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Sandbagging for the new AW season
Cranmer00
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Awesome kabam fixed the new matchmaking, but where did two of the top 7 master alliances go? 30 members to 1-3 and 27+ of them are now elsewhere...
Not naming anyone here but hmmmmmm
Not naming anyone here but hmmmmmm
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The other is sand bagging in a new much lower rated alliance.
New system created a problem. Market is finding a solution.
@Kabam Miike how does the game plan to address that having a high AW rating is a bad thing?
Said it before in kabams new world this is what it looks like if it was football/
Mount Union College can go undefeated playing DIII
Alabama can lose two games playing DI.
The national champion in kabams world is Mount Union.
Alliances are recognizing it and dropping down.
What solution do you have?
There are plenty of empty alliances in the leaderboard that are effectively taking up space in higher tiers. It’s like getting in the pool but in reverse
Fully agreed
Because every all 25+ players are there plus the leader
Keep an eye on Sensu this season
You mean Sensai or do you mean Blythe or Tram Runner?
I checked leaderboard and a few top 5 alliances are still the same members.
We can’t name alliances here. One alliance that happened to finish in top 5 master bracket last season swapped all members to an alliance that’s right at the bottom of tier 1 rating. This way they will get easier wars when season starts (and others around that rating will most likely lose unfortunately). I really hope there will be some kind of action taken, if there is no solution in place their AW rating should be reset IMO.
Not if all they did was move to a shell at the bottom of tier 1.... How does that equal less points?
That would not help them either. When a new war starts we all have 0 points, the first ranking, after the first weeks are based on how you did. If you are still in tier 1 you will be matched with other tier 1 alliances, so it is not a sandbag. In order to sandbag you would have to drop a tier, to be matched with similarly rated aliances, which would then drop your point gain. The lower you drop to have more easy fights the slower your point growth in that season.
Not really. Far more likely to match with someone mid to low tier 2 while at the bottom of 1 than if you were at the top
1) you dont really know where in the rankings for a tier you are
2) Even if you did the new system helps stop that.
I don't think the new system separates the tiers. Just pools everyone to match at once to make it far more likely to get a similarly rated match. Also most of the top tiers have a general idea where each start/stop
It's not a fool proof way to get an easier match but it would still work most of the time more than likely
It does not guarantee that the tiers are separated, but it does a vastly better job. The new system should help to ensure that in each round at most only 1 alliance in a higher tier will get matched against someone in a lower tier, so only one alliance can "sandbag", and you better hope you are on your game with it.
New alliances would take ages to catch up in rating
Lol 3500 is very different from 3000. 3000 War rating is basically bottom of tier 1 or high tier 2
Am not sure what your point is... With the new system very few people should get paired out of tier, and it is nearly impossible to know where you are in the tier very reliably.
Also you are way off, we are middle of gold one, top 1500 alliances, and at tier 5, so I am not sure where you think top 3k alliance would be tier 1 or 2.