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15.0 Alliance Wars Update Discussion Thread
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I don't even think scoring needs to be changed, people still haven't quite grasped the correct way to set their D. These zero D guys won't win another war once the community has finished adapting to the new meta. You should clarify that diversity is internal to a battle group and not across the whole alliance (which frankly makes sense), since you misinformed the community how it works previously.
That said, you guys should absolutely issue some rank down tickets to ease the transition to the new AW. My alliance has 30 R5 Nightcrawlers and needs only 3, since you moved the goalposts an adjustment package is necessary.
What do you think we, the community are to them? I've worked in software for over 25 years. As a programmer, it sickens me to see executives make decisions to reduce QA and just let the customers test it. All of the hard work that some of the people at Kabam/NM are doing is obfuscated by the greed and incompetence of the management.
This is the first comment that truly sums up what I feel is going on over there. We should not be attacking any mods or hardworking software engineers/design team. They might be working hard and coming up with great ideas and trying to implement them and probably do recognize some of the problems we address them with. I feel it's the greed and incompetence of the higher management and the complete lack of caring or understanding for anything more than $$$$ to placate the shareholders and let them keep their cushyoverpaud jobs. Positive change needs to start at the top and if you want it to save this game place a CEO in charge who is just as much as a fan of the marvel brand as us players are.
So you're saying the problem is Netmarble? I agree in part, but the design team at Kabam shoulders some of the blame as well. If we (the community) can identify problems before ever seeing the content, then they should be able to ID these problems during design/implementation. The cooks are still responsible for what's coming out of the kitchen too.
Did you guys not even spend 2 minutes testing your system for weaknesses?
Like seriously,. I'm not making fun or "calling you guys out" but this is an epic failure. You guys should have scrapped the idea within 2 minutes after realizing that such a simple loophole will render AW unplayable.
Who's in charge there? Who's giving out these ideas? Who's testing them? Who's giving the go ahead to finalize it?
No testing whatsoever. No insight. Nothing.
All that needed to be fixed was taking the crit buff out of the dexterity mastery
If the AS that placed defenders. Had chosen to place more diverse defenders, they would win. And have an easy win at that. Maybe instead of placing 10 mordo's & 10 NC's, they could of had 80% of their defenders being unique/diverse.
You get 150 pts/Attacker kill
You get 50 pts/defender placed
You get 125 pts/unique defender/diversity.
You have a max amount of defenders/Attacker kills (150).
22.5K Attacker Kills.
- 7.5K defenders placed.
= 15K/125 (diversity) = 120 unique defenders.
That means, if 40 out of 50 defenders/BG are unique, you'd have 22.5K for defenders placed & diversity. Leaving the defender rating pts for a tie breaker. The point system isn't flawed, ppl just aren't taking advantage of the 18.75K possible pts from diversity.
Thank you for this. Saved me some time.
1. Free mastery setup. As the detective mastery now is obsolete, we can use the point elsewhere. But why do we need to spend units to rearrange the whole mastery setup, so free mastery setup is required.
2. At least one rank down ticket, many great defenders are now irrelevant because of the diversity rating system, so we need at least have the chance to change it to better fit the new agenda.
with just that change, new AW would still be awful/boring
When placing champs, there would be a message indicating that a particular champ was already placed and to choose an alternate champ. This would promote better strategy within each alliance to ensure the best champs are being brought.
Introduce nodes that favor champs that are rarely useful in AW, such as SG, KK, LC, IP, etc.
Lastly, work with the players, not against us; give us rank down tickets to make better use of the new AW setup to give us hope and excitement, as opposed to frustration and anger.
And we're not stupid Kabam. Your intent with AW 2.0 was to get us to spend more by taking out defender kills, but that's not working out for you in practice so I'm sure you're cooking up ways to actually FORCE us to spend more and line your pockets.
I don't expect any good to come out of your proposed changes because I'm sure it'll be worse than it already is.
Whatever you decide, realize that short term money success will only bite you in the butt when you constantly ignore and screw over your playerbase.
Pick up your phone, Call
Seatin man of legends
&
Brian Grants
Those two speak for the community pretty well and have two of the largest you tube channels in the game.
Or just talk to anyone with above average skill.
If your "testers" aren't at an aw tier 1 skill level then they are not the type of people that need to be giving advise on game changes.
The problem with that is when it comes to feedback, you need to consider all Levels. There's definitely a place for feedback from Tier 1, but there are all ranges of Players, and the changes affect everyone. It's best to have a cross-section from a range of Levels.
Putting limit on placen one of each champion is ridiculous who wants to r5 the lower and **** champions like groot Gwen fixit ect to win a war for few shards I wouldn be bothered wasten cats to rank any **** champions it's not like kabam make it easy get them with amount of fragments and drop rate for full cats from aq is dreadful old aw was much better
So what about screen shot of war that's goin around of alliance that didn't place any defence but won war cuz they screwed other alliance out of kills
while that's true, without defender kill points new AW is just plain BORING.
What's sad is there were countless posts by loyal game patrons clearly pointing out weeks ago in this very thread that the changes to war did not address the primary issues with war in it's old format. I truly hope you guys figure out that it is not just scoring that needs addressing with war. It's cheating, it's alliances that play the shell game (due to rewards that do not meet the cost-benefit rule), and it's a poor match-up system.
If you develop a war system that better rewards it's players and makes it actually fun then you wouldn't have to worry about people trying to find ways to exploit the system.
Might as well call it mystic wars. It was becoming stale for that reason and MD was nothing but a unit drain.
If you want to value defender diversity so it doesn't make AW repetitive, do it in a way where people can't take advantage of any loopholes.
And defender kills need to count! It's called war for a reason, it's not practice.
Make AW what it's supposed to be. A fun event where you test your best defense and offense against another team and see which team played and strategized the best, not who spent the most to win or who exploited flaws in the scoring system.
EDIT: I take it back on defender diversity. It's stupid. There's a reason we put Magiks and Dormammus on defense. Because they're the best. Having extra points for the sake of having a weaker but more diverse defense doesn't mean anything if they're not effective in combat.
You want more defender diversity, give us better defenders from a wide range of classes. And it'll only be a while before everyone fills the AW pool with those defenders anyway. We don't choose champions because of the way they look or which class they're from, we pick them based on their effectiveness.
It just feels like it was rushed with no performance optimization done.
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