War staring times ruining the game
Theduder55
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The new war timing is flat out insulting and on verge of discrimination against your pacific time zone players. It now ends when we are getting up and starting work, are we supposed to rearrange our schedules cause Kabam wants to put more control in the game????
Why can’t we start when we want? It has worked for years!!! Please change this back and focus on fixing what is wrong with the game instead of adding features that are going to keep breaking the game.
You have serious bugs and gameplay issues that are causing connection dropouts and unresponsivness during fights but instead of working those bugs out you start changing staring times and adding new features to confuse people????
Why can’t we start when we want? It has worked for years!!! Please change this back and focus on fixing what is wrong with the game instead of adding features that are going to keep breaking the game.
You have serious bugs and gameplay issues that are causing connection dropouts and unresponsivness during fights but instead of working those bugs out you start changing staring times and adding new features to confuse people????
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I get they are trying to fix the cheating but do it without screwing those alliances up that aren’t and have to work around daily lives.
I hope they fix this, it’s very short sided and half-baked IMO.
@Theduder55 - We are actively listening to you all and absolutely taking every point of comment/suggestion/feedback you give us about this. We understand this hasn't been an ideal situation for many and we are hearing your voices in it. We are listening and we are discussing it profoundly with the rest of the team.
I think the only way a set start time will have a chance at working is if the just get rid of energy for aw. It's rare that you don't have energy to finish in time. The problem is having the energy when you can be on.
That is what was initially stated, they have since said there was miscommunication in the original announcement about it. There was also a graphic showing that all wars started at the same time.. again.. that was apparently misunderstood by the community.. It seems to me that whoever was disseminating the information didn't actually know what was to be rolled out.. a matter of one hand not talking to the other..
If kabam changes it so diff alliances can start at diff brackets, it will be exploited by those at the top to not intentionally match.,
https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/120068/new-alliance-wars-matchmaking-system-season-8-details#latest
Feel free to skim it and see how many do not like things as they are. I don't think back pedaling to the old system is a good idea. Just the same, this new system needs some work. Those that have to start/end at 7 AM or earlier dependent upon which timezone you're in for sure do not agree that the start time is 'perfect.' Perfection implies that there's nothing better. In that respect, it is FAR from perfect. Also, as shown from the quote, things are gonna change.
I appreciate that it’s being discussed to hopefully improve the situation because that’s important. While I am skeptical anything meaningful will be done until I see it with my own eyes, I find it extremely disappointing and distressful that this change was implemented presumably with the belief that this was a GOOD idea/system to begin with. Who thought this was going to work? They must not actively play the game...like at all.
Ok I didn't see that. So 7 am PST is going to be the start time throughout next season?
They don't need to go back to the old system. They just need to add an option for a start time. They could have minimum of 3: 7 am PST, 3 pm PST, 11 pm PST. Not perfect, but it would alleviate some of the concerns.
War starts at a specific time and runs for 24 hours. Everyone has to sleep, work and eat approximately the same number of hours, and aw just takes up a few minutes. Really isn't a big deal.
The big upside is that cheating alliances can no longer collude and say, "lets start war at this time so that we can get matched to each other". Doesn't seem like much difference, but top alliances will know this is a big deal.
Except half our alliance is asleep the last 7 hrs of war. It doesn’t work for us at all. They need to have three (or more) windows to start. It will stop collusion (which is the point) and we can pick a time where we can actually participate.
Are you actively listening to all of us concerning the champion challenge as well? You seem awfully quiet about that.
AW/AQ energy doesn't work like that
Doesn’t work like that. We have people in Europe that unlink the people from western U.S. who will be asleep by the time they’re unlinked. We might be able to make it work if we reconfigured all 3 bgs by time zones intead of defender diversity and line assignments but that’s pretty freak’n stupid to have to do. I’m pretty sure we’ll just opt out of aw until they fix it.
They should implement a time window as to when you want matchmaking to happen.