Addressing the State of Alliance Wars - Changes and Comp Planned [UPDATED]
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Hello Summoners,
We know the current Alliance War season has encountered a number of bugs and growing pains and we acknowledge that the game mode, in its current state, is not at an acceptable level of quality, by the game team or the community’s standards.
Today, we want to update you on the progress of a number of bug fixes. Additionally, our teams have decided to make a number of changes to alleviate the current stresses and to compensate for the frustrations in the season this far.
There will be more information on these points further down this post, but the list of changes are as follows:
Defense Tactic Changes
This will be live on Friday so all Alliances have a chance to change their Defenses.
Added April 2nd: Season Points granted assume a perfect victory
Note: We will NOT be compensating and/or adjusting WR
This compensation will be released as soon as we can.
Expect this general compensation to happen at the conclusion of the season.
Fix live!
Alliances who fail to match up do not receive a bye
Fix in progress
Summoners are unable to join AW after joining a new Alliance
Fix confirmed for April build
Update - April 2nd:
Due to the issue with Diversity scoring during War #7, this war will not count towards the season scoring.
Considering this issue, added to the messy season thus far, the compensation will be as follows:
General compensation for everyone that participated in S48 - A full season's worth of victory rewards at 3 Battlegroups regardless of how many BGs they ran
We know the current Alliance War season has encountered a number of bugs and growing pains and we acknowledge that the game mode, in its current state, is not at an acceptable level of quality, by the game team or the community’s standards.
Today, we want to update you on the progress of a number of bug fixes. Additionally, our teams have decided to make a number of changes to alleviate the current stresses and to compensate for the frustrations in the season this far.
There will be more information on these points further down this post, but the list of changes are as follows:
- Adjusting Attack and Defense Tactic tuning
- Increasing points for Diversity
- Reducing the number of Wars required for Season reward eligibility to 1
- Compensating alliances that missed war(s) due to matchmaker errors
- General compensation for all Summoners based on Alliance War Tier
Tactic Changes
We are aware of the discomfort caused by the meta in its current state. As a result we will be making the following changes, effective immediately.Defense Tactic Changes
- Indestructible timer duration adjusted from 5/10/15 to 10/15/20.
- Stack limit adjusted from 3/5/7 to 3/4/5.
- (NEW) Each prowess lowers Ability Power Rate by 20% (capped at 100%)
- (NEW) Killmongers indestructible charges no longer consume the attack tactic’s prowess.
Changes to Diversity Scoring
The combination of tactics and the recent wave of difficult defenders has resulted in many Alliances relying on multiples of the same defender. This, obviously, was an unintended behaviour and as a result we will be changing Defender Diversity from 30 to 270 points for this and next Season to incentivize alliances to place different champions and, as a result, reduce frustrating paths for attacking Alliances.This will be live on Friday so all Alliances have a chance to change their Defenses.
Changes to Reward Eligibility
Due to bugs causing matchmaking errors resulting in a lower number of potential matches, we are reducing the required participation from 5 matches all the way down to one, effective immediately.Compensation for Missed Wars
Alliances that missed war(s) due to matchmaker errors will receive full per-win rewards and points for all missed wars.Added April 2nd: Season Points granted assume a perfect victory
Note: We will NOT be compensating and/or adjusting WR
This compensation will be released as soon as we can.
General Comp
We will be sending AW compensation to all Alliances. The package will scale depending on Alliance War Tier.Expect this general compensation to happen at the conclusion of the season.
Bug Tracking and Fix Status
Some Alliances are encountering enlistment issuesFix live!
Alliances who fail to match up do not receive a bye
Fix in progress
Summoners are unable to join AW after joining a new Alliance
Fix confirmed for April build
Update - April 2nd:
Due to the issue with Diversity scoring during War #7, this war will not count towards the season scoring.
Considering this issue, added to the messy season thus far, the compensation will be as follows:
General compensation for everyone that participated in S48 - A full season's worth of victory rewards at 3 Battlegroups regardless of how many BGs they ran
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Comments
Should've been like 150 per unique defender, so anyone placing duplicates would want at least 2 kills from that defender. Or 220, get 3 kills to offeset the diversity loss.
I get that you want to promote full diversity, but removing duplicate defenders as a strategy option seems like another poor design choice.
Also, you listed the new timers as 10/15/20, so the stack limits should read as 5/4/3, since the 10s goes with the 5stacks, 15 with 4, 20 with 3.
What I want is to be able to enjoy war once again. What I want is an extended list of attackers, making my roster actually viable and relevant. What I want is an attack tactic that does not limit what champs I use.
Even worse we lost war tiers due to it and the extra compensation is based on tier after the season is over.
Kabam: "Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuumm....."
what is this
3/5/7 to 3/4/5
essentially looking like only high tier will see a significant benefit
Feel free to message me directly (Nico24) in game or the email address attached to my in-game name. Here is our thread that is around a month old when we first brought up the issue that have received over 5k views and 200 comments.
https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/360977/alliance-war-placement-bug/p1