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Alliance War Matchmaking unfair [Merged Threads]
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@FRITO_Man here’s a little update, and yes I do think this is fair cause we’re not that far apart in both season rankings and war rating
After each war, rank alliances based on war ratings and have #1 fight #2, #3 fight #4 so on and so forth. But the drawback is that tier multipliers will become an unfair advantage for the lower alliances within the same tier as they are facing relatively easier wars and earn the same points as those at the top of that particular tier.
To combat this issue, I added a suggestion to make war rating count as a multiplier as well. Eg, Alliance A (3k WR) v Alliance B (2.9k WR) - War Multiplier = (3k+2.9k)/2 = 2.95k for both alliances.
This will also have a secondary effect of removing shell alliances as they will lose more points if they were to drop to a lower WR alliance.
I think 1v2 etc will introduce some motivation for alliance longevity too rather than switching alliances around constantly.
But this should have been thought of and implemented during off-season so people would know, not mid-season. It was one way for several seasons - changing it mid-season is just chaotic and disorderly.
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But all these pictures of 2300 vs 2310. Go away, that’s what should be happening!
Yes sir this is fair match.
The timing from kabam is kinda bad. In the middle of the season this hits a lot of ppl very unexpected. I understand 100% why they did it. There was an alliance (for those that dont know) with 20 million and 9500 prestige that was place 1 in the world bc they only faced alliances of their own numbers from P4-P1. This cant be happening. Its unfair for every big master alliance. They abused the matchmaking to the maximum.
They HAD to change it.
What we now see it massive alliances matched with little ones. First reaction of the low alliance:
Wow this is so unfair. How should we win this.
I understand that as well.
The warpoints and standings need some time to get cleaned up.
Big alliances will climb up. Low alliances will go down. Im in one of the alliances that will prob go down. 20 million points + 9.500 prestige and we placed P1 2 seasons in a row.
We will prob start facing hard allinaces as well (+40 million etc)
I understand that a lot of ppl feel treated unfair but we need to give the system time to correct it self.
Yes its annoying that it happens mid season.
The more important question, is how did an alliance with 3518 prestige get to a rating of 1623 without having to fight a single 900ish rating alliance with 7k+ prestige, that my 7300 prestige alliance fights in every, single, war?
Bad timing on your end regarding this change mid-season, but it’s a change that’s better late than never.
Our losses /\
Then we an 8 mil ally with an average member rating of 200k \/
Come up against a 14 mil ally with an average member rating of over 500K! \/
They cleared out our 2 BGs already and we’ve only got halfway up the map, this is the HARDEST war we’ve had ALL SEASON despite the fact that we’ve dropped 2 tiers and have lost 4 in a row! @Kabam Miike @Kabam Zibiit @Kabam Vydious EXPLAIN HOW THIS IS FAIR and how last season they were only a bronze ally and this season they’re wiping the floor with us silver ally’s. Now we’re almost guaranteed 5 loses in a row. This season has by far been the hardest yet and is already an excellent display of how flawed your matchmaking system is. Will there be ANY news on ANY changes to the system or will you continue to ignore us? Please do something because this is RIDICULOUS!
It needed to be fixed, so that conference teams got conference division prizes. If you are too good for the conference, you will climb, but you'll have to beat league teams; 2nd division, championship and premier as you climb. You'll get better prizes as you go, but you'll no longer get premier league prize money for beating on Barnet FC and Aldershot town. If you want premier league, it even championship prize money, you'll need to beat those teams.
I get what you're saying, but if as it looks like, they've switched matchmaking to be purely based on War rating then it's going to take some time for things to settle. It's not going to be great for some alliances, while others are going to have a field day. I dare say my alliance - P1 but only 9.5k? ish prestige - are probably going to drop out of P1 as we face more and more of the huge whale alliances. On the flip side some of those massive alliances that have only been playing each other will probably rise a little bit in the ranks. I would say that we'll probably settle in around the bottom ½ of P2-3 as we're pretty good.
It'll make it an interesting balance between skill and roster size. We're a low spending alliance so we don't have the gold for Map7, none of us really go in for sig stone deals to boost our prestige up so we prioritised AW as it's free to run, none of us can afford to take a champion to R5 every 2-3 weeks anyway and in terms of time management - 2-3 logins for Map 5, 2-3 logins for AW is a lot easier than the time commitment we need for M6+.
I have been in some pretty Whaley alliances in the past and honestly, they got through Map6/7 easily enough, a lot spent items. But the second it came to AW people couldn't clear paths cleanly so it's not always about the size of your roster - though it helps.
Prestige has been a factor in aw until very recently and it’s allowed low prestige allies to get into master/plat without facing any allies that actually belong there due to their low prestige
How we get match up with much much bigger alliance rating....Remind me a movie "god may be crazy"
..lol….