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Addressing the State of Alliance Wars - Changes and Comp Planned [UPDATED]
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So Diversity Points (270) are still on an even multiple of the *RECENT CHANGE* Attack Bonus points (90 per Bonus) ?
*FYI, a prior thread discussed this Attack Bonus change happened at beginning of this past off-season. Changed from 80x to 90x. (not widely known though. ie @Crys23 calculations in their earlier comment up above)
In that thread, it was mentioned that Kabam may have done it to adjust Total Potential points back to what they were before the Map Adjustment (no longer the extra 5 empty nodes, new 3 mini-islands, etc).
But since points are only relative to your opponent, didn’t feel there was a need for that. And now with Diversity change, that really changes Total Points versus what it used to be anyways.
**so, can Attack Bonus be rolled-back to 80x (like most people assume it still is, but it isn’t), so that Bonus, Diversity, and Node Explore could all on different multiples of each other
I am concerned with the change to 90x that this will result in more TIES, since now Attack Bonus and Diversity are on even multiples. (last 4 weeks has been 30 vs 90. But even now, 270 vs 90, still an even 3x multiple).
Couple that with the ridiculous xmagica node causing alliances to have 100+ deaths per war is simply embarrassing for Kabam. If you're not embarrassed, you should be!
Just cancel the season already and give all us rewards. Save face while you still can.
This is a classic point “The combination of tactics and the recent wave of difficult defenders has resulted in many Alliances relying on multiples of the same defender. This, obviously, was an unintended behaviour” it might have been an unintended behaviour but how could it not have been foreseen as an inevitable one. Of course this was going to happen.
The changes are good, but honestly this feels like another occasion where game design is poorly conceived, poorly implemented, we tell you, you ignore us, we stop playing, or playing competitively (using units or cash) or and then Kabam responds as low and behold our original views are proven to be correct. If the game isn’t fun we don’t want to play.
But great to see some changes are finally happening. Hopefully you can review your future AW metas and make sure they are not soul destroying as well.
And yes, I agree, points for diversity and attack bonus should be on different multiples of eachother.
I have just seen that "nerf". Some changes are good. But...
Between now and the next Friday war, that leaves very little time to review the entire defense. During the week we also work incidentally...
You didn't have to be clairvoyant to guess that a lot of teams weren't going to play for diversity with this global tactic
Kabam, you are changing the rules of the game in the middle of the season.
It's not correct, it s unfair
Like a few years ago, everyone who has multiple accounts will benefit unfairly 🤦
With experience, how is it possible to reproduce this error?
Its really annoying to know that we lost wars cause cause some new people couldn't place defenders, that this won't get fixed until next update (btw some members left so we will have the same problem until update) and then the compensation will be tier based when we dropped 2 tiers atm...
Also changing it to 1 war participation makes it easier for people to just leave an alliance that failed due to the defender placing bug.
Agh its almost comical.
Then also get the end season compensation..
I will also say I can’t speak on behalf of the bug that affected alliances’ inability to place defenders and/or enlist in war. I hope those affected will receive appropriate compensation, but I am hopeful that these changes will bring back the fun of AW