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Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
Unintended consequence of the AW rating freeze
TheMethod
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I am a member of the alliance Lions Den (L.D.1) and after finishing season 10 gold 2 we lost several members. Some looked to move up, some "retired" some moved down, i think 1 or 2 were let go. So our alliance took a step back. A rather large one. Our war rating was over 2000, and by the time our insanely crazy losing streak was over our rating was more like 1500. I believe we lost 13 of 14 wars, it may have been worse than that. A big part of that was that we were stuck playing alliances in that 2000 rating range, and while we competed we basically had no chance. So yeah. An unintended consequence of the ratings freeze is that our alliance, and probably a few others, got screwed over. It cost us several war win bonuses. And therefore i believe we deserve REASONABLE compensation. Kabam made this decision because of dishonest alliances and we paid for it as a result. I'm not asking for much, but we deserve SOMETHING.
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Your team got weaker. You deserve the losses. I don't see the problem. Please stop being so entitled. The fact that with a full strong squad you were able to hold on to a 2000 war rating doesn't mean you have any rights to that war rating.
Example take an alliance with a 3000 war rating for ease of the math.
3000 divided by 30 members = each member has rating of 100
If one of those members leaves and a new one comes in with possibly a lower rating of 90 points for themselves the alliance as a whole would now have 29 members at 100 and 1 at 90 giving a new rating of 2990
If an alliance wind or loses the point increase or decrease would be split amongst the whole alliance.
It could also track the best individuals in AW as they would have an individual war rating making alliances who focus on AW have an easier recruitment.
The only flaw is in less than 3 bg wars when one alliance may have top heavy members throwing the whole matchmaking off, but it can't be worse than it is now
That's separate from the fact that if Kabam changes the rules to reduce the impact of cheating, players can't expect compensation because they would have done better before the rules change. You don't have a right to favorable rules.
Your ally is where it needs to be now. That’s all that matters. What has transpired here is exactly how the game goes.
OP though I empathize with your situation, wouldn't it have been more practical to forego taking part in wars during the off season? If you still decided to fight wars despite not being at full strength, then that's on you. Also as stated before, you probably weren't at full strength by the time war season started. That's not Kabam's fault, so you don't even have a case to any form of compensation for losing wars while rebuilding.
There is absolutely zero Kabam should compensate you for. You cant manage your alliance after losing people, it's not their fault, it's yours. Don't come complaining to the forums with flawed logic and then get called out for it and trying during it on us. Blame yourself.
I also understand you want to drop to an appropriate level during off-season and now instead it happened on-season, but those were the rules that were specified in the update so you have no right to complain. It's a run of bad luck, you don't deserve compensation for that. Many alliances have this issue from time to time.
Altogether, I don't see the problem. You start the next season where you finished the previous season. Seems fair to me. You could have either just not played off-season, knowing you'd lose em all anyway, and focus on solo content, for example, or you could have used off season to practice the map with your new members without consequences, or you could have placed 3* and just let the day go buy to collect free shards.