**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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To me, this is borderline cheating as it gives then a certain advantage over the alliances they face in wars. Is it illegal, no, not explicitly, but it is a practice that provides an unfair advantage to high alliances using this method.
I'd rather see the whole matchmaking system completely revamped than continuing to remove options from players simply trying to play the game
That gives you player mobility still as someone can move up to more competitive alliances without really affecting matching, puts a higher likelihood off top alliances actually getting matched to one another, but is still some detriment to a player moving down to a less competitive alliance for at least half a season
If u remove them from 1 AW Season, the Master alliance would not be that interested to move to a shell alliance. They will miss a full AW season worth of rewards.
Real problem is not only the tanking war rating. They doing it to get in donation mercs. U cant donate for 7 days, if u are tanking rating in shell alliance, u can bring donation mercs in. Next season u can do the same trick to the other alliance.
We also posted several shell alliances as at ticket. Nothing has been done to fix it. Last season we countered shell alliances 75-80% of the wars. It makes quite some members burnout and leave, which is very bad for the tier 2 alliances.
I have multiple examples of shell alliance who have 300-600 less warrating then master alliance had. So that is quite a difference. Might not be for the alliance it self, it is for all the lower alliances facing them.
For Kabam this is Working as intended...
Just stop spending When you see a shell. Drop your own warrating.
Next season will be more easy to you.
When all Players stop spending (top shell User dont have to, the others dont want to) someone at Kabam HQ will chime the alarm "something is going wrong" but until then...
Don't enrage bout that. Just shrug and move on. It's better for your health and Well beeing.
Trust me, none of you people in gold 1 are facing master level alliances. In almost all cases, a group's "shell" alliances have the same war rating. So whether in shell 1 or shell 2, they are getting matched vs the same group of alliances.
In no way does this impact the balance of power in the game. People just like to complain to complain. And what's worse, some people like to complain about things they just don't fully understand.
Relax a bit folks, its the holiday season! Cheers!
I’m completely relaxed, thanks for pointing it out. Never have we said gold 1 alliances are facing master alliances. P1/p2 alliances are facing them, the difference in war rating is only 400-600 points.
It won’t affect the top 10-20 in ranking because most of them are doing the same (not all). It affects the alliances just under this bracket.
U state that we don’t know how shell alliances work and why they are here: could u explain the reason then?
Its simple: there are only 3 possible reasons for a shell alliance:
1. Tank war rating to have easy matchups
2. Fill treasury with gold, bc and loyalty by donation mercs.
3. Combination of both of the above
Both reasons are cheating. Only reason to have a shell for donation is buying donations, because if u dump ur own resources, u do not need a shell alliance to do it in: u can just do it in your own alliance. Left or right, it’s doing something that is not allowed by kabam and using a loophole to bypass the rules preventing this.
@Kabam Miike many are interested to hear Kabams perspective.
Since they aren't then there is no breaking of the rules... now how exactly would you like kabam to stop it? Please give 1 valid idea to prevent/limit this?
I think Kabam has plenty of capable employees to think of a solution. 1 could be, as stated before: when more than a certain amount of people join a new (shell) alliance, they are ruled out for 1 AW season. Let’s say: if one alliance gets 20 new members during off season (which is really unlikely), they are ruled out.
Another solution posted before: make war rating person based, like prestige. The alliance is war rating is based on the war rating of the members.
Just 2 ideas, most likely there are more solutions possible.
I do not play AW myself, haven't for at least a year, so I haven't really followed these discussions.
But, as long as something might be considered morally wrong by many, but isn't actually breaking any rules there is not much to do. The discussion should be about whether such a rule should be implemented, and only when it is can you require Kabam to do something about alliances or players doing this.
https://youtu.be/nncxhQ_3Clc