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Tanking should not be the advantage in season
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Off season tanking is a clear advantage for the alliances that lower their war rating on purpose by not placing defenders.. How?
An alliance that has 3400-3500 war rating (MNG-ASR, Iso8a etc) has no chance to face weak alliance in the season. Even with +5 -60, the opponent will be the equal alliance but that alliance with lower war rating because of tanking will face 80% much weaker alliances that will leave many nodes up that will give them unfair advantage against other alliances.
Season wars are like who will get the weaker alliance that will not explore the map and leave many nodes up. For that you have to lower your war rating.
Kabam you have to change your multiplier system to avoid this. Tanking proves that too many alliances are in the same tier that has the same multiplier.
For example; top 35 alliances are in Tier 1 and have x7 multiplier. Both the alliance with 3500 war rating and the alliance with 2990ish got the same points but they do not face the similar alliances.
The alliance with 2990 war rating can have a high chance to match 2700 war rating alliance which is very weak compared to them.
An alliance that has 3400-3500 war rating (MNG-ASR, Iso8a etc) has no chance to face weak alliance in the season. Even with +5 -60, the opponent will be the equal alliance but that alliance with lower war rating because of tanking will face 80% much weaker alliances that will leave many nodes up that will give them unfair advantage against other alliances.
Season wars are like who will get the weaker alliance that will not explore the map and leave many nodes up. For that you have to lower your war rating.
Kabam you have to change your multiplier system to avoid this. Tanking proves that too many alliances are in the same tier that has the same multiplier.
For example; top 35 alliances are in Tier 1 and have x7 multiplier. Both the alliance with 3500 war rating and the alliance with 2990ish got the same points but they do not face the similar alliances.
The alliance with 2990 war rating can have a high chance to match 2700 war rating alliance which is very weak compared to them.
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Unless you are in a high platinum level alliance then why deal with expert maps..
Some people don’t enjoy using a ton of resources just to get 109% and lose for an app xtra 1k shards 4 weeks later.
Kabam created this system
1. Scoring system encourages this behavior. There should be NO bonus points awarded for defenders remaining. If this is removed it will also take care of collusion issues (e.g. I am guaranteed Platinum 1 rewards so I will leave defenders for my opponent, to let them score more points and rank in Master at the end of the season).
2. Matchmaking is based purely on AW rating so there is insentive to lose wars (aka Tanking) in off season to get easy matchups as OP mentioned.
3. Punished alliances getting easy wars and still get to collect season rewards - this one really makes no sense. Even banned players just waited one week and got their season 4 rewards. These alliances can easily clear the map vs easier opponent with 9 per BG so they can afford waiting for at least 3 banned players
4. Kabam had to reset AW rating for inactive alliances. If alliances is abandoned don’t let them keep their rating for months. That’s how a well known alliance that was punished multiple times in season 4 is now in tier 1 and will compete with x7 multipllier next season.
The banned players all got nothing i'm pretty sure
I can think of one reason my above statement is false, which is alliances who tank uses so many boosts during AW Seasons it takes very little skill to clear difficult node/defender combinations. Even the least skilled tier 1 players don't die often when they start every AW fight with 50K+ health and 5K+ attack with 5/65 god tier attackers.
I cannot think of how this can be punished to correct the behavior, which means the practice of sandbagging has to put people who practice it at a distinct disadvantage during seasons where it matters.
OTTOMH Kabam could create more tiers in order to make large swings in war rating a negative thing for allies looking to maximize points during the season by lowering thier AW rating in the off season. They don’t need to adjust the rewards for new tiers they could add in more multipliers along with an increase in ge number of tiers.
There may also be a formula for how much war rating an ally wins/loses based on defenders placed and % explored.
Just spit ballin which is what needs to be done rather than simply pointing out the problem. Fairly sure Kabam sees this in their participation and activity metrics during the off season.
P.S. The situation is particularly bad for casual players who are unaware of what is happening. These causals are gifted rewards they happily accept during the off season but then during seasons are playing at a higher level than they would be absent the practice making their season extra stressful and thus significantly less enjoyable and fun.
Freeze AW rating ... nah nah thats just so bad , so bad ... must think of a complicated solution
No, it is that simple.you can climb up rankings when everyone is seriously playing, not in the off season
I was attempting to point out how useless the snarky dogmatic repost was to the topic. I feel that’s been illustrated at this point. Keep on believing brah.
I ran a master alliance for 2 seasons, we dropped rating during the off seasons as allot of members weren’t willing to use items. They would rather save them for when season wars came back around. So when we faced alliances during the off season that wanted to win, it was almost impossible to beat them without boosting and using items. So our war rating dropped.
And off the back of that, we decided to just place weaker defence so we could use our stronger champs in other areas of the game. If we weren’t going to push for wins cause guys didn’t want to use items, no point placing strong defence. And the other benefit was that the alliances we faced during the off season, wouldn’t know our season defence if we should happen to match them during seasons. But if they placed a strong defence, we would attack them and track it so that if we matched during seasons, we would know their defence.
So it’s not just a matter of tanking to face weaker alliances during seasons, we wanted our guys to be fully stocked with potions and boosts for when the wars counted most. While also giving them a break from the stresses of season wars.
So don’t be so quick to jump to conclusions when you see alliances doing this. Not everyone has the capability of trying to win every war. Kabam created this season/off season structure. Some alliances are just adapting the best way they can.