**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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Our alliance was looking forward to at least 2 weeks off from war. We’re a high gold 1 alliance and it’s not draining during war, it’s about how draining it is to do placement, make sure all members are happy and keep them sane. If it wasn’t for the officers caring about me, I would have left and went to a silver alliance. The game becomes a choir when you’re running war on Christmas Day, New Year’s Day, thanksgiving night. Also really annoying to have to run quest on those days. I understand it’s a business but if we don’t run during those days, we lose our usual ranks and possible tiers.
We ran war because of seasons. Last year we didn’t run war on Christmas or thanksgiving because it didn’t really matter.
2 weeks off 4 weeks on is a great schedule (honestly 3 is better but we can’t ask for too much) I’m going on vacation next week and would have loved to be off from war and be a back up. Now I have to run my account because you don’t want to give us the 2 weeks we should have.
Zero only because (depending on where your ally lays tier-wise) it’s a waste of resources to use on an off-season match. Otherwise the week seems reasonable for anyone making roster changes
We already were doing just 1 BG last war season because of the bleed over onto Christmas Day (which made me feel like such a Scrooge) and New Years Day due to how the whole mode works (war starting on Sunday, placement lasting most of Monday, and Attack Monday night/Tuesday). I felt the break between Season 5 and 6 should've been the rest of the month of December. Yes, not everyone celebrates Christmas (I don't) but that doesn't mean they will not be caught up doing family things or school things (like finals) or any end of year work things.
We aren't very high up (Silver 2-3) so we aren't going to get anything "good" anyway. That's fine because we aren't trying to be the best.
On a scale of importance I would say this two week break is more important than any changes to the current AW setup, including, and not limited to: a fix of the matchmaking system (whatever that entails), any AW global nodes or changed difficulty, the fixing of timing issues for AW matchmaking. I would argue this is more important than developing any new end game content because we end game players won't have time to play it without this break. PLEASE just delay AW one more week. I, and many others, would really appreciate this.
P.S. We would have more time to die in variant and spent units and money reviving XD
I didn’t even bother with Maze because of timing and other content which has better rewards still not finished.
Give us a break guys
Everyone is not in agreement that the shorter break is essential. There are players saying they are indifferent to the shorter break and some even saying they prefer the shorter break. You aren't saying you want them to listen to the players, you are demanding that they listen to specific players, and ignore the others. Personally, I'd be happier with a longer break, but that doesn't mean the players that don't suddenly became invisible to me.[/quote]
My reply to those not in agreement to an increased break is to try being an Officer. Or at the very least be appreciative of all the free and hard work their O’s are doing on their behalf.
Hmm. I would argue indifferent is a much different opinion then the majority of players who are struggling to maintain AW season resources. This break is a recoup time. How do you feel when your breaks get slashed with so little warning? It's not fun. That is what is happening here. I'm asking for some consideration, thats all.
Realistically, the minimal break just made the decision easier. If / when I do find myself needing to go back to an alliance, it would be nice to find one that coasts through 5x5 and skips war altogether. The glory is save on pots would buy al the t2a shards I’d ever need. I’d say I’d miss the t5b shards but it was never that many in Gold 1 anyway.
And my last two seasons, i earned the absolute minimum rewards from my war crystals.
Its not worth the amount of boosts, healing potions, setting alarms to play, taking schedules bathroom breaks at work just to move in war, all for a few thousand fragments.
I'm 100% done with war competition. Thanks kabam. You stole the fun out of the competition. And burned me out.
If you have the ability to play seasons back to back then I would argue you aren't playing for rewards on your level. If its easy enough for you to face roll AW then you're not being challenged and the rewards aren't that great if 'they can't come fast enough.' It isn't a small percentage of players that are struggling to maintain their AW season resources. Its a good chunk of players at all levels of the game. This break isn't just from seasons. It is also a recovery from the gifting event and all the holiday and new years madness. A way for alliances to pull themselves back together in time for the next season.
You conveniently missed out the part on Matchmaking optimizations
While we’re at it let’s address the lacking rewards. AW season is 4 weeks of commitment and the rewards do not reflect that.
Well it was 2 months long with 1 month cooldown period originally.
Ah...silly me on that one. Either way, the point of aw being the main source of loyalty (outside of the daily 1k from helping ally) for higher AQ maps is ridiculous
When I initially announced to our Alliance earlier today that we'd be taking it easy this weekend and only running 1, MAYBE 2 wars... I got DMs thanking us (leadership) for it. We all just pushed through the Holidays full steam. A few players are STILL on vacation and we made it work none the less. As I said before, many are in agreement that 2 weeks would be much better than 1 off. I know we don't speak for everyone, but the majority seem to agree.
We can only hope that this gets taken into consideration. I do like the idea proposed, giving the Alliance a choice of Global Nodes. It would indeed make things interesting. I just can't seem to wrap my head around how giving us only 1 week off will help matters. You'd think 2 weeks off the Season would give everyone more time to get things in order. The players and Kabam. Maybe I'm missing something here. Just can't figure out how it pertains to the aforementioned things. I get that AW Season promotes more playing, and in turn, more items being spent. I get that. How that pertains to making changes to AW is beyond me.
Players try to leave alliances after AQ ends.
And, in many cases, there's very little advance warning given. So, in practice, that leaves only the 3 days between AQs (if you're lucky!) to recruit replacements.
That means having to accept lower quality players, maybe even players whom nobody knows. If some of them turn out to be breaking the TOS then the whole alliance gets punished. If no replacements can be found then AQ and war must be run with fewer than 30, which adds a great deal of stress to those still in the alliance.
It's very easy for individuals to declare that they are going to take a break from burn out. It's not so easy for the players left behind.