How do they gain by throwing a war? No one who participated in this war complained. We did investigate. We found there was no technical issue or exploit. We can't force a clan to war each other. They did not manipulate the match up system in order to match each other on purpose. We discussed the issue with the respective clans and we are under no obligation to share the information from that discussion. We are also under no obligation to disclose to you or anyone else when and why we choose to take action against a clan, and we reserve the right to decide when and why we share this or any other information. We strive for transparency, but we keep the right to choose when to share information and what information to share. Furthermore, If two clans decide together not to fight each other, one clan still looses and one still clan wins. We can't force people to perform actions in a war, and we can't force people to cast spells to war. We also can't punish people for choosing not to take action in a war. But instead we can look at how the system itself allows or even encourages this behaviour. In this case, loosing a war has very little penalty, especially in off season wars. It also means people CAN exploit by trying to get TVP. We are changing the way wars work to create more of a penalty for loosing a war. Finally, there is no vested interest for parties outside of a war matchup to ensure that both clans try to win. No one is betting on war results for example. If a clan throws a war the only party that is affected is the other clan that's warring, the integrity of the system is not jeopardized in this situation. Regardless we can, and will make the penalty for loosing a war greater, as well as increasing the rewards for winning. It should also be noted that we investigate ALL reports of exploits and we will take action against clans the legitimately exploit our wars or any other events. Whether we tell you about if or not is our prerogative.
The phrase mountain out of a molehill springs to mind here. This does nothing to estoc wars Rep. Nothing. Nada. Any two clans who get paired could negotiate any kind of fighting terms they wished. They could throw a fight for 100b in hires or some seal drops for hte after tvp. It just doesn't happen very often. During s2 I matched a family clan a number of times. The first time there was a lot of discussion but we decided to just fight the wars as normal. But it could have gone a different way and we could have opted to not fight or just drop one hit. And if we had. So what?
Basically, but we'll investigate when it does. So it brings your clan under full focus of the devs when you do it, and we will take action if we find that clans are trying to exploit.
No basically kaw_admin is saying, quit bitching about two clans that you are not a part of. Numerous clans have done this throughout season 1, summer wars, season 2, and now chaos wars. If it does not directly affect you then shut your pie hole. Idiotic wastes of time like this are possibly slowing down the pvp release. Damn noobs....
Oh the butthurt what about NA? Where are the threads complaining on them? Or are you scared to not report unless they are in OSW op?
KaW_Admin, You should give clans that are losing too many wars the Aura of Butthurt :lol: That's the penalty for loosing
Well kaw_admin's response was expected, you cant force anyone to war and its your own choice if you invest money for xtals during war (it is a must or else you wont win i know ) but its still optional. Looking forward to the war changes if a clan loses though, it will prevent these situations i hope. Gj devs
If you want to make losing more of a deterrent, how about twisting it the same way you reward mith to the winning side? So on the losing side, those who have the most actions (or however you calculate mith payout) can get the full/almost full reimbursement from TVP, but those who would of had a low mith payout due to not doing well in the war get less. Or.... Reverse EE. You lose and get a spell that reduces your plunder until you war and win, or something to that effect. Maybe have multiple losses take away a clans eb unlock achievements, reducing the bonus they get, requiring them to unlock them again You could have the penalty only happen if they lose by too large of a margin or don't achieve an easily achievable number of actions in the war.