New Game Format: Alliance Wars Brackets

Hello everyone,

Wanted to throw this idea out there to see how the community feels about this idea.

Recently due to the repetitiveness of this game, lack of rewards, etc. we see veteran players stop trying to remain competitive. All in all, this game has gone stale.

The following suggestion I believe would motivate veterans to play competitively again.

Let's hold a playoff system every 2 weeks starting with a bracket of 64 teams. So this is how we do it, take the top ranked 64 teams from alliance war ratings out of the pool. Match them up 1 vs 64, 2 vs 63, etc. Once eliminated you go back into the original pool for normal match making.

So for the first week of this event you will have 64 teams, days 1 & 2, one day for defense and one day for offense. 32 teams, days 3 & 4, teams who lost go back to normal matchmaking. 16 teams, days 5 & 6, teams who lost go back to normal matching.

For week two you have the 8 teams for the Quarter Finals, days 1 & 2. Semi Finals, 4 teams for day 3 & 4. Finals, 2 teams for day 5 & 6. Champion will be crowned by end of day 6.

This proposal can be streamlined with the way Alliance Wars is setup now. The teams out of the top 64 would just continue life as normal while those who are ranked top 64 will be placed in a bracket until they suffer a defeat.

Would also be nice to reward those alliances who achieve a spot in this bracket. Better prizes are needed so that forfeiting would be discouraged. Alliance wars are expensive, especially when you have evenly matched teams, so we need much better rewards to justify the costs. At least double the prizes for round of 64 and increase it accordingly as alliances to push forward.

Hopefully I didn't confuse everyone

Thoughts?

Comments

VerusRexAces

Also would be cool and creative if there was a different twist every two weeks for the tournament.

For instance....

- 0 items or 5 items instead of 15 items is the cap for this tournament. Yes Kabam, you lose some revenue here but it does make the challenge of this tournament ever more fun.

- No Mystics can be used for the tournament. Forces teams to get creative and adapt.

- One battlegroup only for the entire tournament. So you can send your top 10'playwrs to one group and have it represent the whole alliance.

CDNYC

Kabam, hire this man code-play!!!

Primmer79

"no mystics" say hello to spideys and NC everywhere. otherwise i love the idea

LegendsForged

That is actually an awesome idea with the tourney and restrictions

FatherMD

Love the idea, fresh, creative & gives a spark to competition as well as spending for something worthwhile. Support it 100%

Clobberin_Time

Love this, and the people surrounding it truly represent where the heart of the game is for veterans. This would also allow AQ to become slightly less competitive, and maybe have the come al be all prize be a few of those crystals that were available at Christmas while the gifting event was going on. Not the gifting crystals, but something similar. If I remember correctly, they gave 5* shards, a chance at t2A, and 5* sig stones and awakening gems.

KlimmGod

Lmfao @FatherMD - we have to discuss that in Regen

Clobberin_Time

Well, since kabam has stated that they want AQ to be the main source of catalysts, and AW the main source of Shards, it would have to be some sort of ultimate shard Crystal that could give a huge payoff as well as a few jewel crystals from that old login calendar, but limited to 5*.

Ollyoxenfree

I think this is a terrible idea and refuse to support it.

Clobberin_Time

Who let Regen in?

Blezzzzzzzzz

Agreed!!! Feedback from the player community is crucial to longevity and growth of this game. I hope the Kabam can implement some of the suggestions in this thread. Otherwise, AW will become stale. Players of MCOC have a great deal of motivation to succeed, but the current AW format is limited.

HeroBoltsy

For the restrictions, I think you could rotate different restrictions every cycle of AW. Other than that, this is a wonderful idea. Fully support it.

Apocalypse189

This is something future fight has and it works a dream

Would support this for MCoC

Bassamista

Yeeesss. We need changes. Please listen to this man.
It is so boring lately

Zeke_the_Xbot

I think the real issue by the sounds of things is that being at the top all the time is boring because very few alliances are filled with individuals who can even compete with you on a skill and spending level am I wrong.

YoMoves

Why would you give Iso8A and MMXIV more shards? Is that fair to everyone else?

Lo4eath

nice to see the whales care about the game being "stale"! like your idea, ace

Ghost_BlaZe

I would agree with you, but all it does is makes the cream of the crop even more separated from the top. In total they'll be around 80 alliances that could actually make it into the brackets total, so unless it's the top 64 in each tier (and you should be able to see how well you are in YOUR TEIR) I don't think it would be a good idea, or at the very least not a fair one. Good idea on paper, not so effective in actuality

mostlyharmlessn

I like this idea a lot... I think it would be interesting to add a class restriction to it... so it would be a battle of just one class for offence, and one class for defense... so it could be a clash of something like -- Mutants only Defense, Skill only offence...

This way the offence always has to fight with a class disadvantage...

GT3_

I like the idea, just expand the pool to include more alliances. Much of the game is stale, we need fresh ideas like this to be implemented in order to bring more enjoyment to the game.

VerusRexAces

YoMoves wrote: »

Why would you give Iso8A and MMXIV more shards? Is that fair to everyone else?

The game is fun to many due to its competitive nature and typically you reward the winners. *mind blown moment*

No matter what format (new or old) is installed, MMXIV, ISO8A, C0RE, NY718, and all other competitive alliances will always capitalize on it.

Now if you were not competitive and treat this game as casual, then you shouldn't care at all if we get more shards.

THX_135

This is a really good idea.

I would recommend that we expand the pool to top 100-150 top AW alliances. That way alliances can opt out if they don't want to compete for certain weeks.

if the participation prizes in this playoff bracket are really good. (ie 5,000 5* shards and 1,000 T2A shards) then it would also stop alliances from swapping down into lower war alliances for easy wins and shards.

VerusRexAces

THX_135 wrote: »

This is a really good idea.

I would recommend that we expand the pool to top 100-150 top AW alliances. That way alliances can opt out if they don't want to compete for certain weeks.

if the participation prizes in this playoff bracket are really good. (ie 5,000 5* shards and 1,000 T2A shards) then it would also stop alliances from swapping down into lower war alliances for easy wins and shards.

Can do top bracket 1-64

Second bracket 65-128

Third bracket 129-192

Reason why 64 teams a bracket is to do the 2-weeks per tournament. This way also helps the newer alliances avoid facing the old veterans. Since #65 will be top seed in his bracket. As would #129.

SCZ

Top prize...internet ruler for epeens

gadgetfanatic

Great idea. Question though, if included in the top 64 alliances, do your war rating still go up or down for a win or a loss? I think this can have an effect if their ratings were paused and can positively create a cycling of alliances in the top spots. Also if this is the case, I can suggest this to just be the top 8 so this can only take one AW cycle so as to give these competetive alliances enough time to maintain their war ratings in the top if they lose out of the first or second match, rewards though have to be dialed down a bit compared to your top 64 war competition suggestion. And I would suggest a competition like this for each tier if possible or for every war rating bracket. I just have to note that how many war groups will be limited to who has the lesser members in a matchup. Both alliances should be able to compete with complete BGs. They can still though not put any for placement if they opted out of the competition.

gadgetfanatic

Also to add to my above suggestion, I'd like to open up war chat with the competitor alliance once matched. hehe. if many agree to it.

VerusRexAces

gadgetfanatic wrote: »

Great idea. Question though, if included in the top 64 alliances, do your war rating still go up or down for a win or a loss?

Each win or loss still should receive the same systemaric rating increase or decrease as our current system.

So at the end you will have a leaderboard same as now. But you will produce tournament results too.

Androggs

I like the idea. Are saying tourney for all tiers as well. Think it would be fair across all of mcoc. Rewards could be different for what tier your alliance is in.

Deadbyrd9

I want to see aw with 1 item. The alliance we are facing heals after every fight to avoid a ko

VerusRexAces

Androggs wrote: »

I like the idea. Are saying tourney for all tiers as well. Think it would be fair across all of mcoc. Rewards could be different for what tier your alliance is in.

Not sure how far Kabam would want to reward. But I think top 192 teams should be enough. Basically 3 brackets of 64.