New Alliance Wars Matchmaking System & Season 8 Details

cradleman · February 2019

This system stinks. Attack starting for us at 10 AM central time. The officer that sets defense for our bg is on pacific time so it's 8 am for him. If we find a match immediately defense phase ends at his 7 am. We also have EU and India players. This is an awful system that works for no one. The only way this works is it all matches are released at the END of matchmaking phase. Then 20 hours. Then war attack. That would start attack 24 hours from when matchmaking begins, which is reasonable. Please fix this junk.

Edit to add: this would also give alliances four hours to add new members without penalty since they would be in before the match was released to participate in.

Mr_Platypus · February 2019

New system is complete garbage.
7pm (UTC) starts were already questionable for some, but this is so much worse, atleast allow people to pick a start time option.

Id ask if you tested any of this but we all know any answer other than “no” is about as true as Miike saying all war attack phases start at the same time under the new system

Jskeete54 · February 2019

How is this improved from the old matchmaking system? We most likely got matched with a masters alliance. It’s a clear mismatch and will result in a loss. There’s no competitive aspect of this. It’s like a college football team playing an nfl team. @Kabam Miike

djr17 · February 2019

Kabaam: 100% war exploration shouldn't be a regular thing.

Players: 100% maps.

Kabaam: add more nodes. mini bosses, globals.

Players: 100% maps.

Kabaam: Mess with start time.

Players:...TBD

Skunc · February 2019

So, what’s the reason that the war is starting now instead on 11am PST like the original post said?

Soup071506 · February 2019

So a player has to be in an alliance before the enlistment to be able to participate? I thought we could recruit during enlistment up until the placement phase. Now we are going to war short handed.

bdawg923 · February 2019

What happened to wars beginning at 11 am PST? Our war is starting at 8:30 PST, is this a bug?

Yohanbark420 · February 2019

THIS IS HORRIBLE! I start wars at 8pm est. This new system is going to have most my all doing war during the work day??? This is gonna force ally to find players in their own time zones. This is broken .. why do you guys make more problems???? Thnx for putting a big ol monkey wrench into wars now.. THNX !! 🤬🤬🤬🤬😡😡😡

Raganator · February 2019

Not that it hasn't already been stated, but just to add another opinion - this is already a broken system.

Sunstruck · February 2019

Why placement phase ending so quickly or only 8am PST. It was announced to be end at 11pm PST and attack phase will start. Is it a bug

Shrimkins · February 2019

Kabam Lyra wrote: »

Hey Summoners,

This is how the matchmaking system is meant to function, but we're sorry that our announcement post did not have enough detail. How the matchmaking system works is that everyone enters the matchmaking phase at the same time, but throughout the matchmaking period, once your Alliance has found a match, the Defense phase of the war will begin and the Attack phase will begin 20 hours later.

This somewhat staggered approach is necessary because of the server strain that would be caused if all wars began at exactly the same time.

We appreciate the feedback and will be monitoring Alliance activity in the case that adjustments need to be made in the future.

uhh what about this?

Kabam Miike wrote: »

MRod77 wrote: »

So those of us with jobs who started AW's when people got home from work so we can maximize our times, will now be relegated to having to start when Kabam tells us sometime during this 5hr window??? So now if a match is found for us right off the bat then we will have to coordinate while people are still at work or commuting home?? Not very efficient at all.

When a match is found does not determine when your Attack phase will start. Attack Phase will now start at the same time, every time.

Not have enough detail? How about the wrong detail?

Lialechka · February 2019

The system isn’t working as intended, obviously.
If not fixed in time for the season, it’s better to use the old system.

There is one more issue, the raiting gain/drop during off season should be set to 0.

It will give insentive to actually fight the wars for the rewards instead of trying to drop the raiting for the season.

Raganator · February 2019

Lialechka wrote: »

There is one more issue, the raiting gain/drop during off season should be set to 0.

It will give insentive to actually fight the wars for the rewards instead of trying to drop the raiting for the season.

What about alliances that are trying to increase their rating in the offseason?

Bianco · February 2019

Aw just started... it’s not like you announced. Attack should start 11 PST time. What is going on „geniuses” from Kabam

Sunstruck · February 2019

What is going on @Kabam Miike @Kabam Lyra why attack phase started so early? Not as mentioned earlier.

PeacockJazz · February 2019

So much for planning on a break at work to set your defensive map when Attack phase starts 2 hours and 15 minutes earlier than it was announced that it would start.

Archdemon_ · February 2019

Yep this has started way too early for anyone Europe based... new schedule sucks if it's staying like this. You're basically excluding anyone of working age in europe from the final closing hours of attack... well thought out Kabam... Well thought out *SMH*

The timing of war was NOT BROKE so dont fix it! start it at the same as before but set it to a universal exact starting time if you must!

Encore · February 2019

This is absolutely disgusting. AW war now started at 2 am for most Australians and 4-5am for New Zealanders. Great Bloody Job.

Vegas110 · February 2019

I wanted to try it before saying something... with the old system we could start at a time that was generally easy to work around our schedules and everyone could participate in a positive way. This new system is terrible. Starting at 11am pacific time wasn’t the end of the world as we normally started at 12 pacific time or around the same time AQ went live. Starting at 8am pacific time means we’re not completing anything anymore.
Thanks for assuming that the entire world can live and play within your time zone kabam...
Also if the system changed to where all wars don’t start at the same time why did we need to change the time to 20 hours it seems super unnecessary...

Mr_Platypus · February 2019

@Kabam Lyra here’s my feedback, the system is garbage starting wars several hours before we’ve EVER been able to before, revert the system to the old one or deal with the stupidly early war starts.
Collusion is better than this absolute mess you fools have come up with

BlackSaChi · February 2019

With new war matchmaking system how do we control when our war starts? Our full team is most US based.. for us the attack phase is already started , but most are either in school or office and can not play for next 8 hours.

DoctorJ · February 2019

The amount of conflicting info from game team is SAD.

You guys really need to get this together and explained correctly.

DarkGuarDN · February 2019

Vegas110 wrote: »

I wanted to try it before saying something... with the old system we could start at a time that was generally easy to work around our schedules and everyone could participate in a positive way. This new system is terrible. Starting at 11am pacific time wasn’t the end of the world as we normally started at 12 pacific time or around the same time AQ went live. Starting at 8am pacific time means we’re not completing anything anymore.
Thanks for assuming that the entire world can live and play within your time zone kabam...

completely my thoughts on this... 11am PT wasn't bad... but 7am PT is way worse. This is going to mean we'll have to finish war before we go to bed or get up way early. This was definitely not what was depicted in your info graphic on the first page of this post.

DTMelodicMetal · February 2019

Yohanbark420 wrote: »

THIS IS HORRIBLE! I start wars at 8pm est. This new system is going to have most my all doing war during the work day??? This is gonna force ally to find players in their own time zones. This is broken .. why do you guys make more problems???? Thnx for putting a big ol monkey wrench into wars now.. THNX !! 🤬🤬🤬🤬😡😡😡

Thank those "top alliances" who found ways to match tier 3 alliances for entire seasons

chrissbjordann · February 2019

Cmon Kabam. This is not good.

Arpollito · February 2019

What’s gonna happen Now @Kabam Mike I had two members join during enlistment befor matchmaking started!!! I think this war should be a wash!!!

Bertyb · February 2019

Classic kabam

Ravi1987 · February 2019

This is ridiculous Kabam not only are the timings beyond random and uncontrollable to suit each individual alliances team time zones u have also made it so that alliances who hit map6 in an during defence placement can no longer do this as your system affectively locks us out for 2 days of aq. When we controlled matchmaking there were no issues so why when you take control does the servers feel a strain???
@Kabam Miike

Topodesign · February 2019

we had a member join during enlistment and he wasnt able to join wars... and the time was not at 11pst as mentioned... thanks for killing this war for us we are short handed due to guys thinking they had time to join still

Ravi1987 · February 2019

You have beefed the aq rewards but made it impossible to play higher maps because war blocks now blocks that

New Alliance Wars Matchmaking System & Season 8 Details

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