**WINTER OF WOE - BONUS OBJECTIVE POINT**
As previously announced, the team will be distributing an additional point toward milestones to anyone who completed the Absorbing Man fight in the first step of the Winter of Woe.
This point will be distributed at a later time as it requires the team to pull and analyze data.
The timeline has not been set, but work has started.
As previously announced, the team will be distributing an additional point toward milestones to anyone who completed the Absorbing Man fight in the first step of the Winter of Woe.
This point will be distributed at a later time as it requires the team to pull and analyze data.
The timeline has not been set, but work has started.
There is currently an issue where some Alliances are are unable to find a match in Alliance Wars, or are receiving Byes without getting the benefits of the Win. We will be adjusting the Season Points of the Alliances that are affected within the coming weeks, and will be working to compensate them for their missed Per War rewards as well.
Additionally, we are working to address an issue where new Members of an Alliance are unable to place Defenders for the next War after joining. We are working to address this, but it will require a future update.
Additionally, we are working to address an issue where new Members of an Alliance are unable to place Defenders for the next War after joining. We are working to address this, but it will require a future update.
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This sounds like you can be as committed to AW as you like in the off season - test nodes/placement or just throw in randoms to get the rewards.
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The problem with trying to stop manipulation is that players will always find a way to get around any restrictions. Either that or you end up with such draconian restrictions that you end up hurting innocent players.
The far better way is just to change the incentives/rewards structure so that manipulation is not rewarded. Been saying for ages that the far more elegant solution would have been simply to ensure that starting at a lower war rating will never benefit the alliance in a War Season (such as by adjusting the multiplier). Another way would have been to make individual war win rewards at higher rating sufficiently high that alliances would not want to miss out on those individual war rewards. Kabam had opportunity to do either of these, but dropped the ball.
Every war rating should be reset to 0 at the start of the season.
Maybe just leave the alli's ever top war rating as a recognition emblem or trophy. It would solve the problem of tanking and shell alli's all at once.
From there on, you can try to work on a proper solution for the "mismatching".
How many tankers are there outside of Plat? Is it really that hard to tell who tanks? I would think it would be quick work to trace the flow of players from alliance to alliance at the most competitive levels. I realize there is a potential ripple effect, but I doubt anyone is that concerned about an ally barely in Silver 3 dropping to Bronze 1 to start out the next season to get extra 3* shards. That doesn’t seem game-breaking.
Dr. Zola
I think in this instance the proper way to resolve is just to change the war rating loss to 0 instead of a negative number. That way if alliances still wanted to move up, they can and alliances can no longer lose war rating to drop them down to a lower tier.
Second, I'm not sure why so many people think this, but just because you don't lose rating doesn't mean you're not going to drop to a lower tier. You don't drop to a lower tier because you lose rating, you drop tier when enough alliances gain a higher rating than you. That can happen if you lose rating obviously, but it can also happen if enough alliances lower than you gain rating while you stay the same.
Alliances that lose wars will still drop in overall placement relative to alliances that win wars even if the losers lose no rating, because the winners are still gaining. They will just drop half as fast. That still means they can drop to a lower tier eventually, unless everyone immediately below them fails to win any wars.
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