Solution to AW Manipulation/Piloting

I recently came across this image on this forum which shows line chat history of a top alliance. The line chat history is a schedule 16 very strong alliances in MCOC use to find AW matches so they can avoid going against each other. The 16 alliances have been inked out so that this post doesn't violate Kabam's Terms of Service.

Allowing this sort of AW matchmaking manipulation, as well as AW piloting, is detrimental to the integrity of MCOC and discouraging to alliances with aspirations of moving up AW tier ranks once Alliance Wars Season 1 begins. Imagine if the NFL made their schedule so that the Patriots never played the Seahawks, or the Steelers never played the Ravens, or the Chargers never played the Raiders, because doing so would allow certain teams to have "better" records. Same goes for the NBA - the Lakers never playing the Celtics, the Warriors never playing the Cavs, or the Raptors never playing the Thunder would be bad for business.

For forum members who prefer video games, extend the metaphor to EVO - Infiltration never fighting Fuudo, Justin Wong never fighting Tokido, and Daigo never fighting Snake Eyez would make EVO much more boring to watch. I'm not saying that the best should only fight the best, only that according to Alberto Braga (game designer in the recent video done by @Ad0ra_ and @Kabam Miike), the best intentionally avoiding fights with the best goes against the entire purpose of Alliance Wars Seasons.

While I don't have a suggestion for preventing AW manipulation as described above, does anyone else think alliances who utilize AW piloting being disqualified from Alliance Wars Seasons rank rewards could solve the ongoing AW piloting problem?

Comments

rwhack

Matchmaking room doesn't exist anymore. They would not get 3 wars in if they used it. Problem solved.

Piloting...don't know what to tell you but the next season is 3 months long. That's a long time for a pilot to fly.

Riegel

What I've learned from this thread:

Redacted.

DTMelodicMetal

Riegel wrote: »

What I've learned from this thread:

Redacted.

Have you tried loving Kabam with all your heart? That seems to have worked for some players.

Sarcasm aside, one pattern I'm starting to see is moderators waiting for a thread to go off task before intervening because that way a thread can be closed for violating a forum rule. What's more discouraging is when a thread is closed down without explanation because it doesn't violate a forum rule.

It's not easy to backup why decisions are made when there are threads/posts that go back for months that contradict and/or disprove the logic behind those decisions.

Mainer123

DTMelodicMetal wrote: »

Wasn't expecting this thread to come back. But since it did, the above image is evidence of a matchmaking technique used for years that caused war ratings to be so high.

Sounds like high BS war ratings to me How many lower alliances have half the war rating they should have had if they had a fair draw of opponents.

juST4fUN

As far as i know kabam dont track just using IP, there are other methods , IMEI , Android ID etc to track. In a nutshell if they want to track and punish they can, the key word here is want

GroundedWisdom

I feel like the only thing that will make some happy is

Primmer79

GroundedWisdom wrote: »

I feel like the only thing that will make some happy is

THE BAN HAMMER!!

Kyndranna

GroundedWisdom wrote: »

I feel like the only thing that will make some happy is

I feel like banning the cheaters is the right thing to do

DTMelodicMetal

juST4fUN wrote: »

As far as i know kabam dont track just using IP, there are other methods , IMEI , Android ID etc to track. In a nutshell if they want to track and punish they can, the key word here is want

They can. A family relative who’s worked with homeland security recently described the process by which companies are able to monitor consumers’ internet access. Didn’t understand all the details but the main point was the process is not a hard one.

Anonymous

Kabam won’t address account sharing/piloting unless there are mods involved. It probably takes a lot of work to prove someone account shared (maybe idk), so they just utilize the software in place to determine mods.