**Mastery Loadouts**
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
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I don't have a problem with changing it per se, but how it is being done and with no consideration for those of us who ranked trash champs of for the sake of diversity is my issue.
I *think*, and honestly it is impossible to be sure, that what Kabam is trying to say there is that at the highest tiers of alliance war they want exploration - how much of the map that gets completed, including defeated nodes - to be the deciding factor in many or most wars. But instead, most of the time both sides fully explore the map, which means the war is decided on what I call "style points" - attacker bonus, in this case. They don't want that to be true, because who knows.
Conversely, at lower tiers they are finding that most alliances don't finish the map at all. So they are making them easier so they have a better shot at finishing the map, and they want to encourage those alliances to actually bring enough attackers to allow them to have a better shot at fully exploring the map.
In other words, they want most wars to end with one alliance finishing all or almost all of the map, and the other alliance finishing slightly less of the map, and if other things happen at a high enough frequency then some designer is literally upset about AW not working as intended. Which is frankly unfathomably odd. Well, its more than that, but that's the forum limit of how I can describe it.
What they seem to want is not just for alliance war to be a good competition, they want the *way* alliances win or lose to happen in a very specific way, that to me looks like trying to balance AW on top of a pencil standing on its point. On top of another pencil point. On the hood of a moving car.
And now the rub: there goes 8 t2a down the drain. My only recourse is to start alliance hopping hoping to see if I can find a crew capable of getting into platinum. (So much for the people I’ve spent the last 2 years getting to know.) Why? Because I’ve already beat act 5, and done the easy path of LOL. So for me to recoup these t2a will likely take me a year of gameplay. And meanwhile all these other top allys are going to fly ahead ranking top defense, while I have to sit back and wait for the next month’s EQ and maybe hope I get lucky with some map 6 AQ crystals.
But wait, we might have diversity again! So, I’m supposed to do what, hope this AW season goes down like a dumpster fire? Try to sow as much discontent as possible?
And I don’t even know if my ally will stick in there, too. Kabam sown so much discontent that it now becomes a chore to chat with team mates. What used to be a fun highlight of my day just becomes one of the lamest.
So maybe it’s just better to quit. At least give us the means to adjust to your new meta, though you can be sure I’m going to avoid ranking for diversity ever again, even if it ever comes back, and if I end up staying.
So defender diversity did not pre determine the war result as indicated by the announcement. You guys still needed to have a respectable attack bonus. In fact your example proves kabams premise wrong, it did in fact function as a tiebreaker.
I'd love to see ample evidence, and not just a one off, of how defender diversity was a problem bc it was pre determining wars in competitive aw during season 2.
Just don't do AW period... no aw no temptation to use items, no items used no units spent on items... at least that's how I'm approaching it.
Without diversity, you think that alliances couldn't place 10 Iron Mans IW, 20 Medusas, and god tier defenders?
Amazing...
Exactly, it wasn't a problem. It WAS the tiebreaker that they intended to be. We also ended winning a few wars because of diversity.
SO, no it was never the problem. Kabam is the problem.
Season 1&2:
Officer:do you have diverse defenders?
Me: yes i can rankup yj,hela,hulkmagneto
Officer:ok you are in
Season 3:
Officer: do you have best defender ?
Me: i hv diverse roster
Officer: Sorry
What to do now?
It was a little more then a tie breaker, it could at times change the outcome of a war where one alliance would get a bit more explore and diversity would then give the win to the other alliance.
Like I've said, if it was going to really act like a tie breaker, simply giving 1 point to the alliance with the most diversity would have truly made it a real tie breaker
Stop treating the game as a dictatorship ffs. Yes you own it but we pay the continuation of it.
Why keep changing aw to increase the need of item use, its a flat out cheap move, and incase you havent noticed, we have all noticed it.
Stop taking the piss out of us and let us enjoy a good game we are willing to pay into.
We have 5 r4 medusa, 3 r4 IMIW, countless MCs and dorms.
#BoycottMCOC2018