The first half of your message was, we believe, you reacting to the chance that you may miss out on the rewards based on the metrics we used. We said multiple times to not worry about the metrics yet, as it isn't purely based on your actions. So please wait until the list is released, then hate us.
As for the reactive vs proactive. We are trying to do what is fair for the community, and to reward those that actually deserve it. If we did not care, we would simply have said that everyone gets rewards and save a lot of time. Instead, we want to do what's right for you guys, because we
do care.
The admin issue has been talked about a lot already. We fixed it for Round 2 onwards. It was a mistake, and the next war event, this will be addressed.
The ranking was a coding error on our end, as soon as we realize this, we removed the invalid players.
Not going to address the mod conspiracy issue again.
Juliane said:
@kaw_admin,
In distributing the awards, "...doing this within the week, but based on the complexity of the situation, it is taking us longer than expected."
You announced prior to the ASW what the awards would be based on "how many rounds you win in the tournament". I think I understand your reasoning to breach what you already "promised" - to put a band-aid on one of the aspects to the huge fiasco called the 2012 All Star War, but it's also akin to a breach of contract.
You removing admin capability created the majority of the issues. I was in last year's ASW and admins had full admin capabilities. Sure some players were kicked but in the clan I was in, kicking was last resort and was not abused. The participants in this ASW should not be penalized in any way because of your mistake.
While I had only 27 successful actions. I was active all but maybe the last hour, keeping myself pinned and using my regen on trying to keep inactives on my side pinned. RedStar, on the other hand, had 490 successful actions. I would guess that the majority of the opposing clan could not hit him if they tried because of his overwhelming bfa so it was easier for him to stay out of pin more often (if he ever needed to be pinned). *Note: I'm not stating anything negative toward RedStar, just using him as an example.
We went into the ASW not realizing admins could not kick players until several of us sent emails and feedback. Why couldn't this have been stated ahead of time, rather than during a chaotic situation when it was clear we had leaks? We were then told kicking would be restored around the half-way mark. At that point, you removed admin assignments entirely - no one was an admin, so no one could kick.
Now for you to reevaluate activity of ASW players based on whatever mechanics you think is appropriate, is ludicrous. It's too late. What happened, happened, and it's time to move on. Again, it's a band-aid on a gaping wound. You screwed up and the more you try to fix what already happened, the more screwed up it will be. You are being reactive rather than proactive, indicating you either don't care or have no clue what to do.
Examples of more egregious acts: 1) players > 10,000 ranking told they were in, then they were told to leave 2) Doom had all but one mod - most doubt that was "random" as you stated previously and if it was, you DID have time to fix it. You know who your mods are and you knew who was where prior to rosters being locked. 3) You're going to evaluate the strips that occurred on pure spies with allies - stripping is a part of WAR. Isn't war in the title of All Star War or am I missing something? Don't disrespect us and treat us all like immature children who will believe everything you post.
After last year's ASW issues (that were small compared to this year's), I said I was done participating in one I thought I would give it another chance and that it surely wouldn't be as bad. I was wrong. This year's was much worse. If someone were to grade you on performance, you should get a D in my opinion.
