And now, they buy a new alliance with a high war rating (plenty of abandoned alliances available. Ever wondered why people keep smurf accounts as leaders in those alliances instead of outright deleting the alliance by leaving it?) To add the finishing touches, they change the name and tag of the alliance they bought to be the same as their last alliance
Simply banning alliances from getting rewards also won't work. These cheaters would just move to/buy their place in a different alliance. This is more problematic because to make space for these cheaters, honest players might get kicked from their alliance
So permanently ban the cheaters? Yeah, that won't work as well. They'll buy another account and come back
So what's the solution? (I know people won't like mine) Don't make AW the only way for end-game players to progress quickly. Spread out the rewards more evenly. Buff AQ rewards! Don't make AW season rewards so widely different between brackets!
I remember Miike once saying that AW was supposed to be the way to gain champs and AQ the way to rank up those champs. Hence why AW didn't award catalysts and AQ doesn't award crystal shards. All that balance got thrown out of the window with AW seasons.
Kabam knew perfectly well what the outcome would be when they designed AW seasons. S1 and S2 AQ was a perfect example of how far alliances are willing to go to secure end-game rewards which are only available to a limited number of alliances in different brackets (alliance swapping, buying, using placeholder alliances to prevent other alliances to get t4c, buying high prestige inactive accounts to maintain alliance prestige, etc). But of course potential to milk thousands of dollars more from these "top-tier" alliances was impossible to ignore. So expect more game-breaking defenders to be realeased mid-season, followed by various rank-up offers and then the release of even more broken offence champs which render all champs useless on defence, which is followed by even more rank up offers, and the cycle continues (oh, and expect lots of bugged mechanics and champ interactions, unannounced nerfs and other stuff as well)
/rant