**WINTER OF WOE - BONUS OBJECTIVE POINT**
As previously announced, the team will be distributing an additional point toward milestones to anyone who completed the Absorbing Man fight in the first step of the Winter of Woe.
This point will be distributed at a later time as it requires the team to pull and analyze data.
The timeline has not been set, but work has started.
There is currently an issue where some Alliances are are unable to find a match in Alliance Wars, or are receiving Byes without getting the benefits of the Win. We will be adjusting the Season Points of the Alliances that are affected within the coming weeks, and will be working to compensate them for their missed Per War rewards as well.

Additionally, we are working to address an issue where new Members of an Alliance are unable to place Defenders for the next War after joining. We are working to address this, but it will require a future update.

does defender diversity count across battlegroups or just apply to each battlegroup individually

TP33TP33 Posts: 1,577 ★★★★
edited June 2022 in Strategy and Tips
basically the question above, trying to sort war defense
Post edited by Kabam Porthos on

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  • TP33TP33 Posts: 1,577 ★★★★
    thanks
  • ChatterofforumsChatterofforums Posts: 1,779 ★★★★★
    Little know/forgotten fact, when diversity was introduced, it was originally supposed to be count across all battle groups meaning all defenders in all battle groups. There was a bug and it went to individual battle groups instead and thankfully Kabam kept it this way.

    This was a rare occasion where not only did Kabam leave the bug in players favor but kept it permanent. Thankfully so, could you imagine trying to handle diversity across all 3 battle groups with no duplicates?
  • MaratoxMaratox Posts: 1,476 ★★★★★

    Little know/forgotten fact, when diversity was introduced, it was originally supposed to be count across all battle groups meaning all defenders in all battle groups. There was a bug and it went to individual battle groups instead and thankfully Kabam kept it this way.

    This was a rare occasion where not only did Kabam leave the bug in players favor but kept it permanent. Thankfully so, could you imagine trying to handle diversity across all 3 battle groups with no duplicates?

    Your alliance would need to have access to 2/3 of the entire champion pool including trophy champs for 100% diversity. Obviously that percentage will get lower with time but back when diversity was released it would have been incredibly difficult to do.
  • DNA3000DNA3000 Posts: 18,558 Guardian
    Maratox said:

    Little know/forgotten fact, when diversity was introduced, it was originally supposed to be count across all battle groups meaning all defenders in all battle groups. There was a bug and it went to individual battle groups instead and thankfully Kabam kept it this way.

    This was a rare occasion where not only did Kabam leave the bug in players favor but kept it permanent. Thankfully so, could you imagine trying to handle diversity across all 3 battle groups with no duplicates?

    Your alliance would need to have access to 2/3 of the entire champion pool including trophy champs for 100% diversity. Obviously that percentage will get lower with time but back when diversity was released it would have been incredibly difficult to do.
    That was actually explicitly intentional. It was supposed to be difficult to reach full diversity, because diversity placement was supposed to be a strategic element of placement. Do you place a diverse defender for the automatic points, or do you place a strong defender that might earn more points? That decision gets harder with each placed defender, because to continue to place diverse defenders requires going further and further down the list of suitable defenders. With diversity implemented per group, it became a lot easier to simply automatically maximize diversity at high tiers. That eliminated diversity as a scoring feature in competitive war: since everyone was placing maximally diverse defenders, those points essentially don't exist.

    My recollection is that it was kept this way as a concession, as at that time it was very difficult to find a combination of scoring features that the players wouldn't reject out of hand. group-based diversity happened to have fewer detractors than average.
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