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Developers Thoughts: Improving Alliance Wars Discussion Thread
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Easy peasy,
For cheaters - keep doing what you have been doing before but now remove the player from the alliance. The community has been saying this since forever
For matchmaking collusion - Do matchmaking pools where all alliances have a set period of time to enter the pool and the server matchmakes with its usual matchmaking algorithm. People wont be able to collude and find easier matches and match ups would be fair. Again the community has said this before
wow make AA BP and GP even more useless than they are now
This is only a major problem when people are kicked after the war season reward cutoff has been passed.
I just had 3 big accounts join my silver 2 ally today. Not complaining, but it seems a bit more than surprising.
What provisions are you considering to prevent the new alliance from being ruined also? I hate the idea of a scarlet letter, but.... The only other option is to not let a first time offender (in that alliance) cause any alliance level punishment. This means they could jump from ally to ally, unless there is a clear ban schedule (3 strikes, etc).
And will you be documenting the ban schedule for offenders for all aspects of the game so everyone know what to look for to identify cheaters and what the impact is if you cheat? How long they are banned for, what they are banned for (arena, aw, story, etc) and what the impact is?
We didn't chat much at NYCC, but I did mention this topic (about the tourney).
Here's an idea for people caught cheating. You offer them a chance to submit a ticket saying yes I cheated for half of the rewards back the first time. The second time it's a 1/4 of the rewards back. The 3rd time they lose all rewards and are banned forever. Players not willing to admit they cheated lose all rewards and still are banned for ever after the 3rd time. The benefit is knowing who is cheating because the rewards do matter that much to top players. However either way the player has to admit it or lose everything. It's like an honor system.
I would like to see a tie breaker system. I don't think a war should ever end in a tie.
I would like to see points getting awarded for defensive kills. Keep the attack bonus to reward player skill, but also award points for good AW placement.
Lastly, I I have an idea for cool node in my opinion. The node would have the standard attack and defense bonuses for whatever region of the map it's in. But this node effect would awaken the character placed and give them their Max signature ability.
I get what you mean, but that would really suck for alliances like mine that run two war groups and cycle people in and out
Imo i don't like this global nodes but for recruitment tool and updating search tool, it's gonna be super helpful and less stressful for all summoners
I'm from +10 time zone and it's hard to find alliances from the same time zone and that matches the difficulty which someone is looking for
Because that would be a bad idea.
With that said I'm looking forward to no longer seeing the trinity on 9 out of 10 attack teams per bg.
They're specifically wanting us to use other Champs on attack - so yes - your favorite vampire hunter might not be the best choice anymore...adapt! Put him on defense, use him in AQ, use him in story mode....Break out that cyclops! 😂
Not necessarily, because those guys would still be in the same alliance. I was thinking more for people who jump alliances. As long as you're with the same alliance there's no penalty. And whatever alliance you are with when the final 5 wars start that's the one the percentage of rewards is based on. Great point tho. At least it wasn't shot completely down.
I kinda agree with this. Make defense synergy viable will push ppls to use different champs even if they are a terrible defender... But maybe put in a balancing, negative debuff for each synergy that is active so we have to think twice on what synergy to apply, debuff can be something like dash vulnerability... Maybe you guys can introduce more negative buff...
And of course now, also makes deep wounds irrelevant in alliance war despite so many people ranking that to full.
Finalily, the claim that you don’t want people to be so reliant on one champ or that the rng to get that champ or not get that champ is not your intention is laughable for 2 reasons.
1. That’s the entire idea behind your featured grand master crystals. You have been coming out with god tier champs and encouraging people to test heir luck there. It’s entirely rng based
2. Where rng should be eliminated is he season war rewards—which has been brought up before. People getting the bare minimum possible of t5bs and t2as while others in the ally who may have done less get more rewards bc of “rng” is simply a dumb game idea. I understand it from the champ perspective (although you now say it’s aupoosedly not the point of the game). It makes zero sense from rewards perspective.
So in summary:
1. Stop nerfing blade with every change. People already aren’t placing villains and mystics meaning he’s not OP anyway.
2. Make season rewards not rng dependent if you want to make a productive change.
Even if you do not agree with the proposed changes or wish they would go farther, you must agree that having the open dialogue and being willing to discuss these future changes and plans is a giant step forward in their communication with the community of players. Again I want to thank KABAM and encourage you to continue with more of this going forward!
When they come up with ideas like this, it reinforces my belief that the developers don’t actually play the game.
2. How will these global buffs improve defender diversity?
3. Are any specific nodes being adjusted?
4. Will the rewards change?